HPP Biz

[Katarina]

Reni, your point of hiring a professional management company is exactly what we need to do. It will be an impartial 3rd party doing it's intended job, not micromanaging and controlling every aspect of HPP. The committees can function freely and the business of running our park will be accountable by the management firm. I am not saying that there can not be problems associated with a management company but we as a association would have more pull in a court and be able to hire and fire a firm annually. I am not dissing the HR committee here but how do they really know what key questions to ask a potential employee, how can they really research the potential employees history and how can they detect any red flags? They are just volunteers not professional head hunters. We have seen what happens when the possibly well intended hire an inept person (Escobar comes to mind and possible the GM)and worse yet, when just any person can convince enough people to vote for them to get on the board. It is fallible and dangerous. Let's face it intelligence can be measured in many ways. A doctor can be excellent in his field but abysmal at running his personal finances. Being well trained in one field and good at it really does not make a person smart. We need well rounded sensible people with broad experience who are humble enough to seek out professionals in areas they lack and that doesn't mean board members running to an attorney racking up hours because they refuse to read our by-laws. We have 2 people controlling 2 million dollars and strangle holding our finances and most committees. Does this sound like sound, well, well experienced, humble people to you? We all need to band together and vote these monsters off the island so to speak. If they start moving monies around to do chip seal and they are the only ones seeing all the financials.... well you get the picture. as I said before, there are only 2 reasons that they are so intent on nondisclosure. They really screwed up and are hiding it or things are missing and they are hiding it. The GM has no clue and remains clueless because is only purpose was to do chip seal and the new book keeper is being trained by one of the culprits. I would not be surprised if she gets blamed for many of the already made errors.... who could be surprised as the treasurer is still blaming the previous treasurer a year and a half later and we all know the integrity of the previous treasurer. She never hid a thing, was always prepared and would always answer questions. A far cry form what we have now. Wake up people before it is to late.