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Sunday, June 16, 2019
General Manager Report
Monthly report dated June 15, 2019
I post this without comment. What could I say anyway? Click on the one page report to enlarge.
Candidate statements and applications were due the first of May. Why is Reber speaking of the Legal limit for getting this stuff out ? Yes, 2 weeks is the minimum notice. That really isn't an excuse for sending this stuff out a month later than is necessary.
That leaves a minimum amount of time for owners to send in their ballots. If the HOA is unwilling to enable electronic voting, then they need to get on the stick and get the mailing out early enough to allow 3 to 4 weeks for owner mailing. This is another matter that shows the HOA's attitude toward member participation. Less is better for their "system".
A valet with ballots on a pillow arriving at each members house for annual voting would not improve the number of members voting. The reason is simple. There is not trustworthy information readily available to the members to make an informed vote. Most opt not to vote rather than making an uninformed vote.
Electronic voting would not be effective for all members. We do have a number of elder members who do not touch tech devices or have a clue how to use them.
8:16....The proposals for Electronic voting have not intended to do away with the mailing option. Both would be made available. I agree that candidate info should be published well in advance of the election for the reasons you state.
It isn't simply about candidate information. It is about trustworthy and timely information being available to all members on a continuous basis about ALL functions and tasks that happen in the association. We are paying for ALL that is happening. Paying for the moronic mistakes that typify this association over the past 12 to 15 years, as it has been mismanaged, results in distrust, confusion and dislike. Can anyone explain clearly the advantage or improvement involved with electronic voting that would also include mail-in ballots? It looks like increasing the expense of the voting practices while in no way increasing the number of intelligent votes. The issue is unreliable, misleading information and stupid management decisions. These two problems in the association are confusing to all members thereby resulting in uninformed or not voting. Can we deal with the core issue of untrustworthy (information or lack of information to cover up bad decisions) information instead of screwing around with increasing the expense of voting?
When your HOA is willing to pay the Golf Course $5000 a year for a place to store gravel, while holding acres of community land, your HOA can afford the minimal expense of putting Electronic voting in place as an option. We can't say exactly WHY so few members vote with any certainty, but we can make voting easier, and most people spend a lot of time on their computers and devices these days.
Many HOAs use these sites for their elections, and the cost is not significant. It also would make sense to eliminate proxies all together in the process. Having the Electronic option would help eliminate the timeline concerns of mailing or mishandling. Want to vote ? Fine, then you make the decision, not leaving it for someone else to cast your vote as they wish.
It is true, the HOA should get candidate info out a month before the election, not 2 weeks, still needing to be mailed. That's sketchy. But the BOT has not been honest with members about the various management failures, and expects the election to take place without offering an explanation of why vast sums of member funds have been squandered this year.
This is very much election time information, and the cover-up continues, now for almost a year. There's no indication they will EVER talk about this stuff.
Trying to justify a stupid expense with another stupid expense is exactly the moronic stuff that I am hating. This looks like another "brilliant" anonymous comment by Steve. Please spare us the deceit of a misleading anonymous comment.
And your comment 10:35, adds what? The other "Misleading anonymous" comments are at least discussing the issues. That is sure more than what your doing with less than "your brilliant" comment.
10:35.... You have a lot of hate to share, considering how steamed you are over an anonymous Blog comment. There is nothing misleading in my comment, and you are more than obsessed with TRYING to discredit my comments with your empty angry comments. You don't even get my point, so your lacking "brillance" is painfully obvious.
There's nothing to indicate that as much as you want to create this myth. I'm not hateful, and that's perfectly obvious. You need to get a different hobby. But you are a pitiful. No name, all full of hostility you can't vent on something more significant than a blog poster. Pitiful.
Why is the HOA planning to BURN DOWN the "old" water pumphouse on the westside of G St. ? It's pretty close to a cedar-shingled 4plex that's one of the oldest structures in the community, and set into a hillside covered with very flammable grass. Burning a structure such as this will create a great deal of unnecessary pollution, and will stink the area up for some time.
Has the community been consulted or alerted to this ? Fat chance. I haven't seen anything about it in the agendas or minutes. Typical that it is hidden in the manager's notes.
