04-09-2021, 08:01 PM
"if there are more no votes than yes votes does that mean there will be no fees next year"
Doubtful. They will probably kick another amount back to the voters to vote on.
When I moved here the road fees were $85. They somehow managed to pass a "temporary" paving assessment, I think it was $100. There were some shenanigans one year where the road fees were $100 and some sort of "optional" paving fee that billed as mandatory, then some hokie pokey action with it. I don't even remember exactly any more. When the fees got around $200 a lot of people who couldn't afford them lost their ability to vote against them, and now there has been a bunch of gentrification of people who want all the roads paved, only own one lot, and don't think $200 is a lot of money.
The higher they raise the fees, the less no votes they get, because the people it affects aren't allowed to vote. This makes the first sentence of the March Newsletter completely laughable:
"Your participation is key to the building and maintenance of our growing community. As a community association, a 414D and 501c4 nonprofit, Orchidland Community Association, Inc. (OCLA) remains a democratically controlled association with the membership approving the elections, annual budgets, road fees and more via annual ballot voting." Democratically? When "the membership" aka "the party" threatens property confiscation on the peasants for not paying tribute on issues they aren't allowed to vote on... does that sound like democracy? It sounds more like the USSR.
Looking at the budget of $303,030, 21% of it ($65,000) goes towards "administrative fees". But there is no breakdown of what that means.
Doubtful. They will probably kick another amount back to the voters to vote on.
When I moved here the road fees were $85. They somehow managed to pass a "temporary" paving assessment, I think it was $100. There were some shenanigans one year where the road fees were $100 and some sort of "optional" paving fee that billed as mandatory, then some hokie pokey action with it. I don't even remember exactly any more. When the fees got around $200 a lot of people who couldn't afford them lost their ability to vote against them, and now there has been a bunch of gentrification of people who want all the roads paved, only own one lot, and don't think $200 is a lot of money.
The higher they raise the fees, the less no votes they get, because the people it affects aren't allowed to vote. This makes the first sentence of the March Newsletter completely laughable:
"Your participation is key to the building and maintenance of our growing community. As a community association, a 414D and 501c4 nonprofit, Orchidland Community Association, Inc. (OCLA) remains a democratically controlled association with the membership approving the elections, annual budgets, road fees and more via annual ballot voting." Democratically? When "the membership" aka "the party" threatens property confiscation on the peasants for not paying tribute on issues they aren't allowed to vote on... does that sound like democracy? It sounds more like the USSR.
Looking at the budget of $303,030, 21% of it ($65,000) goes towards "administrative fees". But there is no breakdown of what that means.