September 2017 ocean pines progress by Ocean Pines Progress

September 2017

Country Club removed from fire watch

The Country Club’s second floor renovation project is on pause pending the arrival of new general manager John Bailey, who will be given some time to review the status of the project, newly anointed Ocean Pines Association President Doug Parks has confirmed. Placed on a “fire watch” earlier this summer by the Worcester County Fire Marshal because the upstairs sprinkler fire suppression system had been prematurely removed, the building recently had that somewhat embarrassing status revoked.

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Parks wants to move past negativity of board infighting

While it remains to be seen whether the Board of Directors will be able to leave the bitter infighting of recent months behind for good, that’s clearly the goal of newly elected Ocean Pines President Doug Parks. Parks, who had said after he was the top voter in this summer’s board election that he was not interested in the OPA presidency, bowed to the pressure of a board majority that felt that he would be the best person among the seven directors to serve in that role.

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Hill’s purchase of vehicle from Hi-Tide stokes board review

A controversy largely contained within the Board of Directors apparently has been “closed” with Director and former Acting General Manager Brett Hill surviving an ordeal in which his personal integrity was at issue. One OPA Director, Slobodan Trendic, isn’t ready to let the issue die.

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Bailey arrives in Ocean Pines as new GM; Parks to assume traditional role as board liaison New OPA president wants to give new chief executive 30 to 45 days to get a feel for the terrain and to develop his own priorities By TOM STAUSS Publisher is arrival much anticipated as the supposed antidote to months of Board of Directors dysfunction and infighting, John Bailey’s first official day on the job Sept. 11 will be spent introducing himself to staff and beginning the process of acclimating himself to the role, learning the issues, and preparing recommendations for the host of challenges he inherits. Ocean Pines Association President Doug Parks told the Progress in an early September interview that Bailey will be given a reasonable amount of time to get up to speed on those challenges before he will be asked to make recommendations to the board for action. Under a plan he was drafting and planning to send to the board in early September, Parks said he would be “front and center” in the process of transitioning from the administration of acting General Manager Brett Hill, who’s held the position for about a year, to Bailey’s. “I’ve been in touch with him,” Parks said, adding that Bailey and his family have been in the area looking for a home in Ocean Pines. Parks said he would like to develop a “bold plan” for transitioning to Bailey without encumbering him with a lot of board opinions in the early stages. “My recommended approach will be to lead the transition,” Parks said. “I won’t assign that role to the acting general manager or a working group. I want to establish that relationship.”

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In effect, Parks was asserting for himself as OPA president the traditional role of board liaison to the general manager. It’s essentially the same working relationship that his two predecessors, Dave Stevens and Tom Herrick, had with Hill this past year. It’s the same relationship with the GM that most board presidents have had since the earliest days of Ocean Pines. Parks said the transition plan he is working would allow him to advise Bailey on the areas he and the board thinks he should be looking at, but without preconceptions. “I don’t want to prioritize for him,” Parks said, addTo Page 30

It’s a John Bailey meet and greet ....

he Ocean Pines Association invited OPA members to meet and greet its newly hired General Manager John Bailey on Monday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. The event will be hosted on the second floor of Mumford’s Landing, otherwise known as the Ocean Pines Yacht Club. Coffee and light desserts will be served. There are unconfirmed rumors circulating that OPA Directors Brett Hill and Slobodan Trendic will engage in a free-style pie fight for charity during the event, with Bailey serving as acting referee. -- Tom Stauss

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The Mary Mac Foundation made a $2,500 donation to the Ocean Pines Recreation and Parks Department at the organization’s annual golf tournament at Ocean Pines Golf Club on Friday, Aug. 4. Ocean Pines Aquatics and Recreation Director Colby Phillips accepted the donation from McMullen’s three children – Timmy McMullen, Meg Wakeﬁeld and Eddie McMullen - at the luncheon, held at Mumford’s Landing in Ocean Pines, following the tournament. Formed in memory of Mary McMullen, a Baltimore native with ties to Ocean Pines who passed away in 2012, the foundation raises funds for a variety of charitable organizations, including the Ocean Pines Recreation and Parks and Diakonia in Berlin. She founded and served as the recreation director for the summer camp program in Ocean Pines. The community, where her husband, Tim McMullen, resides, was one of her favorite vacation spots. Pictured, left to right, are Ocean Pines Golf Club PGA Director of Golf John Malinowski, Phillips, Timmy McMullen, Meg Wakeﬁeld and Eddie McMullen.

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Parks announces committee liaisons

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Newly elected Ocean Pines Association President Doug Parks with concurrence of the Board of Directors has made new Advisory Committee Liaison appointments for the 20`7-18 board term. Parks will continue as liaison to the Aquatics Advisory Committee. As OPA president, he also would normally be expected to serve as the board’s primary liaison to the new OPA general manager, John Bailey. Newly elected OPA Vice-president Cheryl Jacobs will serve as liaison to the Clubs Advisory Committee, the Search Committee, and the ad hoc 50th Anniversary working group. OPA Secretary Colette Horn has been appointed liaison to the Communications and Recreation and Parks advisory committees. OPA Treasurer Pat Supik will serve as board liaison to the Budget and Finance and Environmental and Natural Assets advisory committees. Director Slobodan Trendic will liaise with Comprehensive Planning

and Elections committees. Director and former Acting General Manager Brett Hill has been appointed liaison to the Bylaws and Resolutions and the Environmental Control committees. Director and former OPA President Tom Herrick has been appointed liaison to the Marine Activities and Golf advisory committees.

Huntington Park project moves into next stage

The field improvements at Huntington Park are moving into the next stage. The park, located on Birdnest Drive, was sprigged with Bermuda grass several weeks ago. It is essential that sprigs receive adequate water for best results during the establishment period. For this reason, neighbors will notice an increase of irrigation at Huntington Park. “Sprigs must be watered generously during establishment because limited roots are unable to reach wa-

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ter in the soil profile which makes the plants susceptible to heat and drought,” said Golf Course superintendent Andre Jordan. “We currently start watering the grass at 5 a.m., but no watering happens at night for at least three to four weeks.” The park now features a new playground. The old softball field and playground were removed last October. The Ocean Pines Association had invited qualified bidders to submit proposals to convert the then-softball field at Huntington Park to a multi-purpose field, with soccer expected to be the primary use. The area included is about 62,500 square feet. A construction contract was granted to the Maryland-based company Growing Solutions.

Committee selects Miller as chair to replace Purcell

The Clubs Advisory Committee at its August meeting elected controversial member Gary Miller as its chairman for the coming year, replacing long-running chair Les Purcell, whose term on the committee had expired. The vote is not binding, however. Committees can recommend whomever they want as a chairman, but it’s a Board of Directors’ decision whether to ratify the recommendation or appoint someone else. Miller is an outspoken critic of former Acting General Manager Brett Hill, and he has posted comments on-line and written letters

to local newspapers that some OPA directors, particularly Hill and Tom Herrick, regard as crossing the line into personal attack. OPA President Doug Parks said in an early September interview that it was not certain whether a board majority will accept Miller as chairman. He confirmed that a compromise proposal has been circulating among the directors that would reappoint Purcell for an additional year on the committee if he would agree to serve as chairman. The matter could come up for debate and decision at the board’s scheduled Sept. 23 regular monthly meeting.

Horn receives negative greeting at first meeting

It is sometimes said that someone has to be a little bit “off” to want to serve as an OPA director, given the steady stream of criticism directed at that those who do. Director Colette Horn is in full possession of her mental faculties, but that doesn’t mean she’s immune to the slings and arrows which come with the territory. And there was no honeymoon, either. At her very first meeting as a director, the Aug. 25 organizational meeting, Horn was on the receiving end of a negative greeting by Roelof “Dutch” Oosteveen, who continues to harbor resentment against Horn for an incident involving Horn and Oosteveen at a local restaurant. He gave his version of the incident in a letter published in the Auq

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gust edition of the Progress, but he was not quite ready to move on. At the Aug. 25 meeting, he criticized Horn for calling the cops on him after the incident, apparently because she regarded the encountered as threatening. Horn did not immediately respond to Oosteveen’s remarks.

Platform tennis project begins at Manklin complex

The Ocean Pines Association began an expansion project at the Manklin Meadows Sports Complex in early August. At a July 28 Regular Board Meeting, the Board of Directors approved a proposal from Total Platform Tennis, an Ohio-based platform tennis court construction company, for two new platform tennis courts, at a cost of $93,800. Site work, concrete piers and county permits will be completed by Ocean Pines Public Works. The goal is have courts complet-

signing. Platform tennis is a game that combines elements of tennis and racquetball, is played on a court about one-third the size of a tennis court surrounded by 12-foot fencing that allows play off the screens. A free clinic is offered every Saturday at noon followed by a free onemonth trial period. Seven drop-ins per week are also offered. Contact Jim Freeman at jimisfreeman@verizon.net or 215704-4592 for more information. Another benefit of a platform tennis membership is the option of playing timeless tennis. Those who are no longer comfortable playing on a regular-size tennis court are invited to try the sport, which is new to Ocean Pines and has already attracted a number of players. The game is played on the racquet complex’s platform tennis courts using tennis racquets and low-compression balls. The screens surrounding each of the platform tennis courts help keep

OCEAN PINES the balls within reach. Drop-in play is scheduled every Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. and free introductory lessons are available by appointment by calling Araceli Popen at aspopen@yahoo.com or 302-270-8118.

Schedule for coming year includes Saturday meetings

While Director Tom Herrick said that Saturday meetings have not generated any more attendance than Wednesday or Friday meetings, new OPA President Doug Parks begs to differ. At the board’s Aug. 25 organizational meeting, Parks led a discussion on a meeting schedule for the coming board term by saying that the board should try to set some Saturday meetings as a way to stimulate greater attendance by weekend residents and those who work during the day. Thursday night meetings were included for the same reason. The approved schedule includes both Friday and Saturday meetings, as well as Thursday evenings, begin-

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Former controller continues as OPA financial consultant By TOM STAUSS Publisher e may not be the longest-running consultant in the history of the Ocean Pines Association, but former Controller Art Carmine has had a lucrative gig as a financial consultant since retiring, more or less, early this year. Mary Bosack served briefly as the director of finance beginning in February. Carmine was hired as a private contractor to aid in the transition, with the expectation that his role would diminish and then end as Bosack gained her footing as the director of finance. That never happened, as her brief tenure with the OPA was cut short. Her resignation letter did not shine much light on her reasons for leaving. She had become embroiled in a

never fully explained controversy with then Acting General Manager Brett Hill. The infamous audio tape of Hill reportedly making less than flattering comments about some directors and OPA employee was part of that, although how much the tape and its contents were was responsible for her short tenure has never been revealed, and probably won’t be. As time passes, and a new general manager assumes day-to-day responsibility over OPA administration, interest in the Bosack matter will probably fade. Carmine was never dragged into that personnel quicksand, at least not directly. But because of the abrupt departure of Bosack, Carmine’s transitional role as a financial consultant was extended well beyond its original scope. Hill said he installed three cameras in the administration building, including one in his office that recorded the infamous Bosack video

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and audio recording. Only two OPA directors, Cheryl Jacobs and Slobodan Trendic, have seen the recording, which Trendic has said is roughly a half hour in duration and would be unflattering to Hill if its contents are ever disseminated. On advice of legal counsel, that’s not likely to happen. Trendic told the Progress recently that had the old board decided to continue with efforts to remove him from the board – an effort that foundered because Director Doug Parks essentially didn’t want to deal with it during the board election season – he would have pressed for full disclosure of the recording. Since the election, efforts to remove Trendic have no traction. Parks said in late August that he doubted the issue would be raised by any director serving on the newly reorganized board. Hill had said he installed the cameras for security reasons, in the hopes of recording someone entering

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vices as he did in the short-lived Bosack era. Six months and counting later, Carmine apparently is still serving as a consultant, prompting questions as to why his services are still needed, given that Viola had extensive financial management experience in his career before retiring to Ocean Pines and volunteering for the budget and finance committee. The Progress in late August sent an e-mail to Viola inquiring as to Carmine’s status, how long his services would be needed and details of his compensation package. There also was a question posed about to which department – finance or general administration – his fees are assigned. As this edition of the Progress was nearing its printing deadline, Viola had not responded to the inquiries. When asked about Carmine’s role, Hill advised that any questions about Carmine’s status as a consultant should be addressed to newly

elected OPA President Doug Parks. Parks told the Progress that while he has no objections in general to department heads providing information to the media, in this instance questions about Carmine’s transitional role would have been better directed to him as OPA president. The Progress forwarded a copy of the questions to Parks, who said he would check into the matter and respond to the questions as soon as possible. He was not able to provide answers prior to this edition of the Progress going to press. In the first quarter of the year (May through July), both departments are under-performing relative to budget. General administration has an almost $91,000 negative variance to budget, while the finance department has incurred expenses that are almost $26,000 over budget. If Carmine’s fees are assigned to the finance department and most if not all of the $26,000 were earned by him, then his fees, on an annualized basis, might exceed his compensation as controller.

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Country Club removed from fire watch New OPA president places renovation project on pause pending arrival of new general manager

sorted out. He also has said that he favors putting the construction phase out to bid once the full board settles on a floor plan, something he said he thought the board had done late last year. The latest floor plan by GMB omits an outside handicap stairwell, Hill said, adding that he did not ask the company to rework them, in light of Parks deciding to put the project on hold pending Bailey’s arrival and recommendations on how best to proceed. The floor plan for the second floor in the new set of plans differ in some key respects from what the board approved in concept late last year. Hill said GMB had to redesign the floor plan to coincide with existing roof lines, and that resulted in a reconfiguration of the upstairs dining area into an L-shaped design and the relocation of the board’s meeting room. A comparison of the floor plan approved by the board last winter and the new set bears that out. [See Page 13.] But Hill had no explanation for the loss of the outside handicap access or the apparent loss of some of the outside decking. Neither the old board nor the new one, in which newly elected director Colette Horn replaces the retired Dave Stevens, has approved this new floor plan by GMB. Trendic said he was not certain the board ever authorized GMB to draft the engineering plans, and that once delivered to the OPA, they were not shared with the full board. The floor plan included in the latest GMB floor plan mislabels two small meeting rooms as office space. Hill told the Progress that is incorrect and that as acting GM, he had not decided unilaterally to relocate OPA personnel to the Country Club to fill office space. “There are still two small meeting rooms,” Hill said, in addition to a larger board meeting room and two other medium-sized meeting rooms. The dining area, included a bar that has been relocated, is in an L-shaped configuration. Plans still call for a substantial outside deck area that Hill said will enable golfers to better enjoy the view from the building’s upper level. Although most of the building’s

second floor was gutted this past spring, the old kitchen remains untouched, still furnished with kitchen equipment that is no longer functional. The old board did not make any decision on what to do with the old equipment, but the approved plans from last fall/winter included an upper level kitchen. The latest, unapproved plans from GMB do not label the kitchen area. Whether this was by design or another mistake is not clear. Parks told the Progress that whether to use the existing kitchen area as a kitchen or for some other purpose is an issue to be determined by the new board. It’s possible that the downstairs Tern Grille kitchen could be used to prepare for golf banquets or similar events on the upper level, he said. If some means could be provided

to bring food upstairs from the lower level without sacrificing quality, that’s something that could be considered, he said. “We will give the new GM time to evaluate the situation, and then he will make a recommendation to us on how best to proceed,” Parks said. Trendic said he believes the board needs to have a discussion on whether a second kitchen is needed for the Country Club. If not, he said there needs to be discussion on what to do with the existing kitchen space. He said other uses could be considered, such as a fitness center with Stair-Masters or similar work-out equipment. Another issue to be discussed and decided by the new board is Hill’s recent proposal to give Willow Construction Co., the company that successfully renovated the OPA’s Beach Club in Ocean City earlier this year,, q

By TOM STAUSS Publisher he Country Club’s second floor renovation project is on pause pending the arrival of new general manager John Bailey, who will be given some time to review the status of the project, newly anointed Ocean Pines Association President Doug Parks has confirmed. There has been some progress, however incremental. Placed on a “fire watch” earlier this summer by the Worcester County Fire Marshal because the upstairs sprinkler fire suppression system had been prematurely removed, the building recently had that somewhat embarrassing status revoked. A sprinkler system was reinstalled by Surefire, a Salisbury area company, and then certified as operational by the fire marshal. The fire watch was removed in late August, meaning that the OPA’s Public Works Department no longer has to keep a staff member in the building when it is in use. That extra staffing cost the OPA up to $500 per day in expense, according to former Acting General Manager Brett Hill. The first floor of the Country Club is home to the golf pro shop, men’s and women’s locker rooms, and the Tern Grille bar and restaurant. In another recent development, the Salisbury-based engineering firm, George, Miles and Buhr (GMB), has completed new engineering plans for the second floor. Hill said the plans, made available to him in late August after protracted delays, have some problems and will have to be reworked. Originally, the engineering plans were to have been delivered to the OPA this past June, with construction to begin shortly thereafter, by the OPA’s Publics Works Department. Hill, in his role as acting general manager, directed GMB to draft the engineering plans, in a process that led one director, Slobodan Trendic, to wonder on whose authority that was done, and at what cost to the OPA. In Trendic’s view, the entire project has been mishandled. He backs Parks’s preference to put everything on hold until various issues can be

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a sole-source contract to renovate the Country Club’s second floor. Hill had suggested that approach in July but the board did not act on it. Last fall, Hill had said the OPA Public Works Department could do the work, but more recently he has said he thinks the project should be outsourced to a local construction contractor, Willow Construction.

