During the February WPA board meeting, your board discussed sending a letter to residents regarding the change of address, for residents who were in the process of paying their 2013 assessments. This was necessitated by the fact that our management company had given notice of cancellation of their contract. Effective March 11, they will no longer be handling any of our WPA business, including collection of assessments.
Your board sent the following to residents on February 21. "Our community will no longer be represented by William Douglas Management. Please mail all assessments, correspondence, late fees, etc. to the following address effective this date, Feb. 21, 2013. Wedgefield Plantation Association P.O. Box 1310 Georgetown, SC 29440 Thank you in advance,"
I found this to be a waste of paper and postage. First, all assessment collection, except for straggling late payers, would have been completed by January 31st, if your board hadn't played with dates. Oh, the due date remained the same, but we had two months of readings so they could change the policy and move penalties on late payers to March 1st. To my knowledge, and review of the correspondence file, no one requested this. It is just another action of your benevolent, big brother board feeling they know what is best.
Back to the letter. Since your board was going to the expense of writing you all, and attendance at meetings is low (less than a dozen), they could have sent a meaningful, information packed document to you. Other than the annual assessment and annual meeting mailing, you haven't heard from them. Why didn't they tell us what caused the management company to quit? Why didn't they describe the accounting decisions they were going to have to make and the method they were going to use to "keep our financial books"? Do they think they are all powerful? Do they think that you aren't smart enough to care or question? Was it because they were going to lump all these decisions in a closed meeting they think they can hold by calling it "personnel"? Whatever it is, it appears they believe that you'll just let them pull the wool over your eyes.
Yes, this letter was a waste of paper and postage. Probably not the view of this board, because they continue to rule and hide.
