06-23-2015, 05:13 PM
Why wasn't the new General Manager at this meeting? I realize it may not actually be part of his job description but all the managers I have known who were responsible to elected boards made sure to attend all meetings the boards were at as well as any community interface meetings so they could get the perspectives of the people the board was supposed to be representing. It is a great way to find out how well the board represents its constituents and also to see what they are trying to ignore. Successful managers often times try to assist in shaping the conversations so the take away message I get is that the new manager is lacking in leadership skills unless there was some dire emergency that kept him from attending.
Also, I have a few questions about the process of the meeting:
Why was the owner input put at the very end of the agenda, after the 1 1/2 hour guest politicians' presentations, after all the committee reports, after old business, and after new business? Every board I have served on or meetings I have attended seem to try to get the member concerns and input early on. I suggest that at the next General Membership meeting that someone will make a motion to let the membership speak first.
Also, why was the concept of completely changing the road maintenance and construction process from paving new roads to tar and feathering everything, even existing asphalt roads left till the very end of the meeting without sufficient notice or information to the taxpayers of this multi-million dollar per year corporation based largely on annual road tax bills? Does anyone actually think they will get away with making major policy changes overnight without any real member discussion or input?
Look, when one of the past boards wanted to disallow new driveway access and egress to the main collector roads (Maku'u, Paradise, Kaloli, and maybe Shower) They put it out to a full membership vote.
So whay does this board think it can (apparently) change long range planning from "we want to pave all the roads"to "we want to replace all future paving from asphalt to tar and feather"? So what are we paying such high road taxes for? And is there a mechanism (vote?) to cap road fees, or like education make them performance based? I know that in the past year my short dead end street was not adequately maintained. It was never correctly graded with fill materials added and why should I be paying $275 or hard earned money for marginal service at best? My short road did not receive anywhere near the $11,000 in road fees paid by the 40 property owners and is there a procedural way to make our road fees all last year performance based? I know there was some sort of court decision that allows private subdivisions to collect rtaod fees but from where I stand it looks like most of the money is being spent on something (anything) besides roadway maintenance. The current prez did a manager report for the guy who didn't bother to show (THE GM) up and said they had done 16 miles of something. Was that grading? Was that for all of last year? I certainly didn't see any new asphalt roadways constructed. Did I miss something? Where did roughly 2 million dollars of road fees collected last year go? Please share if you have any clear perspectives or insider info. Aloha.
Also, I have a few questions about the process of the meeting:
Why was the owner input put at the very end of the agenda, after the 1 1/2 hour guest politicians' presentations, after all the committee reports, after old business, and after new business? Every board I have served on or meetings I have attended seem to try to get the member concerns and input early on. I suggest that at the next General Membership meeting that someone will make a motion to let the membership speak first.
Also, why was the concept of completely changing the road maintenance and construction process from paving new roads to tar and feathering everything, even existing asphalt roads left till the very end of the meeting without sufficient notice or information to the taxpayers of this multi-million dollar per year corporation based largely on annual road tax bills? Does anyone actually think they will get away with making major policy changes overnight without any real member discussion or input?
Look, when one of the past boards wanted to disallow new driveway access and egress to the main collector roads (Maku'u, Paradise, Kaloli, and maybe Shower) They put it out to a full membership vote.
So whay does this board think it can (apparently) change long range planning from "we want to pave all the roads"to "we want to replace all future paving from asphalt to tar and feather"? So what are we paying such high road taxes for? And is there a mechanism (vote?) to cap road fees, or like education make them performance based? I know that in the past year my short dead end street was not adequately maintained. It was never correctly graded with fill materials added and why should I be paying $275 or hard earned money for marginal service at best? My short road did not receive anywhere near the $11,000 in road fees paid by the 40 property owners and is there a procedural way to make our road fees all last year performance based? I know there was some sort of court decision that allows private subdivisions to collect rtaod fees but from where I stand it looks like most of the money is being spent on something (anything) besides roadway maintenance. The current prez did a manager report for the guy who didn't bother to show (THE GM) up and said they had done 16 miles of something. Was that grading? Was that for all of last year? I certainly didn't see any new asphalt roadways constructed. Did I miss something? Where did roughly 2 million dollars of road fees collected last year go? Please share if you have any clear perspectives or insider info. Aloha.