PERSPECTIVE

     Yesterday was a day of contrasts. It was a beautiful day, sun shining, the air soft and welcoming, a day for enjoyment. A bunch of us met by happenstance on the catwalk and stood there laughing and talking. In another moment during the day I heard bad news about a lovely person. We went to the library and the movies, took a walk and just enjoyed a good day here in the Village.
     This is what life here is all about, or at least what it should be about. There should be no ugly worries that we will run out of money, that there are greedy souls
 here who have nefarious ideas. It should be  a place where competent, honest, and caring people should be in the administration, either volunteer or professional. It should be a place where our funds are not looked upon as a place of mad money for crazy projects and backward ideas.
     Yesterday's cartoon posted on Gary's blog says it all. This must be the same gifted cartoonist who posted the earlier cartoons much earlier in time on this blog and he/she has a discerning eye and mind. David Israel and Co., believe they have a right to complete and wasteful usage of our funds, so confident that they can carry around a crowbar and a set of keys that will open all funds in the reserves to them and their ridiculously dangerous plans.
     I read yesterday that the perimeter cameras are going up. There is vehement opposition to this for reasons of privacy, concern over exactly who will be monitoring these cameras and what use will they have for them, and just exactly how does a camera on West Drive stop someone from breaking into a unit or molesting someone in the back of one of the associations. Answer is - it does not. There is no good reason for these cameras and for us to incur another expense. For whose benefit. I believe that answer is self explanatory. Why did the delegates not get to vote on this, to debate it? Why? Because we have a tinpot despot here in the Village and we allow him and cohorts to rule.
     Yesterday a friend sent me wonderful articles re "energy trees", for power, for solar energy and think how much better we would be if we had something like this here in the Village. For sure we get enough sun! Would it be costly. Sure, but how much? Who knows and we will never know if this is a good ongoing project for us to engage in, to even look into because we have a benighted group of people here who have their heads up another portion of their anatomy and their brains can only think Wi Fi, Wi Fi, Wi Fi..... We need to have a new, forward looking group of people brought into UCO, we need to open the windows, open the books, open our minds, to new times and new ideas. We need to look to the future, not to ideas that are already passé and not worthy of support and expense.
     If this is an impossible way to go with this administration then we need to move on, to throw out, to get rid of. Perhaps we even need to look more seriously into professional management and all it would entail. Perhaps the money it would cost us could be saved through other cost cutting gestures and moves, getting rid of waste in our spending now and believe me there is plenty of that. The point is, at present we have an incompetent, greedy, selfish, backward looking UCO administration, a non transparent group that holds onto its power with greedy hearts and arms. They have no management skills and no process nor procedure other than one in which they get to stay in power and waste and ruin us.
     People, once again, we all need to stand up and do something, act, run for office, speak up and out, protest, defy, OPT OUT, whatever it takes. Recall, force a resignation, whatever it takes - before it is too late.