In July, the directors authorized Hill to ask Willow to complete the engineering plans for the project. Hill wanted to go further, awarding the construction contract to Willow as well, but the board resisted. Subsequent to board’s action authorizing Willow to complete engineering drawings, Hill advised the Progress that Willow executives advised him to allow GMB to complete the plans, because the work had already been started. q

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using in-house staff to complete the project or moves to design-build contract, as Hill suggested. Hill said as part of the fire watch, staff has to perform a complete inspection of the building every half an hour. If there was a deficiency found in the monitoring logs for any reason, the fire marshal had the right to close down the building until the situation is rectified, and the fire alarm system and the sprinkler system is installed, Hill told his board colleagues. He said this is the second violation on renovations at the Country Club. In June, the fire mar-

shal shut down the Tern’s Grille for several days because the OPA violated its permit by failing to provide drawings and documentation for work done on the first floor of the structure. “So this is now the second problem with the building,” Hill said. “When the fire marshal called me it was not a pleasant phone call.” Hill said the fire marshal was within his rights to close down the building, but he said county wanted to work with the OPA to rectify the situation. “They’re trying to be a partner with us. Out of q

So, Hill instead contacted GMB to finish the plans as quickly as possible. They were completed in late August. Two directors, Trendic and Cheryl Jacobs, did not seem particularly happy with Hill’s recommendation at the July meeting to award Willow the construction contract without the usual competitive bidding. Although Hill said that Willow as the general contractor would bid out many of the project components, his proposal seemed at odds with a preference by these two directors, and probably others, to follow more conventional competitive bid procedures, even if it means a delay in completing the project. Parks told the Progress that some delay in proceeding with the project is OK because it’s not costing the OPA any money. “We have no contract with anyone,” he said, adding there’s time to get the procedure right and also come up with the right set of plans for the second floor. “And we do want John (Bailey) to give us his recommendations.” Parks cautioned that he doesn’t want a protracted delay in completing the project, because another project, renovation of the Administration building in White Horse Park, awaits. The plan there is to eliminate several meeting rooms to allow expansion of the existing police station. The five meeting rooms in the renovated Country Club’s second floor are designed to compensate for the loss of the meeting rooms in the Administration building. Hill said the latest plans by GMB do not include an elevator from the main entrance or the lower level pro shop to the building’s second floor. The lift at the entrance foyer remains as is. “To put an elevator in would be cost prohibitive,” Hill said. Hill, working with former director and OPA President Dave Stevens, was dealing with the fire watch issue and the reinstallation of sprinkler equipment throughout much of August. That issue was satisfactorily concluded, but not without a lot of behind the scenes stress. In one of his last official acts as acting OPA general manager, Hill had presented a motion at the July board meeting for approval of an emergency design-build contract for the reconstruction of the Country Club’s upper floor after difficulties caused by trying to do the work in-house came to light. “We were notified … by the fire marshal that we had violated the terms of our demolition permit that our in-house staff was performing and that they exceeded the scope of the permit. And the building is no longer under fire protection,” he told fellow directors during the July 28 regular monthly meeting of the board. Because of the violation, the fire marshal required the OPA to have Public Works staff on site to monitor the building whenever the building is in use, at a cost of about $500 per day. Failure to adhere to that requirement would have resulted in a fine of $1,000 per day, according to Hill. “We’re just in a bad position,” Hill said at the time. “Any delays are further going to add to the cost of the project,” whether the OPA continues

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Country Club From Page 13 respect for who we are.” But, the fire watches were mandatory and any discrepancies would have resulted in a shutdown of the whole building, he said at the time. “At this point we are unable to obtain permits for actual construction on our own,” Hill told the board. It was a very forthright admission that using Public Works staff for the second floor renovation, the plan he announced earlier this year as a way of saving the OPA money over hiring an outside contractor, was not going to work. While Public Works did major renovation work at the Country Club’s lower level this winter, expanding the Tern Grille and redoing the men’s locker room, the staff has yet to complete the renovation of the women’s locker room. Hill concluded that Public Works would be unable to start work on the second floor this summer as Hill had envisioned. “Given that this project is now in its fifth month with virtually no activity outside of demolition that has caused us violations with the county,” he asked to board to allow him to hire Willow Construction to do the work at an estimated cost of $536,500 for both the design and construction of the improvements. Hill later told the Progress that his plan was to amend the Beach Club contract with Willow to allow the company to design and engineer the second floor renovations based on floor plans that were initially released last fall and amended this past winter. Phase two, which has not yet been authorized by the Board of Directors, could be to direct Willow to proceed with reconstruction in a contract with a cap on construction costs. The OPA had budgeted $417,000 in fiscal year 2018 for the renovations to the Country Club’s second floor to accommodate additional meeting space. Another $60,000 was carried over from FY17 for HVAC work. So using Willow for both and construction would result in a budgetary cost overrun of just less than $60,000. The contractor agreed to have the work completed within a 90-day timeframe after a construction contract is signed. Hill said as soon as the OPA signed a contract for the work, that company would assume the respon-

sibility for the fire watch until the new fire suppression system was installed and functioning. Trendic initially balked at Hill’s motion, saying he has just received information about the problem and the proposed contract, for which there was no scope of work presented. He was stumped as to why the OPA would proceed with demolition without having detailed engineering plans for the reconstruction. “It sounds like this project really just wasn’t properly planned,” Trendic said, suggesting the postponement of Hill’s motion to a future meeting.

Two directors, Dave Stevens and Tom Herrick, were opposed to waiting. Stevens was opposed to waiting. “If we table it, we’re putting it off to some indefinite time for no definite reason as far as I can tell,” he said, adding that didn’t want to postpone consideration of the motion because the project is already well behind schedule. “We want to get this thing moving,” he said, adding, “It will cost us money for every day that we wait.” Stevens said it’s unfortunate the OPA is in this position, “but we are. And we have a good solution in front of us.”

Herrick also had concerns about tabling the motion because it would result in project delays. Based on the original timeline for the work, he said the OPA had anticipated being able to hold that July 28 board meeting in the renovated Country Club. Instead, the project was put off for months with no discernible progress since the demolition several months ago. “We agreed on the project. We’re in an emergency situation. It’s not that much of a difference from the numbers that are being shown to us. We can get it done within a couple q

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months” by adopting the Hill solution, he said. He added that delaying the work means the difference between incurring more costs to maintain the fire watch or generating revenue from food and beverage sales. He said the renovations need to be completed so the upper floor of the County Club can be used for dining events during the winter months. Director Cheryl Jacobs said she, too, wanted to move forward with the work, but was not convinced the contractor’s estimate for the work would hold true. “I’m not at all comfortable that this is going to be the final number. We’ve already deviated over $100,000 from what we thought it was going to be. And while I am still in favor, certainly, of going forward and completing this project, it is just turning out to be just what I thought it could very well be – and that is once you start tearing the walls apart, doing other things, it’s going to cost more than what we thought it would.” The OPA needs to keep mov-

September 2017 Ocean Pines PROGRESS ing forward on the work, Director Pat Supik said. “I guess the dollar amount is high.” She wondered whether “there is any room for going back and some negotiation” with the contractor. Jacobs wanted to know if the contractor would commit to its estimated price tag. Hill initially said that isn’t possible for a design-build contract. Final design, construction specifications, and materials could all affect the pricing. “We don’t have engineering to give them to tell them what exactly they’re building. And that’s part of the process,” he said. Jacobs said then she couldn’t vote for the motion as presented. She asked Hill when firm contract amount would be available. Herrick suggested the board approve the contract contingent on receipt of a final project budget, but sensing that his motion might fail, Hill then offered an alternative. He suggested that the OPA could hire Willow Construction to complete only the design work at this time. Then based on that design, the company could provide a cost estimate for the actual construction. If its estimate is higher than that pro-

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By TOM STAUSS Publisher elling his colleagues that he was resigning from the Aquatics Advisory Committee so he can lead an effort to overturn a board decision ending the decades-old adults-only designation of the Yacht Club’s “Oasis” swimming pool, former member Gary Miller acknowledged that leading such an effort would be incompatible with continued committee membership. At the committee’s August meeting, Miller also said he was leaving the committee because he felt unappreciated as a member. He noted that at a July meeting of the Board of Directors, former Director Dave Stevens said that members of the Aquatics Committee supported Miller’s removal from both the Clubs and Aquatics advisory committees. Committee chair Kathy Grimes took exception to Miller’s claim that he was unappreciated. She said the committee’s position was that if Miller had acted in a way that made his continued service on the clubs committee unacceptable to the board, then serving on the aquatics

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Aquatics Committee loses member who wants to continue litigating loss of adults-only Yacht Club Panel renews interest in alternative to traditional chlorination at indoor Sports Core pool committee would also be problematic. But this by no means should have been taken as a lack of appreciation of Miller’s role as a committee member, she said. “It was not a Gary issue, but a matter of principle,” she added. That position was determined after polling individual committee members by phone. As it turned out, an effort by three directors at the July meeting of the board to remove Miller from the clubs committee failed because only six members were in attendance. Director Doug Parks, in August unanimously elected by his colleagues as OPA president for the coming year, was absent from the July board meeting.

One of the three directors who supported Miller’s removal from the committee, Stevens was replaced on the board last month by Colette Horn, not seen as a director likely to support Miller’s removal from the clubs committee. Since that July meeting Miller was selected by his colleagues on the clubs committee to chair that panel for the coming year, a decision that is not binding on the board of directors. While Miller’s continued service on the clubs committee seems assured, board appointment of him as committee chair is less so. He’s written letters to the editor in local media and posted commentary on oceanpinesforum.com sharply critical of Acting General Manager Brett Hill’s tenure. They have been regarded as unnecessarily divisive by some directors. Miller told the aquatics committee that he wanted to lead an effort that would raise money to hire an attorney who would take another look at the adults-only pool issue, with the aim of overturning the board’s decision at the Yacht Club pool or finding a more acceptable way of implementing it. Committee members accepted Miller’s contention that heading up such an effort would be incompatible with membership on the committee. Committee members have said that the group as a whole can be more effective if it is perceived as working harmoniously with the board and not in an adversarial role. In late August, Miller told the Progress he was still working on the fund-raising effort but that people who had said they were interested in donating had not yet done so. There are at least two OPA directors, Horn and Slobodan Trendic, who have said that they, too, support getting a second legal opinion on the adults-only pool issue before it is cast in stone as OPA policy. It remains to be seen whether they will lobby their colleagues to obtain a second opinion, at OPA expense. If they are able to persuade a majority to support getting a second opinion, that could take some steam

out of Miller’s independent effort. The aquatics committee did not weigh in pro or con on the adults-only decision, with most members accepting it as necessary because the board had received a legal opinion that said adults-only pools run afoul of federal and state law anti-discrimination law. At the same time, some committee members have suggested that there may be ways to make eliminating adults-only use more acceptable, such as keeping at least one lap lane open at the Yacht Club pool at all times. Meanwhile, the aquatics committee will shortly gain one new member, with Virginia Reister, a previous committee member and chair, submitting an application for reappointment. She’s been off the committee for more than a year and is therefore eligible for reappointment. She was the committee’s first chair when it was established roughly ten years ago. Another committee member, Suzanne Auwarter, has been term limited off the committee, with August her last meeting for at least a year, when she could reapply. Another member, Rob Carpenter, has resigned, telling Grimes that he feels the board of directors this past year has rendered committees ineffective. Aquatics committee members in general do not agree with that assessment. They’ve been appreciative of the fact that Colby Phillips, the aquatics director, is back to attending committee meetings after a brief hiatus, supplying the committee with information and insight helpful in formulating positions and recommendations to the board. They were also thankful that Parks, the committee’s board liaison, lobbied his colleagues vigorously for a high-quality pool cover for the Beach Club pool. An additional $900 for the higher quality cover recently was approved by the board at Parks’s request. Phillips as the department head also supported the additional expenditure. A lower cost cover had already been included in the budget. As acting general manager, Hill had wanted to purchase the less expensive model. But the committee and Phillips contended that the Beach Club pool in particular, exposed as it is to the elements, needs the higher quality cover, called SmartMesh. In other business at its Aug. 14 committee meeting, members met To Page 18

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with a sales manager of the Clear Comfort pool disinfecting system, via Skype. The Clear Comfort system is an alternative to traditional chlorination and is seen as a way that can improve air quality in an enclosed pool environment, while reducing the number of partial or total pool dumps required to remove a heavily used indoor pool of a variety of contaminants. It produces hydroxyl radicals that function as fast-acting oxidizers that destroy a variety of pathogens, with minimal chlorination still required. Chlorine costs are reduced by roughly 40 percent by the Clear Comfort system. The Clear Comfort system has a purchase price of $10,000. An ultra-violet cartridge used in the system needs to be replaced after 10,000 hours of use, roughly once a year, at a cost of about $2000 per cartridge. The system is said to require little maintenance, another than an annual check-up by a licensed installer. Phillips indicated that she would probably be including a purchase request for the Clear Comfort system in the 2018-19 capital budget, after discussing the matter with the new general manager, John Bailey. The committee at its September meeting probably will take a vote on whether to endorse the system’s inclusion in the capital budget next year. Finding an alternative to traditional chlorination has been a committee objective since its establishment. Previously agnostic on the system, Phillips seemed far more supportive of it during the August

ong-term forecasting models suggest Hurricane Irma could bring significant rainfall and damaging winds to Maryland the week of Sept. 10. While experts at the National Weather Service earlier said it was too early to predict precise impacts, path or timing of the storm, the Ocean Pines Association cautioned that if the hurricane or its remnants reaches Delmarva, it could bring flooding and damaging winds. The Association is urging residents and guests to prepare for possible flooding in Ocean Pines. This warning comes on the heels of recent downpour in the area. “The ground is already saturated from rain earlier this week,” said Marketing and Public Relations Director Denise Sawyer. “Ocean Pines has experienced off-and-on torrential rain in a short period of time. When heavy rain is coupled with saturated soil, flooding usually is a result.” The OPA reminds residents who suffer from repeated flooding that the risk of flooding remains until the saturated ground recovers from recent storm systems. The Public Works Department and Worcester County officials will work to ensure residents are safe. The process does take time. They ask for resi-

meeting because of the frequency in which partial dumps of the Sports Core pool have been required because of the increased use of that pool, especially by large impact groups such as swim teams. Partial pool dumps now occur once a month or every other month, effectively closing the pool for days at a time or making it uncomfortable for patrons as water temperatures take several days to warm back up to the 80-plus degrees that is typical.

dents to allow crews to respond and survey the damage in property-threatening situations. Ryan Presock, who serves as a Natural Resources Inspector with the Worcester County Department of Environmental Programs, documented the recent rain event on Aug. 12. “Ocean Pines received an estimated 6.2 inches of rain in approximately six to seven hours,” he said, describing the rain event on Aug. 12 as “significant” and “almost equivalent to a 25-year rain event which is 6.4 inches in a 24-hour period, not in 12 hours.” There are no drainage plans to show what Ocean Pines infrastructure was designed for when it was initially developed, Presock said. “I will say that the infrastructure that is in place worked as efficiently as it could because of the improvements that have been completed in the recent years,” he added. Worcester County and Ocean Pines Public Works work almost daily to improve drainage in Ocean Pines.. Public Works Director Eddie Wells and Acting General Manager Brett Hill will be briefing newly hired General Manager John Bailey on drainage in the coming days. q

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She also expressed concern about the exposure of staff to air-borne chloramines produced by the traditional chlorine-based system. Anyone with respiratory problems can find breathing in an enclosed environment such as the Sports Core pool difficult. Nasal congestion and drip is another frequent complaint of users of an indoor pool. Because of the substantial reduction in chlorine usage, the Clear Comfort system is also credited with reducing skin irritation caused by

prolonged exposure to chlorine. The committee also has been supportive of Phillips’s effort to add a party and training room to the Sports Core pool enclosure this winter. For next year’s capital budget, the committee backs Phillips’s advocacy for a new baby pool at the Swim and Racquet Club, adjacent to the spray pad, as well as pool heaters for that pool, to allow it to be used earlier and later than the traditional June through August period.

