Town Meeting - 10/20/11

Meeting was opened by President Rick Noffsinger.

An announcement was made regarding the Trunk or Treat Party on Monday, October 31^st 6:pm.   Please see the Bulletin Board Page located on the right side column of this Report.

Treasurer’s Report – Tom Lockette

Paraphrased:  We finally have a month that looks pretty good.  Todd started and Sarah is continuing to cut costs.  Please see Financial Highlights posted.  19^th Hole – a big improvement.  Gross profit margin up to 66%   13,341.00 which more than paid for salaries and food costs.  The Guys and Dolls Tournament made money, as well as making money for the 19^th Hole.
"One last item:  There has been concern as to how our cash flow would play out toward the end of the year.  We have a new cash flow analysis that shows we will level out at the end of the year.  So, it looks like what we saw in September with the things we have going on the rest of the year, keeping a real close watch on everything that we are going to get by okay this year.   That cash flow analysis does not take into account the $41,000 in contingency funds that we hold back in case of emergencies.  I think we can safely say that we are going to get through this year without borrowing money thanks to the fine work that has been done by our employees.

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Faye Taylor - Board Member

Statement from Board Member Faye Taylor
regarding current financial issues and Golf Pro

"Illegal" Board Meeting

I would like the community to know that I was not one of the board members that took part in the meetings this weekend. All the board members has my cellphone number, e-mail address, and I was also up at the clubhouse all weekend long running the golf tournament. I wasn't the only board member that was not contacted. To my knowledge Charles Wood, Rick Noffsinger, and Jack Watson was also not contacted about any so called emergency meeting to be held. According to the By-laws this is a illegal action. This SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED and hopefully be dealt with at the next scheduled board meeting. I AM ASKING ALL THE COMMUNITY OF DIAMONDHEAD TO BE AT THIS NEXT BOARD MEETING AND GET THIS HANDLED ONCE AND FOR ALL! LET US START RUNNING DIAMONDHEAD BY THE BY-LAWS WRITTEN.

Byron Efird
501-844-1382

Board Members

The following message is a combination of several emails sent to me yesterday.  I take full responsibility for its content.
Diane Porterfield

Our board is at it again. Our Golf Professional walked off the job Friday morning without notice. That happened to be the practice round for the biggest golf event of the year. This morning five board members tried to put him back to work without the board president's permission. He is responsible for the employees and according to the attorney has the authority. Not the board members.

Ray Massey was the President who presided over the spending spree of the past two years.  Rick Noffsinger is trying to straighten out the mess handed to him.  Now he has to deal with a bunch of board members threatening to run him out of here.  Support the Board president.  They did this to Charles Woods last year.  If they do it again, it will make our community look like fools.  How do we the members recall board members? We can do better than this.  It is time for the community to speak.

Golf Pro - Todd Belz quit his job Friday 9-23-11

This message is being passed on to you, the reader & member of Diamondhead, to keep you informed.

From: CHARLES WOOD [mailto:woodcharles@hughes.net]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 9:26 PM
Cc: adianerdh@att.net
Subject: Fwd: golf pro situation
------------Forwarded message------------
From: RickN@comact.com
Date: Sep 26, 2011 08:00:23 AM
Subject: golf pro situation
To: Lockettes3@aol.com, derota38@gmail.com, jawatson2@hotmail.com, masseybs@sbcglobal.net, betts@wletc.com, rockarosa@yahoo.com, a.norwood@yahoo.com, woodcharles@hughes.net

It has been brought to my attention that the Todd is willing to come back to work for the XXX (particulars were edited for personnel reasons)

#1. The Board members that met with Todd was out of line. This is considered a meeting, and have solicited other Board members to be part of it. This is against our By-Laws. I have warned the current Board members about talking with the employees and discussing issues that should go thru the GM.
#2. I will not take threats lightly. My Presidency position has been threaten and circumvented by 5 of the current Board members.
#3. I will meet with Todd and the current GM to discuss his walking off the job. I will report to this Board how the meeting turns out.
#4. We are currently in financial stress due to the previous Board not paying attention to Budget issues and not having the common decency to keep the town informed. Spend, spend , spend appeared to be motto.
#5. Tom Lockett told me yesterday that it looks like we may have to borrow money in February to pay the bills. This did not happen over-night. Tom has requested that I contact the Chairman of the Finance Committee and request immediate information as soon as possible. We will keep Mr. Lockett informed while he is on vacation.
#6. We hope to have finance information available to present to the town in October and to make them aware of our financial situation as being critical.
Not all of your read your e-mails so I suggest those of you that have taken the liberty to go over my head, to make contact with your other comrades and inform them of this memo. I will get back to you on the Golf Pro situation after I have the opportunity to meet with Todd and the GM.
Rick Noffsinger

I requested a comment from Rick.  He said,  "No Comment, I will address this at the next town meeting. “