ROCC Board Meeting Monday 7/13

If you recall from item #1 in my write up of last month's meeting,

"(1) A resident pointed out that Prudential has subsidiaries that issue
mortgages and they may hold mortgages in Ransom Oaks. Liberty Mutual was
given as an example. Shubert said he will look into it. Perhaps find all
subsidiaries of Prudential and see if any of them hold mortgages in RO."

We thought we were going to get a report of the results of looking for those
other companies. Instead we were told that Liberty was not owned by
Prudential. Then a search was performed to find if any mortgages on Ransom
Oaks were held by Prudential. There are none of course, we already knew
that. ROCC paid a title search company either $400 or $700, it wasn't clear
to me which, to do a search, to which we already knew the answer. I believe
it was Einstein who said, "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results".

It was clear to a few of us that this effort is not goal oriented but just
procedures oriented. We stated that we want another lawyer on this. One
that will give us a fresh look at the situation and be proactive about
solving this problem. A discussion, that might be described as heated
ensued, with one board member loudly asserting that the issue is dead and
will not continue.

I kept thinking about the 200 plus signatures you all collected wanting
access back. Actually 203 signed out of 204 who were asked. That is 99.5%
of the residents want this. Many of you have stated many times that the
board is elected to carry out our wishes and they don't seem to be doing
that. They are not representing us. With that thought in my head I told
the board member making the loud assertion that he can be removed from the
board.

Only 10 residents showed up for the meeting and only 9 remained for the bike
path discussion. It would have been better if more of you were there to
express the need for a new lawyer. Many of us concluded that was needed
months ago. The lack of focus on the desired result is appalling. We prod
and prod and then get a half effort in response.

We were also told that the GOGC informed the ROCC that they will not be
providing the survey that the board asked for many months ago. I will
hazard a guess that they don't have a current one. If that is really true,
then on any particular section of the bike path, who knows if it is on GOGC
or a resident's property? I suppose that in the area near the clubhouse it
might be difficult to argue that some resident owns it but else where....?
I have decided that if I am ever challenged by GOGC personnel I will assert
that the section I am on belongs to the nearest residence. Simple??

On a lighter note, during this last week we surpassed the 1000th visitor to
our blog,

http://gobart09.blogspot.com/


Quite an accomplishment.

Thanks,

Pete