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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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NO CONDO FEE INCREASE!!!!

Wednesday’s Coffee Meeting was pretty interesting. This is the first of a three part short article series about that meeting called “THE GOOD, THE BAD, and THE UGLY”.

PART ONE, “THE GOOD”

Treasurer Steffensen said there would be no increase in condominium fees for 2015. This was due to an exceptional effort by Treasurer Steffensen and the owners on the Finance Committee.
The particulars on how this was achieved will be explained at tomorrow’s December 12, 2014 Special Meeting.

This forum will be a Board workshop on the Finance Committee’s 2015 recommendations and will have limited owner participation so I would recommend that owners should attend this and bring their ideas on how we as a village can improve revenues and reduce costs.

It was said a new long term 5 year plan will also be introduced. There will be a follow-up on tomorrow’s meeting that will be added to this article and the BAD and UGLY articles will follow individually next week.

PART 2 "THE GOOD"
Supposedly starting December 15^th owners were able to use credit cards towards their condo fees at a 3% convenience fee. In December’s Meeting we had for the first time the Executive Meeting disclosed each personnel item and contract issue to be discussed prior to its session as required by the Condominium Act Section 82, but it is not clear if Minutes were taken.

Also in December’s Meeting Director Waller with his motion wanted action towards the first ugly item below but tabled it when hearing the attorney wanted to discuss this first with the Board.

Tied for either good or bad is that next month’s until further notice the Coffee and Regular Meetings will be on Saturdays starting at 9am.

"THE BAD"

The completion of the parking lot is looking bad. The weather of course was the major factor but the Board added to the problem with failing to have a completion date and no contingency plan for bad weather on the contract. Add in that they have already awarded this contractor two thirds of his contract price it seems they are left with little leverage to improve what was once early September projected completion to now being at the very best a late January one.

The lawsuit picture grew with the announcement LIV is now involved with LIOA’s swing bridge jet ski lawsuit.

It’s not at all clear why some Directors think its bad that the fundraising people be given a say towards where their money is spent.

All but three on the Board approved pay raises to each and every hourly and salary Aramark employee while the thinking on the Swing Bridge employee’s pay increase seems to be the opposite.

"AND THE UGLY"

It appears there’s been seven times an owner has asked the Board for action at removing a supposedly dangerous wall structure that was built without a building permit. He described several hazardous events because this structure is at the road’s edge, including his own wife’s personal injury. The President’s excuse was the attorney has unsuccessfully been able to deliver a letter to that owner. The President also said the Board would bring the issue up at a Workshop that followed this Coffee meeting. That didn’t happen.

Only after the Board was asked to review the Executive Minutes for the verification that they didn't violate certain Executive Meeting protocols did we learn that LIV’s attorney supposedly advise our Board President not to record or keep Executive Minutes. This would seem to be in direct conflict with Article V, Section 7 of the Bylaws and increase the view of some that these Executive Sessions are nothing more than secret and unlawful meetings.

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Our Village

A PLACE TO BE

Sunday, April 19, 2015

A TIDBIT

A Tibit Part II

A TIBIT PART III

Thursday, April 16, 2015

IMPORTANT BOARD LETTER

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

A TIDBIT

Sunday, March 29, 2015

TRANSPARENCY, ENTITLEMENT, and TEXAS LAW

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

SUN HARBOR JAN. 2015 LETTER

Friday, December 12, 2014

NO CONDO FEE INCREASE!!!!