Committee (dis)courtesy

Many homeowners and residents are interested in whether crimes are occurring in The Summit. (They are, including Murder.)  Some show up at monthly board meetings to hear what RCSD deputies have to say.

In the past the HOA published a monthly Crime Report from RCSD on its website. When Deputy Travis Roberts moved from the CAT officer position to a different assignment at RCSD, the reports stopped. In spite of efforts by the late Paul Hill and me, they have not been re-started.

I have written on several occasions to the HOA's Safety Committee about this. My emails of July 2nd and August 14th went unacknowledged and not replied to. In my last email I requested the Committee to consider the issue at its August 17th monthly meeting. Did it?

Why would the HOA not want to re-start publication of the Crime Reports from RCSD?

Would you like to see the Crime Reports published on the HOA's website?

Email Board Member and Safety Committee Chair Dennis Rybicki (dennis.rybickisr@yahoo.com) and Board President Justin Martin (jdmartinscx@gmail.com). Ask them to re-start the monthly RCSD Crime Reports. Ask them to reply to you with their decision. If they don't reply, write them again. And let me know what you learn.

The Crime Report is available from RCSD. In past years the CAT officer may have had something to do with providing it. The current process, according to the legal officer at RCSD, is to submit a FOIA request each month for the Report. That is very easy to do. The Safety Committee Chair could write one FOIA Request, and then each month all he'd have to do is change the month requested. Time involved to email the Request? About three minutes. Not more. A committee member could do it. An Assistant Property Manager in the office could do it.

A reasonable person around here might ask: Why is everything such a struggle? Maybe it's not, for everyone else.

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