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Parks assumes OPA presidency, wants to move past negativity of recent board infighting By TOM STAUSS Publisher hile it remains to be seen whether the Board of Directors will be able to leave the bitter infighting of recent months behind for good, that’s clearly the goal of newly elected Ocean Pines President Doug Parks. Parks, who had said after he was the top voter in this summer’s board election that he was not interested in the OPA presidency, bowed to the pressure of a board majority that felt that he would be the best person OPA President among the seven directors to heal differences and bring Doug Parks

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opposing factions together on a common agenda. What that agenda will be remains somewhat murky at present, but it would seem that one major objective will be to complete the stalled renovation of the second floor of the Country Club, which in turn will enable the OPA to begin renovation of the Administration Building in White Horse Park to accommodate an expanded police station. ceiving text message alerts from the association. To sign up, Ocean Pines residents and guests should text the word “PINES’ to 88474. Sign-up is free. Standard text message and data charges may apply. Subscribers will not be overloaded with text messages. For life-threatening emergencies contact 911.

The board is hoping that the arrival of a new general manager, John Bailey, will jump-start the stalled Country Club project. Parks, reminded by Director and OPA Treasurer Pat Supik during the board’s reorganization meeting Aug. 25 that September is the month when the board is supposed to provide guidance to staff as it prepares a budget for the following fiscal year, indicated that he would work toward that goal. He advised that he would include a meeting with the Budget and Finance Committee at the September board meeting to review the committee’s budget recommendations. for next year. If Parks follows precedent, he will also begin discussions with his colleagues to formally draft a document containing specific board goals for the coming year. Parks, who assumed the OPA presidency when the election results were certified at the Aug. 12 annual meeting of the OPA, replacing the retiring Dave Stevens, was elected president with no opposition at the board’s Aug. 25 organizational meeting.

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Trendic wants to shop anew for an OPA accounting firm Objects to 2017-18 award to a Baltimore area company he says cost the OPA “50 percent more” than the low bid submitted last February By TOM STAUSS Publisher ispleased with a board decision this past February awarding a contract to a Baltimore area accounting firm for the annual Ocean Pines Association audit, Director Slobodan Trendic recently said he does not want that contract to be automatically renewed before the 2017-18 audit is undertaken. At the new board’s Aug. 25 organizational meeting, the first one since the summer Board of Directors election, Trendic took exception to the automatic renewal of the Stout, Causey and Horning (SC&H) audit contract as well as the existing contract with the Lerch, Early law firm for legal services. New OPA President Doug Parks said that both contracts remain in place, at least for now, and he initially didn’t seem particularly interested in revisiting either one. The appointment of a law firm and an auditor over the years has occurred during the board’s organizational meeting, and Parks said both appointments were included as agenda items more as a matter of routine as opposed to signaling an interest by

directors in replacing both firms. A year ago, a newly reorganized board did just that, although no decisions were made at the time. The directors simply indicated that they wanted to solicit proposals for both services, something that had not occurred with any degree of seriousness for some period of years. Former OPA legal counsel Joseph E. Moore and his law firm, first appointed back in 1983, were routinely reappointed, year after year. Several years ago the board issued a detailed request for proposals for legal services, but then the process foundered. Moore’s continued tenure as the OPA’s attorney was never in jeopardy. So it seemed somewhat discordant when he was informed by a board majority a year ago that the newly reorganized board, with a new board majority, wanted to shop around for legal services. A board majority also indicated that it wanted to seek competing proposals for auditing services, which for many years prior had been provided by the Trice, Geary and Myers (TGM) accounting firm in Salisbury. Another year, another board,

and this year, at the organizational meeting, it was Trendic who seemed interested in reopening the contracts. After Parks said the Lerch, Early contract for legal services remains in place, Trendic reminded Parks that this past year the board initially settled on three separate law firms to handle different components of the OPA’s legal business. As the year progressed, Trendic said that it became apparent that the OPA was steering most if not all of its legal business to Lerch, Early. Moore’s law firm, which had been

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS handling delinquent assessment collection efforts literally since the OPA began to implement them, lost the business to Lerch, Early, with no public announcement by the OPA to that effect. Recently, former Acting OPA General Manager Brett Hill told the Progress that Lerch, Early’s services cost the OPA’s less than Moore’s law firm and that Lerch, Early’s successes in collecting past assessments and associated fees were measurably better than Moore’s firm. By the annual meeting of the OPA Aug. 12, Lerch Early attorney Jeremy Tucker was introduced as the OPA’s legal counsel by the meeting’s presiding officer, former OPA President Dave Stevens. The firm has handled legal services for the Parke section within Ocean Pines, where Stevens lives. Trendic said the Lerch, Early conq

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ed to keep the process neutral and non-partisan. He said that selecting Supik as vice-president was the “best way to move forward and stop the nonsense,” referencing the board’s infighting the past six months or so, which at times involved Jacobs. The paper balloting resulted in Jacobs’s’ election in a 4-3 vote. Jacobs nominated newly elected director Colette Horn as secretary. The vote for her apparently was unanimous. Director and Acting GM Brett Hill then nominated Supik to continue in her role as OPA Treasurer. The announced vote tally was 5 in favor, one (Trendic) in opposition, and one abstention. The board then appointed Director of Finance John Viola and OPA member Gene Ringsdorf as assistant treasurers, and Michelle Bennett as recording secretary. All three served in the same role in the previous board term. There was a modest dust-up over the appointment of a parliamentarian. Jacobs nominated Trendic, who declined, saying he did not want to serve in any officer role. Jacobs then nominated Horn. Hill said that OPA rules don’t require a director to serve as parliamentarian. He suggested two OPA members, Joe Reynolds and Jeff Knepper, both of whom declined. The subsequent vote to elect Horn as parliamentarian was 7-0.

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tract has been extended to April of 2018, which he said contravened the motion from a year ago authorizing three legal firms. Trendic said that motion has never been formally re-

September 2017 Ocean Pines PROGRESS scinded by the board. Parks responded that the matter could be included as an agenda item at the board’s regular meeting in September. Parks then proceeded to announce that the auditing contract with SC&H, a firm based in Sparks,

Md., near Baltimore, also remained in place. Here, too, Trendic was not interested in simply going along with Parks’s declaration. Trendic said he would be introducing a motion to solicit bids for accounting services at a future board

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separate article in this edition of the Progress for details.] The issue involving the truck purchase was whether Hill received some sort of sweetheart deal on the vehicle, as a reward for steering business to Hi-Tide, starting with a three-page contract for emergency bulkhead repairs executed by the OPA over Hill’s signature, dated Oct. 5 of last year. If some sort of sweetheart deal had been proven, Hill’s tenure as acting general manager and a director would have been at risk. Newly elected OPA President Doug Parks told the Progress in a Sept. 1 telephone interview that as far as he was concerned, the issue has been dealt with at the board level and is a “closed” issue. Parks said that Hill produced evidence that he paid for vehicle, a Ford F-650 with 100,000 or more miles on it, at a cost close to or above “blue book” fair market value. Hill conceded to his colleagues and that the purchase didn’t look good, but he said the $22,000 his company paid Hi-Tide for the vehicle was more than the blue book value for it, as determined by an on-line service called truckbluebook.com. Hill told the Progress that he noticed the vehicle on a Hi-Tide parking area, and that it seemed to him that it hadn’t been driven in some time. At the time of purchase, the vehicle didn’t run, he said. After writing a check to Hi-Tide, Hill said he noticed that the title actually had been transferred to him by Dennis Sharp, a former owner of Hi-Tide. Hill acknowledged that, after fixing up the vehicle, he has posted it for sale in Baltimore and in Canada for close to $50,000, but as of early September it’s still for sale. “No takers [or offers] so far,” he said. Hill said it’s his understanding that his documentation on the value of the vehicle when he bought it has satisfied all but one director, whom he didn’t name, but the Progress has learned that Director Slobodan Trendic continues to be unhappy with the purchase and its subseq

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By TOM STAUSS Publisher controversy largely contained within the Board of Directors, without the usual newspaper headlines and insinuations by newspaper letter-writers armed with outrage and few facts, apparently has been “closed” with Director and former Acting General Manager Brett Hill surviving an ordeal in which his personal integrity was at issue. The directors were recently informed via e-mail from an Ocean Pines Association member that Hill earlier this year had purchased a Ford heavy duty F-650 truck from Hi-Tide Marine Construction, the local contractor hired by the board this past year to do emergency repairs of bulkheads in Ocean Pines. More recently, the board agreed to award a one-year contract to HiTide after a competitive bidding process for bulkhead replacement. That contract has not yet been executed, and its fate as of the first week of September was uncertain, according to OPA President Doug Parks. [See

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The Republican Women of Worcester County recently presented a check for $300 to Showell Elementary School for the “Paper Back Book Library Project” established by the club. Pictured in the school’s lobby are Principal Diane Shorts, right; Sharon Byerly, RWWC literacy chair, center; and Kate McCabe, Showell media specialist.

Truck purchase From Page 22 quent revaluation for resale purposes. Trendic in comments to the Prog-

ress in early September said he continues to be troubled by the transaction and for him the matter isn’t closed. He said the optics of the purchase were “terrible, and that it was evidence of poor judg-

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ment, at best.” At worst, he said it could be construed to be an “under the table handshake deal” in which Hill was receiving something of value from a contractor that does business with the OPA. Trendic said in his view the purchase was a violation of Board resolution B-05 pertaining to conflicts of interests and applicable bylaws. Hill expressed disappointment that Trendic is unable to move on despite the recent election and a desire of his colleagues for a fresh start without a lot of bickering. “I was hoping that after the election the board that relations among directors would improve, but so far that hasn’t happened,” Hill said. Parks is determined to move on. He said he can’t see what purpose Trendic has in trying to keep the issue alive. “We looked into it, and it’s been resolved, to almost everyone’s satisfaction,” Parks said, agreeing that the purchase had poor optics but in the end it was a personal matter between Hill and Hi-Tide. Hill said that as acting general manager, he was not the OPA official most responsible for directing the

bid process that led to the selection of Hi-Tide as the bulkhead replacement contractor for the coming year. That task was handled primarily by the OPA’s facilities manager, Kevin Layfield, Hill said. But Hill was very much involved in the one-year emergency repair contract executed last October. The contract governing emergency repairs was signed and dated by Hill on Oct. 5, with no record of a board vote approving the contract in late September or anytime in October. Both Parks and Trendic said that that they had not seen the three-page document signed by Hill in October contracting with Hi-Tide for emergency repairs. Unlike some controversies involving Hill, the truck purchase so far has generated very little activity on oceanpinesforum.com or in the pages of local weeklies. Frequent Hill critic Gary Miller, who apparently thought a message to forum manager Joe Reynolds was confidential, said in a message he hoped that someone would look into whether the vehicle was purchased at fair market value. Apparently someone did and it was.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

September 2017

OPA may not award bulkhead contract to Hi-Tide Marine despite July 28 vote OPA president wants full review of process leading up to earlier decision By TOM STAUSS Publisher onceding that the process leading up to the granting of an emergency bulkhead repair contract last October was looser than it should have been, Ocean Pines Association President Doug Parks said in early September that he doesn’t want to make the same mistake in the awarding of a multi-year bulkhead replacement contract. Parks said wants the Ocean Pines Association’s bulkhead consulting firm to provide all the supporting documentation that led former acting general manager Brett Hill to recommend Hi-Tide Marine Construction for a multi-year bulkhead replacement contract. While he said he doesn’t know whether reviewing those documents will change his or other directors’ votes on the bulkhead replacement contract, Parks said it’s possible that the review will result in a board decision to rebid the project.

The previous board, in one of its final acts, voted for a one-year contract for bulkhead replacement in a meeting July 28. Hill, in his capacity

as acting general manager, had presented a proposal to award a threeyear contract to Hi-Tide Marine Construction, based in West Ocean

City, which submitted the least expensive bid among five responses to a request for proposals. A majority of directors were not willing to commit to a three-year term, opting instead for a shorter contract, with an option to renew. Hi-Tide Marine Construction was the low bidder with a base bid of $226.70 per linear food for vinyl q

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No board vote recorded on bulkhead repair contract

he process that produced a three-page contract for Hi-Tide Marine Construction for emergency bulkhead repairs last October was largely done behind the scenes, with no public vote by the Board of Directors. At least two directors, Doug Parks and Slobodan Trendic, told the Progress that they had not seen the contract prior to its execution and had not voted on it. The Progress, which published an article in its October edition reporting that bulkhead replacement had been put on hold for at least a year, had no report in its October or November editions that an emergency bulkhead replacement contract had actually been executed. An account in the October edition about the Sept. 24 board meeting, in which the replacement program was formally suspended by board vote, quoted Hill to the effect that pending development of a full-bore replacement program, Public Works staff and sub-contractors would respond to repair requests and maintain the integrity of the existing bulkheads. Hill said the OPA would be putting out a request for bids for an emergency maintenance contract. That would provide a safety net for OPA should a bulkhead failure occur in the interim before a replacement program was in effect, Hill said. He anticipated that the contract for emergency maintenance services would be bid and awarded by the end of September, according to the Progress article that appeared in print in early October. “We would not be at risk of having something sit for long period of time,” he said. According to a copy of the repair contract obtained by the Progress, Hill signed it Oct. 5, well before the regular meeting of the board in October. A review of board minutes for September and October make no reference of a board vote on the repair contract. – Tom Stauss

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bulkhead. That rate is just $1.79 more per linear foot than the OPA had been paying for to its previous contractor, Fisher Marine, for wooden bulkhead replacement. Although the board did vote to accept the low bid, Director Slobodan Trendic offered a caveat that it should come with a performance bond and that he wanted to review the contract before it would be formally executed. Former OPA President Dave Stevens, who served in the role up to the time of Aug. 12 annual meeting of the OPA, said he signed no bulkhead replacement contract after the July 28 board meeting. Parks told the Progress in early September that he had not seen any draft contract and is not certain one is available for review. Parks said he wants the OPA’s new general manager, John Bailey, to be very much involved before the OPA formally awards a replacement contract to Hi-Tide or any other contractor. One factor that motivated Parks to seek a review of the vetting documents in the replacement contract are complaints that the board was not as involved as it should have in reviewing the October emergency repair contract. “It was looser than what I would expect in my own business,” he said. “I want to make sure that doesn’t happen with the replacement contract, that we tighten up our review procedures, that we all do our due diligence.” Trendic has raised objections to the October contract, which he said did not undergo any board review before it was signed by Hill as acting general manager. He said a review of monthly financials indicates that more than $70,000 has been spent on emergency repairs since October, and that any contract that spends more than $50,000 has to be reviewed by the board before it is executed. “This wasn’t done in this case,” he said. Parks told the Progress that on Sept. 7, he sent a note to OPA Director of Finance John Viola asking for a full accounting of all the bulkhead repairs completed by Hi-Tide after the Oct. 5 contract was signed by Hill. Parks said that to the best of his recollection, the Oct. 5 contract that he reviewed recently allows the OPA

