Perhaps our new Board of Directors might consider a couple of suggestions*:
BCC Manager
Sheila Meadows could be promoted to Manager and given a part-time (no fringe benefits) assistant/receptionist/clerk to assume the office clerical duties. Sheila has been working at BCC long enough to know all the actors (both good and bad) and BCC’s policies and procedures. Surely this is just as, good as, if not more valuable than claimed managerial experience in unknown condos or HOA’s?
Sheila has been doing the manager’s job for (at least) two months and in that time has handled everything well. Anyone who has lived here for any time knows of a whole gaggle of “experienced” managers who have been total disasters.
We know Sheila and Sheila knows us. Is bringing in unknown new manager (regardless of eye color) at much greater expense preferable ?
Roofs
Hurricane Wilma in 2005 damaged roofs on the south side of BCC buildings 1 – 8. Every Board of Directors since then has known that the damage was a result of the failure of steel edge fasteners and that future damage could be prevented by replacing the existing fasteners with stainless steel ones. This is maintenance that still, 5 ½ years later, has not been done.
When the next hurricane rips our roofs off and massive damage to our apartments results, will the insurance companies (both our individual homeowners’ and the Association’s) pay off? Or, will they claim that damages were the result of failure to maintain the property?
Why have successive boards failed to address this issue?
(See the May 11, 2010 BCC blog article “Bay Colony Club’s Next Hurricane” and Gordon Houston’s Capital Improvement Reports.
*Highly unlikely unless this BOD is radically different than our prior boards
