A TIDBIT
If tropical depression Alex makes things nasty for the 2nd Annual LIV Cook-off on July 3rd, it will be rescheduled for July 17th. This possible postponement decision might come this Thursday. Don’t miss the fun.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
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
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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
Sunday, June 20, 2010
JUNE 16TH COFFEE WITH THE DIRECTORS
Pledge of Allegiance
Pledge of Allegiance
Suggestion Box
Lot 469 made the comment that no one is excluded from using swim bands. Comment stated that on May 9th a Board member cursed Security for doing their job enforcing this rule. This comment said there was another incident involving this Director pertaining to obeying golf cart rules. Our Vice President said this has already been addressed.
Lot 229 wanted to know who is doing the Village Voice, then wanted the Board to investigate. Vice President said no can do.
Lot 469 made the comment that no one is excluded from using swim bands. Comment stated that on May 9th a Board member cursed Security for doing their job enforcing this rule. This comment said there was another incident involving this Director pertaining to obeying golf cart rules. Our Vice President said this has already been addressed.
Lot 229 wanted to know who is doing the Village Voice, then wanted the Board to investigate. Vice President said no can do.
Comments from the Audience
Lot 143 asked if the scum in the golf course ponds is going to be taken care of. Armando said it is being addressed.
Lot 4 brought up the problems for one person launching a boat off the Village dock by the swing bridge. It was said any available manager at the Welcome Center will be happy to give anyone a hand.
Lot? Owner had a concern about Board members abstaining. He said people elect directors to represent them and want to see their directors vote on an issue, not abstain.
Lot 831 asked if the Bylaws can be changed to table a motion if too many directors abstain.
Lot 170 said that he thought security was doing a fantastic job; one in particular is Becky Reyes.
Lot ? said Julio’s pasta bar was great.
Lot 744 asked if Friday's chicken night could last a little longer to accommodate the Valley owners. The Board said they would look into it. Owner said an EMS person from Port Isabel has provided an invaluable form to fill out and post on your refrigerator. This form gives EMS necessary personal medical information for better emergency treatment. Owner also discussed the Hurricane Committee’s timeline that will be posted in the Long Island Village website.
Director Guerra asked management when are you moving the marquee and doing the putt-putt golf restoration. The GM said the marquee will be moved after the 4th of July cook off and Director Gagan said the info on the putt-putt is forthcoming. Director Gagan said that the putt-putt course is currently unsafe due to deterioration and it was decided by the Board to close it.
VP White said on Sat. the 19th, she was going to have a pool Olympics for children ages 8-12. It should be fun. Rita Priest, the person who sued six Directors in 2008, had a concern about the liability. Director White told her she contacted the insurance people and was told everything but child molestation was covered. Catherine Demalade who was sitting with Rita Priest asked if there is a lawsuit, would they sue the Board or the Association. She said she was concerned because of the current Association lawsuits and that there are people out there who are eager to sue.
The GM explained the current problems with the courtesy phone to the restaurant.
Lot 143 asked if the scum in the golf course ponds is going to be taken care of. Armando said it is being addressed.
Lot 4 brought up the problems for one person launching a boat off the Village dock by the swing bridge. It was said any available manager at the Welcome Center will be happy to give anyone a hand.
Lot? Owner had a concern about Board members abstaining. He said people elect directors to represent them and want to see their directors vote on an issue, not abstain.
Lot 831 asked if the Bylaws can be changed to table a motion if too many directors abstain.
Lot 170 said that he thought security was doing a fantastic job; one in particular is Becky Reyes.
Lot ? said Julio’s pasta bar was great.
Lot 744 asked if Friday's chicken night could last a little longer to accommodate the Valley owners. The Board said they would look into it. Owner said an EMS person from Port Isabel has provided an invaluable form to fill out and post on your refrigerator. This form gives EMS necessary personal medical information for better emergency treatment. Owner also discussed the Hurricane Committee’s timeline that will be posted in the Long Island Village website.
Director Guerra asked management when are you moving the marquee and doing the putt-putt golf restoration. The GM said the marquee will be moved after the 4th of July cook off and Director Gagan said the info on the putt-putt is forthcoming. Director Gagan said that the putt-putt course is currently unsafe due to deterioration and it was decided by the Board to close it.
VP White said on Sat. the 19th, she was going to have a pool Olympics for children ages 8-12. It should be fun. Rita Priest, the person who sued six Directors in 2008, had a concern about the liability. Director White told her she contacted the insurance people and was told everything but child molestation was covered. Catherine Demalade who was sitting with Rita Priest asked if there is a lawsuit, would they sue the Board or the Association. She said she was concerned because of the current Association lawsuits and that there are people out there who are eager to sue.
The GM explained the current problems with the courtesy phone to the restaurant.
Armando asked about having a life guard at the pool. He said he witnessed a little girl almost drowning in one of our hot tubs recently. After much discussion, it was decided to have additional security Thursday thru Sunday for the pool area.
WORKSHOP
VP White said the hurricane time line would be on the agenda
Dir. Gagan will have the putt-putt on the agenda.
The GM brought up the problems enforcing that only licensed operators may drive golf carts and the number of people becoming irate when told they cannot drive into our Village unless they have a valid licensed/insurance cards. Catherine DeMalade asked the GM if they document the names who break the golf cart driving rules and referred to the latest violaters mentioned in the newsletter. The GM said no, the security just makes a report it happened.
The President is to bring up hurricane issues and additional pool security.
