12-10-2016, 03:01 PM
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Originally posted by mermaid53
Johnd you are 100% correct... this is a serious matter. Members should go read the Nov minutes discussing the finances. Rep names are purposely left out so no one knows who said what regarding what the FC should be provided or not...anonymity. It's not the board's decision as it's a membership committee that provides checks and balances for the membership, and has NOTHING to do w/the lawsuit. These kinds of board maneuvers are red flags. But the minutes do say it was Dist 6 rep who made the motion to raise the road fees 10% and Dist 3 newbie seconded it.
7 reps decided to spend our $ chip sealing en masse for a 10 yr commitment outside of a board mtg w/out a plan in place as to how they were going to continue maintaining our roads and easements while the crew chip seals. I say 7 bc 2 reps missed over a year's worth of meetings. Now the GM hints that we should hire more road crew=more $ into the chip seal money pit.
The chip seal project affects everything and is the reason for the neglect we have been experiencing. Poor decisions by an arrogant board and they wish to continue as evidenced by the GM report quoted below.
Why are they so resistant w/providing detailed info to the Finance Committee? We're way behind on our regular required yearly audit and it's only as good as what info is provided. It's Dec and we never got our August Financial statement that is required per our bylaws.
The Fugitive Dust Committee (Dist 5 rep was on the committee) who recommended chip seal never provided any reports or minutes on the website for the membership, nor any presentations that included Q&A, at a membership mtg. So why would the board take their advice on this unproven product and think the road crew could pull off a prof'l job w/out engineer involvement?
By reading the Nov 2016 minutes, we are unbelievably in for more of the same that got us into the backlog of our road and easement maintenance....ok GM, let's blame it on the "increasing population and lack of manpower" as if anyone will believe that. Deflection, game face on, I'm ok you're ok.
"VI. GM Report – Don Morris – He concurred with the President that there is not enough money, man-power, time, for how much work and maintenance needed as he began his report: From July 1, 2016 to October 31, 2016 we have had 452 Road Maintenance Request. That is an average of about 113 requests per month. With that number of requests each month and most of them being for potholes, it makes it impossible to keep up with the demand for road maintenance that the ever increasing population of the subdivision requires, especially given the limited equipment and manpower available. That being said, we are running about 6-8 weeks behind on each request, unless a request falls into our current schedule. That being said, please be patient, the road crew is working very hard everyday to fulfill your road maintenance requests.
Dust Abatement: Still waiting for the rainy weather to abate enough to allow sealing 26th. The road has been prepped for 3 months and we will not be preparing any other roads until we get this 2-mile section done. There is very little material on the road once prepped for chipseal, so it requires a lot of attention with all the rainfall."
(That explains the grass growing through the other chip sealed roads and the already occurring erosion=more $ down the chip seal money pit. Their inexperience w/chip seal is proving evident and it's costing over $350,000 per year of OUR monies....The 10% increase on our road maint fee so they can do more chip sealed roads and tying up road crew time away from their duties=more $ into the chip seal money pit and more road and easement neglect. Maybe their job descripts have been changed to primarily chip seal???)
"Mowing: Road Crew mowed 45 miles of roadway easement. Grasshoppers continues to mow the main roads and cut back the corners and the road crew is also working on corners. The contract will be up in Decembers, so HPPOA will need to decide whether or not to renew. GM just spoke to the owner today and he reported that he has just found a retardant that sterilizes the seeds in the cane grass, so he’s starting that in his spray and the GM is going to check into it for the road crew to use, too.
Weedwacking: He reports now having a two man crew working at only weedwacking part-time specifically on all intersections for six hours, three days a week. They have weedwacked Paradise, from 32nd to 22nd streets. A full schedule of what they have done and will be doing was given and they will be doing this until all intersections are under control for visibility."
Why haven't they caught up on Beach Rd, a main thoroughfare w/pedestrian traffic? It's still cut back only 18-24" after the near miss of hitting a pedestrian complaint bc there was no bail out area. 18-24" is barely enough to get off the road when there's 2 way traffic exceeding 30-35 mph. Paradise, a main drag, has sections with only 12-18" and we're going to renew that guy's contract?
Are you the person calling in the death threats ?