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Originally Posted by ilovetv
This month's POA Bulletin was on our counter, and I don't remember it standing out for being as negative--and even venomous--as this month's edition does.
In huge print the front-page headline reads: 2012-2013 Golf Cart Related Fatalities and Serious Injuries in The Villages
Then, underscored in a blue box above the fold it says in all caps: "Your https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...ath.gifLawsuit Settlement Dollars at Work".
Below that is "Owens Corning Defective Shingles Update"
Beside that is POA Meeting announcement with the topic in large print: "Sinkhole and Golf Cart Insurance Things You Need to Know".
And the ugliness goes on from there. Now. I'm not saying these are not valid topics nor that the Daily Fun is all one needs to read here.
What I keep asking myself about this group and editor is, "If TV is so terrible, why do they continue to LIVE here????"
To me it seems like they're looking for a new/different axe to grind. And the developer is always here to hate and loathe.
http://poa4us.org/bulletins_files/bulletin201402.pdf |
Is there anything in the POA Bulletin that is untrue? If not, what is your complaint?
In most instances, the interests of the Developer and those of the residents coincide. However, when they do not, the Developer, has from time to time, tried to do some pretty outrageous things to the residents to further his own interests. Some of those things have been listed in several of the posts above, as well as in the latest POA Bulletin that you criticize. (I would add to that list the Developer's subsidization of his front organization, the VHA, in a partially successful attempt to weaken the POA.) In the situations where the Developer has behaved badly, we have been very fortunate to have the POA. To deny that fact is to shut ones eyes to the reality of the history of this place.
We may also have a real need for the POA in the not-too-distant future. Ask yourself what happens to our amenity system if the IRS prevails in its dispute with the Center Districts/Developer or we have a huge increase in the minimum wage, as is being proposed in Congress. If either possibility materializes, there would be a real risk to the continued financial viability of the amenity system, and somebody (the Developer or the residents) is going to have to make up the shortfall to keep the system going. In that case, we will count ourselves lucky to have the POA to represent our interests. In fact, we will have no one else to do so.