Treas. Steffensen said theu have received three bids for fixing the common ground's sea wall and went will use the original $5,900 bid. This work was Board approved for up to $6000. She then discussed the Aramark contract and the Boards need to finally renew it. Aramark's new fee was 103,950, a 4.7% increase. The Liquor License has been the real delay due to who retains the receipts. The Village wants a 10 day turnaround on month end financials. This has been sitting since November 8th of 2008. The new contract will be posted at the library when the Board approves it.
VP White said the hurricane time line would be on the agenda
Dir. Gagan will have the putt-putt on the agenda.
The GM brought up the problems enforcing that only licensed operators may drive golf carts and the number of people becoming irate when told they cannot drive into our Village unless they have a valid licensed/insurance cards. Catherine DeMalade asked the GM if they document the names who break the golf cart driving rules and referred to the latest violaters mentioned in the newsletter. The GM said no, the security just makes a report it happened.
The President is to bring up hurricane issues and additional pool security.
Treas. Steffensen said theu have received three bids for fixing the common ground's sea wall and went will use the original $5,900 bid. This work was Board approved for up to $6000. She then discussed the Aramark contract and the Boards need to finally renew it. Aramark's new fee was 103,950, a 4.7% increase. The Liquor License has been the real delay due to who retains the receipts. The Village wants a 10 day turnaround on month end financials. This has been sitting since November 8th of 2008. The new contract will be posted at the library when the Board approves it.
Adjourn
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
This Bud, is for you
First there was the incident where Burke and Montalvo were trading heated verbiage on our common grounds and left each other upset. The kids will be left out of it.
First there was the incident where Burke and Montalvo were trading heated verbiage on our common grounds and left each other upset. The kids will be left out of it.
Director Steffensen said Just before the May 19th Coffee Meeting that she had shared with Burke and two others, a statement showing Director Montalvo as being late in paying his Association fees. Montalvo was absent for the Coffee Meeting and didn’t know Burke had called the Board into a closed session to address several issues. One issue was putting Director Montalvo’s “Board Member Resignation/Disqualification-Burke” first on the Regular Meeting’s agenda. A copy of this Regular Meeting agenda was sent to all Directors.
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Burke said she consulted our Village attorney on this issue. Montalvo received a letter signed by Burke saying the issue of your resignation, by virtue of disqualification, will be on the agenda at the next Board of Director’s Meeting. Burke’s letter also informed him at this time, you cannot, in any way, act or represent yourself as a Director for LIV.
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Montalvo was forced to retain legal help and easily discovered these accusations did not hold water due to the late fee interpretations on our Village billing statements. This whole fiasco was suddenly taken off the agenda.
Montalvo said at the Regular Board meeting he felt Burke has once again misused her Presidential power on him and several other owners through the years. He made a motion for the Board to vote for her removal as president. Director Guerra seconded it.
Pat Burke dangled her importance towards the success on pending litigation and threatened to quit if removed. After a lengthy discussion the Board voted regarding her removal - - one NO, three YES, four abstentions. Pat Burke announced the result incorrectly and while leaving her seat said, “I resign --- good luck on your lawsuits”. This was followed by a written letter of resignation.
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Saturday, June 05, 2010
JUNE SUGGESTIONS OR COMMENTS
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
June 1st Special Meeting
Don Halbach started this special meeting saying the ruling that Pat Burke made on a motion to remove herself as President was in error. He also said that it really didn’t matter since she resigned from the Board. He praised Pat Burke as a hard worker that did a lot for this Village and that he will miss her.
He said the executive meeting that followed Pat Burk's resignation was also improper. He said organizational sessions to affirm a replacement director has to be done at a regular or special meeting.
Director Bergsma was participating via the internet cam. Directors Gagan and Pelletier were considered present by phone.
When the Board opened the floor to the audience only one Villager responded with asking the Board to restate how each Director voted on the motion for Pat Burke’s removal as President. Secretary Montalvo complied with the following, Pelletier was absent, Steffensen voted no, White, Guerra, Montalvo voted yes, and the remaining Directors abstained.
The Board approved Virginia Martin as Pat Burke’s replacement, Don Halbach as the new President, Don Pelletier as the new Vice President, and Annita White beating out Virginia Martin as the Assistant Vice President.
At the conclusion of the meeting Don Halbach made the comment that the Robert’s Rules say when a Village Director abstains, it goes to the prevailing side and is a yes vote.
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Don Halbach started this special meeting saying the ruling that Pat Burke made on a motion to remove herself as President was in error. He also said that it really didn’t matter since she resigned from the Board. He praised Pat Burke as a hard worker that did a lot for this Village and that he will miss her.
He said the executive meeting that followed Pat Burk's resignation was also improper. He said organizational sessions to affirm a replacement director has to be done at a regular or special meeting.
Director Bergsma was participating via the internet cam. Directors Gagan and Pelletier were considered present by phone.
When the Board opened the floor to the audience only one Villager responded with asking the Board to restate how each Director voted on the motion for Pat Burke’s removal as President. Secretary Montalvo complied with the following, Pelletier was absent, Steffensen voted no, White, Guerra, Montalvo voted yes, and the remaining Directors abstained.
The Board approved Virginia Martin as Pat Burke’s replacement, Don Halbach as the new President, Don Pelletier as the new Vice President, and Annita White beating out Virginia Martin as the Assistant Vice President.
At the conclusion of the meeting Don Halbach made the comment that the Robert’s Rules say when a Village Director abstains, it goes to the prevailing side and is a yes vote.
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