8 BIG reasons to vote for change

8 BIG reasons to vote for change

1. The 3 board members, O'Reilly, Bartlett and Rigsbee have raised your dues almost every year, while they continue to give contracts to friends and business associates without a sealed bidding process.

2. Steve Bartlett, as a BOD, gave his company a 10 year contract for CCHOA property (5919 LaCrosse), at a cost of $100 a month. His company pays less than what it costs you and I in taxes and utilities. His company then subleases that space out to 2-3 businesses. Steve Bartlett does not live in Circle C.

3. Jim O'Reilly has used his position to make a profit on commercial land on Mopac. O'Reilly's land deal with Stratus took place October 21, 2003. At the HEB meeting last week, O'Reilly paid Stratus back by not allowing your neighbors to speak. Your neighbors were NOT allowed to openly ask questions or air concerns of HEB/Stratus. HEB has plans to build two of the largest grocery stores in South Austin, within 2 miles of each other. One at Escarpment/Slaughter and the other across from Seton Hospital on 1826. Over 180 residents have already signed the ''reduce HEB size petition'' (on paper and online), that can be seen at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/CCheb/petition.html

4. Jim O'Reilly has placed your HOA's 1.5 million dollars a year bank account at Merrill Lynch. Merrill Lynch is where he is employed.

5. Ken Rigsbee, retired oil lobbyist - There was a televised City Council hearing for the Escarpment to Hwy 45 extension on March 20th, 2003. A group of Homeowners had 350 signatures from a petition drive. The petition asked the city to stop the Escarpment extension and move the EMS/Fire station to a better location. To counter the 350 signatures against Escarpment, Mr. Rigsbee said he had ''hundreds of Escarpment Extension support e-mails''. The Mayor asked him to deliver them, and Ken promised he would. That promise, was never delivered. Now, through months of legal action, the truth is out. There were only two dozen emails to support the extension. Ken Rigsbee lied to the Mayor as our representative.

6. Ken Rigsbee started the CCHOA political action committee, while knowing such a PAC means our nonprofit CCHOA must pay taxes. Other nonprofit HOA's do not have PAC's. Rigsbee's PAC costs the CCHOA members tens of thousands of dollars a year.

7. All three of the BOD tried to ''fix'' the last election. As published in the newsletter before the election, they planned on capping the resident votes. You as a member do not get one vote, you get one vote for every $100 dollars of value of your home. The cap would have taken reduced the homeowner votes by 40%.

The cap was to ensure their candidate, Steve Bartlett would win. With that win, the 3 board members could stay in control of the 1.5 million dollar a year budget. A resident lawyer and two Travis County Judges stopped this illegal action from taking place, and have ensured that your votes will not be reduced again.

8. All 3 Board members have refused to give full discloser to the members of Circle C.

9. All 3 Board members have refused to sign the bylaws committees ''Code of Ethics''.

Can Amendment 2 Pass?

I don't see how amendment 2 will likely pass. The By-Laws state ''The By-Laws may be amended at a regular or special meeting of the members, by a vote of a majority of the members present......''

Doesn't that mean that more than half of those present must vote for the same choice? If the votes split between the 5 choices, nothing will pass.

Option 2 can't be offered

CCHOA re-wrote ALL the proposed By-Laws, which guarantees chaos from the meeting. And, of course, they wrote all of them in a way that is unacceptable to everyone, which is simply stupid. These are not the By-Laws's committee's work, nor are they what we had on the petition.


Anyway, there is no way to offer up a motion to vote on a multiple choice question.


We need no less than 9 board members, mabey more. If for no other reason, than to distribute the work load and let the committees make real changes, with the force of the original 3 kings, while like to micromange everything in secret.

9 board members allows at least two board members to serve on the key committes (Steering committee, Parks Committee, Recreation committee, and Communications Committee for starters), so that they can effect immediate changes without having to wait for a BOD meeting. Besides, if the BOD worked efficently (and didn't have to suck up to the developer's whims) they would only need to meet quarterly. Their monthly meetings suggest that they are afraid to share the responsiblity or they are hiding something.

Oh, yeah, their meeting are open now, but just try to make sense of them. They mummble and talk in code. This isn't the open government that an HOA is supposed to be.


9 board members is the MINIMUM.

Their arguement that it will add extra staff cost is correct - as long as we are dealing with Full Circle Management, our costs will be excessive and unjustified. They have a blank check to take our HOA money and use it to make life easier for the developers in Circle C Ranch. That's not right!!