David Israel and crew are constantly throwing mud over the basic issues here in the Village, thinking that this will allow them to get their wishes and their way. Wrong, very wrong, oh so wrong in so many ways. It also demonstrates great contempt for the residents as he believes he can fool and threaten and intimidate forever.
Here are a few of the issues that are affecting our wonderful home and the easy way to fix them.
Issue #1 - Democracy in the village. To put it bluntly, there isn't any. In collusion with Eva Rachesky, head of WPRF here in the Village, David Israel has his hand on everything. Unless one agrees with his views there are no fliers, no talks, no campaigning, no nothing. This is called a dictatorship.
Solution - Open up the forums and the space. We are ALL paying dues to WPRF and are not getting our money's worth. I wonder what Mark Levy thinks of all this as the reputation begins to tremble and how much money would have to be returned for lack of services.
Eva works for US, not David, and the sooner she learns that, the better off she will be.
Issue #2 - the Wi Fi proposal. There is no doubt that the invisible world of the Internet is expanding, but it is moving so fast - and so dangerously - in some facets, that one must be careful of jumping headlong into something. Truth be told, WE HAVE Wi Fi IN THE VILLAGE. Yes, we do. You have it in your homes privately via a provider and in your buildings if you have wired up via Comcast, and even have it by WPRF pools and some private pools such as a Wellington pool, wired via Ed Grossman and Building Wellington A. NO ONE is deprived of Wi Fi here and the term No Fi is so stupid it is beyond belief and obscuring the issue. The issue is that we are in debt. We are in major shortfall. The time will come soon enough when paying our bills will not be a reality unless we make up the shortfall.
One does not go on vacation to Hawaii if one cannot pay the mortgage. We have already paid for projects for which we did not have the money and then blew it all on a crappy road job with improper paving and walkways and very faulty drainage resulting. We need to save money for the new job which will be necessary way before time. We need to fund our anemic reserve fund and the one area which is painless is to transfer the accumulated Wi Fi exploratory funds over to the reserves and any additional monies collected over the year from the $2 fee.
Wi Fi can wait Village wide until we are secure and ready, until there are more ABLE AND COMPETENT companies able to do this, until we are sure of the value and quality, of the possibility in reality of getting all the permits, of the possibility of installing a system with more privacy, better speed, wider bandwidth, of the time required and the actual specific cost, with less visible infrastructure - all details to be spelled out for the residents, the whole truth, transparency. When the proper time comes, then we can talk. Right now there is no need and many people are not even interested at all in paying for Wi Fi they will never use.
Please note that if we do not transfer funds and go ahead with this idiocy, our payments to UCO will rise SIGNIFICANTLY, as much as $15 per month. That is a huge chunk of change. So vote to transfer funds and to defer the Wi Fi project. OPT OUT. Opting out is a viable alternative in the same way that people opted out of the Brown and Brown insurance contract. Approximately 70 associations have done so.
Issue #3 - the violation and ignoring of by laws. The Village administration is meant to be an open forum with all residents participating as they wish. This is not the case now. At present, opposition members, meaning those people who watch over the money of the residents, over the transparency of UCO, who believe in looking ahead to post Millennium Agreement, etc., are BARRED from UCO or pushed out. Owners are replaced by renters who should in no way be allowed to have their fingers in the pie. When people violate the rules of government - they are as criminals. So if the shoe fits -.....
The solution - obey and follow the by laws. Simple as that. Remember, David Israel, and here are your own words. If you do not follow your by laws you are on a slippery slope. My dear David Israel, you have taken the ski jump and are way off the slope.
Issue #4 - elections. Elections here are opaque, tainted and most probably corrupted by those who should not be in charge of them. People who allow improprieties in voting and people who illegally moved funds should not be allowed to supervise, let alone work in the elections.
Solution - simple. Move the date of elections one month back to February and invite an outside party to run elections such as Susan Bucher. She has said she would do it, but cannot do it in March. Changing the month is no big deal. We are changing the budget year so it is fairly simple - a proposal, the proper pathway and a vote. And then a clean election, a clean Village with Tammany Hall and Chicago type politics out of the Village - permanently!
There are other issues such as precise committee roles and the roles and placement of members, of the whole security issue and by the way, that issue of cameras is quite an important one. The cost of providing "snacks" and drink for UCO needs to be looked at and reined in.Assign Bob Marshall another job - like looking for lightning bolts, listening to the weather reports.
And of course, we have the do nothing officers of UCO who never have anything to report. So just what the hell are they doing there every day?
Read and think. Carefully. If we do not act, it will be our fault when the sinkhole opens up and swallows us all in a welter of stupid decisions, faulty planning, apathetic people and power hungry ones. It is up to us.
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