JULY 2021
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Board rejects vote to memorialize rsferendum results
In a somewhat confusing 3-4 vote that didn’t seem to have much practical significance, the Board of Directors has decided not to take additional action to “memorialize” or document the results of the recent referendum curbing board capital spending authority. ~ Page 12
THE OCEAN PINES JOURNAL OF NEWS & COMMENTARY
COVER STORY
Board may target all properties in Ocean Pines for new regulation, fines Board approves process of amending the DRs By ROTA L. KNOTT Contributing Writer hile the owners of shortterm rental properties may soon be the first to feel the enforcement of Worcester County rental, noise, and litter laws by the Ocean Pines Association and pay the penalties for violating them, long-term rentals and owner-occupied homes could be next. During a June 15 Town Hall meeting on a proposal to amend the declaration of restrictions for each Ocean Pines section to incorporate the county regulations on shortterm rentals, some residents lobbied for application of those regulations to other properties as well. Still, it was a relatively sparse
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crowd at the Town Hall, hardly representative of Ocean Pines as a whole. But at the Board of Directors’
June 16 monthly meeting, Director Collette Horn said that at the board’s meeting in July she would introduce a motion to expand the properties that might be covered in response to what she heard at the Town Hall. Director Frank Daly during the June 16 meeting rejected a friendly amendment offered by Horn that would have expanded his proposal for amending the DRs to properties other than short-term rentals. He said he was not sure that OPA members who might support limited tightening of regulation of shortterm rentals would support a more expansive approach. Daly’s motion to begin the proTo Page 3
Lakernick, Farr running as a team in board election ~ Page 36 Candidates debate restoring board ‘professionalism’ ~ Page 38
Board votes repeal Resolution B-08
With no fanfare and hardly any discussion, the Board of Directors at its June 16 monthly meeting voted to eliminate controversial Board Resolution B-08 that governed Director and Officer Ethics and Conduct. The previous month, on first reading, the resolution’s critic-in-chief, Director Frank Daly, called it a “poster child for unintended, and bad, consequences.” ~ Page 14
Membership surge shakes off covid
There is no bad news in the membership report issued as part of the May financials posted on the Ocean Pines Association Web site June 22. All amenities in the aggregate are 91 percent of goal as of May 31, with 2,706 memberships sold compared to 1,217 sold in May of last year. These sales have already produced $754,190 in revenue. ~ Page 18
A blow-out start to 2021-22 finances
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OPA ends 2020-21 with large surplus
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