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to terminate it, provided that the an optional extension for five years multi-year replacement contract is OPA compensates Hi-Tide for any if mutually agreed upon by both awarded to the same contractor that Ju OPINION materials already ordered for proj- parties,” with the benefit to the OPA has a contract in place for emergenfession reportedly sets a range 30 to 70 percent as Clarke point cy of repairs. ect repairs. Commentary said to “include no additional mobiElection within acceptable limits for ACC funding. The OPA Club deficits. C An even more interesting issue It does, but the potential penalty lization charge for (the) entire conFrom Page 52 currently funds its replacement reserve at the low end edition of the decidesbeto for a rescission be more than tract period. of the “acceptable” range. could arise if the OPA should by the multitude could of candidates. used award a reportedly replacement a at cost Supik of materials, according to conThere public disclo- Thompson is seen as a Thompson cheerleader, andhas been For no what it’s worth, has contract Let’s to look someone in the mold of Pete Gomsak, a former board recommended 50 percent funding of the ACC,than to beHi-Tide. open. An OPA contractor other tract language. sure by the OPA that the emergency 30, the 2016, member andconsiders current assistant achieved ten years; In a price list isofconservices, Oc-(end “Hi-Tide this a OPA bind-treasurer repair very contract with over Hi-Tide is forthe recommendation much aligned with the Terry-Jacobs faction. tained in a document that the board majority won’t statement to c ing contract once signed,” it says. five-years, with another five years tober contract included a vinyl bulknot performed Both Gomsak and Supik are retired accountants, let him release to the OPA membership. installation per “Should you (the OPA) to OPA as areserves renewal option. The stateme both are identifi ed with the choose notion that A 50 percent funding levelhead still would require acost sig- of $220 foot, including labor, site equipment cancel this contract once it are haswedded been to Parks there could (under form are underfunded, and both the ideaacknowledged nificant increase in the lot assessment, over a all number that the OPA’s reserve levels shouldfull be tied of years, andontalking aboutand assessment increases is toOperational executed, Hi-Tide will expect betoansomeinteresting issue whether materials needed install it. sta appear in depa thing called the annual component cost (ACC), a comnever popular, especially during election season. compensation for any and all time an emergency repair contract would That was about $6 less per linear annual audited putational confection conceived and embraced by the The rationale for keeping the document secret, acinvested in this project or the time remain in place if a programmatic accounting profession. cording to Thompson, is that it is a working document August. The un leading up to project Gomsak andthis Terry tried beginning, to persuade Supik to run involved in the updating and completion of the OPA’s the “official” o including manlast hours estimating, The Yacht C for the board year,for failing to do so, but they suc- ongoing reserve study. ceeded this year. coordinating, etc., legal fees that That’s absurd, because the document itself is com- $76,219; a year Granted, the anyone anointed candidate of this particu- plete and has been referenced in one or two board mayIf incur asisathe result of cancellation 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath Waterfront Unit With Openbut a nifi cant, lar faction, it’s Supik in spades. meetings. Property owners paid for that document, as well as any materials that have View Of Yacht Club Lagoon, The Bay And Ocean hefty funded Supik has said that, as chairman of the Budget and and it ought to be released immediately. been pre-purchased, whether not to navigating Finance Advisory Committee, sheor is used Citywilling Skyline. 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Trendic disputes Herrick version of Beach Club bartender incident Denies confrontation occurred; removal effort unlikely to resurface By TOM STAUSS Publisher ith efforts to remove Director Slobodan Trendic from the Board of Directors foundering from an obvious lack of votes and a preference by newly selected Ocean Pines Association President Doug Parks to move in a more positive direction, Trendic has said he is willing to do what he can to respond positively to that preference. But Trendic, responding to comments in the August Progress attributed to current director and former OPA President Tom Herrick, nonetheless wants to set the record straight with respect to a “confrontation” at the Beach Club with an Irish bartender that Trendic said never occurred. In a telephone interview with the Progress last month, Trendic acknowledged that he had visited the Beach Club with his wife after a neighbor complained to him about ill treatment at the Beach Club by an “Irish” bartender. The neighbor said he was denied a 20 percent discount on his bar tab

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foot than the bid price included in proposal submitted before the July 28 board vote. The October contract has language in it that allows for price increases related to materials, so perhaps the price change from October to July is to be expected. A report in a local weekly in early September seemed to suggest that the October contract could be construed as a binding bulkhead replacement contract in addition to emergency repairs, but that probably isn’t an accurate reading of the contract. Statements made by Hill in September said he and his staff would be seeking bids for emergency repairs. The board voted in September to suspend the replacement program, so it seems fanciful to imagine that Hi-Tide thought it was bidding on anything other than emergency repairs. In addition, the first page of the

consistent with a policy in place at OPA restaurant and bar venues since early this year. Trendic said the bartender used profanity when he declined to give his neighbor the discount. Trendic said he was curious about what kind of service he and wife would receive at the Beach Club. He told the Progress that the “Irish bartender” who had allegedly given such poor service to his neighbor was not present when he and his wife visited the Beach Club. No confrontation occurred with any of the staff, Trendic said, and he was not “thrown out” of the amenity. He also refuted that assertions by Herrick that he had encouraged employees to file complaints against OPA management. “All of the above accounts are absolutely not true,” Trendic wrote in a written statement. “I did not confront the Irish bartender and did not encourage any employee to file a complaint. And I was not thrown out of the Beach Club and find such an accusation disturbing and absurd.” Trendic characterized the “above contract opens with an expression of pleasure for the opportunity to offer a proposal for “misc. projects,” or miscellaneous projects, which suggests projects that are not part of a multi-year replacement project. As in all contracts, however, the language is subject to legal interpretation. Apparently no attorney reviewed the repair contract before it was executed in October. Trendic told the Progress in early September that he, too, wanted full access to all the documents that led Hill to recommend Hi-Tide as the lowest and best bidder. He said he needed have a better understanding of all the materials used in the competing bids, so the board can be sure the bidders were all submitting proposals based on the same set of criteria. He said it was “red flag” to him that there was such wide disparity between the low and highest bids. “That tells me there could have been a problem in the way the RFP was drafted last September,” Trendic said.

statements” as “very sad examples of Herrick’s continuing attempts to discredit me in the public. It is equally incomprehensible for me to see Herrick make these blatantly false statements and I continue to wonder what his real motives are.” Trendic told the Progress that it was possible that Herrick was trying to make life as a board member difficult enough for Trendic that he might resign his post, creating a vacancy that Herrick and board ally and Acting General Manager Brett Hill could then attempt to fill. “I had no intention of resigning from the board,” he said. Trendic said when he asked Herrick in e-mail about the comments attributed to him in the August Progress, Herrick responded that “you can’t always believe what you read in the newspapers.” In a telephone interview with the Progress July 31, Herrick had said his resignation was intended to send a message to the OPA membership. Herrick said that Trendic had been “relentless” in his efforts to undermine the administration of Hill and also has been involved in contacts with OPA employees that Herrick said have encouraged certain employees to file human resources complaints against Hill, in Herrick’s view putting the OPA in some legal jeopardy. Herrick also said that Trendic bombarded him with a constant flow of e-mails. He said that Trendic asked for countless legal opin-

ions from the OPA attorney Jerome Tucker on board or Hill actions that Trendic regarded as improper or simply disagreed with. “It went way Slobodan Trendic beyond what could be expected as normal for a board member,” Herrick said, adding that while he could and did ignore some of them, other Trendic inquiries involved matters that Herrick said deserved at least some sort of response. “I hate to think what all this has cost the OPA in legal expense,” Herrick said, adding that he has spent an inordinate amount of time dealing with email communication from Trendic. “It just got to be too much,” he said, adding that he’s felt a “tremendous relief” no longer having to deal with the emails. While he added that he could have endured a few more weeks as president, he wanted to send the message that frustration with Trendic had reached a breaking point. Herrick said his frustration with Trendic involved matters that he said “crossed a line” and has resulted in Herrick and other directors, Hill and former Director Dave Stevens particularly, taking action that they hoped would lead to Trendic’s removal from the board. That effort failed during the last board term. Parks did not agree to attend several tentatively scheduled meetings in which Trendic’s actions would have been debated and in which removal as a director could q

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Bartender incident From Page 28

Undefeated

The Ocean Pines Hammerheads Swim Team, under the direction of Head Coach Brooks Ensor, and assistant coach Kelly Adelhardt, completed the ﬁrst undefeated season this summer in over ten years. The team competes both regionally and across the state of Maryland. Over 120 swimmers were a part of the team this summer that went on to compete in the Delmarva Championship meet in July and placed seventh out of the 23 teams that competed. Several long time standing team records were broken by both individuals and relay teams. Standouts were Gracie Coker, who broke the 1999 11-12 Girls 50 Yard Butterfly record with a time of 30.32s, 11-12 Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay 2:10.29s G. Coker/T. Harner/E. Sperry/ Kayden Hamby and 11-12 Girls 200 Yard Free Relay, 1:54.12s, G. Coker/T. Harner/E. Sperry/Kayden Hamby. Both relays bested records set in the 1990s. The team has consistently been represented at the Maryland State championship meets for both the Long Course and Short Course seasons since joining the USA arena two years ago. Practices for the fall/winter season begin on Sept. 11.

have resulted. He told his colleagues that he would not participate in such an effort during campaign season. At the new board’s organizational meeting Aug. 25, Parks signaled his interest in moving away from the board infighting that dominated much of the board’s agenda in recent months. He said the Ocean Pines community has spoken in urging the board to curb the infighting and work together. After the meeting, in a brief conversation with the Progress, Parks said he thought efforts to remove Trendic from the board would not have much traction, although he said any director was free to raise the issue if he so desired. As a practical matter, the votes would not appear to be there to justify that effort. Stevens was replaced on the board by newly elected Director Colette Horn, who ran for the board with Trendic’s quiet support this summer. She sided with Trendic in his criticism of Hill’s management style and decisions as acting general manager.

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January 2017 Ocean Pines PROGRESS

Wood Duck Isle properties identified for emergency bulkhead replacement Worm infestation requires immediate action, Hill says a holiday in the waterfront differential, Singing sisterhood an idea advocated by Director Keeping with tradition in Slobodan Trendic in the absence a new multigiving back to theof local yearcommunity, bulkhead replacement program. the Delmarva The original 35-year program is now Chorus recently gathered approaching year 40. school supplies to donate With evidence of a worm infestathrough Worcester Gold. tion, and with the potential of substan-

tial outlays required in the future, Hill seemed to be saying that any waterfront differential holiday would potentially be a big mistake. Indeed, he has not backed off of that view in light of the recently completed survey of bulkheading throughout Ocean Pines. But other directors will be

weighing in on the matter once the written report on the condition of the bulkheads is provided to them After Hill made his comments about the “scary proposition” facing the OPA with respect to bulkheads, Trendic continued to insist that Hill needed to present clear, convincing evidence of need before the OPA continued to collect money from waterfront owners. “If we don’t have a bulkhead plan, how do we justifying taking the money?” he asked his colleagues. He said that if Wood Duck Isle bulkheads are in such poor condition because of worms, “let’s document it” before collecting money that may not be needed.

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ing that for the first 30 to 45 days on the job Bailey “needs to come in, take a look around, get his first impressions and then begin to tell us his priorities and ideas.” Whether it will unfold in precisely that way remains to be seen. Bailey will be attending a regularly scheduled board meeting on Sept. 23, during which certain directors might, by their comments or motions that they might offer for board consideration, make their individual priorities apparent. Parks has already said that the Sept. 23 meeting will involve a board discussion of budget priorities for the coming year

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As the budget is by its very nature a document that establishes policy and objectives, Bailey no doubt will gain some insights on what some directors regard as important. But Parks seemed to be hoping that the board would refrain from attempting to impose on Bailey preconceptions on how he should rank issues in importance, or especially how he should begin formulating ideas on how to deal with them. Parks said Bailey was hired precisely for his expertise and experience in dealing with typical HOA issues, and he noted that the new OPA general manager for many years managed Lake of the Woods, in Virginia. That’s a community similar in age and management structure to Ocean Pines that was developed by Boise Cascade Home and Land Corp., the same company that did most of the early development of Ocean Pines.

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OPA FINANCES

September 2017

Amenities made money for OPA during 2017, just not as much as summary sheet indicated By TOM STAUSS Publisher he impact of amenity operations on the bottom line of the Ocean Pines Association has been the subject of debate over the

years. There apparently is a perception among some property owners that the amenities are a net drag on OPA finances, a perception not born out by actual results, at least not for the last two fiscal years.

FY 2016

The more accurate description is that certain amenities – particularly golf and Yacht Club food and beverage operations – traditionally lose money for the OPA. But other amenities, particular-

FY 2017

ACTUAL BUDGET ACTUAL VARIANCE Better or Worse TO BUDGET Than Prior Year

AMENITES Golf -$115,662 Yacht Club -$76,426 Aquatics -$14,326 Racquet Sports -$8,270 Total -$204,684

-$133,378 -$213,753 -$80,375 -$98,081 $34,496 -$230,689 -$265,185 -$154,263 -$49,832 -$23,941 $25,891 -$19,615 -$18,424 -$3,369 $15,055 $4,901 -$167,138 -$471,752 -$304,614 -$267,068

Marinas Beach Club Beach Club Parking Total

$197,512 $123,326 $382,405 $703,243

$160,386 $134,101 $367,701 $622,188

$204,720 $114,246 $393,055 $712,021

$44,334 -$19,855 $25,354 $49,833

$7,208 -$9,080 $10,650 $8,778

SUB-TOTAL AMENITIES

$498,559

$495,050

$240,269

-$254,781

-$258,290

-$102,355

-$119,628

-$17,273

$392,695

$ 120,641

-$237,508

Membership Department TOTAL AMENITIES With Membership Costs Included Source: 2016-17 OPA Audited Financial results

Trendic, Parks, Horn offer support to OPA member in blocked effort to amend annual meeting agenda Property owner Ted Aranow wanted to offer motion to remove Brett Hill as acting general manager

vens. Trendic also criticized the OPA’s legal counsel, Jeremy Tucker of the Lerch Early law firm, for his comments in support of Stevens’s actions during the meeting. “The situation was further complicated by the opinion offered by the Association’s legal counsel who improperly and prematurely commented on the content of your motion,” Trendic said. While not offering an apology or criticizing Tucker, newly elected director and OPA President Doug Parks later told Aranow that “while

we certainly cannot do anything to change what transpired at the meeting … the takeaway is to insure we do allow motions from the floor at the next and subsequent annual meetings.” Those comments indicate that at least two directors disagreed with Stevens’s actions that effectively precluded Aranow from having his motion to remove Brett Hill, the OPA’s former acting general manager, voted on at the annual meeting. While such a vote would not have been binding on the Board of Direcq

