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Saturday, October 31, 2015

ENFORCEMENT CHOICES

There are two interesting items on the November 4th Regular Meeting's agenda. The first will be this Executive Meeting where it seems at least four Directors will try to use Bylaw Article 4 Section 4 to remove Director Champion. His terrible crime was that he apparently paid his monthly assessment fee late. The second is the action that will be taken to start the near $900,000 canal dredging.
    
Some have said what a coincidence that the person who had emphatically requested this Board wait and obtain additional dredging bids is the one now being removed. Two other Directors had agreed with Director Champion because they felt certain doing so will save the owners more than a quarter of a million dollars and solve more of the dredging problems?  All three felt three bids are now necessary because Derrick Construction’s bid amount has changed. In addition all three said they would have voted differently had they been given the correct information about the Berry lawsuit Court ruling.   
Then there's the question as to why Article 4 Section 4 was not enforced on a different Director who was in assessment arrears?
Make no mistake, Director Champion is truly in the wrong here and every law, regulation, rule, and motion should be enforced by our Board. But is that what we have been seeing?

Here are some questions that should be asked.
Is our Board enforcing to the letter Article VII?
Are Directors correctly enforcing the Declaration’s Article X?
How about Bylaw Article II Section 4?
Bylaw Article V Section 7?
Bylaw Article VI Section 1 or 4?
Are they correctly enforcing Bylaw Article VII?
Bylaw Article X?
Are Sections like 82.108 in the Revised 2012 Condominium Act being enforced?

A question now that future infrastructure assessments are nearing $3 million dollars. 
Our Directors seem to want to enforce laws and old Board motions like the dredging bid approved on July 2014, will they now enforce the other old Board motions passed on 1/28/1998, 12/13/2000, and 3/17/2004 that earmarks $408,576 from the Owner's annual condo fee assessments and says they shall go into the Village’s Reserve Fund a.k.a. Major Project Improvement Fund/Infrastructure Fund? If not, why not. Shouldn't all Board motions be recognized and followed? Plus shouldn't the owners receive all monies back that were not applied into these funds since 3/17/2004? Since our Board brought to light these enforcement issues, shouldn't we hear where they stand on enforcing this issue?
Comments?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am neither defending the Board Member who was in arrears with his condo fee payment, nor criticizing the BOD for their actions, BUT, I am appalled that a member of the Board was given confidential information regarding ANYONE's condo payment record and total amounts levied in fines. The President of the Board may very well be entitled to CURRENT records, but not past years when a person was just another home owner like all the rest of us.

Does this mean that any BOD member may go into the office and request something similar regarding another Board Member, or for that matter one of us ? I'm certain that I cannot go into the office and be provided with that type of personal information.

I would like to know who authorized the release of Mr. Champion's records back to 2005, which had nothing at all to do with his current situation. Having this historical information provided was extremely unethical, and very likely illegal !

Anonymous said...

Exactly, do we need any more lawsuits? wow
President should resign, hasta la vista Baby.
Board members walking out of a meeting... disrespecting owners not once but twice now need to make that a 'Permanent Move'.
Don't let the door hit you in the way OUT.

Just read the balance sheet...
How on earth a restaurant that was open for only 20 something days for 2015 loses 38,000 USD. What????

Gulf Course on it's way to have a banner year on LOSES, already over 100,000 USD... yeeah!

We either need an independent auditor to come in or call on the IRS, seriously.

Anonymous said...

I ALLSO THINK WE NEED A auditor come in that restaurant loses money every year we have been in this park for16 years and its been in a big hole all the time we have been hear. Thanks for all the good news. Donna from Iowa

Anonymous said...

What Donna said!
Also Directors nor Friends shouldn't be doing ANY Business in the Park, none nada zero zilch.
And to the couple having their hands on everything (control freaks) and saying they are merely taking care/maintaining their friends properties after raiding the Rental Pool ..I said: B S
Good Luck when the IRS or the Realtor Assoc. comes...again!

Anonymous said...

This is what Donna has to say to Anonymous----After paying into this park for 16 years I HAVE RIGHT to say this not one time in 16 years has this Golf Course ,Laundry or the great money loser The Restaurant Ho I all most forgot the Rental pool never not one time made a nickel. Lets just worry about our Park Business that's our money .I don't care what our neighbors are doing. Lets not call names let's work together any fix this mess.