Posts by Bruce Bon
OVA Bylaws Progress Report – 2024 October
Perhaps the most important activity currently managed by the Oakmont Village Association (OVA) Board of Directors is the revision/restatement of our governing documents, in particular of the OVA Bylaws. Planning for this activity has been proceeding over the past several months. The intent of this report is to briefly inform the OVA membership of the…
Read MoreNEWS AND OPINION: Board Ignores Objections, Votes Full Speed Ahead on the Most Ambitious Oakmont 2030 Proposals
NEWS: After an active discussion at today’s OVA Board of Directors meeting, the BOD created a resolution on the fly (i.e. it was not in the agenda) and approved a controversial recommendation from the Long Range Planning Committee, stated in the LRPC report as: LRPC recommends that the board explore in more detail the Walk…
Read MoreOPINION: What Messages Did the Landslide OVA Election Send to the Board?
The 2024 OVA Board election was record-breaking. The number of ballots cast (1,916) was greater than in any Board election ever, even including the highly divisive pickleball Board election of 2017, and the voter participation was 59.4%, approximately duplicating the 2017 turn-out. Even more impressive was the margins by which the three new directors out-distanced…
Read MoreOPINION: Who Should the OVA Board Serve?
There are innumerable ways of categorizing the 4700 or so members of the Oakmont Village Association (OVA), but for the purposes of this article, I will consider just two categories: What proportion of OVA members are active? As George McKinney, a long-serving and respected member of the OVA Long Range Planning Committee, observed recently in…
Read MoreMy 2024 Endorsements for the OVA Board
I endorse Matt Oliver, Heidi Klyn and Jerry Gladstone for the 2024 Oakmont Village Association Board of Directors. I will explain why below. These are my personal endorsements and are not those of The Oakmont Observer, which will not have any official endorsements. Author’s note: When I took the job of Editor of The Oakmont…
Read MoreCandidates Night: Questions Not Asked
This is the second article covering important questions that OVA members submitted, hoping to have OVA director candidates answer them during Candidates Night. The first article, Candidates Night: Questions Asked, listed the 13 questions (out of 49 submitted) that were asked and then answered by the candidates at Candidates night. As you can see, there…
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