Change To The Blog

I am eliminating the portion on the left side of this blog where I track the attendance of BOD members at BOD meetings. The instability of the BOD membership over the past several months and the lack of consistent meeting minutes has rendered that service almost meaningless. Instead, I am placing links to Board Meeting Minutes and various Committee Meeting Minutes as they become available.


For the record, and for whatever it is worth, the following attendance is what I did manage to track:

Board of Directors Attendance Record (from meeting minutes)

As of sometime in June, it has been determined that only W2ndi H1ll, John Lovell, and Ben Odebralski are legitimately on the BOD. An election is happening soon to fill the other four seats.

As of April 21st, the newly constituted BOD is Dan Capobianco, Yvonne Fabozzi, WH, John Lovell, Mark Morgenstern, Ben Odebralski, and Dan Vermut. Augusta Alvarez recently resigned.

The members of the 2008/9 BOD that were elected in March of 2008 are John Lovell, Ben Odebralski, WH, Augusta Alvarez, and Yvonne Fabozzi. Manny Salomon and Theresa Levy both resigned after the election in March 2008.

The 2007/8 BOD membership included Prentis H. Johnson, Theresa Levy, John Lovell, Ben Odebralski, Manny Salomon, Harold Scott, Bryan Sklar.

For expediency, their attendance will be reported by absences, with the assumption that if they are not reported absent that they were present at the meeting.

(Information is taken from BOD minutes, as best as can be obtained -- no official meeting minutes are available since the March 2008 election)

March 13th 2007 absences: none
April 10th 2007 absences: Levy
June 6th 2007 absences: Sklar
June 13th 2007 absences: Odebralski, Sklar
June 20th 2007 absences: Levy, Scott, Sklar
June 27th 2007 absences: meeting cancelled
July 18th 2007 absences: Levy, Sklar
July 25th 2007 absences: Levy
August 1st 2007 absences: none
August 8th 2007 absences: Ombudsman meeting
August 15th 2007 absences: Levy, Scott
August 22nd 2007 absences: Levy, Lovell, Sklar
August 29th 2007 absences: Levy, Lovell, Odebralski, Sklar
September 5th 2007 absences: Levy
September 19th 2007 absences: Levy, Lovell, Scott
October 3rd 2007 absences: Levy, Lovell, Sklar
October 11th 2007 absences: Levy
October 17th 2007 absences: Levy, Lovel, Odebralski
December 7th 2007 absences: Levy, Lovel, Scott
December 10th 2007 absences: Levy, Lovell, Sklar
January 7th 2008 absences: Levy
March 10th 2008 absences: Levy
March 17th 2008 absences: Levy
March 24th 2008 absences: None (two vacancies)

2008-9 BOD Makes/Faces Big Changes Quickly

This story was first published in the TAJ Newsletter
Una traducción española está disponible en Web site: www.TAJWatchSpanish.blogspot.com
by Steve Frahm

On March 5th, Townhouses at Jacaranda (TAJ) home owners voted to fill three seats on the Board of Directors (BOD). Augusta Alvarez, Yvonne Fabozzi, and WH were elected by wide margins that night (the full election details and results can be found on TAJWatch.blogspot.com, March 5th).

In the weeks since the election, the following events have occurred:

Special Assessment Vote
The BOD voted to postpone a Special Assessment on Building 1, had a subsequent meeting with the attorney, and then in a third meeting voted to pass that same Special Assessment.

Property Management Office
On March 20th the Property Manager (Bette Ann DiSalvo) abruptly resigned. That same day was the planned last day of her assistant (Charlotte Rivera), who had given two weeks warning of her own resignation. The third office worker, former receptionist Lue Cooper, has been promoted to Office Manager while the search for a Property Manager continues.

Maintenance Staff
On March 27th Bob Balch was recruited to supervise the maintenance crew. (See the TAJWatch blog, March 28th, for a maintenance crew report.)

Board of Directors Membership
The President of the BOD, Manny Salomon, resigned (his resignation letter is posted on the blog, March 24th). The Board officers realigned and now Wendi is President, John is Vice President, Yvonne is Treasurer, and Ben is Secretary.

Theresa Levy also resigned from the BOD.

Changes to Come
Soon the Board will have two new members. Eventually the Association will have a new Property Manager. It is possible that there will be new construction General Contractors, roofing contractors, etc. The one thing that can always be certain is that CHANGE is the most enduring constant.