Heads Up March monthly Agenda

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The avowed 'no more than 2 hour' Monthly Meeting Agenda has been posted on the HSCA knock off site for the past few days. You can find it here: http://hawaiianshores.org/meetingsminutesmore/meetingagenda.html

It is a very ambitious Agenda, yet, it is missing key components left over from the previous Board's Agenda. It is also missing the Minutes for February 19th Annual Business Meeting for 'correction'. [Please see this site: 'Keeping it Transparent and Accountable] There are no less than 5 sets of Minutes to be considered; just not Feb. 19, 2011.

Also on the Agenda, and should be of interest, is the first in an anticipated series of outsourced functions. For years the Minutes were done by the Office Staff at the cost of their staff time instead of by the Secretary of the Board. Then, in an effort to cut the costs of doing the Minutes and because they are customarily done by secretaries of boards/committees, from January 2008 through February 19th 2011 the Minutes were done by the Association's Secretary. Among the first items of business by the newly elected Board of Directors was the search for someone to outsource this function to at a cost. 

The next Agenda item of business of interest is the years long discussion of the Stables! For two years the Finance Committee and various Boards of Directors have under taken a deliberative course of action to determine whether to refurbish the building or to demolish it. The board solicited cost bids for the destruction to get an idea whether it would be feasible economically to refurbish or demolish. The Board decided to demolish. One of the Directors offered to put together a report with a summary of costs not covered in the bids received. A follow up report was supposed to be presented to the Board at a subsequent meeting. However, the Director responsible for this report, who served on the Finance Committee and the Boards and who has extensive experience in the 'construction' industry departed from the direction of the Board with the announcement that he felt it would be better to 'refurbish'. The back story on this 180 degree direction change will be the topic of one of next week's blog. 

Also of interest, the Board will be appointing Committees and staffing them at the March 12th Meeting. Members from the community/membership at large, should be very involved in committee participation. It is from these committees that changes are made to the Homeowner's Association. Please insist on a list of Committees, their functions and their meeting times. Notice the change of name for our standing committee. A natural question would be 'is there a motion to send the name change out for vote as it is referenced in the Association's CCR's as the 'Architectural' committee? '

You may also be interested in participating -- or at the very least watching -- the discussion on the Annual Assessment and the Water Consumer Fees. Those fees were set and approved by the Board of Directors in October 2010 for the Fiscal Year we are currently in...2011.It is the funding for this year's fiscal commitments and business.

Folks, it is imperative that you keep an eye on what is going on. If you can attend meetings, DO! If you cannot, get the videos and watch them. If all you can do is visit the places where a recap of the meeting is provided, like this Blog, then do so. If you have questions about anything please email. Be specific in your inquiry.