2010 Dec 10 – MA Meeting
Changed from December 7th Annual Meeting on postcard mailed 11/19/10
Friday, December 10th, 2010 6:30 p.m. St Luke’s Church
4595 N. Silver Springs Dr.
1. Past & Current Activities/Projects
2. Status of Lakes , Silver Springs dams, and associated Issues
3. 2011 Budget
On Tuesday, October 19th, during the NorthShore Single Family HOA Annual Meeting, Gaylynn Mooney announced that “the big” SSMA meeting that was expected to change everything is scheduled for December 7, 2010. Will continue to seek the correct date.
On Tuesday, October 12th, during the Silver Springs Single Family HOA Annual Meeting and Election, Bill Noland stated that the Master Association is planning a meeting on November 9th at 6:30 p.m. “It is going to be a really big one”. He would not elaborate except to conclude that it was going to be held at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.We have heard that MA participants are trying to change representation from one elected property owner from each subdivision to just four members on the MA board. This is known as an oligarchy. Definition: 1. Government by the few. 2. A form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique (lake front owners?). 3. A government in which a small group exercises control especially for suspect and selfish purposes (use whole community property owner fee assessments to pay for repairs, insurance, maintenance, and management of lakes available to the few — that is 54 owners) ; also: a group exercising such control. 3. An organization under oligarchic control.
The September 7, 2010 SSSFHOA Minutes: “A possible significant SSMA bylaws change, Noland reported, is consideration of revamped board composition, such as each HOA delegating MA representatives who would then select by vote a smaller representative MA Board of Trustees, which would be concerned about MA responsibilities and functions rather than individual member HOA interests. “At large board members,” Secretary Fuller observed. “The HOAs would not have a direct vote on the MA Board of Trustees”, Kristian Mulholland observed. Noland agreed, adding, “the HOAs would still be involved through their designated MA reps.’ Does this sound convoluted and easy to manipulate? Are Noland, Mooney, Harsch, Fraleigh, and Carriel bucking for the job?Comment from neighbor, “Who anointed these guys that they think they can make better decisions for us than we can make for ourselves? Why don’t they give us our right to vote on all the issues. Like how many of us really want the liability of the lakes?”Is the MA board trying to change representation from one elected official from each subdivision to just four members on the MA board? Another neighbor observed, “If they do that they are not far from just eliminating the MA altogether and hiring property managers.” Except remember who wants the power.
The Community Group Proposals have not received the courtesy of a response from the MA or SSSFHOA boards. So much for the trustee requests for Community property owner input. Here are the results of the Survey Ballot.