By TOM STAUSS Publisher n Ocean Pines property owner upset with the way a proposed motion at the annual meeting of the Ocean Pines Association Aug. 12 was treated by the presiding officer received support from two OPA directors following the meeting. Slobodan Trendic offered a “sincere apology” to property owner Ted Aronow for the way that the proposed motion was handled by the meeting’s presiding officer, former director and president Dave Ste-

ly marinas and Beach club parking, are cash cows, more than offsetting losses in other areas. The same is true for the Beach Club food and beverage operation, at least it has been historically. This year, it appears that the Beach Club is on a pace to lose money for the first time in decades, if ever. During a recap of the 2016-17 financial performance at the August OPA annual meeting, OPA Director of Finance John Viola presented a comparative summary of amenity financial results for 2016 and 2017. One particular document he displayed showed that, in total, all Ocean Pines amenities generated a $240,269 surplus for the OPA. What he didn’t focus on, but could have, is that the amenities missed their budget in 2016-17 by $254,781, driven by much larger than budgeted losses in golf and Yacht Club food and beverage operations. The document he displayed in his PowerPoint presentation indicated that total amenities fared worse than the prior year in the amount of $258,290. The numbers in the document were all without depreciation costs allocated to the relevant departments. Had depreciation costs been included – they are in departmental summaries contained in the official audit report for the year posted on the OPA Web site – then amenities in their totality would show a loss. Depreciation is not a theoretical expense on paper only. Fully funding depreciation of OPA assets by collecting it as part of the annual lot assessment is the primary means by which the OPA funds its robust reserve funds, which totaled $5.4 million as of April 30 this year, the end point of the 2016-17 fiscal year. In addition, the amenities summary included in Viola’s summary omitted one department that arguably affects the net results. The membership department is the department that collects amenities membership revenues and the various debit cards that can be purchased by OPA members and others to access OPA amenities. It had a budget for 2016-17 of $102,355. It actually cost the OPA $119,628 to operate this department. Had this $119,628 been subtracted from the $240,269 net reported in the summary, amenities’ net would have been $120,641, roughly half of that shown in the summary shown at the annual meeting.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS From Page 32 tors, and almost certainly did not have majority support of the former board, it would have represented the sentiment of those attending the annual meeting, slightly more than 100 property owners, barely enough to establish a quorum. Aronow attempted to offer his motion to have Hill removed as acting general manager shortly after the meeting was convened by Stevens. His initial motion was to amend the meeting agenda, to allow property owners at the meeting to consider a subsequent motion to have Hill removed as acting general manager. He later said he had “every right” to offer a motion to amend the agenda under Board of Directors Resolution B-03. Amending meeting agendas is done routinely at OPA board meetings. The annual meeting of the OPA technically is not a board meeting but a meeting of property owners. Both Trendic and Parks contend that at a meeting of property owners, Aranow should have been allowed by Stevens to offer his motion to amend the agenda and then to offer his motion to have Hill removed as acting general manager. The effort to amend the meeting agenda was effectively blocked by Stevens, who ruled it out of order. He was backed up by Tucker, the meeting parliamentarian, who said that a motion to remove Hill as acting general manager was not binding on the board. Tucker did not directly address the propriety of Aranow’s right to offer a motion to amend the meeting agenda, however. Stevens initially told Aranow that his motion should have been submitted for inclusion on the annual meeting agenda at least three days prior to the meeting. Stevens also said the motion to remove Hill could be offered under new business. As it happens both new and old business were listed on the meeting agenda just before the announcement of election results by the Elections Committee chairman. Stevens noted that no items under old and new business were listed for consideration. He did not offer Aranow an opportunity to offer his motion to remove Hill during the new business segment of the meeting. “I couldn’t get up fast enough to offer my motion,” Aranow said in a statement he read into the record during the board’s Aug. 25 organiza-

tional meeting. “What I find interesting is when the Resolution B-03 [Meetings of the Association Members]was adopted by the board of directors on Nov. 19, 2008, Mr. Stevens was the President of the board,” Aranow told the directors. He said that Steven’s actions at the annual meeting amounted to a denial of his rights as a property owner. In a subsequent written response to Aranow posted on oceanpinesforum.con, Trendic agreed that Aranow did have a right to offer a motion to amend the meeting agenda. “I wanted to intervene but as a sitting board member it would have been inappropriate of me to do so. I was hoping that other homeowners present familiar with the rules [would come] to your rescue” Trendic wrote. “I hope a lesson learned for all, homeowners and Board members, that [the] Annual Meeting is the members’ meeting, and that you, the homeowners, have a final say for everything that takes place on that day, including the agenda.” In a telephone interview with the Progress several days after the annual meeting, Stevens denied he and Tucker had acted improperly in blocking Aranow from offering his motions. “I disagree,” he said. He said that since the motion to remove Hill would not have been binding on the board, there was no point in presenting or discussing it at the annual meeting. “It was offered just to embarrass Brett,” Stevens said. The Progress reached out to directors other than Trendic and Parks to give them an opportunity to comment on the Aranow incident. Colette Horn and Tom Herrick responded. “I agree with Parks and Trendic that per Robert’s rules, the motion to amend the agenda should have been allowed to progress to a second,” Horn said. But “continued focus on what may have come to pass had the motion to amend succeeded serves no purpose at this point other than to fuel divisiveness in our association, at a time when we had best direct our united energy to the work we face now,” she added. Herrick backed Stevens in the way the former director handled the matter. “Although technically correct that

Cumulative fund balance adds complexity to OPA audit report Cumulative operating fund carried a $364,000 deficit at the end of 2016-17 By TOM STAUSS Publisher cean Pines Association members who dive deeply into the audited financial results for 2016-17 could easily be confused by references to the operating fund balance, an arcane accounting convention that purports to depict the OPA’s operating fund performance over the past ten years, or perhaps since the beginning of the OPA back in the 1970s. It essentially adds up operating surpluses and losses over the years and arrives at a total. According to the 2016-17 audit report, the operating fund balance on April 30 of this year stood at a negative $363,640, a $39,048 improvement over April of 2016. It’s not an irrelevant number. While the cumulative operating deficit is modest when compared to OPA’s operating budget of $8 million or more, a steady dose of yearly losses would increase the cumulative negative fund balance to levels that would probably trigger moves to increase the annual lot assessment. There has been no steady pattern of losses over the years, however. It’s been a mixed bag, with one-time events, such as golf course renovations and tax settlements, producing outsized deficits in particular years. OPA Director of Finance John Viola, in a presentation during the Aug. 12 annual OPA meeting, attempted to shed some light on the status of the operating fund. He displayed the operating fund’s performance history over the past ten years.

Mr. Aranow had the right to amend the agenda to make a request to add a motion, the results of this particular motion would not be valid, as our counsel correctly pointed out” Herrick said, “as only the Board of Directors have that right to remove the acting GM. A new General Manager had already been hired and signed to a contract. This motion only served to foster and promote further discourse and dissension among the Ocean Pines membership, so of course, I would not be in favor of it.”

Starting with a balance of $14,739 on April 30 of 2006, the cumulative fund deficit had grown to a negative $485,075 through 2009. Operating surpluses of $364,222 from 2010 through 2012 would have reduced the cumulative fund deficit to $120,653 at the end of 2012. But in that same year, the OPA booked $459,000 in future payments to the IRS attributable to taxes potentially owed on Beach Club parking pass revenues. That increased the operating fund balance at the end of 2012 to a negative $579,653. As it turned, other than an initial payment to the IRS required to appeal the IRS to U.S. Tax Court and the 4th Circuit of Appeals, much of that potential liability never materialized within the three year statute of limitations for a particular tax year. The OPA has never publicly disclosed actual costs related to the IRS case from 2012. The Progress recently sent an email to Viola inquiring as to whether the $459,000 in IRS liability booked in 2012 needs to be adjusted given the actual amount of tax paid since that potential liability was booked. It’s possible that the operating fund balance at the end of 2012 shown in the performance history is inaccurate, by a substantial amount. If it is, it would skew the cumulative operating fund totals for every year after that. If the OPA paid substantially less to the IRS than originally anticipated, it would mean the actual cumulative deficit would be less than what’s shown in Viola’s performance history. The Progress had not received q

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Herrick described Aranow’s motion as “only an attempt to further disparage an association member who has devoted countless hours of volunteerism to fulfill the role of GM during this unusual and trying time for our association. We will soon be welcoming an experienced General Manager to lead the association going forward. I personally look forward to working together with Mr. Bailey, in a positive manner, and continue to strive and make Ocean Pines a safe, attractive and affordable community.”

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OPA FINANCES

September 2017

OPA behind budget by $534,000 for first quarter of FY ‘18 Aquatics jumps out to substantial surplus, more than $200,000 ahead of last year through July By TOM STAUSS Publisher he Ocean Pines Association continues to struggle relative to budget three months into the 2017-18 fiscal year. The operating fund variance through July 31 was a negative $534,209, with revenues under budget by $379,734, total expenses over budget by $100,783, and new capital expenditures, those funded directly from general revenues rather than reserves, over budget by $53,692. According to the July financial report submitted to the Board of Directors by Director of Finance John Viola, and posted on the OPA Web site in late August, the OPA’s operating variance for July was a negative $225,819. Revenues were under budget by $114,102, total expenses were over budget by $81,362, and new capital expenditures were over budget by $30,355. Excluding new capital, the OPA lost $434,875 for the month of July, missing budget by $195,464. For the year, the OPA has a net operating surplus of $4.38 million, but that’s $480,517 behind budget, not including new capital. The results for the first quarter of the year suggest a difficult road ahead if the OPA hopes to at least break even for the year. The negative variance to budget of $195,465 in July is explained al-

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a clarification from Viola prior to press time. Fiscal 2013 was the year of golf course renovations, including drainage improvements and green replacement. Some of those capital expenditures came out of operating funds, apparently, because the performance history showed a $441,806 loss for the year. That produced an operating fund balance of a negative $1,102,459. Fiscal 2014 produced a $14,746 surplus and a slight reduction in operating fund balance to $1,006,713. But that same year, the board zeroed out the operating fund deficit recovery reserve, transferring $447,409 from that reserve to the operating fund. The further reduced the operating deficit to $559,304

Yacht Club has lost $163,117 and is behind budget by $231,399. The Beach Club, traditionally an OPA cash cow, lost $5,647 for the month, missing its budget by $116,968. The Beach Club is in the red by $69,625 through July, behind budget by $204,133. Revenue has missed projections in both venues, most likely reflecting the 20 percent discount policy in

that year. The board in subsequent years continued to fund the deficit recovery reserve, however. Fiscal year 2015 generated a $152,882 loss for the year, and a $712,186 cumulative deficit. But 2016 was a positive year for the OPA, with a $309,498 operating surplus. That reduced the cumulative fund deficit to $402,688. Last year, fiscal 2017, produced an operating surplus of slightly more than $39,000 after another transfer from the deficit recovery reserve to the operating fund, this time in the amount of $408,587. Without that transfer, the operating deficit would have been $369,539. As a result of that transfer, the cumulative operating fund balance stood at a negative $363,640 on April 30 of this year. This time, the operating recovery reserve appears to have been elimi-

nated altogether, if monthly reserve summaries issued since the beginning of the 2017-18 fiscal year this past May is any indication. If the operating recovery reserve stays dead as the result of board action last year, this source of funding would be unavailable for transfer to the operating fund in future years. One former OPA director, George Coleburn, told the Progress recently that when he served on the board years ago, the directors paid no attention to the operating fund balance. He said he was not even sure whether it showed up in annual audit reports in the early days of Ocean Pines. “It appears now as an excuse to raise the lot assessment,” he said. Whether it will turn out that way, as the OPA administration drafts a budget for 2018-19 in the coming months, remains to be seen.

place since earlier in the year. The Beach Club’s losses probably reflect an attempt to open up the amenity for evening dining this summer. Another OPA department missing its budget by a substantial amount is general administration, with a $58,777 negative variance. The finance department missed its budget by $16,037. Both departments are substantially behind their budgets for the year (a negative $90,995 and a negative $25,739, respectively). There are positives in the July financials, however, led by Aquatics. With a $61,378 surplus for the month, Aquatics was ahead of budget by $4,484. For the first quarter, Aquatics has generated $406,477 in net revenues, which is $17,397 ahead of budget. A year ago, Aquatics’ cumulative surplus was $194,784. That’s a positive year over year swing of more than $200,000. While member dues actually missed their budget target for July by roughly $4000, cash fees of more than $69,000 offset that, and then some. Cash fees’ positive variance to budget was $7,294. For the first quarter, every revenue category in the Aquatics Department is ahead of budget. Members dues of $446,375 is ahead of budget by $6,375. Facility rentals (parties) of q

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most entirely by poor performance at two OPA food and beverage venues, the Yacht Club and Beach Club. Both lost money in July, perhaps the first time that has occurred since the very early days of the OPA. Both also missed their budgets by substantial margins. The Yacht Club lost $15,499 in July and missed its budget by $52,202. For the first quarter, the

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Assistant treasurer says last year’s deficit needn’t trigger hike in lot assessments By TOM STAUSS Publisher ewly reappointed Assistant Treasurer Gene Ringsdorf has quietly weighed in on a sticky budget issue that could have a bearing on whether the Ocean Pines Association lot assessment is raised or lowered next year. In a brief conversation with the Progress after the Board of Directors’ organizational meeting Aug. 25, Ringsdorf said last year’s operating deficit of $370,000 need not be offset by an increase in next year’s annual lot assessment or taken out of reserves. Those are the two options that newly reappointed OPA Treasurer Pat Supik has said publicly in recent months are the two choices facing the OPA as staff prepares a budget for 2017-18 in the coming months. In comments at a July board meeting, she said her preference is to offset the loss with an increase in the assessment next year. Ringsdorf told the Progress that there is a third option that would not require raising the assessments or raiding the reserves. That third option is to do nothing – simply accept that there was a loss last year and carry it forward as a deficit in the cumulative operating fund balance, he said. A deficit in a particular fiscal year would also show up in the cash on hand that appears as a line item on OPA balance sheet in the asset column. Ringsdorf noted that in the long history of Ocean Pines, there have been years that generated surpluses and years that generated losses. So long as the OPA’s operating resources are sufficient to pay for operations and keep reserves at a healthy level, Ringsdorf did not disagree with a Progress observation that there is no requirement or accounting principle that says a new budget must reflect the surplus or deficit from a prior year. By reflexively raising the assessment to offset a deficit year, he suggested that efforts to reduce costs

and better manage those areas of operation responsible for creating the prior year’s deficit might not be aggressively undertaken. He seemed to be suggesting that the OPA should not be taking the easy way out of operational challenges by raising the lot assessment as a first resort. Depending on how one reads last year’s financial results, the OPA generated either an operating surplus of $39,048 or suffered a $369,539 loss. According to the just released audited financial statement for 201718, a one-time transfer of $408,587 from the operating recovery reserve – board action that in effect zeroed out this reserve – more than covered what otherwise would have been an operating deficit of $369,539. In commenting on what at the time was still an unpublished audited report, Supik during the July 29 board meeting said the OPA had generated a $370,000 loss last year, making no mention of the deficit recovery reserve transfer producing operating fund revenues that exceeded expenses by slightly more than $39,000. A statement of revenues and expenses and changes in fund balances contained on Page 5 of the OPA’s audited financial statements spelled out the bottom line before and after what was called a one-time transfer. Actually, an identical transfer from the operating recovery reserve to the operating fund occurred in 2014 as well. That year, the amount was $447,409, about $40,000 than was transferred in 2016-17. Supik told her colleagues and the assembled crowd of property owners in the room that what she described as a $370,000 operating loss could be taken out of reserves or added to next year’s assessment, an assertion that generated rumbles of discontent within the room. Adding $370,000 to the expense column of next year’s budget is the equivalent of $44 in the lot assessment.

August crafter

Pine’eer Craft Club member Carol Quinto was selected as the club’s crafter of the month for August. She is a self-taught seamstress, who began making hand-sewn items to sell at the club’s Artisan and Gift Shop located across from the Ocean Pines Community Center. She is responsible for the management of the Artisan and Craft Shop. Over the past years she has held many responsible positions within the club and is co-chair of the Holiday Craft Fair that the club sponsors in November. The shop is open every Saturday and Sunday, closing at 3 p.m.

July financials From Page 34 $3,932 is ahead of budget by $2,432. Coupon revenue of $63,936 is ahead of budget by $1,963. Cash fees of $$117,062 are ahead of budget by $11,062.Swim class revenue of $77,110 is ahead of budget by $4,110.Vending ($5,523) and miscellaneous ($3,735) revenue are ahead of budget by $$23 and $735, respectively. Golf operations, not including Tern Grille results, were in positive territory and ahead of budget both in July and for the first quarter of the 2017-18 fiscal year. Golf operations netted $27,321 for the month, $5,489 better than budget. For the first quarter, golf operations netted $107,119, with a positive variance to budget of $4,721. That represents a $115,000 year over year swing in golf, which had generated a $7,840 loss for the first quarter last year. The summary of golf operations included with the July financials indicate that the year-over-year turnaround is explained by cost reductions relative to budget, rather than revenue increases. For the first quarter, total golf revenues are $44,055 behind budget and about $3,000 than the first quarter of last year. Net revenues are $37,862 under budget. But expenses are $42,584 under budget, led by wages and benefit

under budget by $40,296 and other costs $19,969 under budget. Maintenance does not seem to be shortchanged so far this year, as maintenance expense for the first quarter is over budget by $14,027. Marina operations and Beach Club parking are performing close to budget after the first quarter of the fiscal year. All three racquet sports are in positive territory after the first quarter, although behind budget. Reserve Summary – The OPA through July 31 carried $8.441 million in reserves, a modest reduction from June’s total of $8.562 million. The replacement reserve carried a balance of $5,315,026, also a modest reduction from the June balance of $5,427,931. As the result of board action last February, the replacement reserve balance no longer includes a historical and legacy reserve. Those two reserves have been merged. Roughly $1.6 million of the $2,328,360 contribution from new assessments is attributable to funded depreciation, with another $700,000 or so in supplemental funding. The bulkhead reserve has grown from $1,821,240 at the end of April to $2,617,499 as of July 31, reflecting $822,367 in waterfront differential revenues. That was little changed from the June balance. The roads reserve remained virtually unchanged in July with a balance of $509,470.

