Posts Tagged ‘Oakmont Golf Club’
OVA-OGC: What’s Wrong With The Process & How To Make It Right — Part 3 What’s wrong with Oakmont News coverage of the OGC question?
This is the final in my 3-part editorial series addressing issues with the current process being used to decide on whether and how OVA should provide financial support to OGC. The other parts are: Part 1 What’s wrong with OGC’s campaign for OVA funding? plus introduction to the series and some background facts Part 2…
Read MoreConflict of Interest and the OVA-OGC Question
Much has been said on social media about the potential conflict of interest of OVA directors, as they decide on whether or not to provide a rather huge amount of support to OGC (OGC asks for at least $1.4M over the next 5 years). The intent of this article is four-fold: first, to review what…
Read MoreOGC Water Drainage Argument Explored
The Oakmont golf courses were built over a period of years between 1963 and 1980, with the first nine holes of the West Course opening in 1964. Representatives of the Oakmont Golf Club (OGC), in Oakmont News articles and repeatedly at their presentations to the community in town halls, have claimed that the drainage,…
Read MoreOVA Support for OGC – a Common Sense Analogy
Photo: Creek leaving the east boundary of golf courses. The analogy that follows is intended to provide a way of looking at whether or not the OGC request for OVA support is reasonable with respect to the values that we all share. Consider a purely hypothetical situation where two adjacent 2- or 3-acre properties are…
Read More‘The Directors make most decisions…The big ones are made by members.’
OVA attorney Steven Weil offered the following legal opinion to the Board of Directors during a 2013 community workshop, “The Directors make most decisions…The big ones are made by members.” Weil reiterated his stance during the July 18, 2017 Open board meeting, “the Board can conclude that this [Pickleball Courts] is an issue that we…
Read MoreHere we go again…Oakmont’s Discord Publicized in the Press Democrat
Why is it OVA Boards can’t learn from past mistakes? Can we avoid such discord? YES! How? First, the Board needs to stop cherry-picking attorney opinions to suit their typically club-affiliated agenda and acknowledge the need for a membership vote on such matters. They should welcome and embrace prominent HOA attorney Steve Weil’s read on…
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