Open Forum :Board Members Attending: Bill Brady (by phone), Wilbur Bullock, Bill Delaney, Lisa Farinacci, Betty Francis, Sean Holland (by phone), Bev Houston
Miscellaneous Other Attendees: Joanne Lowenthal, BCC Manager
BCC Owners Attendees: 44 (est.)
Board Meeting Minutes: January 21, 2010
Reports:
Manager's Report: Available on BCC web site.
Committee Appointments: The following committee appointments were made:
Community Relations: Betty Francis*, Bill Delaney, Sean Holland, Bev Houston
Finance and Accounting: Bill Brady*, Bill Delaney, Lisa Farinacci
Legal: Wilbur Bullock, Rocco Viola, Bill Delaney*
Long term plans and Capital Improvements: Bill Brady, Sean Holland, Wilbur Bullock, Gordon Houston*
Maintenance and Operations: Wilbur Bullock, Lisa Farinacci*,Sean Holland, Chuck Flesher
Screening: Russ Parrot* (to appoint others subject to BOD approval.)
Security, Rules and Regulations: Betty Francis, Bev Houston Chuck Flesher*
Social: Eliminated, responsibility moved to Community Relations
Violations: Appointments tabled pending resolution of ticketing policies.
*Chairperson
NOTE: BCCers who would like to volunteer for a committee should contact a committee board member or the chairperson.
*Chairperson
NOTE: BCCers who would like to volunteer for a committee should contact a committee board member or the chairperson.
Old Business:
Private Investigator - Termination of private investigator and return of funds and files given to him. Ratified unanimously.
New Business:
Attorney Retainer - John Stevens retained for collections. Becker & Poliakoff to be retained for special other projects. Passed unanimously.
Recovery of Association Funds - Special projects counsel (Becker & Poliakoff) instructed to initiate appropriate legal action to recover any Association funds lost through fraud or other illegal activities. Passed unanimously.
Meeting adjourned at 8:12 followed by coffee and goodies.
Please advise of any errors through "Comments" below and they will be corrected.
6 comments:
BCC NEWLY ELECTED BOARD VOTED TO RETAIN B&P as Legal consul invetigate CRIMINAL BOARD ACTS--instead of spending the communities money for this investigation just turn over all evidence,facts and any other pertinent information to authorities, local, state or federal.
THEN THIS INVESTIGATION WOULD NOT COST BCC RESIDENTS ANY MONEY AND IF THERE ARE ANY ILLEGAL ACTS UNDER THE GOVERNING LAWS THE PROPER AUTHORITIES WILL PRECEDE ACCORDINGLY.
The proper authorities are only interested in prosecuting criminal actions. They will not act to recover any money lost by BCC owners and, they may not act at all.
The cable TV "consultant's" contract was a clear violation of F.S. 718 as well as Florida corporation law. (Secret, no-bid, no BOD discussion.) Since the illegal "consultant" contract resulted directly in a bad Comcast deal we probably have the right to rescind it also.
Keep in mind that O. J. got off on the criminal murder charge, but lost the civil suit. Anonymous advice not to pursue this is kind of suspect.
As Charles said, I am suspicious of "Anony's" suggestion for BCC to avoid taking action to recover the monies we have lost due to actions by the prior board. Me thinks they would like all of this to simply vanish, but I think that would be stupid. Time to pursue them, rather than leaving it up to the police, who are far to busy to go after condo culprits.
It would seem that those who are against the new Board hiring Becker-Poliakoff are worried about two things:
1. The cost: we aren't buying ground beef at the grocery store at so much per pound! Given a lousy lawyer at $200.00 an hour and B&P at $400.00 an hour - guess who will be MORE expensive? The lousy lawyer, of course! He will spend so much more TIME (which is money) in his "research" - B&P KNOW the law and will spend LESS hours.
2. B&P are the BEST in their field - they seldom lose a case. If they win, it won't cost BCC a penny - the LOSER pays. I would rather be on the WINNING side than risk losing by being "penny-wise and pound-foolish" using a lousy lawyer. The winning side will not only have their lawyer bills paid, but we stand to regain some - if not ALL - of the BCC funds lost.
"Money begets money" - you invest a little, and you stand to get a lot. That's a win-win situation in MY books.
I hope this Board doesn't "go cheap", as so many Boards in the past have done. You get what you pay for. We are a 2.6 million dollar corporation - let's start ACTING like one. As residents, we feel that we're WORTH it!
We could certainly use any recoverable funds to put towards some of our needed capital improvements. It would negate the need to have any Special Assessments!
Charlie, if you CHOOSE to use this comparison (BUT IN THIS CASE ITS LIKE APPLE AND ORANGES) however speaking of the goldwyns they pursued in civil court at there own expense and not community or public money.
P.S. THEY recv'd NO COLECTABLE MONETARY SETTLEMENT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A FORM OF JUSTICE HE DESERVED. O.J. JUST MOVED TO FLORIDA WHERE THEY CAN'T ATTACHED PERSONAL ASS'T i.e. home or NFL PENSION
To Kevin flagg I'm not sure how long you have live in bcc. It was only a couple of years ago that B&P cost this community $100,000 more or less and the one cost that takes the cake is the cost for a meeting advertise to the residence by the board and B&P as pro bono but later billed at over $5,000 these records are available for your revw so be careful when you even suggest that B&P are after anyone best interest except there's first and foremost.
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