“I don’t know who reads his blog” - Notes from the AGM 9 January 2020. And a breath of fresh air...

"No Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?"

“I don’t know who reads his blog” – Bill Cooper, Chairman TIHOA Board of Trustees at the AGM on 9 January 2020, comment to the members when I got up to ask a question. Any member who got up to ask a difficult question could expect a belittling remark or reply, usually both.  

The meeting was so unpleasant that although I was always planning on writing a follow up on the AGM, I have just wanted to forget it.  And forget the whole sorry mess we have here on our beautiful Islands. 

In the 10 days before the AGM, 341 people read the post “New lipstick for the Pig! Trustees try a 3rd colour lipstick but Pig is still a Pig. Pig will be sued! Picture!” dated 30 December 2019. Read it here This post would have helped defeat – for the 3^rd time – the trustee’s scheme to ram through an increase in bulk. 

It was defeated by a vote of 154 against, 64 for. That’s a whopping 71% of homeowners saying "NO". 

Despite the trustee’s year of one-sided communications ending with December “workshops” seeded with feeble-minded lackeys throwing up powder-puff questions fed to them before the "workshop".

Here’s what a member wrote after the AGM:

“It needs to be remembered this doggedness and misjudgement of the Trustees also incurred the Members in unnecessary Legal Expenses.”  

“In the normal course of events people who make errors of such Poor Judgement are not worthy of the job and normally find themselves out of their positions.”

Not so much as a “Sorry for putting you all through this.”  They were told “NO” at the 2018 AGM, so they formed a committee. The committee said “NO”, so they trashed the Committee members and their findings and tried again at the 2019 AGM. and where told “NO” again. That is NOT how you look after the interests of owners. 

Cooper would have liked no one to have read this post    But 259 already have.

The blog posts (with 29 over the 14 month “Increased Bulk” issue) have a combined total of 20,000 reads. Members read it as they know that the communications coming from the HOA over the last years have been biased to push a viewpoint favoured by trustees. The blog is (not by my choosing but someone had to get the facts out) where people have come to find out what is really happening. 

None more so than with the plan to increase bulk and the previous scam to build houses in the Parkland. But I am hoping that the days of the blogging about trustee’s mismanagement are over and I can get back to posting interesting pictures about the redevelopment of Thesen Islands every now and then.  

Because….

There is a breath of fresh air, a feeling hope on Thesen Islands these days. Enough members have had enough of how the trustees are “running” Thesen Islands and a group of mainly concerned owners is forming. From what I have heard it is already almost every member. Join - It can only help make Thesen Islands a better place for us all.  You can read the first Newsletter here. 

This from Trent Rossini, a member driving the process:

Off the back of the many issues on Thesen, it is time we start to act. As per my previous emails, I have set up a database to start collecting details in order that we can get a coherent list of homeowners to participate in far great transparency and most importantly full democracy.

I have created a form for signup - http://eepurl.com/g-Wk8D

Please can you each complete this form and start the process by getting those people close to you to complete the form above – it collects vital details to be able to communicate amongst the homeowners. The list will be managed by myself and will not be shared with anyone outside Thesen and the messages will be carefully managed to ensure we don’t spam.

We really need to start a process of real transparency and full democracy and most importantly we need an alternative and honest narrative.

Thanks, Trent