It will be burned down in the fall after the rains start. It will be dome by the fire department as a training exercise. DPR made a bid to remove it for several thousand dollars. Then it was decided our crew could remove it. Now they think they will save money if the fire dept burns it. Guess who is left with the clean up? These people know nothing about saving money. In fact, they know nothing about anything. I take that back....They are good at covering up their incompetence and mistakes.
Several thousand dollars? Like five? Could have had it removed n stored gravel on the lot. Many other options. Kirby pretty tight with golf course hmmm?
Most of the training burns I've seen are in huge parking lots where there is nothing flammable nearby. Word is that Clancy may be involved. Presumably volunteer firefighters who have a minimum of training, will be "practicing" on a site that once engulfed in flames will certainly catch the beachgrass on fire. This sounds asinine. The building is surrounded by beachgrass, and is set into the hillside. No one has been notified or consulted who lives nearby.
Money can be saved by avoiding Superior Court excursions by Williams, and abiding by County, State and Federal regulations, which avoids unnecessary fines.
Kirby is not on the Board and hasn't been in quite some time. I don't think he is even serving on any committees. I don't think he even attends monthly board meetings although he may be in fear of his personal safety like the Blog Host stated in the past. How about finding something relevant to snark about?
Fyi, it was discussed about at a couple board meetings ago. Not all of the trustees thought it was a good idea, including some that most here like to bash all the time.
Ok Stevie, how would you describe the practice of continually making anonymous comments to validate the comments that you put your name on. While I won't say that it makes it to the level of having a narcissistic disorder, it is indeed, as you say, pitiful.
So 6:36 AM you don't think it's possible (more like probable) that our Blog Host and many other's do the same thing? And remember way back when the posts required a name and the blog withered? Manipulation is the name of the game.
6:36....as I said, you are obsessed with insulting and hounding me, yet you are too much of a coward to identify yourself. I can easily ignore your sad comments. Obviously, letting a nitwit like you have a name to insult means everything to ya. Last signed comment. Bye, bye.
The July election will prove how disgusted members are with the corruption of Surfside. You are a bigger man Steve to walk away from this pitiful jerk.
Oh I have no doubt that happens 10:28. The difference is that unlike Cox and Riley, those folks don't come on here with their elitist attitude saying how much integrity they have because they sign their names and belittle those who comment anonymously. So I call them out on the obvious hypocrisy.
Same with the way Cox has no problem attacking volunteers and making false allegations against them and Trustees by name along with derogatory name calling but when someone turns the spot light on him he starts crying and plays the victim. The old "can dish it out but can't take it" syndrome.
Btw, 4:40, reread my comment. I didn't call him a narcissist, but you just did. Who's the fool now?
But I am happy for Fed and others that you have a hero to look up to. I truly am.
Some people believe that they need to be in a battle to feel alive. The contrarian and obstructionist attitudes of some running for the board and others who bought property in Surfside with thoughts to change things to coincide with their personal preferences does nothing to make an effective, well-managed association. Being a person who stirs up controversy and trouble does not make you admirable or special. The sense of pseudo self importance and grandiosity demonstrated by some on this blog is a personal problem that has nothing to do with making a fair, respected and efficient homeowner's association. Those who have demonstrated incapability and self serving agendas while serving on the board and committees should not get a vote. Creating elitist boogeymen to justify pushing for self serving changes is very apparent and without merit just as in the federal level of our current government. Don't vote for those people that you have come to know as contrarian and self serving. Speak up about working towards a better Surfside.
Surfside can only be better if those who are on and have served on the board or a committee are removed. They are the ones who have only made the situation worse. Going along to avoid trouble is the cowards way out. They deserve no respect or should ever be elected to anything again. New people on the board will be a start. They have nothing to cover up.
636 - no rereads needed to stand by what I said. Your self-serving diatribe is simply evidence that you protest too much.
What do you do with a person who simply wants to be long to an honest organization? That's a goal you can't accomplish at this point. Go hide behind your rhetoric and try to feel better.
9:23....You are a very confused person, full of denial of the facts around you. There's a lot of that goin' around though. Nothing good will come of it, just more of the same mismanagement and screw-ups.
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That's it? Smh.