WORCESTER COUNTY

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Planted Pleasures owner persuades county to postpone action on problem property Commissioners allow owner another 60 days for clean-up By ROTA L. KNOTT Contributing Writer he owner of the Planted Pleasures property on Route 589 near Ocean Pines has two months to clean up the nuisance property or Worcester County will take action to remove accumulate debris and dilapidated structures from the site of the former garden center. Heading south on Route 589 from Ocean Pines, it’s the property with an old farmhouse surrounded by greenhouse structures. Property owner Kevin J. Evans requested an extension of time from the Worcester County Commissioners to address the nuisance on his land at 10307 Racetrack Road. Evans told the commissioners during a Sept. 5 meeting that he does not have the funds to hire someone to clean up the property, but he will do it himself if allotted the additional time. The owner said the property is burdened with a residential zoning classification along Route 589 near Ocean Downs, making it hard for him to sell or redevelop the site. But no one is going to want to live there because of the busy casino and other activity along the commercial highway, he said. Additionally, he shared with the commissioners that he has several mortgages on the property for three times more than it is worth. Evans did not ask the commissioners for rezoning, a complicated and protracted process. But property owners on the west side of Route 589 near Route 50 have long considered their residential and agricultural zoning classifications outdated, given their proximity to the Ocean Downs casino and racetrack. Activity seems to have resumed at Ocean Downs in the construction of a building to be used for casino table games. A comprehensive commercial rezoning of the area would be the answer that residents, including Evans, would no doubt favor. Evans was issued a nuisance abatement order this summer by the county’s Department of Development Review and Permitting. The

notice cited the uncontrolled growth of grass, weeds and other vegetation, the unscreened accumulation of personal property in excess of one hundred square feet in area, and several unattended, dilapidated, ramshackle structures. The county staff tried several times before getting a response from the property owner this summer, including sending letters by regular and certified mail. They argued the department has made every effort to help this property owner bring the property into compliance, to no avail. The county argued the condition of the property is “prejudicial to

property values in the county, and which constitutes a nuisance under the provisions of the county code.” The compliant has been an ongoing nuisance for several years, starting in April 2015, with neighbors complaining about the mess. In a memo, Ed Tudor, director of development review and permitting, said his department has dealt with this property numerous times over the last several years. The department has made numerous site visits to the 2.67-acre property with Evans, as well as the property owner’s father. The department informed Mr. Evans that he

needed to control the overgrowth of grass, as well as bring structures into compliance or remove structures including greenhouses. At times, the property owners cleaned up the site, but the condition of the former Planted Pleasures continues to deteriorate and there has been no recent action to address the issue or contact from the owner. Evans was originally ordered to abate the nuisance by July 31, but he appealed the department’s decision and asked for a hearing before the commissioners. During the hearing, Evans argued that he has been working to remove the overgrowth and abandoned structures, but said it takes time because he can’t pay for help. Evans said he would strive to have the situation remedied in the next 60 days. The commissioners agreed to the extension of time.

Dance workshops

The Pinesteppers Square Dance Club of Ocean Pines scheduled two nights of introductory modern western square dance workshops with Caller Dennis O’Neal. The next one will take place Sept. 13 at the Ocean Pines Community Center, Assateague Room from 7-9 p.m. Casual clothing and comfortable shoes are recommended. Pictured are club members posing with a sign promoting the lessons.

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WORCESTER COUNTY Schools recognized for behavior programs

Ten schools across Worcester County achieved Gold Status and were honored for their Positive Behavior Intervention and Support programs at the 2017 PBIS Eastern Shore Regional Summer Institute. Earning Gold recognition this year for Worcester County were: Cedar Chapel Special School, Snow Hill Elementary School, Showell Elementary School, Pocomoke Elementary School, Berlin Intermediate School, Snow Hill Middle School, Stephen Decatur Middle School, Pocomoke High School, Snow Hill

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SCHOOL BRIEFS High School, and Stephen Decatur High School. PBIS Maryland is a collaborative effort between the Maryland State Department of Education, Sheppard Pratt Health System, the Johns Hopkins University; Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, and the 24 Local Maryland School Systems.

SDHS received character ed honor

Stephen Decatur High School and Snow Hill Elementary School will be

County students top averages on state sandardized tests By ROTA L. KNOTT Contributing Writer or the third consecutive year, students in Worcester County scored higher than the state averages on the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests in English/language arts and mathematics. Test scores released in August show that county students lead the state in college and career readiness in five of the assessment areas on tests administered during the 2017 school year. “I am incredibly proud of our students and faculty who have achieved such success in the newly released student assessment results. The remarkable performance by students across our county certainly validates the diligence and dedication of our educators,” Lou Taylor, superintendent of schools, said. “It is because of the strong partnership among our students and their families, our teachers, school and administrative leaders that resulted in these high levels of achievement.” English/Language Arts scores for students in grades 3 to 5 stood out, as nearly 60 percent of the third graders, 59 percent of fourth graders and over 60 percent of fifth graders scored at a level four or five. In these assessments, Worcester students outperformed all other counties in the state. Third graders in the county also had an above average performance on the math assessment, with 66 percent scoring at a level of four or five, only 0.4 points away from topping scores from all other counties. In English/Language Arts, 58.1 percent of all students in grades 3-8 combined scored at a level four or five, 17.5 percentage points above the state’s average in the same grade levels. At the high school level, 55.9 percent of Worcester County students demonstrated college and career readiness in the English 10 assessment, a jump of nearly four percentage points from last year, and well above the state average of 49.3 percent. Overall in mathematics, 48.6 percent of students in grades 3-8 combined scored as college and career ready, which demonstrates over one percent growth from 2016 scores, and more than 15 percentage points above the state average. In Algebra I, 49.8 percent of Worcester students scored at a level of four or five, over 13 percentage points above the state. In grade 8 mathematics, 45.7 percent of students scored at levels four and five, which represents a nearly seven percent jump over last year, and performs well above the state average of 16.8 percent. Eighth graders also performed well in English/Language Arts with 55.8 percent at levels four and five, towering over the state average of 38.9 percent. Seventh graders also outperformed the state by wide margins with 61.8 percent scoring levels four or five in English/Language Arts, nearly 19 percentage points above the state average. In math, 42.3 percent of seventh grade students reached levels four and five on the assessment, well above the state average of 25.3 percent.

honored by the Maryland Center for Character Education at Stevenson University (MCCE@SU) at its 2017 Awards Conference in October. The schools are being recognized as one of MCCE@SU’s School of the Year. This program recognizes schools throughout the state that have instituted, developed, and are continuing comprehensive character education initiatives in their school communities. The recognized schools in 2017 will receive a specially designed School of the Year Character Education banner that can be displayed along with a certificate of recognition from the Maryland Center for Character Education at Stevenson University.

School system makes staffing changes

In preparation for the 2018 school year, Worcester County Public Schools announced the appointment of a new Board of Education attorney, three administrative appointments and two administrative transfers effective immediately. James Almand announced that he will be stepping down from his role as the Board of Education’s attorney. Replacing Almand is Heather Stansbury, also from the firm of Ayres, Jenkins, Gordy and Almand, P.A. Stansbury is a familiar face to WCPS board meetings, as she has served as board attorney at times Almand was unavailable. “Jim Almand has been a remarkable attorney for this Board,” William Gordy, Board of Education president, said. “He has served our school system for over 25 years, and we are incredibly grateful to have had him as a resource of guidance and advice.” Eloise Henry-Gordy, who has served as student services specialist for the county since 2003, has been promoted to supervisor of student services. Replacing Henry-Gordy as student services specialist is Kennis Austin, who is being transferred back to the department after serving as interim assistant principal at Pocomoke High School. Matthew Hoffman, who currently serves as a math interventionist at Pocomoke Middle School, has been appointed assistant principal at Pocomoke High School. Joshua Hamborsky has been transferred to become the assistant principal/extended day administrator at Snow Hill High School, filling

the vacancy left by Tara Downes, who resigned last month. Hamborsky, who began his career with WCPS in 2008, has served as assistant principal at Showell Elementary School since 2014. Succeeding Hamborsky as assistant principal at Showell Elementary School is Erica Matlock, who has been with the county since 2005. She has most recently served as a math instructional coach at Buckingham Elementary School.

COO Price receives school safety award

H. Stephen Price, Worcester County Public Schools chief operating officer, was recently honored by the Maryland Center for School Safety as a 2017 recipient of the School Safety/Security Director of the Year Award. The Maryland Center for School Safety this week presented awards to leaders, teams, and law enforcement professionals that have put a special focus on student safety. Price was honored at the 2017 School Safety Summer Conference in Annapolis. The Maryland Center for School Safety is an independent unit of State government established to provide a comprehensive, coordinated approach to school safety for the State’s schools. The Center coordinates its work with the Maryland State Police, MSDE and other agencies.

Mirza serves as rep at SkillsUSA

Laila Mirza, a pre-engineering student at Worcester Technical High School, was elected to serve as parliamentarian of the high school division of SkillsUSA. Mirza was elected through a formal elections process in the SkillsUSA House of Delegates during the 53rd annual SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, Ky. As SkillsUSA high school division parliamentarian, Mirza will serve as a student leader, spokesperson and ambassador for the SkillsUSA organization. She will speak on behalf of SkillsUSA before students, instructors and representatives of business and industry. She will also represent the national organization at various events. “Laila is quick to tell you that champions are not made overnight,” said Tim Lawrence, executive director of SkillsUSA. “She understands that challenging work and dedication is essential to this process.”

38 Ocean Ocean Pines Pines PROGRESS PROGRESS September September 2017 2017 38 Wednesday, Sept. 13 Theater in the Park performance of Hamlet, White Horse Park, Ocean Pines, 7:30 p.m., free. Bring lawn chairs. Saturday, Sept. 16 Ocean Pines Aquatics’ Super Sprint Triathlon, Sports Core Pool, 7 a.m. Includes a half-mile swim, a 15-mile bike ride and a 5K run. Twelve three-person teams will compete; each team member will complete one portion of the race before the next team member begins. Team registration deadline was Sept. 7. Team representative meeting, Monday, Sept. 11, 6 p.m., Sports Core Pool. Instructions and a course description will be given at that time. Monday, September 18 Democratic Women’s Club monthly meeting, Ocean Pines Community Center, Assateague Room, 9:30 a.m. coffee, 10 a.m. – noon, business. Discussion of CASA by Leila Burrell. Candidate Allison Galbraith will attend. Saturday, Sept. 23 Ocean Pines Association, board of directors, monthly meeting, 10 a.m., Ocean Pines Community Center, Assateague Room. Agenda normally posted several days prior to meeting on OPA Web site. OPA member questions and comments allowed, five minutes per person. Monday, Sept. 25 First of a six-session course on the American Constitution, Ocean Pines Community Center, 5-7 p.m. Course continues the following five Monday. Instruction by the Institute On The Constitution and the American College of Cultural Studies to reconnect citizens to the history of the American Republic. $45 for all six session.. To register, make a check payable to IOTC and mail it to IOTC at 1443 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, MD, 21811. 410-4307282. Tuesday, Sept. 26 Ocean City Power Squadron, first session of three-day boating course, Ocean Pines Community Center, Marlin Room, 6-8 p.m. Eight-hour course continues on Sept. 27 and 28. Exam on the last day. First day registration 5:30 p.m. $15 fee for the course and material. Middle School and High School students are free. Anyone born after July 1,

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1972 must satisfactorily complete a safe boating class to operate a recreational vessel or personal watercraft in the State of Maryland. Basic boat handling, navigation, federal and state regulations, rules of the road, aids to navigation, required equipment. Early registration, 410-6416535 or 410-641-8040. Saturday, Sept. 30 Indoor/outdoor flea market, Ocean Pines Community Center, 8 a.m. to noon. Ocean Pines residents: $15 indoor space, $10 outdoor (no table); non-residents: $20 indoor, $10 outdoor (no table). Register Ocean Pines Community Center before day of market, see OPA Web site for sign-up form. Saturday, Oct. 7 7th annual Ocean Pines health fair, Ocean Pines Community Center, 8 a.m. to noon. Free health screenings, door prizes, give-aways, light refreshments. Sponsored by Atlantic General Hospital and Peninsula Regional Medical Center. Sunday, Oct. 8 Ocean Pines Chamber of Commerce, annual classic car show, Veterans Memorial Park, Route 589. Crab/chicken feast, the Church of the Holy Spirit, 100th Street and Coastal Highway, Ocean City, 2 to 6 p.m. (Food will be served until 5:30.) Crabs, fried chicken, corn on the cob, hush puppies, iced tea, lemonade and coffee. Bring your own mallets. Desserts $1. Chance auction. Tickets, available at the church, $35 for people over 10, $15 for those 10 and younger. 410-7231973 or Monica, 443-235-8942. Saturday, Oct. 14 Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines-Ocean City, annual Fall Pancake Breakfast, 8 a.m. to11 a.m., Assateague Room, Ocean Pines Community Center. Pancakes, sausages, super fresh scrambled eggs (made on the serving line) and coffee or tea. $6 adults, $3 for children under 12, and children under 5 free. Ralph Chinn at 410-2086719 for information and tickets or t purchase at the door. Carry-out available Saturday, Oct. 28 Annual community sale in the Parke (rain date Nov. 4), 7:30 a.m. to noon, in the driveways of Parke

residents. Clothes, lamps, artwork, household items, electronics, furniture and more for sale. Central Parke West, located off of Ocean Parkway near the south entrance of Ocean Pines. 410-208-4994.

Ongoing

Free platform tennis clinics, Saturdays at noon, Manklin Meadows tennis complex. Bring sneakers, the rest is provided. Free pickleball clinics, Manklin Meadows sports complex, 11443 Manklin Creek Road, Ocean Pines 21811. June 10, 8 a.m.; June 22, 4 p.m.; July 8. 8 a.m., July 20, 4 p.m.; Aug. 12, 8 a.m., Aug. 24, 4 p.m. The clinics will be conducted by Pickleball Club members on the eight brand new courts at the facility. Information or to register contact John Hanberry, Jhanberry@comcast.net or by phone at 703-598-6119. Line dance classes, Monday and Wednesday, 9:30 -10:30 a.m., Ocean Pines Community Center. Beginners welcome. Betty Daugherty, 410-726-1818, or bettydau@aol.com Pinesteppers. Ocean Pines Remote Control Sailboating Association, Monday and Thursday, May-September (weather permitting), 10 a.m. to noon, South Gate Pond, Ocean Pines. No motors or power allowed – only remote-controlled sailboats. Currently all members are sailing “Victoria” model boats. Commodore Ed Ryan, 203-249-7491 or J. David Lee, 240593-2105, for more information. Square Dance Club, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Ocean Pines Community Center with caller Dennis O’Neal. Visitors welcome. The group also hosts a dance the fourth Saturday of the month from 7-9:30 p.m., Ocean Pines Community Center. Guest callers lead the dancers with music and choreography. Mainstream/Plus square dancers welcome to join in. President Arlene Hager, 302-436-4033. Pine Tappers free adult tap dance classes, Tuesdays, 2-3:30 p.m., Ocean Pines Community Center. From 2-2:30 p.m., brush up on basic techniques and a review of the routines, then join the regular class from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Every week or drop-in as convenient. Lori at 410251-2162 or tntandcompany@gmail. com. Ocean Pines Ping Pong Club, Ocean Pines Community Center, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, noon to 2 p.m. All levels welcome. Eric

Bowers, 410-208-1794. Ocean Pines Plant Clinic, Ocean Pines Library, 11107 Cathell Road, every Tuesday 1-4 p.m. from the beginning of May until the end of September. Got bugs or other plant problem? Bring your bagged samples by and let our expert Master Gardeners find solutions to your question. The Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines – Ocean City every Wednesday at 8 a.m., Ocean Pines Community Center, 410-641-7330 or kiwanisofopoc.org. Sale of chances, Aug. 25 duck race, Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines. One duck for $5, three ducks $10, 410-973-1233. Ducks will also be available from the Kiwanis “Dawg Team” Aug. 13 at the Ocean Pines Concert in the Park. Benefits the local club’s Children’s Programs, including scholarships for graduating senior students. Star Charities -Monthly meetings the first Friday of every month, Ocean Pines Library, 10 a.m. Anyone wishing to volunteer welcome to attend. Anna Foultz, president, 410-641-7667. Sanctioned duplicate bridge games, Ocean Pines Community Center, Sundays 1 p.m., Mondays noon, Tuesdays 10 a.m. Partners guaranteed. $5, special games $6. Third Sunday of every month is Swiss teams (no partner guaranteed for teams). Felicia Daly, 410208-1272; Pat Kanz, 410-641-8071. The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 12-05, meets the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the U.S.C.G. Station, Ocean City. Visitors and new members are welcome. Dennis Kalinowski, 410-208-4147. Web site http://a0541205.uscgaux. info. Life after loss support group, second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Community Church at Ocean Pines, 11227 Race Track Road, Berlin, 11 a.m. Help in coping with any type of loss. 410-641-5433. Worcester County Democratic Club meeting, fourth Thursday of each month, 7 p.m., Marlin Room of Ocean Pines Community Center. Club membership is not required. All those interested in Democratic platforms and agendas are welcome. Republican Women of Worcester County, fourth Thursday of each month, 11 a.m. meeting (doors open at 10:30), lunch at noon, local restaurants. For information, call membership chair Barbara Loffler at 410-208-0890. January through June, and again September and October. Dinner meeting in November.

