It’s approaching four years now that the Blog Site, AnAquarinaVoice.com, came into being as a platform for the Aquarina Community to be apprised of news updates, and provide an opportunity for residents to communicate among themselves. The site visits have steadily built over these years where some Posts have seen nearly 3,000 visits, and total visits are approaching 100,000. All this has evolved from a readership audience of approximately 500 residential units. The Blog is directed at Aquarina Residents, and has never been directed anywhere else.
It should be noted that the Comments Link in the left margin of the posts is the trigger to establish and release your comments. By clicking on the Comments Link a screen will open to write an email, which can be sent back to the Blog to be posted and appear in the Comments section for folks to read. As I have explained and promised in past posts, these email comments will never reveal email addresses or names of the authors of the email comments. However, we have had email comments where the authors requested that their email addresses and names be associated with their emails to the Blog. Neighborhood social chatter, commentary, and debate is certainly encouraged to have a healthy discourse and a rapport of ideas.
Aquarina has become a vibrant subdivision in the South Beach Area (Spessard Holland Beach Park to Sebastian Inlet). Social groups within Aquarina have emerged, from those groups that keep among themselves, yet still having an eye on the community, evolving to groups that have become political and have exercised control of the community. In striving for a political balance, you would expect that these varied groups should work together for the good of all, rather than having one of them focusing more on shaping the community for themselves. Do we have that balance? Hmm.
It can be said that Aquarina has resort characteristics, i.e. a beach club and private beach, a river facility with access amenities, a neighborhood club house for social activities, a golf course, tennis courts, and a restaurant. These resort facilities can be serious expenditures and needy maintenance items. In addition, there is the infrastructure that supports these facilities. Finally, the community generates over $2,000,000 a year from maintenance fees. Wow. This is all quite a handful. On the surface, you could say professional oversight would be expected. Oh yes, we have an elected HOA of uncompensated Directors and Volunteers who have taken on all this responsibility. Hmm.
More to come . . .
