HPP BIZ: Part the second

[Chunkster]

Kenney, I agree that the BOD which foisted the bond on us was neither realistic nor fully honest, especially after the fact when they claimed that they never promised to pave all the roads. I was told directly by the board member who wrote the ballot that full paving was the proposal as laid out. The election, however, was honest by the arcane standards of HPP. The ballots were counted by a respected outside organization and the required plurality was duly received. The problem was the low bar set by the bylaws for ratification at the time. Only about 20% of the property owners bothered to vote, but a large enough majority of those voted in favor for it to carry. IIRC, the $12M debt was approved by about 12-15% of the association members.

To add insult to injury, that same BOD embarked on a paving program which did not first pave the roads with the highest maintenance cost. I was in the room when two experts flown in by the bond company told the BOD quite clearly that not paving the roads costliest to maintain would be asking for disaster in the future. They ignored the advice. On a side note, only one of the BOD members at the time of the bond election is still living in HPP. The others have all sold out and left, several of them having gotten their roads paved before leaving.