The Park West HOA was abandoned by the developer board members who failed to show up. Instead, they appointed three other neighbors to work with Bobby Thomas, to rush though and approve the previous meeting (March 2003) minutes, a budget, and then we went through a hasty nominations process with 6 candidates already listed:
* Linda Bal, who was acting as the secretary and running the meeting notes,
* Jeffery Fix (not present)
* Chuck Griffin (acting officer)
* Cathy Jedrzejewicz
* Dave Maril (acting officer)
* Jorge Rodriguez (not present)
* Carol Buls (nominated from the floor)
The 3 new board members that we elected will begin their terms at the next board meeting. It is customary for them to elect the officer positions at that time:
1) Dave Maril (3-yr term)
2) Linda Bal (2-yr term)
3) Cathy Jedrzejewicz (1-yr term)
I counted 38 people at the meeting and Bobby Thomas reported, via Marilyn that we had a quorum of members (he said 30 lots were represented - he could easily have done that with the builders lots if he had proxies, but he said the developers would not use their super majoity vote). Nobody offered how many votes were outstanding and how many lots were in attendence, but I guess we will have to trust Marylin (our property manager).
It was pretty, it was quite proper, but it seemed to be effective and I think nobody disagreed with the outcome.
Lets support our new board in every way possible, and that means volunteering to serve on one of at least 5 committees that need to make some decisions about landscaping, by-law changes, communications, events and other pressing issues.
The neighborhood is now our to run. The Developers have ducked out - this only underscores how bad it is to have developers control an HOA. They were reckless and unresponsive to the end.
Thank You all for picking up the pieces. Lets see if we can get this community a working HOA system that can live within it's budget and address the serious issues we face.
The officers can't do this by themselves. They will need small committees to study the issues, consider the options, and present them to the board to make the right choices for our future.
* Linda Bal, who was acting as the secretary and running the meeting notes,
* Jeffery Fix (not present)
* Chuck Griffin (acting officer)
* Cathy Jedrzejewicz
* Dave Maril (acting officer)
* Jorge Rodriguez (not present)
* Carol Buls (nominated from the floor)
The 3 new board members that we elected will begin their terms at the next board meeting. It is customary for them to elect the officer positions at that time:
1) Dave Maril (3-yr term)
2) Linda Bal (2-yr term)
3) Cathy Jedrzejewicz (1-yr term)
I counted 38 people at the meeting and Bobby Thomas reported, via Marilyn that we had a quorum of members (he said 30 lots were represented - he could easily have done that with the builders lots if he had proxies, but he said the developers would not use their super majoity vote). Nobody offered how many votes were outstanding and how many lots were in attendence, but I guess we will have to trust Marylin (our property manager).
It was pretty, it was quite proper, but it seemed to be effective and I think nobody disagreed with the outcome.
Lets support our new board in every way possible, and that means volunteering to serve on one of at least 5 committees that need to make some decisions about landscaping, by-law changes, communications, events and other pressing issues.
The neighborhood is now our to run. The Developers have ducked out - this only underscores how bad it is to have developers control an HOA. They were reckless and unresponsive to the end.
Thank You all for picking up the pieces. Lets see if we can get this community a working HOA system that can live within it's budget and address the serious issues we face.
The officers can't do this by themselves. They will need small committees to study the issues, consider the options, and present them to the board to make the right choices for our future.