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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2010, 11:43:08 AM » |
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Due to rumors being spread that are completely FALSE, I am posting the following:
Nobody wants the main road to be public and nobody has ever attempted to get them open. This sadly is an attempt by 2 of the candidates to make it appear that myself, Kurt, and Scott are attempting to do, as we are seated on the CDD 1 board and we proposed taking over some land and street lighting, but not the streets.
What we did have, is a discussion between the HOA and CDD1, about the CDD taking over the land that is on both sides of the road, as well as the street lighting, in order to eliminate the costs from the HOA and shift them to the CDD. This would lower our HOA fees and raise or CDD but more importantly reduce the HOA's liability to bad debt, because the CDD has a 100% recovery rate because they are paid through the property taxes, where as the HOA has had an extremely hard time and they have to hire an attorney to file liens, and then possibly Lis Pendens, which is very costly, and the HOA is out of that money until it is collected, If it is ever collected. This is the same premise they are using, in order for the CDD to take over the street lighting. At the end of the day, with the CDD in control of the landscaping on the sides of the main roads only (not the clubhouse) it will just shift the day to day expenses of maintenance from one pocket to the other pocket of our residents. But for the long haul, it will reduce the HOA's bad debt exposure and should even reduce the HOA liability insurance, as it wouldn't have to cover as much area. The CDD is a government body, with sovereign immunity, so additional insurance isn't required. The roads will most certainly stay private AND the gates closed. At no time was it ever discussed or proposed to open these roads up to the public in any shape or form and more importantly, they know this. All of our CDD meetings are public record and anyone can get the minutes to those meetings, where they can verify for fact what I am saying. We as CDD board members can't even discuss items between ourselves outside a meeting, unless its just facts, per the Sunshine Laws.
They should be ashamed of themselves for using dirty rumors and stretches of the truth, in order to attain a seat on the BOD and gain a position of trust for which they will represent the whole community, by using lies to get there. I am saddened that someone in OUR community would use these techniques against a few people who have been HEAVILY active in getting this community to where it currently is and wanting to improve it further. I'm even more saddened that these same people act as your friend to our faces and turn around to spread false rumors and flat out lies against us for those positions.
If ANYONE has any questions, feel free to speak with me direct or you may certainly request and receive ALL the meeting minutes from our CDD's Manager, Severn Trent. I wonder if you will get the same cooperation from the HOA for ALL of their meetings.
Simply saddened,
Michael Ceparano
(813) 417-6698 Cell
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