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| The ECUA crafted agreement with Creekwood smells worse than a fetid garbage dump. I don't blame the homeowners for not wanting to sign this garbage. |
Yes, I ripped up that garbage agreement at the meeting.
I ripped it to shreds and called it what it is----Garbage. It smells worse than an ECUA sewage spill....
The County and the Homeowners have been working to get the ailing lift-station at Creekwood fixed; a majority of Creekwood residents have grudgingly agreed to take on a special tax assessment to the tune of $625,000 to get this done.
Nobody is happy about the language that keeps the HOA on the hook for any problems with the repairs and construction of the new, ECUA approved lift station, in their subdivision----but the language that forces the HOA to indemnify the County, ECUA, and the contractor during the construction (which may take as long as 18 months to complete) is just too much....
I was under the apparently mistaken impression that the contractor, once engaged in the construction, would be responsible for this lift station and the homeowners could finally breath a sigh of relief. Wrong. Why won't ECUA see that the homeowners are acting in good faith, they have secured the financing to fix the lift station, and they are prepared to move forward. Why must the ECUA keep their boot on the collective necks of these homeowners, rubbing salt in the wound? Why?
The garbage rhetoric I have heard is "It would not be fair to our ratepayers to take responsibility for this lift station before it is brought up to our standards" But wait---these residents are ratepayers! How about a little compassion for their plight!
Initially, I felt that the least I could do to keep this process going to get this lift station fixed was to get the County on board with the badly flawed agreement, which would allow ECUA to take action on it next, and ultimately it would allow for the HOA to sign it/not sign it--because ultimately the ECUA is controlling this process; they won't take the lift station until it meets their standards.
But when the attorney read some of the most onerous language that keeps the homeowners on the hook through the entire process--I just couldn't support it.
I have a new strategy I am formulating that I will soon be discussing with the HOA.
I think we can do better than that garbage agreement.
That was fun to watch. Too bad you all don't hold BDI more accountable, I don't understand that. I like the corridor streamline..you have to cut to the chase sometimes.
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