Post by Admin on Jul 1, 2016 18:06:50 GMT -5
President’s Message
The approved covenants have now been officially recorded at the County Registry Office in Bartow. Office Staff, a group from the Organizational Committee and some volunteers who are in the resort are busy putting together copies of the “Revitalized Documents” and you will soon be receiving your package of these documents in the mail. What then?
There has been a lot of buzz on S-bag.boards.net about the fact that the Rules and Regulations portion of our governing documents was not included in the package to which we gave our consent and which was approved by the DEO. This was not a mistake or some devious plot but a clear recognition that our existing rules will need to be revisited and adapted to current realities.
A new Rules Committee will be established and their onerous task will be to consider all the former rules and decide which can stay, which need amending and which are no longer relevant. This will be a time consuming task and since any proposals will need to be ratified by a majority of the owners we can expect the process to continue for many years and it may become an ongoing exercise that will require changes, additions and deletions annually.
Does that mean that S-bag’s governing documents are meaningless?
I’m sure that there are owners who are anxiously awaiting the time when all the S-bag rules have been restored so that management and the Board can finally bring certain violators into line and anything less than a blitz against any presumed infractions will be seen as weakness and timidity. With the covenants revitalized we have the reassurance that we once again have an approved and recognized code of conduct for the resort but make no mistake this is not the end of the struggle.
Rules and Regulations were always intended as guidelines put there to inform owners about the expectations of the community with regard to property standards for the resort. For the most part, over the years, S-bag owners have been anxious to adhere to these expectations and when they were notified that some action that they had taken had overstepped one of the regulations, they have eagerly complied, in cooperation with the will of the community. That is the way that it is supposed to work. That cooperative regulatory system is being cH allenged by a “make me” attitude which it was never designed to handle.
S-bag is not alone in this regard. The wider community and the nation is attempting to deal with the same affliction. In the name of freedom and personal rights disproportionate amounts of energy and resources are being consumed in trying to enforce the regulations and laws that the majority of the citizens have approved as desirable and willingly uphold.
As long as we have owners who place their own “rights” above the will of the larger community, those of us in authority will have to carefully weigh each situation. We will, of course, appeal to the sense of cooperation of those seen in violation of that code but if an individual owner refuses to comply we will need to give very serious consideration before we seek enforcement through the courts.
Your Board and Management will remain vigilant and we will make every effort to enforce the standards that have been established.
The approved covenants have now been officially recorded at the County Registry Office in Bartow. Office Staff, a group from the Organizational Committee and some volunteers who are in the resort are busy putting together copies of the “Revitalized Documents” and you will soon be receiving your package of these documents in the mail. What then?
There has been a lot of buzz on S-bag.boards.net about the fact that the Rules and Regulations portion of our governing documents was not included in the package to which we gave our consent and which was approved by the DEO. This was not a mistake or some devious plot but a clear recognition that our existing rules will need to be revisited and adapted to current realities.
A new Rules Committee will be established and their onerous task will be to consider all the former rules and decide which can stay, which need amending and which are no longer relevant. This will be a time consuming task and since any proposals will need to be ratified by a majority of the owners we can expect the process to continue for many years and it may become an ongoing exercise that will require changes, additions and deletions annually.
Does that mean that S-bag’s governing documents are meaningless?
I’m sure that there are owners who are anxiously awaiting the time when all the S-bag rules have been restored so that management and the Board can finally bring certain violators into line and anything less than a blitz against any presumed infractions will be seen as weakness and timidity. With the covenants revitalized we have the reassurance that we once again have an approved and recognized code of conduct for the resort but make no mistake this is not the end of the struggle.
Rules and Regulations were always intended as guidelines put there to inform owners about the expectations of the community with regard to property standards for the resort. For the most part, over the years, S-bag owners have been anxious to adhere to these expectations and when they were notified that some action that they had taken had overstepped one of the regulations, they have eagerly complied, in cooperation with the will of the community. That is the way that it is supposed to work. That cooperative regulatory system is being cH allenged by a “make me” attitude which it was never designed to handle.
S-bag is not alone in this regard. The wider community and the nation is attempting to deal with the same affliction. In the name of freedom and personal rights disproportionate amounts of energy and resources are being consumed in trying to enforce the regulations and laws that the majority of the citizens have approved as desirable and willingly uphold.
As long as we have owners who place their own “rights” above the will of the larger community, those of us in authority will have to carefully weigh each situation. We will, of course, appeal to the sense of cooperation of those seen in violation of that code but if an individual owner refuses to comply we will need to give very serious consideration before we seek enforcement through the courts.
Your Board and Management will remain vigilant and we will make every effort to enforce the standards that have been established.
