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Stone
Jan 11, 2023
In Club Business
Thank you to all my neighbors who have joined the dialogue on this important topic. And thank you in advance to those voting members who remain in good standing and plan to vote on the upcoming, and or any variation that may arise, $21 million loan and assessments. Your vote is so important. Please take the time to consider all of the information and what makes sense to you. Talk to others. Attend or view the replays of one or both Open Sessions, review past Open Sessions and Club Governance documents as needed. These are important decisions that require us to carefully consider “how”, and “why now.” Some would still like to argue what and why, and I respect that, I am simply sharing my personal perspective in this forum. I like each of the projects proposed. I was especially pleasantly surprised by the golf plan, and to learn that questions and suggestions I had brought forward in an earlier open member session (March 2022 I believe) had been incorporated. Where I remain unconvinced is that our club, or better “we”, who have not retired all our debt, “have no remaining hard asset collateral against which to borrow“, should make our personal selves the collateral for this sized loan — during a time of highest interest rates in years, hovering/pending/actual (pick your adjective) recession, based on somewhat insubstantial data (example - charts on YOY home sales in Haig Point represent a very small number of homes that range significantly in price, yet we regularly use “average” as a metric and can‘t throw out the outliers because we would no longer have enough data points. Said differently, one 2.9M home sale to an existing Haig Point homeowner skews the data in a year significantly.) After digesting the information provided in Club communications, Monday’s Open Member Session, the member website and conversations with other members (including some I am meeting for the first time) I am increasingly convinced that the proposed financing plan is not the right option for these projects. Capital projects have been bundled with maintenance projects based on a premise that maintenance is overdue or was neglected. That is not a proper justification nor manner in which to raise or allocate funds In my opinion. We must bring forward new options for timing and funding. Thank you to the outgoing board for presenting all of the projects in a way that garnered the attention of a large majority of members. You had to compete with the most beautiful surroundings and extraordinary amenities for our attention, and you succeeded! We are listening. Thank you in advance to the incoming board for the likely time you will spend on options b and c. The committee plans are impressive. This process and their proposals have motivated me more than ever to join a committee (if they will have me) to increase my contribution to this wonderful community. Please call, text or email me if interested in discussing. Evenings are best. Elizabeth W Stone elizabeth.stone@sap.com 404-272-7984
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