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