Wednesday, March 31, 2010


Board Meeting 3/24/2010

Pledge of Allegiance

Owners Speaking on Agenda Issues
President Remarks-P. Burke took time to scold “those among us” who she believes failed to obey LIV rules. No names were mentioned of who she alleged had contacted our vendors and service providers. She said that only the Board members have the responsibility to contract, communicate, and et cetera with our outside vendors. She said if you don’t like what the Board is doing; express it at the next election. She said there were owners who have taken upon themselves to do things which have impacted and caused damage to other owners, and as we note from the Coffee at least one potential renter had a negative impression of this Village from reading stuff on-line. She said that the actions of a few are only going to damage this Village without saying who those few are.

Manager report-Rick Horner said 75 work orders were done with 5 still pending. There are 64 lots in arrears totaling $21,930. There were 5 building permits and 5 new violation letters issued. Armando went over the management actions from the Coffee Meeting concerns.

Directors Additional Comments
D. Pelletier asked for volunteers to paint the Arts and Crafts room.
D. Bergsma discussed the “meeting conference system” where the Board meetings can be seen online. He mentioned there’s a need to bring the computer reception signal into the Arts and Craft room. He said he found a free conference system provider and P. Burke said this will be looked into further at a later date.

Approval of February Minutes was done.

Treasurer report and Financials-while Treas. Steffensen went through the financials, P. Burke interrupted her with saying to owners don’t waste your time at trying to get any information on LIV accounts, because only she and the Treasurer have access to owners accounts. She said so you as owners will only receive information from the Board. Treasurer showed that the P&L revenue centers were all in the black.
D. Montalvo presented awards to the Election Committee for job well done.

Committee Reports
1. D&E-White said there will be one last Leslie Party and Leslie will be back next year. Charge next year will be $3 and each table will bring their own snacks.
2. Golf-Pelletier praised the improvements made around the course by the golfers.
3. Pool-Steffensen said the pool wrist bands will be changed soon. The Board is looking to purchase statues for the island area in the outdoor pool. It was said there will be stronger enforcement of wrist bands next winter.
4. Other

Unfinished Business
D. Bergsma requested a motion to spend $15,000 for the side scanning sonar that will determine the amount of dredging material and sea wall conditions. It was voted down.

New Business
Burke asked for the Broad to vote for the two candidates that the Bridge Board seemed to have endorsed. It was questioned as to if the Bridge Board took the time to read the third candidate's application. P. Burke seemed to mumble that you would have to ask someone else and continued for the vote. The Board approved Steve Fowler and Roger Steffensen.

P. Burke said she was going to attend a Cowen Meeting this week. She said the Hamlinck trial will be June 28th and the other two have motions have summary judgments pending.

Meeting schedule for 2011 was discussed. Motion made and passed.

Committee appointments were discussed and asked if there a wish for any changes. D. White asked to be on the Hurricane Committee and P. Burke unenthusiastically said, well, I’ll take a look at that and called for the vote. Motion passed to keep the committees the same.

The Board passed the motion to keep the same assistant officers.

Meeting recessed
An owner wanted to ask P. Burke a question just prior to the continuance of the meeting and she said the Board is not back in session. The owner said this is just a non official question and P. Burke said that your question will be official and wanted all of his questions on the record.
Meeting in Session
The owner was now allowed to asked where the P&L info was and then told in the back by where you walk in.
Treasurer Steffensen talked about the improvements with the LIV website. One inprovement is the rental listings. She said owners who are not presently in the Village will not be able to personally list their rental properties on the website due to the By-Laws. She said she would keep owners up to date on futher improvements.
Director White talked about the evening table setup problems after having afternoon activities in the Rec. Hall. Motion passed to limit afternoon activity to Monday and Wednesday only in the Rec. Hall and to end at 2:30 pm.
Our Board President again brought up her problems with people who ride bicycles in our Park. She now has the Texas Bicycle laws and told owners she is going to give these to management and security to use.


Executive Meeting

Rick Horner scored near perfect in his evaluation by the Board.

The Board talked about a Cowen Meeting.

The Board wants to impose a stricter no smoking policy.


Adjournment
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March 17th Coffee with the Directors

Pledge of Allegiance

Lot 679 asked about A&C locker 49 and square dancing after 3pm.
Lot 153 talked about having the practice for the Christmas program from 4-6pm
Lot 916 said the hole in her yard keeps getting bigger.
Rick Horner said he needed to get with Mr. Salazar (security) about a Hummer that was speeding.
Lot 96 said the plastic Census bags are causing litter in our Park.
SC 57 had concerns about the pool during the off days of the current pool operator.


WORKSHOP
D. Pelletier wants on the agenda the moving of the marquee to the curb, A&C lockers, water meters for each lot, and during construction make a rule to put up an orange construction fence to keep debris from falling into the canal. He also said Julio is doing a fine job in the Grill.
D. Bergsma wants to talk about web conferencing.
D. White wants to talk about Rec. Hall scheduling.
Unknown wants to discuss why Lot 120’s electric box is supplying electricity for common ground sprinklers.
P. Burke wants to discuss Bridge Board candidates, current litigations, meeting schedule, committee appointments, and assistant officers.
Unknown wants to know why Time Warner dropped channels 48, 64, and 74
An executive meeting is scheduled after next week’s Board meeting
End
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Monday, March 15, 2010

MARCH COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS

We would love your comment or suggestion that will improve our Village. They may be viewed by those visiting. We will renew the display each month. Anonymous are welcomed. So throw one in the box.







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Saturday, March 06, 2010




2010 ELECTIONS, NOTHING’S CHANGED.

The same Board members were re-elected, Bill Gagan 379, Anita White 346, and Jose Guerra 346. The other candidates were Virginia Martin 245 and Patty Ann Sandberg 234. All cabinet positions stayed the same.

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Tuesday, March 02, 2010


Target Practice

If there ever was an example of what our six members of the “08” Board had to go through it was witnessed last night at the “Meet the Candidates” event. What a disgrace. What’s up with this October “08” letter that supposedly had Aramark’s response to an owner's concerns towards mismanagement in our Village?
Who in the world should care if anyone contacted our management company, especially then when they probably received a ton? Where in the Declaration or By-Laws does it state an owner is prohibited to contact the Association’s management company and express individual concerns? NOWHERE! This in my opinion appeared to be nothing more than a lame attempt to discredit a candidate who has rubbed some the wrong.
This was atrocious and did not belong at this type of gala.
I believe these three should apologize to this candidate for their inappropriate actions. If not it will once again confirm to owners that some things will never change.


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