Saturday, January 09, 2010 11:41 AM
What do residents really think? The CDD Engineer reported that geotechnical tests on December corings show that definite road building defects do exist in Lake Ashton. CDD Engineer, and CDD lawyer Jan Carpenter reminded CDD supervisors that they had already received a recommendation from an outside consulting construction certified law firm that if they want to protect homeowners rights under the law they should be hiring a construction lawyer quickly and filing lawsuit before homeowners rights expire. This legal consultant reported that judging only by what he has been shown, these rights may be in the process of expiring now. That without a filed lawsuit there is no way assure that all existing documents have been provided in the many requests that have been made under the sunshine law. He reported that the City of Lake Wales has said no documents are available regarding road design and inspection. The CDD managers office says they have no documents regarding road design and inspection. The Developer and the old Engineer who authorized public dollar payment for these roads, have not produced any inspection documents. The Florida Department of Transportation, Polk County, the governor's office, Lake Wales City Attorney,the office of JD Alexander , etc. all said we need legal council for this issue. Both The CDD's Consultant lawyer and the CDD"s own lawyer have said-protect the expiration of your rights by filing in court now.
What did the CDD supervisors concern themselves with at that meeting? Mr. Eaton, Ms. Stevens, and Mr. Owens removed their chairman from his place at the table in an unprofessional and self-serving way. The same chairman, the only Professional Engineer on the board, who had been telling them for over three years that the community had road construction defects and the board needed to take action in order to have the developer fix what he was paid to do. That if they did not take action all homeowners would have to pay to fix the roads through special assessments. When Mr. Chickness directly asked Ms. Stevens why she made the motion that removed Mr. Salvin, she said because Mr. and Mrs. Follett asked her to.I guess that is why Mr. Eaton seconded the motion. They must have asked him to do it also. For those of you that would like to know who the Follett's are- Well, Mr. Follett ran for the CDD and lost to Mr. Salvin, and Mrs. Follett works for the developer. And now of course, Mr. Eaton is the new Chair and Ms. Stevens is the Vice-Chair.
Oh, yes i almost forgot. Ms. Stevens, after receiving the engineers report and her call to action, made a motion to have some railings put on three steps for the stage. She made no mention of the report.
I personally am embarrassed to be allowing, and in fact am frightened to have these three (Stevens,Owens,and Eaton) handling the finances of my community. The finances that control the value of my home and to have the ability to take money out of my pocket to repair or preserve a road that was built defectively.
Hopefully Mr. Salvin will continue in his professional straight forward manner to do his best for the homeowners. Hopefully Mr. Chickness will continue in his ethically straight forward and commendable manner to call a "spade a spade."Hopefully they will overcome the inability of this trio to understand that their job is to protect the finances of this community.
What do you think? Well people......what now? Are you ready to pay?????
This Editorial was taken from another Blog site.
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