Is POA manager really managing?
Was it mere happenstance, or was it somehow meant to be?
My letter, published in The Weekly Vista last week, said of our POA general manager: "It is he who pays (with our money) those expensive consultants to figure out what needs to be done, how much it should cost and who is to do it. In short, he pays outside expertise to tell him how to do what is essentially his own job."
On the very opposite page of that same issue was this: "... will discuss hiring GreenPlay LLC ... to offer alternative uses for the Branchwood Golf Course ... has worked with GreenPlay in the past. The firm was hired in 2012 to conduct a comprehensive recreational facilities and activities needs assessment and action plan."
Where in heaven's name are we getting any management from our general manager if we constantly have to hire and pay outside consultants to ideate at every turn what we're supposed to do? And then, getting this study only now? The Branchwood flood was nearly a year ago.
And remember this? Some time back, the well at Branchwood failed. On the basis of one bid to repair it, deeming it too expensive, our general manager opted to water the golf course with POA water. For two years. Without getting a second opinion. Ah, but then, after two years, he did get another bid, was able to repair the well for infinitely less, and less even than the cost of city water for those two years. In short, the POA paid twice-over for fixing the Branchwood well.
Mr. Bailey and also you nine members of the POA Board, what does manager, as in general manager, mean?
J.R. "Doc" Irwin
Bella Vista
Editorial on 07/16/2014