THE MIRACLE: After entertaining guests for Easter and Memorial Day with this mess, we ASKED on the blog, whether any board members had lots like this next to them. Thursday, May 29th, we woke to another day of this mess, orchestrated and fertilized by your board's failure to act for the second year in a row. This year, the overgrowth brought a snake infestation, so we also dealt with this:
Around 4:00 PM on May 29th, we were picked up by friends and left for the evening, returning after dark. On Friday morning, the MIRACLE (????????), the lot had been mowed. We don't know who, or how, but it was done. I headed out to exercise and there was a second MIRACLE, as I picked up my friend on Wraggs Ferry. A lot on my route which had had knee high grass, was also mowed!
Why does it have to get this bad? This is the second year , that your board has dallied, at the expense of poor appearance, violation of individual contracts with private lot owners, and the violation of maintenance rules, and many of our governing documents, to suit the whims of our Grounds Chair. In 2013, the board kept telling the chair that they weren't going to subsidize private lot mowing. They laid out the loss that we were going to have to pay for out of our assessment funds, TO MAINTAIN PRIVATE LOTS. After all the strutting at the board table with "we won't have it", they voted to subsidize private lot mowing in 2013. While they performed this ridiculous staged act, the weeds just grew to knee high.
We hit 2014 and the Grounds Chair tries to tell us he made a profit on private lot maintenance in 2013, and questions, who ever said it was subsidized? Go back to the meetings of spring 2013, he admitted it at the time, telling us it would be about $2.00 per house hold. Why does your board allow this behavior and violation of our governing documents, let alone vote to let it continue? When the board asks the Grounds Chair to explain, it turns out three or four people who contracted for the 2013 SUBSIDIZED MOWING PROGRAM, didn't receive, even one service visit. As for the others, NOT ONE OF THEM RECEIVED THE NUMBER OF VISITS THEIR CONTRACT DESIGNATED!!!!!! That's how this chair could ATTEMPT to report a profit!!!!!!
The Grounds Chair's brilliant plan for this year is to REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VISITS, in private lot mowing contracts, and make sure the contract says "up to so many visits". It could appear to be another round of lying and cheating all around, with your board's full blessing. NO, I WON'T SAVE THIS
BUT I PREDICT THAT I'LL HAVE TO TAKE ANOTHER PICTURE JUST LIKE THIS IN THE SPRING OF 2015.
IF YOUR GROUNDS CHAIR HASN'T BUILT AMPLE MOWING VISITS INTO THE 2014 CONTRACT, I'LL BE TAKING MORE PICTURES AND PUBLISHING THEM THROUGHOUT THE GROWING SEASON!
THERE WASN'T A MIRACLE ON THURSDAY! A REAL MIRACLE WILL BE NOTED WHEN THIS BOARD FOLLOWS OUR GOVERNING DOCUMENTS AND REALLY DOES WORK TO "KEEP ALL OUR PROPERTY VALUES UP" - RATHER THAN SPECIAL PROJECTS AND FAVORS FOR A SELECT FEW
P.S.: Yard work got you feeling down? Don't worry about it, remember knee high grass and weeds is this board's standard when they contract with private lot owners for maintenance services. You can allow your grass to get knee high, and they shouldn't be able to fine you, because this is the standard demonstrated by the Grounds Chair and your board. If it ever becomes an issue, copy this picture from the blog.
