Posts Tagged ‘Oakmont Golf Course’
Plans for an New OVA Committee Come Into Focus [OGC]
On November 10, 2017 The Oakmont Golf Club (OGC) held their first Town Hall meeting, telling the audience ways in which the OVA might provide financial support for the golf operation. – Kenwood Press article OVA’s agenda to create a committee for 2019, albeit long-overdue, is a good step in the right direction. An ideal framework…
Read MoreThe OVA/OGC Negotiating Team Revealed
A perception of privacy, secrecy and opacity was recently described as the atmosphere surrounding the OVA Board Committee charged to deal with the Oakmont Golf Club issue. As we are learning, there are two groups unofficially charged with focusing on the details of a potential OGC deal with OVA. According to Director Tom Kendrick, herewith are the…
Read MoreA Retirement Wealth Gap Adds a New Indignity to Old Age
Pictured, Iris Harrell and Gary O’Shaughnessy of Oakmont Village October 4, 2018 | The Wall Street Journal Jennifer Levitz | Photographs by Rachel Bujalski for The Wall Street Journal SANTA ROSA, Calif.—On a Saturday morning in retirement paradise, Ken Heyman stepped out to his front porch and found a brown paper bag. Inside was the chopped-off head of…
Read MoreA ‘Vital Threat to Oakmont,’ a Decade in the Making
This statistic shows the number of participants in golf in the United States from 2006 to 2016. In 2016, the number of participants (aged six years and older) in golf amounted to approximately 23.82 million This article I wrote in 2005 describing the challenges facing the Oakmont Golf Club, reads almost as if written today.…
Read MoreAn Oakmont Natural Park Created by Volunteers
While someone might buy the Oakmont golf course property, one has to doubt that it has much value or could even be developed given it is zoned open space. Changing the zoning is difficult and given that Oakmonters vote in the VERY high percentages, our objections would probably kill any such effort. What does the scenario…
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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