OPINION

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COMMENTARY Food and beverage challenges have simple solutions

udging by the apocalyptic response on a certain online forum to July food and beverage results at the Yacht and Beach clubs, Chicken Little has taken up residence in Ocean Pines. Mr. or Ms. Little (in this gender unspecified era, one can’t be sure) has been darting about, wringing his or her legs in abject mortification, for the abysmal results at these two premier amenities. To be sure, the cumulative losses at these restaurant amenities are historic in nature and represent dramatic negative swings in year over year performance. The Yacht Club’s negative swing is more than $220,000, year-over-year. The Beach Club’s is $167,952. As of July 31, the Yacht Club was in the red by $163,117, the Beach Club by $69,625. While the Beach Club could still in theory eke out a small surplus or break-even by the end of the season (Labor Day), the same can’t be said for the Yacht Club. If this amenity stays open during the winter months, the losses will be staggering, confirming the worst fears of Mr. or Ms. Little. With that said, these hysteria-inducing results should be considered in context. In contrast to food and beverage losses, Aquatics, golf, Beach Club parking and marina surpluses through July are more than respectable. Indeed, Aquatics is blowing past its budget numbers in ways that accounting gimmickry can’t explain away. Rather than hyperventilating over problematic results in certain departments, can’t we at least celebrate the budgetary victories evident elsewhere? The Board of Directors creatively replaced the venerable parking-and-pool-pass system this summer at the Beach Club with two $120 aquatics debit cards, one good for use at the Beach Club only and the other at all the pools. Aided by cooperative weather, the results have been spectacular. A lot of additional revenue has been generated by users replenishing the cards after the initial $120 was debited. This is a credit to the Aquatics staff working in concert with Acting General Manager Brett Hill, who together came up with the mechanism to more fairly allocate to Aquatics revenue historically allocated (mostly) to Beach Club parking. Director Slobodan Trendic deserves some credit, too, because it was he who came up with the idea for the card usable at all the pools. Though at loggerheads politically in recent months, these two alphas contributed to what appears to be year-over-year improvement in aquatics that are close to the negative swing at the Yacht Club. Imagine what they might accomplish if they could bury their differences and collaborate. Not likely, but one can always imagine an alternative universe. Through July, the year-over-year swing in Aquatics is $200,000. This department should be producing a substantial operational surplus this

fiscal year, even with an apparent boycott of the Yacht Club “Oasis” pool by some members unhappy with the loss of its adults-only status. Similarly, the previous board’s decision to return management of the golf course in-house, while retaining the services of Director of Golf John Malinowksi, seems to have been a good one. The savings in the $5500 (or so) monthly management fee paid to the former contract management company essentially subsidized lower membership fees this year, which in turn has modestly boosted total golf membership this summer over last. Granted, it’s unlikely golf will be a profit-center for the OPA this fiscal year. But the loss whatever it turns out to be probably won’t be in the triple digits, and that will be a respectable result given management controversies at the golf course in recent years. Malinowski and course superintendent Andre Jordon are an excellent team. As for Beach Club parking and marina operations, they continue to be the cash cows they have been historically. The racquet sports, always hovering about the break-even mark or modestly better, are performing more or less as predicted through July. If the board can summon the will to come up with a simple, combined indoor-outdoor rate for pickleball, sooner rather than later, then this relatively new sport could very well be a top performer for the remainder of this fiscal year. With that all having been said, the Yacht Club and Beach Club food and beverage operations, to put it mildly, are not having great seasons financially. As acting general manager, Hill is responsible for much of that, but it’s far too easy to beat him up for it. Yes, the 20 percent discount policy should have been eliminated when summer arrived. Why a board majority didn’t step up to end this experiment to lessen the fiscal damage is puzzling. Yes, the loss of long-time Beach Club manager Lynda Huettner has been keenly felt, and the evening dining on the Beach Club’s second floor has not taken off as perhaps it could have. The suggestion of Directors Trendic and Cheryl Jacobs to rehire Huettner – a positon that newly elected Director Colette Horn adopted as well during her successful run for the board this summer – could have salvaged at least a portion of the Beach Club’s season, had it been acted upon in a timely manner. Of course, assuming that Huettner would have agreed to come back, her return would have included some conditions that Hill and his board ally, Tom Herrick, probably would have had trouble accepting. No doubt Huettner, who in the not-too-distant past had attempted evening dining at the Beach Club, would have wanted to pull the plug on the evening dining “experiment” tried before not too many years ago without success.

Ditto for the 20 percent discount policy, which was worth trying during the winter. New OPA General Manager John Bailey will probably be encouraged by certain directors to visit with Huettner to determine whether she might be interested in a comeback role at the Beach Club next summer. Given her demonstrated success at this venue over many years, her return would be a godsend to an operation that, from all reports, would benefit from her attention to detail, including the training and supervision of staff. As for the Yacht Club, here, too, a solution presents itself. If there is any silver lining in financial results thus far, it could be that there may be an emerging consensus that it’s time to admit the OPA’s seeming inability to manage this amenity in a manner that consistently delivers quality food and beverage service, at an acceptable cost to property owners. It’s not for a lack of trying. The upgraded interior of the Cove restaurant is far superior to the sterility of the original décor, thanks to Hill and board expenditures this past winter. As newly elected OPA President Doug Parks said some months ago, if Hill was unable to make a success of the Yacht Club given all of his effort, then maybe it’s time to try something else. Parks was alluding to an idea that’s been around for decades – leasing out the Yacht Club to a qualified restaurateur with real skin in the game. This would mean, as Hill has said recently, that the OPA would have to be willing to cede “control” over this facility, but is that really such a hardship, given the spotty results delivered by decades of control? One Ocean Pines property owner, Jan Castner, in remarks delivered at the OPA annual meeting and in a recent letrter to the board and the Progress, suggested a triple net lease to a successful lessee. That’s an arrangement in which the lessee pays all the expenses related to the operating the building, from utilities to taxes to maintenance. Details matter, of course, and it’s possible that, with the right tenant and a well-crafted lease agreement, the OPA could share in future profits should they materialize. Last year, Trendic suggested a task force or working group to consider operational alternatives at OPA food and beverage venues, particularly the Yacht Club. It was a good idea then, and it remains so today. The board could also cut to the chase and immediately issue a request for proposals for commercial search firms to handle a search for the ideal tenant, including the negotiation of an acceptable lease. Meanwhile, given rather staggering losses run up at the Yacht Club this summer, cutting further losses now rather than waiting until January seems prudent. That means closing it Oct. 1 and using the winter months to find the right tenant. -- Tom Stauss

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Parks assumes presidency, encounters mild turbulence

There’s a reason why no Wednesday meetings of the board have been scheduled for the next year. It’s a job that traditionally has flirted with full-time commitment. Because of his other responsibilities, Parks cannot and won’t be a full-time president. Parks in part was drafted as president because a board majority decided it was best that no one identified with the last board term’s bitter infighting should serve as president. Neither Trendic nor Tom Her-

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personal grievances. Realistically, it will be challenging, as some modest turbulence in the first weeks of his presidency makes clear enough. The turbulence involved a behind-the-scenes mini-tempest involving the purchase of a used Ford heavy duty truck by the acting general manager, Brett Hill, early this year from the Ocean City marine contracting company hired by him last October for emergency bulkhead repairs. The same company was then recommended for a three-year bulkhead replacement contractor by Hill, a proposal whittled down to a one-year contract by the board in July. It didn’t register on anyone radar’s when Hill reportedly first disclosed the truck purchase to then-president Herrick when it occurred, probably because Herrick did not share the information with all his colleagues, especially those who most likely would have objected to it. It was not until much later, last month in fact, when the purchase was questioned in an e-mail to directors by an unidentified property owner and subsequently by Trendic. Even Hill conceded the purchase constituted poor optics – that ugly, overused term which substitutes gossamer perception and innuendo for substance. But the real issue was whether Hill received some sort of discount on the purchase that could have been construed as a pay-off for steering business to the marine contractor and influencing Hill’s recommendation for a three-year deal. The replacement for the coming year is expected to cost the OPA somewhere in the neighborhood of a half million dollars. Hill defused the issue in August by sharing with the board a copy of a check to the contractor for $22,000 and a “blue book” valuation of the vehicle, a 2004 truck with more than 100,000 miles on it, that indicated he paid more for it than its actual value. The blue book valuation was obtained from a Web site that had

access to the truck’s vin number in determining its valuation. That explanation satisfied Parks, and apparently convinced most of the directors, who called it a settled issue from which the directors, who never discussed the matter publicly but only among themselves, mostly via email, needed to move on. One determined dissenter from that judgment was and continues to be Trendic, who is highly critical of the “terrible optics” and what he calls the poor judgment of the acting GM for having purchased the vehicle. He stops well short of accusing Hill of taking a bribe, but nor does he seem willing to let the matter die a tranquil death. Particularly concerning to Trendic was the subsequent disclosure that Hill, on a regional Craigslist site across the bay and apparently on some Canadian Web site, is attempting to sell the vehicle at a price roughly twice what he paid for it. More terrible optics, in Trendic’s estimation. But for Parks and an apparent board majority, there’s no there there, and it’s difficult to see how the entire affair will lead to anything other than continued bad blood among directors. For Trendic, at least so far, there’s no patching up differences with Hill. The acting general manager’s take on the whole affair: So much for the era of good feeling with the newly reorganized board. Parks subsequently told the Progress he was concerned with how a copy of the purchase check and the bluebook valuation document could have been leaked to the media. He seemed to be of the opinion that Trendic, as the chief critic of the transaction, was the likely source for the leak. Trendic was not the source who provided copies of documents to the Progress. The source provided the copies with the understanding that his or her name would not be disclosed. The source actually indicated it was another director, not Trendic, who first leaked the copies, apparently in the hopes that, once disclosed, the entire controversy would be contained and would fade away. It didn’t. It recently surfaced on q

hat Doug Parks led the pack in this summer’s Board of Directors election was hardly predictable. He was appointed to a one-year term a year ago when a board vacancy occurred, after a not particularly impressive finish in an over-subscribed contest that started with candidates numbering in the double digits. A year later, in this summer’s contest that, after withdrawals, featured a modest slate of four, Parks was someone who was largely acceptable to all the factions who vote in OPA elections. He managed that feat by assiduously avoiding taking sides in rancorous board infighting of the past six months or so. He took principled positions against efforts to banish two feuding directors, Brett Hill and Slobodan Trendic, both of whom were not particularly averse to seeing the other removed from the board, for reasons that need not be recounted here. Perhaps because he self-identified as a peacemaker between warring factions, someone who arguably had a foot in both camps, Parks was the obvious choice for OPA president immediately after election results were announced at the Aug. 12 annual meeting. The only problem: He didn’t want the job, or at least said he didn’t, and there was no reason to be skeptical of that assertion when he made it. He’s among the minority of directors who still works for a living, and he plies his trade as a business executive across the bay. He comes down to Ocean Pines late in the week and is sometimes available for meetings on Monday, but he in no way can be described as a full-time resident. It’s been quite some time since a non-resident owner was elected to the board, let alone ascended to the presidency.

42 Ocean Pines PROGRESS September 2017 Stevens, attorney wrong to nix anti-Hill motion

I am writing this to inform members of the Ocean Pines Association about the way our rights were denied at the annual meeting of the Association Members in August. I came to the meeting to amend the agenda which under our book of resolutions B-03 I had every right to do. I waited until the proper time to request that the agenda be changed. I raised my hand after the presiding officer, Dave Stevens, asked to adopt the agenda. I proceeded to the mike. I identified who I was and where I lived as required. I then began to ask that the agenda be amended to include a motion. I was told by Mr. Stevens that I was out of order and could not amend the agenda. At this time I disagreed with him. The parliamentarian, new OPA attorney Jeremy Tucker, agreed with Mr. Stevens. According to Board Resolution B-03 regarding the Annual Meeting, points of order, the presiding officer’s decision on a point of order shall be final unless overruled by a majority vote of the voting members present in person.” A vote should have been ordered by Mr. Stevens. He did not do so and continued to say I was out of order. It was the wrong decision. It left me no option but to go back to my seat. I was told that I could bring up my in new business but as the meeting went on they were rushing to get the

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election results. When new business came up, Mr. Stevens said “none” so fast I couldn’t get up fast enough to try to make my motion. What I find interesting is when the Resolution B-03 was adopted by the board of directors on November 19,2008, Mr. Stevens was the President of the board. I sent a message to the Ocean Pines Forum and here are two responses from current board members, Slobodan Trendic and Doug Parks. Mr. Parks wrote that “while we certainly cannot do anything to change what transpired at the meeting on Saturday, the takeaway is to insure we do allow motions from the floor at the next and subsequent annual meetings.” Mr. Trendic offered his “sincere apology for the way your request to amend the agenda to include your motion was handled by Dave Stevens, the Presiding Officer of the members Annual Meeting. He wrote that “the situation was further complicated by the opinion offered by the Association’s legal counsel who improperly and prematurely commented on the content of your motion. He said that he “wanted to intervene but as a sitting board it would have been inappropriate of me to do so. I was hoping that other home-owners present familiar with the rules came to your rescue.”

