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SALUTE TO VETERANS
Meet Stephen Golden, MD (Col, USAF, RET)
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VOLUNTEERS
Meals on Wheels of Sarasota (MOWOS) provides and delivers meals to people who are homebound, mentally or physically disabled or elderly, and unable to prepare food for themselves
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KIDS CORNER
Meet Aryan Nair, 5 ½ years old kindergartener at European Academy of Early Education page
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www.THELANDINGSOFSARASOTA.com
LMA President’s Column I’ll use this space to summarize the results of our February 2018 regular board meeting, Annual Meeting, and the following Organizational Meeting. The one item of business decided during the regular board meeting was a change in our speed enforcement program. The Association will add a piece of equipment that will permit day and night detection of speeding vehicles, providing a brief video of the vehicle, and capturing the speed and license plate information. Coupled with information in our gate systems, information about the owner is available for further action. Its operation will be less expensive than our current program, paying for itself in eight months. My report at the Annual Meeting highlighted the issues facing The Landings and the new board in the near and mid-term. As has been discussed during the annual budgeting process, two major elements of our infrastructure will require investment over the next ten years or so – road repairs and strengthening our drainage system. The anticipated repaving of Peregrine Point Drive in 2019 will require significant improvements to the drainage system in that area to correct periodic flooding of the roadway and adjoining properties. The exact cost won’t be known until the engineering work is completed later this year. The Board has been working on a Forward Plan that will address what it sees as longerterm issues for The Landings. I think it’s appropriate for this to be available for input from our owners, following a final review by the new board of directors. It will be available later this year. Finally, I’d like to thank Joan Lowery and Bob Manteiga for their service to The Landings for the past several years – Joan and Bob as co-chairs of the Communications Committee and Bob also as the Landings “photographer-in-chief.” My Treasurer’s report projected a final addition to surplus (“profit”) for 2017 of
By Dick Bayles
approximately $24,000. I will recommend to the 2018 board that the final surplus amount be added to the Drainage Reserve account, given the probable requirement for future disbursements from that account. The election of new members to our Board of Directors was uncontested. Richard Stern and I were reelected; Elena Darden, Roger Kidder and Norm Olshansky were voted in as new members. One of the seats was up for election to a one-year term. As in past years, the candidate receiving the fewest votes was allocated to that seat. This year, the one-year term will be filled by Richard Stern. I was disappointed that seven of our twenty constituent associations were not present at the meeting – either by attendance or by ballot (CH II, Enclave, EP IV, LS III, LS VI, LS VII, VEP). That resulted in 24% of our owners not represented. While the election was uncontested, I had asked all our association presidents to participate. I encourage everyone to become more involved in The Landings as a whole. What affects us, affects you. During the Organizational Meeting, the following officers were elected by unanimous consent of the new board:
• Deirdre D’Silva, President • Norm Olshansky, Vice President • Richard Bayles, Treasurer • Elena Darden, Secretary
I am pleased to have turned over the presidency to Deirdre, LMA’s second woman president, following Carol Ginsberg in the 90’s. She and I have worked closely over the past year and she has been deeply involved in Landings operations since she joined the board. Please give her and all the new board members your support and your thanks for their willingness to contribute their time and energy to our shared future.
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Deirdre D’Silva President
Norm Olshansky Vice President
Richard Bayles Treasurer
Elena Darden Secretary