OGC Town Hall, My Impressions

PHOTO: Deferred maintenance at the ERC has left our facility partially barricaded for the past three years and Reserve Study costs escalating from $690,000 to $2 million This town hall was apparently not meant to address the question of whether or not OVA SHOULD fund OGC but instead HOW OVA should fund OGC. Director Kendrick…

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The July 10 Town Hall on the Golf Courses and OGC

What Should Residents Reasonably Expect of the OVA Board of Directors?   The matter of OVA financial support for the Oakmont Golf Club has been brewing for months and has been the subject of OGC-sponsored meetings as well as OGC perspectives presented in its regular column in the Oakmont News.  But the July 10 meeting…

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OVA-OGC: What’s Wrong With The Process & How To Make It Right — Part 2 What’s wrong with the OVA Board’s response to the OGC appeal?

This is the second 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 3…

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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…

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Conflict 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…

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