Vote No; POA needs another plan
Have you noticed the large, expensive signs the POA had printed to influence your vote?
Ask your favorite board member how much they cost. That was your money spent to further their political agenda.
The opposition bought and paid for their own "Vote No" signs. Notice the ballot envelope was stuffed with literature to influence your vote in favor of the POA?
Since this is a corporate entity, they can break all normal election rules.
Ask your favorite board member how many votes Cooper Communities Inc. has at its disposal.
The POA is betting you won't bother to send in your ballot, but you can bet all the affluent golfers will send in theirs.
Why? Well, those are the members the POA actually represents, and they are the ones who will benefit if this mess passes a vote.
This is not only a golf bailout, it's also a POA bailout.
Folks, this POA is counting on you to vote like dummies.
There's a chance they may be right. If you pass this assessment increase, you reward the POA for years of bad management and poor decision making.
Regardless of the outcome, my house on Newquay will be for sale this year. As much as I've loved this village, it has changed and so have I.
My property in Madison County is beautiful, remote, has no subsidized golf and I am the only POA. I like it that way.
Good luck. Make it better. Run for the board. Change it to represent the whole community. Send a message to this POA that it needs a different plan. Vote "no."
Greg "Mac" McFarland
Bella Vista
Editorial on 04/23/2014