It is so easy to lose track of smaller expenditures when dealing with a budget in the millions. We must not let that happen. Any expense needs to be looked at with exactly the same scrutiny as would be given to a household expenditure. If there is a way of not spending a couple hundred dollars or making a couple hundred by not having cash sitting idle you would probably do so and that is exactly what we need to continue looking at as a board. Any time we cut a check or management schedules an employee necessity has to be the deciding factor. Those saved dollars will either come back to you, the property owner, or the cash can be used for absolutely necessary costs of the association. Yeah, I am tight and I am not ashamed of it. We are in a period of sustaining our physical assets and no new non cash-neutral projects should be undertaken.
We are also looking at the reserve study to see if any of those projected items can be eliminated, modified, or pushed out until the road project is finished. Rest assured your board is doing all possible to hold the line on spending while still assuring you the quality of life you have come to expect in Candlewick Lake.
There are those who will disagree with me and that is completely their right. This is my position and I believe most will agree with me if there is a way to cut whether it be through chopping legal expenditures, sending no unnecessary mailings to the P.O.s, pushing hard our collection of debts owed to you by non-paying P.O.s, or any other way to conserve and enhance funds it is the right and fair way to go. You elected us to work for you and to me this is part of the job.
Ken Dillenburg