SECRETS

This is a community of secrets. When neighbors ask the info center or the BOD questions they get stonewalled.

About 8 weeks ago I asked Donald Abrams for a list of committees and who was on them. He said he would get me the list shortly. Is more than 2 months shortly?

He tells all his new committee members to not tell anyone what happens or what they talk about in the committee. Why is that? Does Donald Abrams think he's in a 007 movie?

Other HOA's have direct contact phone numbers and emails to each committee chairperson.

****My suggestion: Lets just keep everything open. No more secrets here in Circle C.

FULL DISCLOSURE

Did you ever wonder why your BOD has not been open to full disclosure? Maybe Mr. Rigsbee didn't want everyone to know he worked for the oil industry as a lobbyist when he and his 2 BOD pals gave the OK for the Oil pipeline to be run right down the through the middle of Circle C.

Maybe Mr. O'Really didn't want you to know he works at Merrill Lynch, you know, the same place our CCHOA 1.3 million dollar account is.

Or maybe Mr. Bartlett, (the BOD member that is not a resident and never was) didn't want you to know he has many interests in the development south of highway 45. So when he loves the ides of running Escarpment from William Cannon to Buda straight through Circle C, his interests (land) gain millions of dollars in value.

****My suggestion: Lets just stop the secrets and have Full Disclosure. Three sentences in an annual report, once a year does not do the trick. I have asked our BOD for Full Disclosure, they said they don't have to give it. Lets also get a Conflict of Interest policy for our future BOD.

Another untruth

The oil pipeline was here more than
30 years before anyone had thought of
Circle C Ranch subdivision. Tell the
truth or not at all.

Lee H

Are you living under a rock?

A new Pipeline was just put in along side the old, have you been living under a rock?

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/1999-11-19/pols_feature5.html

Scroll down to ''Neighborhood Jitters'':

''Kay Peck, CEO of the Brown Schools medical complex, looks out her window and doesn't like what she sees. Within 25 yards of the building sits a precariously close pipeline, and although it's empty now, she cringes at the thought of flammable gasoline running through it. She's heard the horror stories -- like the one about the three boys who were killed when the Olympic pipeline exploded last June in Bellingham, Washington -- and she's concerned for the safety of her 300 patients and staff. ''We have brain-injured clients here, and at our residential treatment center, they're all adolescent males. Then we have our geriatric and special care center, which can't be evacuated quickly without staff assistance,'' Peck says. ''

''As long as they're maintained, pipelines are safe. We know more about mitigating corrosion than ever before.'' Rigsbee says fear of pipeline explosions is as irrational as fear of an automobile with a full tank of gas, adding, ''We put that bomb in our garage every night.''

We need Full Disclosure!

What other HOAs do:

Other HOA's let you contact the committee chair directly.

No secrets.

No ultra control by 2 residents and 1 non-resident.

http://www.riverplacehoa.org/comites.shtml

http://www.lakepointehoa.org/committees.htm