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Post by Admin on Jun 8, 2016 7:21:39 GMT -7
Road and Weed Committee Meeting on Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
(This is the latest date. It was rescheduled twice in the last week.) At Liberty Hall kitchen, 7 - 9 PM
Agenda:
1. Discuss present and future pavement maintenance in North Glastonbury
2. Discuss Spring Grading progress
3. Discuss signs and snow fence
4. Discuss snow plow truck
Download meeting documents:
June 6th, 2016 Road Committee Meeting - Official Documents
Included Gravel allocation amounts and a November 9th, 2013 Final Accounting for the 2009 North Glastonbury Chip Seal Project
Please bring the Chip Seal copy with you to the June 29th meeting.
Meeting Summary - Courtesy of the Glastonbury Landowners For Positive Change
Official Minutes - Courtesy of the GLA Board
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Post by Disgusted on Jul 10, 2016 13:14:44 GMT -7
When will this committee finally do the work necessary to produce a long-term Road Plan for this community? How many more years of ill-considered spending must we landowners endure? Our hard-earned assessment money continues to be frittered away by irresponsible GLA directors.
The condition of our roads is rapidly deteriorating, despite near-record spending this year. What does this do to our property values? What qualifications do the committee members actually have?
For nearly two years, a co-chair of this committee has not even been able to understand the difference between the GLA Road Policy and a long-term Road Plan. At most meetings, he repeatedly declares that they are one in the same. Incredible! Really?
This is utterly absurd!
The time is long overdue to elect GLA Board members who have the professional skills and qualities required to get this community back on course!
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chris
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Post by chris on Jul 10, 2016 15:35:44 GMT -7
I agree, Disgusted. Most of the people currently serving on the board and the Road Committee are not sufficiently experienced, nor are they willing to take the time to make the effort to educate themselves (Kevin excluded), even when landowners have done the research, packaged it, and presented it nicely into their laps. Neither are they willing to pay a little money up front for a qualified expert to advise and help to develop appropriate plans. Furthermore, all we get from any director if we get any response at all is excuses. Founders Syndrome is another huge problem, not only as it pertains to roads, but in every area of managing the business of the GLA. As long as this mind-set prevails, Glastonbury landowners will continue being royally screwed. The other major problem with the roads committee (and board) is the lack of real leadership, and the reactive style of mismanagement instead of a proactive style to solve situations before they become problems. Another way of stating it: "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that created them."
Although there have been plenty of other SNAFUs with roads for the eight years I have lived here, I thought Adkins did a fairly decent job grading in the past. Of course the gravel roads would have been better maintained had the boards done their duty and made the roads a priority instead of all the other areas where they focus their time and our money (admin, legal, consolidating their power, covering their butts, etc.). The NG paved roads are another fiasco from the get-go. Poorly conceived, poorly if ever planned, poorly implemented.
I learned this as an eighteen-year-old: "Prior Proper Planning Prevents Painfully Poor Production." Directors should take note and implement the "seven P's".
The fiasco that resulted in this year's classic mishap with the roads could have been easily prevented with "Prior Proper Planning," which would have included written specifications and contracts spelling out the work to be provided and penalties for non-performance. That is how business is conducted in the real world. Instead, doing things the way we have always done them (Founders Syndrome), we end up with unacceptable and crappy results with no financial recourse or power to hold anyone accountable.
As I see it, the GLA should become primarily a roads management association and/or thoroughly investigate the implementation of neighborhood RSIDS. Much of the research has already been done so it should not be that difficult to find out which fork in this road we should take. We just need one or more directors to lead this endeavor.
The only way we will ever see positive change occur in Glastonbury is to replace certain directors with ones who will practice proactive management and who realize that when one fails to plan, one plans to fail.
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