Annual Meeting ~ Aug 19, 2017

Board Members Present:

President Gary Pristch                        Sharon Carr
Vice President DJ Bell                        Jim Ott
Secretary Diane Porterfield                 James Meredith
Treasurer Martha Lindvall                   [Cheryl Standing]

General Manager:   Dennis Dubuque 

Board Member Absent:

Diane Jones 

President Gary Pristch welcomed the membership to this year’s annual meeting.

The Minutes from 2016 Annual meeting was passed unanimously with Martha Lindvall making the motion and Jim Ott providing the second.

10% of the membership must be present or accountable by proxy.  205 ballots were received with 111 proxies…. Giving the Board in excess of the needed requirement to pass the proposed By-Law changes.  ·       
ALL Articles I -- XV passed.

Annual Audit is available in the POA Office

call: 262-4470 ~ to make it available for you

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Board Meeting ~ July 27, 2017

Board Members Present:

President Gary Pritsch                     Sharon Carr

Vice President DJ Bell                     Diane Jones

Treasurer Martha Lindvall               Jim Ott

Secretary Diane Porterfield

Board Members Absent:

James Meredith

President Gary Pritsch opened the meeting by announcing the election of Diane Porterfield as Board Secretary.

The June Board minutes were approved unanimously.  Director Jim Ott made the motion to approve.  Director Sharon Carr seconded this motion.

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Board Meeting ~ June 22, 2017

Board Members Present:

President Gary Pritsch               Jim Ott
Vice President D.J. Bell              Sharon Carr
Treasurer Martha Lindvall       James Meredith
                                                      Diane Porterfield

GM Dennis Dubuque

Board Members Absent:
Secretary Debbie Clement (Resigned 6/22/17, before board meeting)
Diane Jones

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Board Meeting ~ May 25, 2017

Board Members Present:

President Gary Pritsch                Sharon Carr

Treasurer Martha Lindvall          Jim Ott

Secretary Debbie Clement          James Meredith

GM Dennis Dubuque

Board Members Absent:

Vice President D.J. Bell              Diane Jones

7:02 pm – The meeting opened with the approval of the April Board minutes with one correction.

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Town Meeting ~ May 17, 2017

Board Members Present:

President Gary Pritsch            Treasurer Martha Lindvall

Secretary Debbie Clement      Director Jim Ott

Board Members Absent:

Vice President DJ Bell            James Meredith

Diane Jones                             Sharon Carr

Meeting opened just after 7:pm with the announcement that Diane Porterfield will be filling the Board position recently vacated by Dan Hodson.

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Board Meeting ~ April 27, 2017

Board Members Present:

President Gary Pritsch              Sharon Carr

Vice President D.J. Bell            Debbie Clement

Secretary Diane Jones             Jim Ott

Treasurer Martha Lindvall        James Meredith

GM Dennis Dubuque

Board Member Absent:

Dan Hodson

The meeting was opened at 7:pm with the unanimous approval of the March Board minutes.

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Town Meeting ~ April 20, 2017

Board Members Present:

President Gary Pritsch            Dan Hodson

Vice President DJ Bell             Sharon Carr

Treasurer Martha Lindvall

Secretary Diane Jones

GM Dennis Dubuque

Board Members Absent:

Jim Ott                      Debbie Clement

James Meredith

Meeting was called to order at 7:pm with the Committee Reports.

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Response to Bob Jones

Response to Bob Jones comment on "Your Thoughts Matter!"

To quote Albert Einstein, Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This happens all the time, so you should not be ashamed that you have followed this rut for 12+ years and could not identify the path to success. You just keep electing new board members who want to make minor changes but stay the same course. The same course that has proven over and over again, it will not reverse the trend of Diamondhead on a path to financial distress.

A lot of businesses realize their employees get stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over for years with no vision on how to improve the process. They request outside assistance to review their operating procedures because a different set of eyes provides a new perspective and more often than not an opportunity to improve. Diamondhead gets that review for free whenever they get a new resident. A free opportunity to ask a new set of eyes what we can do to improve our community. The problem is and what you should be ashamed of, when a new resident does see a problem and an opportunity to improve you label them a newbie and a complainer rather than discuss and review this opportunity to improve the community.

The process of openly communicating with property owners and allowing them to have a say and ownership in the direction Diamondhead goes in the future has been identified as a weakness in this community. This small group you talk about with leaders who have been here less than a year shows you still don’t get it. There are no leaders and it isn’t a small group, it is a large group of the community trying to get the point across to the board that we need to change the process. The small group is the board, and their blind followers. The arrogant group, who thinks they know better than the other 600 or so property owners on how to improve Diamondhead. They refuse to listen and have open discussion with the property owners on how to improve Diamondhead. These board positions are not elected to dictate the course to the membership they are elected to represent the membership. The petition is and was not something desired by anyone. When the board refuses to embrace the communities input and desire to communicate openly they leave no choice but to ask for their removal. This is not about power; it is about what is best for our property values, our community as a whole, and the future of Diamondhead.
Diane, you are welcome to put this on the blog
Sean Mandeville

Oh I forgot bob, it reminds me of a story also. There was this High School band and nobody wanted to lead the band until this Math teacher said I guess I will do it if nobody else will. For years the band had great musicians but appeared to be unorganized and lacked direction. The principal had a professional band designer review their band. The band designer said the only thing you really need to do is turn right at the 50 yard line and face your audience rather than left. This one change will fix all your problems. The math teacher told her students that she has been doing this for 12 years and the professional band designer just got here and doesn’t know our band so we will turn left but put a skip into your step. How proud I was when my little Diane got to the 50 yard line, listened to the professional and turned right into progress while the remainder of the band turned left down the same old path skipping away from success and their audience. Sometimes it is the rest of the band that is out of step and it is because their leader pointed them in that direction and they didn’t have the guts to turn right!
Diane please add that to my blog post

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