The questions pertained to roads and drainage. You'll remember the board brought real engineers into the current road projects. One area that is being repaired again is Duck Pond. Anyone would probably agree that engineering for projects on our roads is necessary. In the case of Duck Pond, it was repaired in 2010 or 11 when Huggins headed roads. He, and the board, except for one, refused to bring in engineers. Apparently, they were needed, because this board is investing our funds, once again, due to poorly planned past projects. Many who were sitting on the board during the last project continue to sit at the board table today. You might say, "give them credit for lessons learned". That's logical, except for the following resident questions.
(1)Why is it that this board will embrace engineering for road repair and not drainage? Good question. If you read the Reserve Study, at every turn of the page, the excerpts are advising the use of engineering services. Once again, there is no consistency of good business and administrative judgment. President Walton and DeMarchi are our resident experts and apparently don't feel the need for engineers. How does a road chair who brings engineering to the board table for his project, vote drainage projects without the support of engineering? How does anyone on that board who supported the vote for engineering on roads, vote for drainage projects that DeMarchi says were done incorrectly by all in the past, vote for drainage projects without the support of engineering, in the best interests of Wedgefield and the use of our assessment dollars, ignoring the advice in the Reserve Study and basic common sense?
(2) How does the road committee determine which projects are "most in need"? Do they ever take numbers into consideration? This resident thought that since road repair is needed in so many areas of the plantation, that they might consider high usage areas first. How many people are impacted by bad roads and travel on Duck Pond, compared to maybe, Wedgefield Road? We don't know the answer.
You can write the board and see if they answer. Visit the office and look at the correspondence book, review board reports, because the board doesn't respond and we haven't had a report from the Community Liaison in over a year. If you write and get an answer, please share it. I'd love to see how the board answers these two questions. Don't hold your breath, if you write to them.
