Last Saturday's Board Meeting

We attended the recent homeowner's meeting because we are concerned about our association meddling in affairs that are none of their concern and possibly making us members legally and financially responsible for their irresponsible actions.

We thought the CDF fire prevention presentation was appropriate and timely but from that point on this meeting was a total caricature of a board meeting. The vice president, when not pounding his gavel and threatening to recess the meeting and donning a bullet proof vest and his 'best buddy' , the Secretary, ( a poor soul that gets his kicks by spewing rumor as if it were fact) would have been a hilarious Saturday Night Live skit if it were not in fact actually happening. I almost got sick when another director sat on the table and tried to come across as being everyone's best friend. (Many of us remember this director from the old days when we used to have three beautiful pool tables at the Hacienda.) We left after two hours of this meeting partly because we could see it was going nowhere and partly because I was getting my dander up and it was better leaving than being pulled into this farce.

I tried to goggle the LDPOA to find its official blog and all I could find was the blog by our board Secretary where he has ranted over and over about some driveway and disgruntled homeowner. I could find no complaint made by the disgruntled homeowner. Nor could I find where the association had started legal action against the driveway. (Either to have it removed or to have it brought up to code). I would think that even the "bubba-style" board members would have enough common sense to know better than to discuss this kind of thing in a blog or anywhere where they could be cited and sued. It seems they are more interested in the gossip aspect of the issue than having it resolved in the best interests of the association and its members.

I read about the CSD and the Deerwood water bill issue and my first thought was, "Wow, would I be angry if the CSD let slip to the public that I had not paid my water bill for any reason. ” That is really above and beyond any common sense action I could imagine. But while we are talking about water bills, has anyone noticed the standing water on the roadway by the golf course? That is clearly a CSD water line leak, and at just about the spot where the water comes into the golf course. It has been there for over a month and shows no sign of drying up and the pavement is starting to sink around the spot where the water first shows. Hope it is not my car driving over it when the sink hole decides to open up.

We first bought a lot here in the early 80’s and we moved to Don Pedro officially in the late 80’s, so we are not newcomers to this association or its problems. I have to say that this year’s board is one of the worst out of many questionable regimes we have experienced.

Unhappy LDPOA Member