Month: July 2019

As our community continues to wallow in disrepair, and Board efforts and our funds are spent on questionable expenses, e.g. the golf irrigation well among other golf expenses, would it be appropriate that a vigilant Onsite Property Manager, who is allegedly well paid (BTW – do we know how much, which we have a right to know) have a weekly meeting with the other paid service folks in Aquarina, to discuss needed matters that should be addressed with regard to the presentation and workings of our community?

The discussions of what issues need to be corrected at these weekly meeting should be communicated to the Residents via email, as all the social events are announced.  This would be an excellent way for the Residents to keep apprised on the ongoing attention that should be exercised in maintaining Aquarina as a vibrant and well -presented community.

This Blog has called out the many concerns that continue without correction, e.g. the failure of properly maintaining the beach crossovers.  With the amount of yearly Residents fees (about $1.5M) that are available to keep our community sustained, certainly there is no excuse to have ongoing problems, not identified, not repaired, and not communicated to the Residents in a timely manner to let the Residents know that concerns exist and these concerns are known by our Board.

Which continues to be ignored is that the Board exists to serve the WHOLE community, with the priority of overseeing its presentation and mechanisms. The social aspect, though good, comes in second, and not first. 

Transparency, a popular euphemism now, does not exist at Aquarina, because it will expose the Board’s agenda and not a representative community agenda, where a rightly exposed Board agenda would most likely cause community outrage and rejection.  

For the past several days, there has been at least 1-3 inches of sand covering the bottom two thirds of the south beach crossover. This can certainly result in someone losing their balance walking down or up the stairs because of the instability that loose sand creates on the steps. Not having an additional and required second and correctly installed handrail, that was finally and recently installed at the north beach crossover, increases the change for someone to fall on these now unstable stairs. There already has been a serious fall at the north beach crossover.

The sand was deposited there by a turtle throwing sand when digging a hole for its eggs. The hole (crater) is along side the stairway, well up the dune. It is a natural occurrence. If the Board of Directors and the onsite Property Manager were doing their jobs of daily oversight within the community, then these piles of sand on the steps would have been shoveled and swept away. It’s interesting that we hardly ever see our self anointed President/Monarch and his onsite Property Manager minion tour the community to check on its condition to ensure the welfare and safety of its Residents or engage Residents for feedback. They stay sequestered in their place of residence or work carrying out the selfish Cabal goals; and not the goals for the whole community of Aquarina.

Hopefully, the steps were cleared of its present and clear danger to the Residents for the Fourth of July event yesterday.

As has been stated over and over again in this Blog, we are in a active resort community, where daily maintenance is required, like cleaning off the beach crossover steps and deck area, where daily use occurs. The same can be said of the river facility, where folks make daily use of the launch and walkway areas. All these facilities need daily inspections. After all, our Board of Directors have annual Resident fees in the amount of nearly $1.5M to spend on our behalf. There should be an effort to provide daily inspections to maintain the community and its amenities in a safe condition for the welfare of all of us.

We Shall Continue with Strength and Giving