Posts Tagged ‘OVA’
My 2024 Endorsements for the OVA Board
I endorse Matt Oliver, Heidi Klyn and Jerry Gladstone for the 2024 Oakmont Village Association Board of Directors. I will explain why below. These are my personal endorsements and are not those of The Oakmont Observer, which will not have any official endorsements. Author’s note: When I took the job of Editor of The Oakmont…
Read MoreCandidates Night: Questions Not Asked
This is the second article covering important questions that OVA members submitted, hoping to have OVA director candidates answer them during Candidates Night. The first article, Candidates Night: Questions Asked, listed the 13 questions (out of 49 submitted) that were asked and then answered by the candidates at Candidates night. As you can see, there…
Read MoreCandidates Night: Questions Asked
This year’s Candidates Night event took place from 6 pm until 7:30 pm on Wednesday, Feb 21. In addition to in-person attendance, members could view the event via Zoom, although Zoom allowed only 100 attendees to log in – many would-be Zoom attendees were thus shut out. 49 questions were submitted, but only 13 were…
Read MoreEast Rec Overruns and OVA Plans for Future Development – Reasons for Optimism
A couple of days ago, Deborah Quam created a post on Nextdoor in which she linked to a Board meeting video from late 2018 in which Tom Kendrick and Iris Harrell described and defended the various cost over-runs and scope changes that led to the almost doubling from original estimates of the cost for remodeling…
Read MoreDemocracy in Oakmont: The Roles of Membership Surveys and Votes
In childhood, we all learned to believe in democracy, the fundamental principle that the right of a government to regulate our lives derives from the consent of the governed. A government is democratic only to the extent that decisions made by that government accurately reflect what decisions the voters as a whole would make if…
Read MoreFreezing Out Dissent in a Community Election
Political figures at the community level often frame criticism of their voting record and policies as “personal attacks” for important strategic reasons. This strategy can serve as a diversionary tactic. It shifts the focus from the objective and substantive issues that interest the community, such as a candidate’s on-the-record statements, voting record or policy positions,…
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