Evidently David Israel and I attended different meetings though we were in the same room in the Clubhouse. Once again he rants on about "malcontents" disrupting the meeting. Really? When and exactly how? Let's see. Did they clap when they felt a speaker earned it? Yes, AND SO DID OTHERS and that is allowed. So, on to the next. Did they wait their turn to speak and then speak politely with no shouting, yes, except for one person who raised a voice and there appeared to be tension between the speaker and David Israel. David Israel, in turn, while the speaker spoke, made ridiculous physical and bodily gestures which, in turn, inflamed the situation, but the speaker sat down in a timely manner, no one else got involved and the matter was over, two minutes and no disruption. Nothing to term disruptive on either side but if we are going to insist on using that term, as David Israel wishes to do, then understand, my dear fellow, that you tar yourself with the same brush!
Did everyone agree with each other? No, but no one shouted or booed. So what the hell is this man hallucinating about? Perhaps he, too, found something to smoke!! He must have, for on he rages again how Wi Fi is going to be voted back into the budget. He is NUTS! Here we are trying to make up a shortfall, better prepare ourselves for the future needs and meet our current needs, our reserve fund of Wi Fi which should never have been there anyway, is now going to be transferred to the shortfall in reserves once the delegates vote, as will the $2 fee we have been paying to amass more money for an unwanted and unnecessary project, except in the hallucinatory and paranoid mind of David Israel and his crew and he states confidently that Wi Fi will be back in the budget. Does he think that the delegates, even these half asleep and cowed delegates will vote for an increase of $9.45 and then start adding more like the Wi Fi and then more UCO fees for new contracts, and then WPRF additional costs, and then their associations and on and on? If they were to do that, we might as well shut up shop for there will be more than a few who cannot pay these increases.
Finally, if anyone understands what Elaine Brown is saying on her blog, please clue me in. Is she in favor of a cross the board percentage cut or not? It appears to me she is and while a percentage would have to be figured out, it might be an answer. Yes, it would be difficult but we would survive. That is called an austerity budget and while the Village would be kept up, some projects would have to dial down a bit or wait a year or so until we are straightened out. Only necessary work and maintenance would take place. Now David Israel keep stating that we are a Village, so let us act like one, one where budget necessities and financial holes demand attention in a stricter way. Hey, he brought this upon us and no one is accusing him of theft, just incompetence, fiduciary irresponsibility, ignoring our own by laws, poor behavior in his tantrums and insistence on his petty selfish wishes, and poor writing skills! By the way, unfeasible is the proper way to state what you wanted to say, not infeasible. That offer of tutoring is still there.
Now there is a period of time when Howie O'Brien, our Treasurer, is willing to take submissions of new ideas and budget proposals and seriously evaluate. Percentage cutting might be discussed and might be feasible or not, but it is simply one thought to be evaluated along with others. I do not think we should rule anything out before discussion and evaluation.There will be another finance committee meeting. All this is for the benefit of our home, our Village. We can ALL tighten our belts a bit, both residents and UCO committees in their wish lists, as well as WPRF with their wish list. A year or two of tightening belts, of eliminating unnecessary expenditures, of leaving Wi Fi to the wishes and needs of the individual associations will not kill us and in fact, will help us.
GET WITH THE PROGRAM, CONNECT WITH REALITY, MR. DAVID ISRAEL, OR RESIGN!!!!
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