Candidate statements and applications were due the first of May. Why is Reber speaking of the Legal limit for getting this stuff out ? Yes, 2 weeks is the minimum notice. That really isn't an excuse for sending this stuff out a month later than is necessary.
That leaves a minimum amount of time for owners to send in their ballots. If the HOA is unwilling to enable electronic voting, then they need to get on the stick and get the mailing out early enough to allow 3 to 4 weeks for owner mailing. This is another matter that shows the HOA's attitude toward member participation. Less is better for their "system".
A valet with ballots on a pillow arriving at each members house for annual voting would not improve the number of members voting. The reason is simple. There is not trustworthy information readily available to the members to make an informed vote. Most opt not to vote rather than making an uninformed vote.
Electronic voting would not be effective for all members. We do have a number of elder members who do not touch tech devices or have a clue how to use them.
8:16....The proposals for Electronic voting have not intended to do away with the mailing option. Both would be made available. I agree that candidate info should be published well in advance of the election for the reasons you state.
It isn't simply about candidate information. It is about trustworthy and timely information being available to all members on a continuous basis about ALL functions and tasks that happen in the association. We are paying for ALL that is happening. Paying for the moronic mistakes that typify this association over the past 12 to 15 years, as it has been mismanaged, results in distrust, confusion and dislike.
Can anyone explain clearly the advantage or improvement involved with electronic voting that would also include mail-in ballots? It looks like increasing the expense of the voting practices while in no way increasing the number of intelligent votes.
The issue is unreliable, misleading information and stupid management decisions. These two problems in the association are confusing to all members thereby resulting in uninformed or not voting. Can we deal with the core issue of untrustworthy (information or lack of information to cover up bad decisions) information instead of screwing around with increasing the expense of voting?
When your HOA is willing to pay the Golf Course $5000 a year for a place to store gravel, while holding acres of community land, your HOA can afford the minimal expense of putting Electronic voting in place as an option. We can't say exactly WHY so few members vote with any certainty, but we can make voting easier, and most people spend a lot of time on their computers and devices these days.
Many HOAs use these sites for their elections, and the cost is not significant. It also would make sense to eliminate proxies all together in the process. Having the Electronic option would help eliminate the timeline concerns of mailing or mishandling. Want to vote ? Fine, then you make the decision, not leaving it for someone else to cast your vote as they wish.
It is true, the HOA should get candidate info out a month before the election, not 2 weeks, still needing to be mailed. That's sketchy. But the BOT has not been honest with members about the various management failures, and expects the election to take place without offering an explanation of why vast sums of member funds have been squandered this year.
This is very much election time information, and the cover-up continues, now for almost a year. There's no indication they will EVER talk about this stuff.
Trying to justify a stupid expense with another stupid expense is exactly the moronic stuff that I am hating. This looks like another "brilliant" anonymous comment by Steve. Please spare us the deceit of a misleading anonymous comment.
And your comment 10:35, adds what? The other "Misleading anonymous" comments are at least discussing the issues. That is sure more than what your doing with less than "your brilliant" comment.
10:35.... You have a lot of hate to share, considering how steamed you are over an anonymous Blog comment. There is nothing misleading in my comment, and you are more than obsessed with TRYING to discredit my comments with your empty angry comments. You don't even get my point, so your lacking "brillance" is painfully obvious.
Still with the anonymous comments I see.
When it comes to hate, Cox is an authority.
There's nothing to indicate that as much as you want to create this myth. I'm not hateful, and that's perfectly obvious. You need to get a different hobby. But you are a pitiful. No name, all full of hostility you can't vent on something more significant than a blog poster. Pitiful.
Why is the HOA planning to BURN DOWN the "old" water pumphouse on the westside of G St. ? It's pretty close to a cedar-shingled 4plex that's one of the oldest structures in the community, and set into a hillside covered with very flammable grass. Burning a structure such as this will create a great deal of unnecessary pollution, and will stink the area up for some time.
Has the community been consulted or alerted to this ? Fat chance. I haven't seen anything about it in the agendas or minutes. Typical that it is hidden in the manager's notes.
