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Letters to the Editor
Thank you for shade structure at the pickleball courts
By Daniel Hilburn
On behalf of the nearly 400
members of the Sunriver Pickleball Club, I'd like to thank
SROA leadership, the public
works staff, and the contractors for the first-class shade
structure at the Fort Rock
Pickleball Courts.
The shade structure has had
an immediate positive impact
on the players and their enjoyment. Not only does it provide
much needed shade, but it looks
Letters to the Editor
awesome! We're averaging 40
to 50 players a session during
club play, and they are happy
while playing and smiling while
resting in the shade between
games. Thanks, the facility was
great before, now it's amazing!
The Sunriver Scene welcomes letters to the editor up to 250
words, and Chorus of One submissions up to 400 words on
topics of relevance to Sunriver. Opinions expressed are those
of the writer and do not represent the Sunriver Owners
Association. Submit letters to keithw@srowners.org by
the 12th of the month.
Why I voted No on the CTF
By Dawn Prochovnic
I recently joined with nearly
75 percent of Sunriver voters to
say “no” to the Capital Transfer
Fee (CTF).
I want it to be known that
my “no” vote had nothing to
do with a lack of interest in
maintaining and further de-
veloping Sunriver amenities or
a lack of understanding of the
costs associated with capital
improvements and our limited
reserves, etc.
Quite the contrary.
My “no” vote was a reflection
of my displeasure with several
structural elements of the pro-
posed model, particularly with
respect to project selection,
future oversight, transparency,
owner involvement and control.
I also was displeased with
the framing of communication
around the CTF.
I have long observed that
the board and management
seems to consider opposing
viewpoints a nuisance versus an
important element of a thriving
living community; this reached
a tipping point for me with
this issue.
Further, the way in which
the (seemingly unrelated) golf
course situation has been han-
dled by SROA suggests to me
that our current leaders (volunteer board and management)
are not up to the task of standing up to our largest neighbor,
Sunriver Resort.
Who knows what Sunriver
Resort aims to privatize next,
while our board looks on.
July 16, I provided the SROA
Board with the evidence and
requested a “full investigation
and accurate report of this
serious breach of the Design
Committee’s legal obligation to
‘act in good faith.’”
I received no response until
I pressed outgoing board president Bill Burke to inform me
of the Board’s actions.
He responded that nothing
had been done because the
Board had not “identified [any]
procedure applicable to your requests.” That statement itself is
patently false because the Board
has, and in the past has exer-
cised, its power to investigate
and report on alleged SROA
volunteers’ wrongdoing.
It’s shameful that every single Board member apparently
chose to ignore hard proof –
even a recorded admission of
guilt – that Design Committee
members had falsified an official
document. There wasn’t even
any attempt to explain how the
documented malfeasance might
be excused. The admittedly false
“Meeting Summary” remains
posted on the SROA website
as the Design Committee’s
official record.
In last month’s reporting on
these disturbing actions, I urged
that “[the] Board should consider whether owners can have
confidence in the integrity of
the Design Committee if those
responsible for approving publication of a seriously inaccurate
official ‘Meeting Summary’
were not held accountable.”
The Board President provided a disturbing answer: The
Board doesn’t care about committee members’ actions, even
when those actions are dishonest and harmful to owners. The
Board doesn’t even care enough
to see that the official posted
committee records are truthful.
No wonder owners didn’t
buy the Board’s “trust us to
do the right thing” assurances
regarding their Capital Transfer
Fee proposal. The three-to-one
crushing of that measure speaks
volumes about owners’ opinions of the past Board, six of
whom continue to hold office.
The three new Board members should heed the writing on
the wall and make a concerted
effort to restore the integrity
of the Board and ensure accountability of Design Committee members before they
can expect the Board to regain
owners’ trust.
Chorus of One
By Paul Conte
In the August issue of the
Sunriver Scene, I described
how the Sunriver Design Committee chair and several of its
members published an official
“Sunriver Design Committee
Meeting Summary” falsely
stating they had “reviewed,
evaluated, and considered all
information in the record” concerning an owner’s application.
Confronted with the meeting’s
audio recording that irrefutably
proved the committee hadn’t
taken any of these actions, the
committee chair admitted the
meeting summary was false. On
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