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2024 OVA Board Election Results
Congratulations to newly elected OVA directors Heidi Klyn, Matt Oliver and Jerry Gladstone. Today the ballots were counted and final results are in. There were 1,916 validated ballots (59.8% of the eligible Oakmont owners), easily surpassing the required quorum of 807 (25%). Vote counts: A short Board meeting was held, in which a resolution was…
Read MoreCollaboration to Bring Additional EVA to Oakmont
News Release from Burbank Housing, March 25, 2024 – Oakmont Village Association and Burbank Housing announced that following close collaboration, the two organizations have reached an agreement on the construction of a fire apparatus access road, commonly referred to as an emergency vehicle access (EVA) route, as part of the development of the Southeast Santa…
Read More‘Member/People Power’ vs. ‘Board Power’
In a recent Nextdoor post, Malka Osserman applied a quote from Noam Chomsky to her critique of User Groups: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going…
Read MoreTears and more Tears
As part of my Oakmont Forum series in the Kenwood Press, I wrote these words 20 years ago. They retain their validity to these days. Especially in view of Oakmont’s plan for the Renewal of our Downtown. While the CAC only is slated for Rehabilitation, it will have to be paid for with our moneys.…
Read MoreThe 2024 OVA Board of Director’s election is critical to our Future Financial Well Being
I was a member of the Bylaws Revision Committee (BRC). We presented our revisions to the Board of Directors in May, 2019. We recommended that the OVA Board vote on only one by law at first, so that a majority would be achieved with a lower quorum threshold. We recommended Town Hall meetings to educate…
Read MoreFireside Conversation with OVA Board Candidates
The Community Education & Transparency Committee invites the Oakmont community to join them this upcoming Friday, March 15 at 2:30 at the Berger for refreshments and casual conversation with the candidates running in the upcoming Oakmont Board of Directors election. From 3:00 to 4:30 there will be facilitated discussion. The 2024 Board candidates will be…
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