Presidents and Politics.....

There has been a mass of vocal debate recently over what I have titled here as  "Presidents and Politics" or maybe "Condado-Gate", this has been initiated by the documents sent out recently to all owners by the resort administrators Mileniun Levante.

The first document issued on August 9th was a 20 page document containing a number of comments and accusations of impropriety and intractability against the standing Level 1 president of the resort.

The second document issued on August 10th runs to 78 pages and purports to be the minutes of the Presidents meeting held on 28th July.

I have no desire to delve into a line by line dissection or an audit of these documents and I wasn't present at the recent meetings so to do so would be unfair, as such my comments are based only on my personal experiences as a president and on the the interactions that I have had with Milenium and the Level 1 president.

Mileniun are employed by the "the community" and we all pay to employ them pay as such it is not correct procedure for them to issue such inflammatory statements to all owners under their own volition. It is also worth noting that the minutes sent out so publicly have not been approved and nor have they been signed off by the presidents as a "true and fair reflection"  of the meeting.  It is also telling that Mileniun chose to release these documents when the Level 1 president is away from the resort and unable to respond.

So why have they done this.....I am sure we have all been involved in commercial and social committees where the relationships have broken down - this seems to be very much the case here, one thing I am sure we are all in accordance with is we need less "war and more jaw"  we all want the resort to be well run but with adequate checks and balance on all parties who are spending our money and effecting our investment.

In a resort like Condado with several thousand apartments and a geographically diverse ownership base, the rule of 80/20 almost certainly applies, with 80% of the owners having little or no interest in what happens "in the background" as long as...when they arrive the grass is cut, the place is clean and they have water and electricity into their property.  To engage such a vast number of owners into a cohesive and decision making body is wholly impossible and as such, and whether we like it or not this power must be ceded to our representatives whether we have actively elected them or not .

The Presidents are elected on straight majority at the AGM, in reality... this may mean that if your Jardine has 200 separate properties and only 1 individual has offered his name as a president, he/she could be elected on a handful of votes. A major issue all the presidents have, is that we have no official listings of who lives in our specific garden  / block,  Mileniun have this information but under data protection are not allowed to pass over to us - this does make lines of communication difficult as we rely on the owners to contact the presidents, this was the key reason I started this blog to try and offer a heads up on important issues to the owners in P16.

I am sure that this debate will either gather steam over the next few weeks and blow up...or cool down and blow itself out, certainly it is not a time for knee jerk reactions on either side that risk putting the resort on a poorer commercial footing.

If you have any specific questions please do mail me.