4/1/25 Minutes Now Online

If you wonder about some of what happened at the April 1st Board meeting, you can read the Minutes of the meeting, which were posted today.

But you won't see the audience participation and the bickering that took up much of the meeting.

The Minutes include the Financial Operating Results for February 2025, which have not yet been separately posted.

The Minutes also include the Manager's Report. Also included is the Violations Report, which itself makes for interesting reading.

The Minutes are notated as "Corrected", and I had a good laugh when I read Item 5 in the Finance Committee's action: "McClerkin's electrical ass [sic] a 100 Amp Service at the column ..."  This made me wonder just how carefully the Minutes were read and "corrected".

Motions were made and passed for $39,520 of various work around The Summit. I always wonder if the Finance Committee really knows which accounts those expenditures are to be charged to and if the money is there to spend.

Five contracts were signed in February, but no mention was made of the dollar amounts.

In the Contracts Committee report was this line: "Motion was made by Brenda Bryant to NOT do the border (near the edge of one pool for $3,724) at additional cost, seconded by Tanisha Holmes, All in favor. (5-Nays to NOT do the border and 2-Yays to do the border)"

YES, that's how this reads! This is what you are dealing with, folks. What does "All in favor" mean? Nothing. Why wasn't the Motion simply to place a blue line around the edge of the pool for $3,724? And then the vote: two in favor, five opposed. Motion fails.

Is that blue line on the pool deck decorative only, or is it a safety line required by the State swimming pool code?

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