05-18-2017, 08:15 PM
According to the GM at last night's board mtg, the CS will be continuing. I couldn't hear what roads bc he speaks so softly.
He also said a lot of people are asking for "base coarse" on their roads bc they have none. I don't know if that's his term, or if people are actually asking for base coarse. I'm stunned the GM would even consider putting base coarse down as road material.
Used to be people were asking for pothole repair...now they're asking for "base coarse". Could be the dots are starting to connect finally w/people out there that lack of road material is the reason we have so many potholes and lots of fugitive dust ...hence the DOH fines. As said before, the road neglect is finally catching up to them and IMO, it's indefensible. I don't know how the board could entertain the idea of going to court to challenge the DOH = more atty fees...and they have more $$$ than HPP. We will be the ones that lose if our $$$ is spent on legal expenditures = less $$$ for road maint.
Base coarse is good under asphalt, for your gardens and is not user friendly for vehicles, bike riding and pedestrians. Road material is not all created equal. I've often heard 3/4" minus is a better grade road material. Maybe someone out there who knows about road material can comment further on this. But please don't ask for base coarse :/
The GM said people will have to be patient in getting material on their road bc they're over budget already...??? How can they be over budget already? CS???
Dist 2 asked the GM when he will get CS on 15th bc of the mailbox location. He sd it could be w/in the yr and she urged him to get it done sooner than that.
Mailbox location?!! The membership voted the mailbox project down...she's persistent and is still working on getting the project going. Despite that there's no provisions in our bylaws for the board to pursue this. There shouldn't even be a board mailbox committee, they are to be focused on roads. Mailboxes should be a membership committee w/members raising money through fundraising etc. Did anyone who mailed in mailbox $$$ get it returned to them?
Dist 2 rep complained last night that the board decided to use Nanawale to receive our election ballots bc "of last yr's complaints" and they decided to mail out postcard ballots for the same reason....NOT that it's against the bylaws to do it any other way! She's been on the board since 2014...incredible! She complained that people were dropping off ballots at the ofc instead of mailing them to Nanawale. She was clueless that some people didn't like the postcard put your own stamp method. Some people thought it was junk mail and threw them away bc they'd never seen a ballot come this way in all the yrs of living in HPP.
State law 414D requires ballots be mailed to us in envelopes...so they broke state law..but not our bylaws this time.
Kenney, stripes and reflectors are the last priority on this board's agenda, which actually goes back to all the boards since 2015. The newbie reps didn't even discuss it bc it's already been decided to put it on the back burner for when they've accumulated enough $$$ to do it. They're treating it like it's a capital expenditure project when it's actually road maint and the $$$ should come from road maint. CS should be the capital expenditure project and the funding should be doled out as accumulated. They've got it backwards and upside down and that's very unfortunate and unsafe.
Tink, discussion to dedicate our main drags to the County has already come and gone at least twice now. The last time, Greggor Ilagan asked HPP for a 3 item wish list to the county listed in order of priority. #1 was dedicate our main roads. The following month he came back talking about a park. I have a feeling board reps called him after the meeting and reshuffled the wish list. A survey had been done a few yrs prior and the membership said overwhelmingly they wanted to dedicate the main drags to the county. Total board disregard of membership's wishes, same reps involved.
The 1st time there was dialog w/the county about main road dedication, the county didn't like the driveways on the main drags bc of the potential liability, the encroachments on the easements where road shoulders have to be, and said our signage had to get up to par w/county standards. The boards have not made any attempt towards reaching this goal. It would entail enforcing our bylaws and $$$ they need for CS.
He also said a lot of people are asking for "base coarse" on their roads bc they have none. I don't know if that's his term, or if people are actually asking for base coarse. I'm stunned the GM would even consider putting base coarse down as road material.
Used to be people were asking for pothole repair...now they're asking for "base coarse". Could be the dots are starting to connect finally w/people out there that lack of road material is the reason we have so many potholes and lots of fugitive dust ...hence the DOH fines. As said before, the road neglect is finally catching up to them and IMO, it's indefensible. I don't know how the board could entertain the idea of going to court to challenge the DOH = more atty fees...and they have more $$$ than HPP. We will be the ones that lose if our $$$ is spent on legal expenditures = less $$$ for road maint.
Base coarse is good under asphalt, for your gardens and is not user friendly for vehicles, bike riding and pedestrians. Road material is not all created equal. I've often heard 3/4" minus is a better grade road material. Maybe someone out there who knows about road material can comment further on this. But please don't ask for base coarse :/
The GM said people will have to be patient in getting material on their road bc they're over budget already...??? How can they be over budget already? CS???
Dist 2 asked the GM when he will get CS on 15th bc of the mailbox location. He sd it could be w/in the yr and she urged him to get it done sooner than that.
Mailbox location?!! The membership voted the mailbox project down...she's persistent and is still working on getting the project going. Despite that there's no provisions in our bylaws for the board to pursue this. There shouldn't even be a board mailbox committee, they are to be focused on roads. Mailboxes should be a membership committee w/members raising money through fundraising etc. Did anyone who mailed in mailbox $$$ get it returned to them?
Dist 2 rep complained last night that the board decided to use Nanawale to receive our election ballots bc "of last yr's complaints" and they decided to mail out postcard ballots for the same reason....NOT that it's against the bylaws to do it any other way! She's been on the board since 2014...incredible! She complained that people were dropping off ballots at the ofc instead of mailing them to Nanawale. She was clueless that some people didn't like the postcard put your own stamp method. Some people thought it was junk mail and threw them away bc they'd never seen a ballot come this way in all the yrs of living in HPP.
State law 414D requires ballots be mailed to us in envelopes...so they broke state law..but not our bylaws this time.
Kenney, stripes and reflectors are the last priority on this board's agenda, which actually goes back to all the boards since 2015. The newbie reps didn't even discuss it bc it's already been decided to put it on the back burner for when they've accumulated enough $$$ to do it. They're treating it like it's a capital expenditure project when it's actually road maint and the $$$ should come from road maint. CS should be the capital expenditure project and the funding should be doled out as accumulated. They've got it backwards and upside down and that's very unfortunate and unsafe.
Tink, discussion to dedicate our main drags to the County has already come and gone at least twice now. The last time, Greggor Ilagan asked HPP for a 3 item wish list to the county listed in order of priority. #1 was dedicate our main roads. The following month he came back talking about a park. I have a feeling board reps called him after the meeting and reshuffled the wish list. A survey had been done a few yrs prior and the membership said overwhelmingly they wanted to dedicate the main drags to the county. Total board disregard of membership's wishes, same reps involved.
The 1st time there was dialog w/the county about main road dedication, the county didn't like the driveways on the main drags bc of the potential liability, the encroachments on the easements where road shoulders have to be, and said our signage had to get up to par w/county standards. The boards have not made any attempt towards reaching this goal. It would entail enforcing our bylaws and $$$ they need for CS.