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The Oakmont News / December 1, 2015
Regular Oakmont Association Committee Meetings
Letter to the Editor
nOVA Administration
The listed Oakmont Village Association meetings are open sessions. Any interested Oakmont residents are invited and encouraged to participate in these important meetings. MEETINGS Architectural (No participation) / mary@oakmontvillage.com Oakmont Village Association (OVA) Board OVA Board Workshop
DATE TIME PLACE* 2nd Tues. Monthly 2 PM Ste. 6 3rd Tues. Monthly 1–3 PM Berger Center 1st Tues. Monthly 3–5 PM East Rec.
COMMITTEES Communications (CC) / ova-communications@sonic.net Community Development (OCDC) / ova-ocdc@sonic.net Finance (FC) / ova-finance@sonic.net Landscape Improvement Committee (LIC) League of Maintained Area Associations (LOMAA) Regular Meetings Quarterly Meetings LOMAA Workshop Emergency Preparedness Committee (OEPC) OEPC Board OEPC Community Meeting
DATE TIME PLACE* 2nd Mon. Monthly 9–11 AM Rm. B 2nd Thurs. Monthly 11:30 AM–1:30 PM Rm. B 4th Thurs. Monthly 2–3:30 PM Rm. B 1st Tues. Monthly 10 AM–12 Noon Rm. G 1st Mon. Monthly 1st Wed. (March, Sept., Dec.) 2nd Thurs. (June)
12 Noon 7 PM 9 AM
Rm. B West Rec. West Rec.
1st Thurs. Monthly 3rd Thurs. (Jan., May, Sept.)
2 PM 2 PM
Rm. B Berger Center
A quorum of OVA Board of Directors may be present at these meetings. *It is sometimes necessary to change meeting locations and/or dates and times. Please check the Rec. Center bulletin boards for written notice of change or call the OVA office prior to scheduled meetings for confirmation.
Locations Room B is in the Central Activity Center, 310 White Oak Drive. Room D is in the Central (Berger) Auditorium, 6633 Oakmont Drive, right side of stage. Room G is in the Central (Berger) Auditorium, 6633 Oakmont Drive, lobby across from rest rooms.
LOMAA
nCarol Callahan
League of Oakmont Maintained Area Associations
SPECIAL GUESTS and CHANGE OF VENUE
At the Monday, Dec. 7 monthly board meeting for LOMAA, we will have two special guests from the Oakmont Golf Club, Manager Mike Ash and member Chuck Wood, who will update us on their current and future plans. As many of us have common area that borders the OGC property, this will be an opportunity for us to ask questions, submit complaints and offer
suggestions to the golf course operation. This meeting will be held in the Fireside Room in the Berger Center rather than our normal venue in the CAC. The meeting starts at 12 noon and will conclude at 1:30 p.m. The first 45 minutes will be devoted to our speakers’ presentation and a Q&A session, then regular business will follow after that. All Oakmont HOA board members and interested homeowners are welcome.
Dear Editor, I have had a number of friends tell me a petition is circulating requesting that the Board allow our residents to vote on whether or not pickleball courts should be built. I believe this last came up when the Board was looking at building an office in front of the Central pool, and prior to that when the Central Activities Center upgrade was first suggested. So again, our newer residents need to know that Oakmont is a representative democracy. We residents do not make the decisions, rather we elect those who are tasked with doing just that. If we ever resorted to decision by membership vote, NOTHING would ever be done because folks only vote to spend money on their own pet endeavor. Stop and think about it. Would we have a lawn bowling green, tennis courts, bocce courts, pools, if a majority vote of our eligible voting power was required to build something? Never happen. When the Board was contemplating the CAC upgrade, we actually had a group of residents collecting funds to sue ourselves to force a membership vote. Our attorneys reminded us that this could never happen and the group disappeared. So, our residents need to remember that spending time, money, and effort on petitions to require a membership vote on any subject is a total waste of time. And when getting opinion petitions signed, it’s good to remember that 1000 names boils down to between 600-800 eligible voting names, less than 20% of the 3,450 total. Wally Schilpp Letters to the Editor Writer Guidelines Author must be an Oakmont resident or owner. Letter must include topic title, author’s signature and Oakmont address, email address and/or phone number (not published). Maximum length 250 words. Letters not previously printed elsewhere may be given publishing priority. Writers will be limited to one letter per 90 days. Letters may be subject to editing for length or clarity. Personal attacks and inflammatory comments will not be printed. Communications Committee retains its right of refusal to publish. Send letter to OVA Office at 6575 Oakmont Drive, Ste 7 or by email to cat@oakmontvillage.com.
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