It will be burned down in the fall after the rains start. It will be dome by the fire department as a training exercise. DPR made a bid to remove it for several thousand dollars. Then it was decided our crew could remove it. Now they think they will save money if the fire dept burns it. Guess who is left with the clean up? These people know nothing about saving money. In fact, they know nothing about anything. I take that back....They are good at covering up their incompetence and mistakes.
Several thousand dollars? Like five? Could have had it removed n stored gravel on the lot. Many other options. Kirby pretty tight with golf course hmmm?
Most of the training burns I've seen are in huge parking lots where there is nothing flammable nearby. Word is that Clancy may be involved. Presumably volunteer firefighters who have a minimum of training, will be "practicing" on a site that once engulfed in flames will certainly catch the beachgrass on fire. This sounds asinine. The building is surrounded by beachgrass, and is set into the hillside. No one has been notified or consulted who lives nearby.
Money can be saved by avoiding Superior Court excursions by Williams, and abiding by County, State and Federal regulations, which avoids unnecessary fines.
Kirby is not on the Board and hasn't been in quite some time. I don't think he is even serving on any committees. I don't think he even attends monthly board meetings although he may be in fear of his personal safety like the Blog Host stated in the past. How about finding something relevant to snark about?
Kirby(Golf Balls) is on the Community Relations Committee and Water Planning. He needs to shut up and go away.
Fyi, it was discussed about at a couple board meetings ago. Not all of the trustees thought it was a good idea, including some that most here like to bash all the time.
Ok Stevie, how would you describe the practice of continually making anonymous comments to validate the comments that you put your name on. While I won't say that it makes it to the level of having a narcissistic disorder, it is indeed, as you say, pitiful.
So 6:36 AM you don't think it's possible (more like probable) that our Blog Host and many other's do the same thing? And remember way back when the posts required a name and the blog withered? Manipulation is the name of the game.
6:36....as I said, you are obsessed with insulting and hounding me, yet you are too much of a coward to identify yourself. I can easily ignore your sad comments. Obviously, letting a nitwit like you have a name to insult means everything to ya. Last signed comment. Bye, bye.
The July election will prove how disgusted members are with the corruption of Surfside. You are a bigger man Steve to walk away from this pitiful jerk.
What a pathetic POS you truly are!
Takes a narcissist to know one, fool.
Oh I have no doubt that happens 10:28. The difference is that unlike Cox and Riley, those folks don't come on here with their elitist attitude saying how much integrity they have because they sign their names and belittle those who comment anonymously. So I call them out on the obvious hypocrisy.
Same with the way Cox has no problem attacking volunteers and making false allegations against them and Trustees by name along with derogatory name calling but when someone turns the spot light on him he starts crying and plays the victim. The old "can dish it out but can't take it" syndrome.
Btw, 4:40, reread my comment. I didn't call him a narcissist, but you just did. Who's the fool now?
But I am happy for Fed and others that you have a hero to look up to. I truly am.
Some people believe that they need to be in a battle to feel alive. The contrarian and obstructionist attitudes of some running for the board and others who bought property in Surfside with thoughts to change things to coincide with their personal preferences does nothing to make an effective, well-managed association. Being a person who stirs up controversy and trouble does not make you admirable or special. The sense of pseudo self importance and grandiosity demonstrated by some on this blog is a personal problem that has nothing to do with making a fair, respected and efficient homeowner's association. Those who have demonstrated incapability and self serving agendas while serving on the board and committees should not get a vote. Creating elitist boogeymen to justify pushing for self serving changes is very apparent and without merit just as in the federal level of our current government. Don't vote for those people that you have come to know as contrarian and self serving. Speak up about working towards a better Surfside.
Surfside can only be better if those who are on and have served on the board or a committee are removed. They are the ones who have only made the situation worse. Going along to avoid trouble is the cowards way out. They deserve no respect or should ever be elected to anything again. New people on the board will be a start. They have nothing to cover up.
636 - no rereads needed to stand by what I said. Your self-serving diatribe is simply evidence that you protest too much.
What do you do with a person who simply wants to be long to an honest organization? That's a goal you can't accomplish at this point. Go hide behind your rhetoric and try to feel better.
9:23....You are a very confused person, full of denial of the facts around you. There's a lot of that goin' around though. Nothing good will come of it, just more of the same mismanagement and screw-ups.
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