The meeting was lightly attended with only 30 or so people present. For those of you who didn’t attend, here are the main items discussed:
- John Carey, Board President, announced he has accepted a new job and is working out of the area. He is selling his home. He intends to remain on the board until his house sells or his term expires.
The Board plans to discuss a succession plan in executive session. No word what that will be yet. Note: With John’s leaving there will be three seats to be filled at the next election at the end of the year. - The HOA Board has received two letters from the attorneys representing the golf course owners. They are demanding that all gates in the community be left open for golfers, wedding parties and other golf patrons. They contend the gates impede free access to the golf course and violate their easement They also contend they own the land containing the PFE gate. None of this was apparently brought to light during the lengthy gate approval process. We understand The HOA attorneys believe the golf course arguments do not have merit and are in discussions with Morgan Creek LLC attorneys to avoid legal action. The Board will be issuing a communication to owners explaining the situation in more detail.
- In the forum homeowners stated they are still having difficulties with gate use at night. Associa representative, Shelia, stated the current schedule is to have two greeters on duty from 6 am to 10 pm. From 10 pm to 6 am there is only one and he/she is required to have breaks. Also many residents and visitors continue to have issues operating the keypad displays and with the sound quality, especially at Walerga and PFE. We assume the board heard and will take these issues under advisement.
- Excessive tailgating continues to be a major problem. No solutions were identified.
How long is this association willing to put up with the continual claims from the golf course? They said the course was loosing revenues and needed the H O A to fund it. Now They say they say the gates impedes traffic for their venue, 2 months is not enough time to measure an impact on anything. The 100 plus degree weather and the condition of the course are huge factors that effect play, put that together with the market report the golf course submitted and you’ve got a dying golf course. I say we have 575 @ $1000.00 each for legal fees.
In my opinion the Golf course operators have had enough of the toxic personal attacks and are in the process of showing John Carey and the board who holds the cards. I’d guess that Morgan Creek LLC will win the legal battle and as an insider John probably knows this better than anyone, and I find it hard to believe it is a coincidence he is now selling his house and moving.
Jim everyone was moaning about $30 or so a month to help with the course and are you suggesting $1,000 each from homeowners to contribute to the legal battle? Not sure I understand your comment.
I would ignore the letter from the golf course attorney and wait until (or if) an actual lawsuit is filed. No reason to jump every time Charlie’s attorneys send a letter.
Phil , This is not a personal attack. You have the golf course demanding the gates be open and that the PFE gates are on golf course property ,it may be. Make no mistake I’m willing to pay to find out.
Well the gates don’t change a thing for the golf course. There has always been gate attendants there. Don’t let the owners of the course badger us. At 6.5 million I don’t think they can sell the course to any fool. All golf courses are suffering. Su St Whitney closed. The rest are losing money. Just let them try to. Lose course and develope it. The land is protected where did you get a price for legal assessment of $1000 per home. That’s $575,000
If the golf course wants all gates to be open let them pay for the gate attendants. I believe the most people attending functions come through the Vinyard gates. The golf course makes money. They don’t want us to see their books. If so we would blow a hole in their money complaints
Remember that we needed the golf course to
Sign off on Gate project. Agreement was that course supports gate only if the process does NOT negatively impact course customers from access.
Full disclosure is that the HOA needed the Golf Course to sign off on gate project before county would suport. Course approved with assurances that the management of the gates would not negatively impact their customers from entering the development. Sounds like there have been some execution issues both at Walegra and Vinyard
Just received a letter from the Morgan Creek Community Association, dated 23 July, that indicates are are serious issues dealing with the Morgan Creek LLC and access to our community. I’m assuming all homeowners are receiving this letter, and I will go no further with this post except to say that we all need to be in this together.
Yep I received the same letter David and assume all homes have. I’d say 99.999% litigation is forthcoming. The PFE gate is awful and I hope they are successful in having it removed. It does little to nothing to keep unauthorized vehicles out of the neighborhood. What it does do is create a traffic jam damn near everyday and the RFID tags stink compared to the key fob used on the Cook Riolo/ Morgan Greens gate. You can actually use the fob in a rental car, an Uber, or if you leave the house with a friend. What used to occur with the Greens side driving through Morgan Creek is now occuring with the MC side driving through the Greens as it is far more convenient for the reasons I stated above.