AS OF THIS DATE, WEDNESDAY 23, 2020,
THE SCHEDULED EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2020 AT 1PM IN THE MAIN CLUBHOUSE ROOM C AS SCHEDULED.
SEATS WILL BE ONLY FOR ELECTED EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS AND THE OFFICERS OF UCO. PLEASE ATTEND.
RSVP TO UCORECSEC@GMAIL.COM.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY PLAN ON ATTENDING.
IF A QUORUM CAN NOT BE MET, THE MEETING MAY HAVE TO BE CANCELLED.
Thank you in advance.
Bob Rivera, USN Ret.
UCO Recording Secretary.
I am pleased to announce that UCO now has a 3rd Notary Public.
Bob Rivera, UCO Recording Secretary.
Since being elected, before Covid-19 put this Village and the country into a turbulent spin, The vast majority of Officers have gone into the office and did their duties as required.
On Covid struck our state, The Village has managed to stay pretty healthy. Covid cases have be much lower than the state and county averages. We managed to do this with star mandated Closings and Personal Protective Protocols. UCO has kept a skeleton crew on duty without much of disturbance to the services offered by UCO. As Volunteers Self-quarantined as well as some of the officers with underlying conditions, David Israel, David Boas, Ruth Dreiss, Don Foster and myself kept UCO open. A few weeks later we were joined by Gloria at the barcode desk and with hours cut back slightly, UCO was running without hardly ever closing.
March 2020, the last Delegate Assembly meeting, also the day the current officers were elected. Sandy Cooper, the previous Corresponding Secretary was planning of leaving the village and she asked me to help. She trained me over the course a week, and showed me what she had done over the previous two years. Sandy resigned and I took over her duties without becoming an officer. This was, I believe, in October.
I decided to run for office as Recording Secretary come March 2020.
I ran unopposed taking John Hess' former position. Olga Wolkenstein was running against Mary Patrick for Corresponding Secretary. Mary Patrick won. After the election, I attempted to show Mary what her duties would be. I even went as far as typing out the step by step instructions on how to turn on, sign into the computer and what was exact information that she would need to enter to perform her duties. She seemed uninterested after entry of two of the five steps in one form vital to Delegate Assembly data entry (and only on 2 sheets). Since that time, she refused to come in and learn her position.
I later found out she objected to my Service Dog, Sadie. She claimed to be allergic and gave me quite a bit of attitude about it, especially when she was told that Sadie is a hypoallergenic breed. She was quoted saying that she refused to work in the building as long as the dog was there. Please keep that last line in mind later.
Since the admin assistant was discharged after the election, that position was now also a vacuum. As Recording Secretary, My position requires my presence in only four committee meetings each month. Operations, Executive Board, Officers and Delegate Assembly.
I covered ALL (since Oct 2019) of the Corresponding Secretary's position, the majority of the Admin position and my duties as Recording Secretary Since March 2020.
I left on vacation July 6th, returned Aug 27th. The dog nor I were in the office for a little over a month and a half. Yet the Corr. Sec. never once went in to do any of her duties. Not once. Upon return, I caught up on the work she had neglected and did so until the first or second week of October.
After a dispute with the president, He was told I would only be doing my duties, he would have to hire a new admin, and Mary Patrick will have to come in and do her own work that she was elected to do. She has not done anything but laid claim to the admin desk, which she will soon have to vacate. She still has no clue on her duties and needed help to sign on the computer the one day I saw her there.
The whole purpose of this posting is just to ask/demand Mary Patrick's resignation for the good of the village. I know Mary has a lot of followers in the village, but she needs to do the right thing and resign before she embarasses herself any further.
Sadly I report the Passing of Joy Vestal, former Vice President and Editor of The Reporter, the Century Village Newspaper.
She Served our Village for many years and will be sorely missed.
Thank you Joy, for the years of service to the Village and for the many years of friendship and our many conversations.
Your friend Always...
It seems Mr Grossman's motto is Do what I say, not what I do....
For YEARS we have had to listen to Ed's complaints about not having transparency in UCO. He and some of his friends had Made claims of secret backroom meetings and improper procedures within UCO.
Yet he is having an unscheduled meeting today (October 15th) that was not only NOT on the schedule, (and I should know as I am the one keeping the schedules).
Any meeting MUST HAVE at least 48 hours notice, and since ALL Officers are automatically on EVERY Committee, MUST receive at least 48 hours notice. Our President, David Israel received notice and an agenda at 7:16 am. Not 48 hours before, not yesterday, but today, the day of the meeting.
Heaven help anyone that corrects him and tells him he is wrong. They get called a moron. Apparently there may be some issues he is having. He obviously has issues with being questioned about not following procedure and will get confrontational. Anyone that knows me also knows that if I dish out as much as I get.
I backed Ed during the election... I expected more. I am disappointed.
Update: Todays meeting has been cancelled. Scheduled meeting for October 23rd (as previously scheduled) is the next Finance meeting, followed by the regularly scheduled meeting on the 28th.
both are scheduled for 1:00 pm.
Whether tis nobler to obey the laws of the land
or does thou purse be so weighty that you wish to throw thou coin to the dust...
I will soon be posting a four minute and 12 second video where I sat in a bench and watched the traffic at one of the very few stop signs on the perimeter Road and of the 38 cars in that short time, 4 I did not see if they stopped, 12 DID come to a complete stop, and 22, YES TWENTY TWO DID NOT STOP! At least 4 barely slowed down when they completely ran the sign. One ran the sign, saw me video recording and stopped in the middle of the intersection!
What does it take to wake people up in this village? Is $167 not enough? Do you have so much money that you can afford a few tickets a week?
I have two simple solutions to this, actually three.
1st... SLOW DOWN AND STOP.
2nd... and I get a lot of opposition to this with my fellow officers, do whatever is necessary to install SPEED TABLES throughout the village, preferably at most of the major crosswalks especially at the ones at stop signed intersections.
3rd... If you feel you have so much money that you don't care about paying for tickets, then why don't you donate the extra money you have to charity. Get a ticket, match it with a donation to a charity...My choice would be Paws4Liberty, Inc. in Lake Worth. www.paws4liberty.org
At least then you can help get service dogs for returning servicemen and women with disabilities.
Here is the video link as promised just copy and paste:
https://youtu.be/zbnQ0sjYbsI
the following is a link to meeting with D.R. Horton representatives in reference to the proposed Reflection Bay community.
They asked for this meeting, because of some technical difficulties, the audio is not too good, so turn up your volume or better yet, wear headphones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGwh3ovkze8&t=103s
