September 09 ROCC Board Meeting

I'll give you the bottom line first. We will draft a letter to the residents that are encroached on by the bike path. The letter will be from the ROCC board president and ask those residents to allow the board to use their property rights as leverage to restore our rights to the bike path. I am amazed how the board still does not perceive how important this is to the residents and how urgently we want it resolved.

Full report, about 16 residents attended the meeting. As suggested by members, I summarized the current state by describing how approximately 31 properties are encroached on by the bike path.

I also tried to document that we need a new lawyer because the current one failed to properly perform his last action item (Now reported to cost $2500) and took eight months to find out that the Golf Course would not furnish their survey. Of course, I then went to the town and a few days later picked up that survey.

As a result of a lot of conversation and statements from the residents, it was agree that the president will send the letter described above. Having experience with how slowly the board acts, I requested a timeline for the letter. They proposed a month to draft the letter and a month to run it past the board. Thus my comment above about lack of urgency. After some protest by the attendees, a resident agreed to draft a letter and email it to the president.

This is a link to the list of properties crossed by the bike path: ClickHere

Other tidbits (please email me anything I forgot so I and add to this list).

(a) One resident expressed his frustration of how the board performs saying something like, "In the 15 or 20 years he has interacted with the board he has never seen it act in the interests of the residents. There always seems to be a hidden agenda that controls the board's actions. They do not represent the residents."

(b) Another said since we have now established that there is some question regarding rights to the bike path, the board should send a letter to the Golf Course stating that it is retracting the letter saying we do not have access to the bike path. We should also inform the residents that they should resume using the bike path. I thought I saw some board members (only 5 of the 9 board members were present) nod in agreement. Any bets on when we will ever see such letters?

(c) A board member said that the Golf Course lawyer told our lawyer a few months ago that he didn't think the golf course would mind if we used the bike path when there were no golfers. To which a resident reported that her husband jogs the path every morning before golf starts and twice this week he was told not to use the path.

A few of us found one board member to be particularly disturbing. He made statements like:

We don't have a case.
We can't pursue this any more.
The board won't fund 31 people that have faulty surveys.

In case anybody is interested, here is an excerpt from the Offering plan
that relates to removal of a board member: Click_Here
It requires a quorum, defined as: Click_Here

I wish we had more people show up. The board still doesn't "feel the need".

That is all I can think of for now.

Pete

Why the ROCC Board is Ignoring Us

I think I know why the board is ignoring us. They don't realize how many of us there are and how strongly we feel on this bike path issue. Not enough of us are speaking up at the meetings. Even when we have 20 or 30 residents present, only 4 or 5 say anything. Well, we need to remedy that.

The board has instituted a 3 minute rule; everyone gets to speak for 3 minutes. So I urge everyone to take some of their 3 minutes to show the board we are serious.

If you want the board to fund a new lawyer to represent us, TELL THEM!

If you want the board to provide funding of $5,000 or $10,000 to cover legal fees and other expenses, TELL THEM!

If you want (and I may regret this but "in for a dime, in for a dollar") me to coordinate the lawyer and other activities, TELL THEM! I don't want any payment. I have nothing to gain beyond rights to the path, but I sure want to succeed.

If you believe the board is ignoring the petition signed by over 200 residents, TELL THEM!

If you believe that the board has forgotten that they were elected to represent us, TELL THEM!

If you believe some members of the board are on the side of the golf course, TELL THEM they have to change!

If you want to know which board members are on the side of the residents, and which are on the side of the golf course, DEMAND they make it public! (Note, the board has an "unofficial policy" of presenting a "united front" to the residents.)

If you would vote to remove any board member that won't back these actions, TELL THEM! (Note, according to the offering plan, sections "5.06 Removal" a board member can be removed by a majority vote of a quorum and according to section "4.04 Quorum", a quorum is the LESSER of 1/10 OR 100 members.)

If you believe in just a few of these points, please make yourself heard. Print out a copy of this and take it with you to the meeting. Make a few extra copies to hand out to other attendees.

This has gone on too long. The meeting is Monday, 9/14, 7:00 PM Greenwood Rec. center.

Thanks,

Pete