Thursday, June 24, 2010


June 23, 2010 BOARD MEETING

Pledge of Allegiance

Owners Speaking on Agenda Issues
Lot? had an issue about the untimely way his grass was being mowed.

President’s Remarks-Halbach discussed the swing bridge and read Selba Campbell’s letter to the U.S. Army Engineer District saying their environmental study not include the dangers the barge traffic has on Port Isabel and LIV when passing through our small swing bridge. It stated this 1.5 million appropriation for widening the waterway must be put to better use and wishes an extension in time so this concern might be addressed, along with a discussion about rerouting. The Board said owners need to protest the present conclusion of this study, #216 dated 5/28/2010, by contacting the District Engineer at U.S. Army Engineer District in Galveston, attn:CESWG-PE-PR, PO Box 1229, Galveston,TX,77553-1229. A bridge Director said the inspection of our swing bridge turned out very good.

Manager’s Report-Horner said he received 57 work orders, 52 were completed, issued five building permits, and had no new violations to report. Condo fees arrears totaled $27,370. Armando said the common grounds sea wall has been completed by the Sea Cottages.


Director’s Comments

Approval of Minutes-Montalvo had the Board approve May's Regular Board, Executive, and Special Meeting minutes.

Treasurer’s Report & Financials-Steffensen- Nothing out of the ordinary stood out in the Treasurer’s report, but April's profit and loss breakdown was most interesting. All the revenue centers except one were losers. The News Letter was in the black posting a whopping $1,219, up $1281 from the previous year. The Rental Office stood out like a sore thumb by posting in the red $9,210, down a whopping -$38,086 from last year. Treasurer Steffensen said more owners are not using the Rental Office when renting their property. She said that the Board had a $38,000 insurance check from Hurricane Dolly in 2008 added to the last year's 2009 rental revenues.

Committee Reports
D&E-White- said the children Olympics was a lot of fun.
Golf-Pelletier-nothing to add
Pool-Steffensen wanted more "no food" signs around the outdoor pool.
Hurricane-White turned this over to Ed McBride who discussed hurricane info. There was a question if previous hurricane car stickers are still valid. Ed said he will find out.

Unfinished Business
Property Management Contract-Steffensen motion was approved to a new five year Aramark contract that starts today. New on this contract is that all receipts except alcohol will be retained by LIV, financials from Aramark will turnaround in ten days, and a 4.7% fixed increase for five years.

New Business
Mr. Lalo Acosta Hearing-Halbach had Mr. Acosta tell his side of the story about stiffing an owner. With Selba Campbell and another owner's strong endorsement a motion was approved to let this contractor do work in our Village.
Additional Security for Pool-White turned this over to our GM who said for $2,469 we will have an additional security guard at the pool on Fri, Sat, and Sun, eight hours a day until Labor Day. Motion was approved by the Board.
Miniature Golf Renovation-Gagan said his estimate to make a concrete miniature golf was $4349 plus some house labor. Motion was approved and this project should be done within two to three weeks.

Other-none

Executive Meeting was to talk about an employee matter.

Adjournment

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Can you explain why the Board wants LIV owners to send a protest letter to the Army Corp of Engineers? What's in it for our village? What are we suppose to say? Thank, Joey.

Joey said...

My understanding is that the U.S. Army Engineer District did an environmental study for a 1.5 million government appropriation at widening our intercoastal waterway and did not include a single word towards the dangerous situation we have here. It didn’t explain the majority of barge traffic traveling down the intercoastal and going through our swing bridge carries flammable cargo. It does not explain the devastating impact this highly probable accident in the future will have on our Village and PI. I believe Selba’s hopes these letters of protest by owners will add our swing bridge to this study and thus a part of the appropriations.

Anonymous said...

do you have an address for us so we can send a letter. This is important and everyone should send this letter.

Joey said...

The address that was handed out to owners at the meeting was study,
#216 dated 5/28/2010
District Engineer
U.S. Army Engineer District
attn:CESWG-PE-PR,
PO Box 1229
Galveston,TX,77553-1229