Our Village : 2015

Sunday, December 6, 2015

VOTE

The Cowen Ratification Packet was approved during a special meeting last Wednesday. To end this Cowen lawsuit the Board will require that a minimum of 513 unit owners must cast a vote (51%) and that a minimum of 75% of the total votes must be FOR the Cowen easement.

HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS COWEN LAWSUIT EASEMENT VOTE?

When Cowen couldn't get his easement through our Park nearly five years ago, he set his sights on suing the Association. The reaction?
Our Board and then new Village attorney put the individual owners into the Cowen cross-hairs because each owner has this 1/1024th undivided common ground interest.

FROM THE L.I.V. NEWSLETTER

Due to the recent resignation of Secretary Raul Vasquez, the removal of Director Bob Champion, and a third Director unable to attend to an illness, President Jose Guerra has cancelled the November 18th Board Meeting.
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JUST IN

Sources have said that Director Vasquez has resigned as Director and that Wednesday's November 18, 2015 Regular Meeting has been cancelled for reasons unknown.
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Saturday, November 14, 2015

WILL DREDGING BE THE PARKING LOT FIASCO ON STEROIDS?

After hearing the Directors talk about the dredging, one may wonder if it will end up being far worse than the parking lot fiasco.

Eight years Directors have been dealing with this dredging issue and owners recently heard a Director say four Board members now want to push a two year old dredging bid down the throats of owners. Shouldn’t that have sent up a few flags, especially when it’s been very hazy as to what’s been changed from the original bid that two years ago cost owners $832,290?

TIDBIT ON THE REMOVAL OF DIRECTOR CHAMPION

After Director Vasquez shared to all owners at the November 4th Regular Meeting that Bob Champion as Director was twice tardy on his assessments, the Board was split 3-3 at accepting a forced resignation penalty.The President broke this tiebreaker by accepting the resignation thus removing Director Champion.

HAVE OUR DIRECTORS BEEN LEGALLY ELECTED?

As negotiated by the Village attorney, the Board passed a motion at the November 4th Regular Meeting which would allow a Cowen easement to common grounds and utilities. Now this motion needs a ratification of 75% of a quorum of owners present at a called meeting. The interesting thing is whether that quorum is 40% of the total unit owners or 51%.

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.

SHAME !

Last Wednesday we had over forty Long Island Village owners take time out of their lives to attend a Coffee Meeting,. These meetings are non-official and are deemed an owner’s forum where concerns are voiced and questions are asked. Last Wednesday we had five Directors use this forum to distastefully put on a show and seemingly ignore the meeting's purpose.

DREDGING TIDBIT

It’s almost certain the canal dredging would have been done by now if not for Mr. Freeland’s insurance requirements for the spoils. But now this delay turns out peachy because at July’s Coffee we heard Directors

WHICH MIGHT IT BE, L.I.V. or ASSESSMENT CITY?

THE “NO MONEY BLUES”
With 2015 expected budget revenues at well over $3.6 million, one might wonder why some Directors are singing the “no money blues”? Is the ditty over knowing there's a near empty Infrastructure Fund which now needs somewhere north of $2 million or is this melody all about that parking lot restoration which went $90,000 over budget and strangled the

YOUR COMMENT OR SUGGESTION?

STRIPES ARE HERE!

Owners have waited over 300 days for a $300,000 parking lot that was originally approved for $198.000. Who knows if over another $100,000 was lost in the revenue areas because of this?
No doubt we need to get much smarter in dealing with the upcoming Cowen lawsuit decision and infrastructure needs. Wouldn't you as an owner agree?
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

THE 4 MONTH RUSH FOR ONE, ULTIMATUM 4 THE OTHER

Pick your poison when deciding whether to go to trial or resolve the Cowen lawsuit because most would agree the one that gets picked will have a profound impact on our Village. We know the Village attorney and most on our Board have expressed the need for the resolution, but want the membership involved. With that being said, where’s the problem?

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THINGS NOTICED AT THE MAY 20th SPECIAL MEETING

Since the court left both parties till the end of the year to either resolve the Cowen lawsuit or go to trial, those in charge said this involves the member’s property so it is the member’s decision. Members have never witnessed such an attitude when

BUZZ FEED

Wednesday at 2am begins the new war on mosquitoes. SPI Pest Control operated by Mr. Esparza will embark on this buzz-kill using

My 5/20/2015 Special Meeting Synopsis

After Wednesday's short one hour Coffee Meeting, the Board went into a two hour Special Meeting meant to update the membership about the ongoing Cowen lawsuit.

IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT THE NEWSLETTER

Hello,

Recently I've joined the new group of volunteers that will edit and publish the LIVOA monthly newsletter. I am sending you this message to tell you about a step we are taking to get your Newsletter to you faster and more economically.
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YOUR COMMENT OR SUGGESTION?

Sunday, April 19, 2015

A TIDBIT

Last Wednesday I asked to have our Village attorney find out if a total noncompliance to Declaration’s Article X- B impedes in any way owner’s rights.

Last Wednesday I asked to have our Village attorney find out if the statute 82.108b found in Chapter 82 of the Condominium Act is not being fully complied with, will it impede in any way with our owner’s rights.

Last Wednesday I asked to have our Village attorney find out if eliminating the keeping of executive minutes would impede owner rights in any way.

IMPORTANT BOARD LETTER

April 13, 2015

From Kay Sullivan Lot 630B

I am addressing this letter to the entire Long Island Village Board.

As Chairman of the 2015 Election Committee I would

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A TIDBIT

In March’s Regular Meeting we heard LIV’s own attorney say that in his legal opinion the Board has three fiduciary duties of “care, loyalty, and obedience to the LONG ISLAND VILLAGE OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. This Association governs its 1024 unit owning members, so one can honestly say the Board’s fiduciary duties are to these 1024 owners. So, going forward 1024 owners should be synonymous with the word Association.

TRANSPARENCY, ENTITLEMENT, and TEXAS LAW

As a Villager, which event would trouble you? Knowing executive meetings have increase five hundred percent? Learning that executive meeting discussion topics are exclusively privy to Directors? Or finding out that your Board President has for months ordered a halt to the decade’s old record keeping of what’s being discussed in executive meetings? If you say no one particular event alarms you, how about collectively?

SUN HARBOR JAN. 2015 LETTER

Dear LIVOA members,
Do you know how your swing bridge fees are calculated? The LIVOA takes the percentage of assessed values of all lots in the LIVOA and multiplies that by the swing bridge budget of $601,200. They then divide that figure by the total of 1,024 lots so that everyone pays the same bridge fee of $46.33 per month.

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