It's that time of year again. The owners' meeting is near and the emails are flying. It never fails that as the meeting gets closer the critics, who have remained silent most of the year, start beating their drums and looking for anyone who will listen to their sensationalized stories of half truths and conspiracy theories. Yesterday most owners received an email from an owner outlining the ineptitude of our administration as perceived by a small handful of disgruntled, mostly newer,owners. Interestingly, our board president, vice president, secretary, nor myself were included as an addressee in this email. If "many" have issues with our leadership, maybe "many" need to address their issues to our leadership. Few have a full grasp of all the work that goes into running an operation as large as Kontiki. What most often results is good people decline to be involved and a dearth of effective leadership is evidenced. I have personally had to endure abusive and sometimes vulgar verbal attacks this year as I attempt to serve the membership. This can lead to the situation we found ourselves in in the not to distant past when we hired Steve Edgar and his Texas Community Management to take over our operations. What a disaster, but it could happen again.
One of the items mentioned in this recent email concerned the roofing. The roof was completed for just less than the amount paid to us by the insurance company. We could not recover any depreciation because the project cost was less than the amount paid. The only way to recover the depreciation was to either incur a cost exceeding the awarded amount or to participate in a fraudulent scheme as proposed by one roofing company who bid the project. That company later made the news about its less than honest activities.
Another item mentioned was the posts from the old marina pier. I have had a very difficult time getting rid of the old posts. I posted them as "free" on Craigslist and didn't get a taker, but did get my email address into a spammer's list. Some we had to cut up and put in the dumpster and some were given to whoever asked for them.
Another item addressed was the lift station pump. That has been my most difficult project of the year. I'll give a more detailed report at the owners' meeting, but the problems continue as this morning I found out that our old pump, given back to us by PEECO, that Scott took to Houston three weeks ago to be rebuilt is not even our original pump. We were given the wrong pump. Early on we had a bid of just over $21,000 to rehab the pumps and panel, but the board tried to be frugal and work with what we have. Four different electricians have tried to figure out our control panel problems and I think it is now repaired, but the pump has to be rebuilt or a new one imported.
We try very hard to do the right thing on a daily basis, but despite our best efforts, some seem to feel the need to offer critiques and criticism without knowing the whole story
One of the items mentioned in this recent email concerned the roofing. The roof was completed for just less than the amount paid to us by the insurance company. We could not recover any depreciation because the project cost was less than the amount paid. The only way to recover the depreciation was to either incur a cost exceeding the awarded amount or to participate in a fraudulent scheme as proposed by one roofing company who bid the project. That company later made the news about its less than honest activities.
Another item mentioned was the posts from the old marina pier. I have had a very difficult time getting rid of the old posts. I posted them as "free" on Craigslist and didn't get a taker, but did get my email address into a spammer's list. Some we had to cut up and put in the dumpster and some were given to whoever asked for them.
Another item addressed was the lift station pump. That has been my most difficult project of the year. I'll give a more detailed report at the owners' meeting, but the problems continue as this morning I found out that our old pump, given back to us by PEECO, that Scott took to Houston three weeks ago to be rebuilt is not even our original pump. We were given the wrong pump. Early on we had a bid of just over $21,000 to rehab the pumps and panel, but the board tried to be frugal and work with what we have. Four different electricians have tried to figure out our control panel problems and I think it is now repaired, but the pump has to be rebuilt or a new one imported.
We try very hard to do the right thing on a daily basis, but despite our best efforts, some seem to feel the need to offer critiques and criticism without knowing the whole story
posted by Kontiki at 11:23 AM
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