Features
Website Redesign: ‘The Oakmont Observer’
Dear reader and contributor to The Oakmont Observer: For almost a year and a half, our Online newspaper has provided the community with a vehicle in which to air and to share opinions, praise and grievances as they relate to Oakmont news, happenings and events in our community. Unlike OVA sponsored mediums, the Observer is…
Read MoreOakmont At A Crossroads
The Summer of Discontent and the Troubles at Oakmont articles all spoke to the times when residents were bitterly divided over projects that lay before the association board, a body of seven members, charged with making final decisions in our village of some 4800 people. From surveillance cameras, to business center on the greensward, to…
Read MoreSub-Association Needs and Recommendations Report
At today’s OVA Board meeting the Aid for Sub-Associations Committee (ASAC) delivered a major report to the Board and the community. The committee is comprised of four representatives of different sub-associations plus OVA Board liaison Steve Spanier and OVA Management liaison Kevin Hubred, and is chaired by Jeff Young. The ASAC was tasked by the…
Read MoreDoes a NO Vote Mean No OGC Purchase? NO!!
This is for those of you who may not have decided how to vote yet, and who ask the very good question, “What is going to happen if we say NO to the large dues increase? Aren’t we giving up control of the property forever?” Background: The Oakmont Village Association (OVA) Board of Directors wants…
Read MoreMissing Information Critical to Informed Voting: The Quail
Michael Connolly’s incisive reporting in the Oakmont Observer on the June 25 OGC Purchase Townhall has exposed issues critical to informed voting that is available nowhere else. OVA Town Hall on the OGC Purchase. Perhaps most important, a huge ambiguity in the Board’s presentation regarding the apparently contemplated lease agreement — that not all but…
Read MoreToo Many Unknowns & Why I am Voting NO
At the June 25th OVA Workshop regarding an OGC purchase, 4 options were presented: Do nothing. Shut down some OGC operations Operate as now, using a management firm Operate similar as now, with a Net Lease Partner Option 4 was discussed in depth with details given by Ken Arimitsu, OVA Broker. I asked the following…
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