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Recent Update on OGC From a report on the February 26th Golf Club Committee meeting, it appears that the OGC has yet to be listed by the brokerage handling the sale.  Committee Chair Tom Kendrick said that when the OGC is listed for sale, the offers and financial particulars of the sale will be public.…

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As has been previously reported, the Oakmont Forum Club held a brainstorming session on January 29 to come up with questions to be suggested for the February 19 Candidates’ Night event, and subsequently provided an on-line poll for OVA residents to suggest and vote on the candidate questions. This article will report on the results…

The fundamental concept is simple:  Any change in OVA property that is large enough to be considered a significant change in the nature of Oakmont, should be subject to the explicit consent of those who will fund it and who must live with the results. In the January 15 issue of the Oakmont News, in…

Editor: One of the responsibilities of a General Manager is to remind Board Members of their duty of  due diligence. It is also the Board President’s responsibility to advise a Board Director when said Board Member is in danger of breaching Director’s ethics. At the July 17, 2018, Board Meeting Director Mederios both spoke on…

The most fundamental value on which all governance should be based is popular sovereignty, the notion that all authority for government comes from the governed and only from the governed. With respect to the Oakmont Village Association (OVA), the “governed” means all voting members of OVA, because we are not only the owners of our…