Is Cheap always the best?

On occasion in life one finds out that getting something 'cheap', or in this case for FREE, is not always the best choice. 

For the past 3 years, the website costs and maintenance was provided as a donation from a member couple in the community. The Membership paid nothing for a quality resource updated as needed to keep the Membership informed while easily navigable when they arrived there for information. In that case FREE or 'cheap' was not a bad thing. 

Effective the last week of February 2011 the newly seated Board of Directors, primarily in the unilateral decision making person of the President, found a venue for the Website that is 'free' to the Membership. On the face of it, that is a good thing. The Membership as a whole may want to have things provided with less costs so long as it does not compromise the standard of service or a vital resource in the process.

At 0451 Tuesday March 8th I went to the 'official' website to look at the Agenda for the upcoming meeting. Lo and behold! The website was 'temporarily unavailable'. I snapped this picture at a little after 0500:

watchdog© 2011

Just to be fair, I also took a snap shot of the former site just a moment later:

watchdog© 2011

Now, I ask you, is this a harbinger of things to come? The short answer is: keep checking their site [which by the way, at 619 is finally back up] and look for the Agenda for the upcoming meeting. Some interesting goodies await the Membership and the 'whole' Membership may not feel like it bodes well for them. If you live on Popa'a Street or a couple of streets up you will love what they are doing!

Stay tuned. The expose is just revving up! 

You heard it first here: Those who have been ringing the bell for Dissolution of the Association and who have jumped on the 'cheap' bandwagon are jockeying themselves into a position to reap their reward. As a guess ventured, what do you think the 'state of the community/Association' will be in a year?