Here is your chance.  Personally I have never put a lot of merit in anyone who uses the word "garbage" to make their points.

Process flawed

Editor,

The election process [inOcean Pines] was a bunch of garbage. As I said in an open meeting, Joe Reynolds brings [ballot counting] up every year to get people fired up and get people to his website.Then he doesn’t say a word about it until the next year and waits until it is too late to change the bylaw. He keeps saying things like it could “possibly” be a violation of law, even though he has checked and found out that it isn’t.      But to open it up would be a violation of our bylaws. Reynolds is always keeping on the BOD to go by the bylaws and Maryland HOA act, until this time of year when he tries to cause controversy to get in the candidates he can control. And one of those candidates, Trendic, threatened to come with group and bust into the closed meeting. One of the main characters to buy into the conspiracy theory was Slobodan Trendic, who was elected. His first act should be for him and Reynolds to apologize to the volunteers on the elections committee who gave many hours to make sure the election was fair and carried out according to our bylaws.  Reynolds should volunteer to be the chairman of the elections committee next year, but of course he won’t do that. He just wants to sit back and throw bombs and then laugh at the people who buy in to his garbage. He has never volunteered a minute of his time to make this community a better place, just all negative from him.

As for the election, as they say in New York and Jersey, it is what it is. The voters have decided to give full control back to Marty Clarke, Dave Stevens and Joe Reynolds. Obviously, we have short memories, because the last time these guys were in charge, two years ago with Stevens as president, the BOD’s major achievement was changing trash companies to save 38 cents.

Oh yeah, we spent $50,000 on the BEACON study that has been stopped and a reserve study that has stalled because it didn’t say what Stevens and Clarke wanted it to say and some members of the board didn’t want to work on it pending the election to see if they got a more favorable board to them, which will promote doing nothing but cutting assessments and not tending to our rotting amenities. Stevens will probably be president again.

And of course we brought in a golf management company on false pretenses and having done zero background on them. We were getting ready to make money at the golf course, but this new company has lost members, a lot of revenue and seems to care less about the residents and more about outside play, completely contrary to what they said to get them here. We are paying them $75,000 a year for nothing that we couldn’t do ourselves! The two previous times Stevens has been president have been some of the worst years as far as getting absolutely nothing done.

As far as the candidates, Pat Supik will be excellent. Supik has been a very good chairperson of the budget and finance committee and has a lot of common sense. It is all about the welfare of the community with her. Mr. Trendic is a different story. Interacting with him for the last several years, it is clear to me that he knows nothing other than what Clarke and Reynolds tell him. In my opinion, his low moral character was on display after his drunk driving arrest last year, where he blamed everything but himself for his episode that could have easily killed a resident or himself. I have zero confidence this director will add anything of positive value to the community and I hold Reynolds personally responsible for this guy being elected with his (Reynolds’) garbage with the vote counting debacle. I can only hope Mr. Hill decides to check on some information he has been given by others including current members and former members before he makes any decisions that could adversely affect the community for years, like getting rid of the general manager. We just had the best year financially we have ever had and the general manager negotiated a deal with Sandpiper Energy that will bring this community around $400,000. When Stevens and Clarke were negotiating that deal they were going to bring us around $10,000 and the deal broke down because Clarke insisted on getting a franchise fee because he insisted everyone around us was getting one.      Of course he was wrong and we waited another year before an agreement was reached. There is a reason Reynolds is pushing for an immediate dismissal of the general manager,because he is afraid that someone like Hill, with a business background,might get in and see that this is actually a corporation with a lot of moving parts and run very well by the general manager. Reynolds is afraid Hill might get accurate information which will contradict what he has been told. I personally believe Hill and Thompson would make a great business team and would actually be able to get positive things done for the community if it were only given a chance.

Bill Cordwell

Ocean Pines