He concluded by saying that he hoped “a lesson (was) learned for all, homeowners and Board members, that Annual Meeting is the members’ meeting. And that you the homeowners have a final say for everything that takes place on that day, including the agenda.” I would like to thank all concerned and mention to those who want to read Resolution B-03 to go to the OPA Web site and look up the Book of Resolutions. Ted Aronow Ocean Pines

Oasis pool situation not so clear cut

I do not know Brett Hill personally. He may be a very nice guy. But, his behavior strongly suggests he is ill-suited and inappropriately motivated to serve in a position of public trust. That is not the arena to push one’s personal agenda, especially within a body as dysfunctional as the OPA Board. His meddling at the Oasis pool, both the children’s pirate ship which is a visual and environmental mess and the adults-only fiasco, are only two pieces of evidence of his ineptitude. That said, and I apologize for straying a bit, I would propose that the Oasis pool can be restored as adults only. I cannot claim legal authority but Googling the issue raises a substantial set of questions in our

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particular situation. If Oasis were the only pool---dead issue. But, it isn’t. There are four other pools that allow children and a Google search of that particular situation is not so clear cut. Finally, I happen to have experienced pool situations in Naples, Fla., one at Lely Resort and one at Treviso Bay. Both have multiple pools, though Treviso’s is a bit unusual in that they are separate but connected by water ways. Both have adults-only pools or, at Treviso, a separate adults-only section. The ruling here that all five pools must allow children contradicts two situations I have experienced. Clearly, either Lely is in violation of the law or Brett Hill and the OPA Board attorney are wrong. I suspect the latter but am not smart enough to unravel the necessary evidence to prove it. Larry Lorton Ocean Pines

Life in the Pines From Page 41 oceanpinesforum.com in a post by resident Gary Miller, who seemed somewhat confused over whether his post was a public or private message to the forum moderator. He asked about the value of truck versus what Hill paid for it. It essentially is the same question that Trendic posed to his colleagues. There have been reports of local media sniffing out the story as well. Had the issue been handled differently, in the light of full transparency and complete disclosure, the entire matter would be dead and buried by now. Handling these matters in private, though certainly understandable, in the end tend to make matters worse because they create the impression that there’s something nefarious to hide. Listing a vehicle for twice what one paid for it doesn’t mean it will sell for anything close to that. Nor is there anything particularly illegal or reprehensible about attempting to make a profit on a resale after making an investment in upgrades. It’s called the free enterprise system. It’s also the opening gambit in a process leading to accepting a much lower offer. Still, Hill isn’t going to win any awards for sound judgment on this one. He’s the one who has to live with the consequences of that judgment, for better or for worse.

September 2017 Ocean Pines PROGRESS

FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL ESTATE IN CAPTAIN’S COVE

October 6, 2017, 10 AM

To be held at the Marina Club in Captain’s Cove Subdivision 3323 Dock Court, Greenbackville, VA 23356

The following properties will be auctioned: Section/Lot: 5-0005, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300000500 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 14-0039, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100003900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0041, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300004100 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0049, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200004900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0158, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100015800 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-0032, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300003200 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 14-0041, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100004100 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0044, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300004400 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0060, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200006000 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 31-515A, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A302001515A0 Assessed Value: $3,500.00

Section/Lot: 5-0036, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300003600 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 14-0046, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100004600 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0053, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300005300 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0065, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200006500 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 31-517A, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A302001517A0 Assessed Value: $3,500.00

Section/Lot: 5-0067, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300006700 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 14-0051, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100005100 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0065, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300006500 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0089, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200008900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 31-521B, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A302001521B0 Assessed Value: $3,500.00

Section/Lot: 5-0068, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300006800 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 14-0060, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100006000 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0070, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300007000 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0096, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200009600 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-0072, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300007200 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 14-0079, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100007900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0106, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300010600 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0107, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200010700 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-1559, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300155900 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 14-0083, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100008300 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0107, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300010700 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0119, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200011900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-2376, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300237600 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 14-0157, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100015700 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0114, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300011400 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0149, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200014900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-2401, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300240100 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 15-0009, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80200000900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0140, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300014000 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0153, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200015300 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-2411, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300241100 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 15-0018, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80200001800 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0153, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300015300 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0154, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200015400 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-2448, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300244800 Assessed Value: $3,500.00

Section/Lot: 15-0027, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80200002700 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0157, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300015700 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0033, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100003300 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-2476, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300247600 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 15-0041, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80200004100 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0159, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300015900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0037, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100003700 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-2497, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300249700 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 15-0056, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80200005600 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0161, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300016100 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0039, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100003900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-2498, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300249800 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 15-0076, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80200007600 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0162, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300016200 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0043, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100004300 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-2554, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300255400 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 15-0103, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80200010300 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0163, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300016300 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0048, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100004800 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 5-2556, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A40300255600 Assessed Value: $5,500.00

Section/Lot: 15-0112, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80200011200 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0172, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300017200 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0083, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100008300 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 13-0144, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A70100014400 Assessed Value: $2,000.00

Section/Lot: 15-0119, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80200011900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0174, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300017400 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0094, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100009400 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 14-0002, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100000200 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 15-0130, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80200013000 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0014, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200001400 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0102, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100010200 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 14-0020, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100002000 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0007, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300000700 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0019, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200001900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0119, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100011900 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 14-0022, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100002200 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0013, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300001300 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0021, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200002100 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0148, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100014800 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 14-0035, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A80100003500 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 16-0028, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90300002800 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 17-0027, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90200002700 Assessed Value: $900.00

Section/Lot: 18-0150, Captain’s Cove Tax Map No. 005A90100015000 Assessed Value: $900.00

TERMS: Minimum Bids will be announced prior to the start of the auction on the date of sale. Announcements made at auction time take precedence over any print, electronic, or verbal information, including but not limited to the Minimum Bid. Successful bidder will be required to deposit with Trustee a deposit (non-refundable) in an amount equal to 10% of successful bid in cash or certified funds at time of sale, with the closing to occur within thirty days of the date of said sale. Written oneprice bids will be accepted for any of the properties pursuant to the terms set forth in Va. Code § 55516. There is no warranty relating to right, title, interest, or the like in this disposition. Property is being sold pursuant to Va. Code § 55516, and title will be conveyed pursuant to statute and subject to all liens or encumbrances as provided in said statute. All information for review by appointment only. Notwithstanding the Minimum Bids announced at the time of sale, the Trustee reserves the right to accept and/or reject all offers. Time is of the essence. Other conditions may be announced at the sale.

TRUSTEE:

Pender & Coward, P.C., 222 Central Park Ave., Virginia Beach, VA Phone: (757) 490-6261 Email: capcove@pendercoward.com

CAPTAIN’S COVE

September 2017

Cove to host first auction In more than two years

Hearn says that acquiring lots with delinquent assessments improves the Cove POA’s balance sheet, but he would prefer if property owners cure delinquencies before a lot is sold POA can accumulate land assets By TOM STAUSS that, even though individual lots are Publisher he first foreclosure auction depressed because of supply, bolster since June of 2015 is sched- the balance sheet, Hearn said. While anyone can bid on the uled for Captain’s Cove on Friday, Oct 6, at 10a.m. in the Mari- lots and buy them, what normally happens at Cove auctions is that na Club banquet room. 40Although Ocean Pines Julyto - Early 2014 the Cove steps up when there are the PROGRESS number of lots be August no buyers “to protect itsprogram interests,” the performance matters inauctioned have already been whitSchool board stead. Hearn said. In each instance when tled down by roughly 15 as of the From Page 40 Zanich and Henderson gave brief there is of nothe buyer, the how POAitbids, is program, is used, ties to have a health and wellness firstand week of September, there were overview and the benefits of an assessment data committee site coordinator who oversees awarded the warrant to acquire title 52 lots initially identified for auction system. this committee. performance platforms at The a later date, andmatters eventually ownthe area for of staff theCove polbyInlawyers the wellness, Captains link student and educator data. The icy states that the Worcester County ership is formally transferred if the property owners association. data is used to drive the decisions made public school system will promote staff by teachers, memowner doesadministrators, not step up toboard reacquire health and wellness by providing vaCove President Tim Hearn atold bers and parents to improve student riety of organized programs for staff, clear title. the Progress in a and Sept.improve 6 telephone learning and educator performance. The designed to enrich their system can be used for teacher observaBecause one purpose of the aucnutritional, physical, mental the and numemointerview that he expected tion and evaluation. tional well-being. tion is to encourage delinquent ber to be reduced even more before “We believe that in using data we can The Board of Education during its meetowners the needs every student. June 17 meeting an update property to ofcure their arthe auction, as also someheard property own- better It is part of our success in helping our on the performance matters program. rearages, Hearn described auction ers, faced with the prospect of losing students be successful for life.” Zanich Worcester County Public Schools uses variety of types of data to day as somewhat anti-climactic. theira investment or having a create blem- said. The school board also adopted an upits master plan, goals, and instructional It’seducational been some time master since plan, the ish on their credit reports, will dedated facilities programs. required annually to be sub“Over the their years delinquent we have discovered Cove is last held an auction, which cide to pay assess- which mitted to the Maryland Department of that this could be an arduous task. It is handled by Pender and Coward, by July 1. ments, along collectionburden fees. to Planning had become an with overwhelming The 2014-2015 Plan is presented in our Hearn teachers. We searched for a way to P.C., the Cove POA’s Virginia Beachdescribed the foreclosure five sections: goals, standards and guidesupport our teachers in the use of this basedcommunity law firm. Hearn said it’s takanalysis; enrollment process as just one tool in theStephCove lines; data,” Coordinator of Instruction projections; inventory and evaluation of anie Zanich and Data Specialist Rebecca en awhile for the lawyers to comb association’s arsenal of tools to imschool facilities; and facility needs analHenderson said in their written report through title records to been determine All five sections have revised prove its balance sheet . Instead of ysis. to the board. to reflect current information, including The school system started using a what sort of liens or other issues having an unacceptable level of unupdates on the successful bidding phase program called Edusoft but quickly discould affect a title transfer. start of construction for the Snow covered it was not robust enough. Using paid assessments on its books, the and

Race to the Top funding, it purchased

Hill High School renovation and addi-

He said he expected another auction in roughly 90 days as the lawyers clear out the title search backlog. At the Oct. 11 auction, the most valuable lots scheduled for auction are concentrated in Section 5. The original list included 15 lots in this section, all except one appraisedoffor tion project and the completion the Showell Elementary School feasibility tax purposes at $5500. One lot is study. listed $3500. Theat plan outlines the challenges facing the schools system, including popuThe original list includes one lot lation growth, aging buildings, technolin 13 with a value of $2000. ogySection needs, and changing program needs. A major renovation and addition or The rest of the lots for sale are all replacement school project at SES has been prioritized in both school 18, syslocated in Sections 14 the through tem’s educational facilities master plan currently valued for tax purposes at and the capital improvement program for many years. $900 each. In May, the school board voted to Hearn said with that planning acquiringforlots move forward the construction of athrough new Showell in Sections 14 18 isElemennot a tary School, based on the results of the major economic burden on study. the POA Showell School feasibility The board accepted the recommendation because the county does not assessof the architectural and engineering team property tax Morgan on lotsGroup in which the led by Becker to proceed withowed the design replacement tax wouldofbea so minimal. school at an anticipated cost of about $37 milThe Cove association does not lion. The consultant determined levy annual assessments on that lots the it construction costs were comparable for owns. renovating and expanding the existing school versus building a completely Hearn said that as a result new of facility. Because of the extensive nature a recent legal determination, it of the renovations and expansion that would be required, the cost of that opno longer is feasible for the Cove tion was estimated at $36.8 million. On POA to acquire lotsconsultants in Sections 14 a the other hand, the said brand new school could be constructed

through 18 in the hopes that association-owned lots can be bundled with those owned by developer entities and sold as a block to farming or developer interests. He said that it’s possible, once the rest of the Cove is substantially built out, that Sections 14 through 18 will be developed as well around a yet-to-be-determined amenity that could be located on association-owned common area. Previously, he has said these sections face major hurdles related to non-tidal wetlands and other issues that make infrastructure like roads and utilities particularly challenging to WORCESTER install. COUNTY At one time, a nine-hole golf on the same SES property for slightly course envisioned for Sections more atwas $37.4 million. Overall, 18. after including design and 14 through Hearn said that given management fees, playground equipthe number of rounds played portable annument, movable equipment, classrooms, phasing of the nine-hole renovations ally on the Cove’s existing and additions, technology costs and misgolf course, costs roughly building cellaneous like12,000, inspection fees, it be less expensive by about $4 an milawill second nine hole course, even lion to build a new school than renovate executive layout ofone. par threes and and expand the old The cost of keeping the current buildfours, doesn’t appear feasible. ing but renovating it and adding on was $44.8 million total course, estimatHe said in while lieu ofthe a golf ed cost of building a new SES was just the Cove could consider biking or $40.9 million. Finally, meeting the hiking trailsduring or somethe other amenity school board approved the fiscal year that wouldoperating add value to properties 2014-2015 budget for WorcesCounty Public Schools. interthese sections.

The budget includes funding for salary step increases for– eligible employAnnual election Cove properees, a longevity step, a .5 percent cost tyof owners have received ballots for living allowance, a 3 percent increase for annual bus contractors anCove 8 percent the election and to the asincrease in insurance rates. The budsociation’s Board major of Directors. Threeof get also includes expenditures $354,000 to replace gymnasium candidates are running forfloors twoat Berlin Intermediate, Pocomoke Middle available three-year terms on the and Snow Hill Middle schools, $144,000 to replace gymnasium at Steboard, currently filledbleachers by developer phen Decatur High School and $200,000 in non-recurring costs for student technology.

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Bamboo Granite Counter tops, Screen Concrete Dr. 3BR/2 BA 1288Concrete sq ft., Sea Robin Model, 3BR/2BA 1496 sq ft. Hardwood Floors, 33251 BR/2Floors, BA 1349 sq ft., Course, Pond Views, sq ft., Unfinished Area, COMING SOON Buccaneer Blvd • $215,000 37453 Beam Court •Dr.$209,500 Salty Way •Golf $335,000 3505722 Blackbeard Ct. Bonus • $399,900 Dolphin 2470 2012 Laundry Area, Screen Porch Screen Porch Screen Porch Tarpon Plus Screen Porch, Loft $179,200 $215,900 New Golf WATERFRONT GOLF COURSE WATERFRONT WATERFRONT DIRECT BAYFRONT $1,500 1/467 Mostly Cleared, Septic Approved $3,000 4/2104 Wooded, Septic ApproSe WATERFRONT Ranch, 14962470 Sq ft.,Buccaneer 3 BR / 2 Blvd • $215,000 37453 Beam Court • $209,500 3251 Salty Way •Story $335,000 3505 Blackbeard Ct.4/2104 • $399,900 Two 1773 sq ft., 3Cleared, BR / 2.5$3,000 BASeptic $1,500 1/467 Mostly Approved $3,000 Wooded, $1,500 1/467 Mostly Cleared, Septic Approved 4/2104 Wooded, Septic Approved LOTS GOLF COURSE LOTS GOLF COURSE LOTS $4000 5/2562 Wooded, Septic Approved Unfinished Bonus Room, Expanded Course Homes BA, Screen Porch, Separate LOTS LOTS $1,500 11/58 Wooded, Septic Approved $3,000 9/185 Cleared $4000 5/2562 Wooded, Septic $4000 5/25629/185 Wooded, Septic Approved $1,500 Wooded, Septic $3,000 9/185 Cleared $1,500 11/58 Wooded, Septic11/58 Approved $3,000 COURSE $2,000 2/377 Cleared, Secondary System Kitchen and Dining AreaApproved DIRECT BAYFRONT 3 BR 2.5 BA sunroom, 2015 sq ft., 2 sheds, •New 2167Construction, sq. Cleared ft., Wooded, 168’ bulkhead, .5BA • 2072 GOLF sq.ft., Sunroom, 3 BR/2 BA2015 1680sqsqSystem ft.,2 WATERFRONT New Construction,3 BR/2 RoomSunroom, $2,000 2/377 Cleared, Secondary $2,000 2/377 Cleared, Secondary System $4000 11/97 Septic Approved 3 BR 2.5 BA sunroom, ft., sheds, 3BR/2.5 BA • 2167 4BR/2.5BA •Laundry 2072 sq.ft., BA3BR/2.5 1680 sqBA ft., Call for Details 3 BR 2.5 BA sunroom, 2015 sq ft., 2 sheds, 3BR/2.5 BA • 2167 sq. ft., 168’ bulkh 4BR/2.5BA • 2072 sq.ft., Sunroom, 3 BR/2 BA 1680 sq ft., New Construction, $1,500 4/2231 Wooded $4000 11/97 Wooded, Septic As $3,000 3/1727 Wooded $4000 11/97 Wooded, Septic Approved Sunroom, Three Season Room, Deck Septic Pier, Boat Lift, tops, 2 Car garage Bamboo Floors, Granite Counter tops, Screen $1,500 4/2231 Wooded $3,000 3/1727 Wooded $1,500 4/2231 Wooded Concrete Dr. $3,000 3/1727 Wooded REDUCED Sunroom, Three Season Room, Deck Pier, Boat Lift $34,000 3/1400 Bamboo Floors, Granite Counter Screen Concrete Dr. $4,000 2/350 Cleared, Approved REDUCED REDUCED Concrete Sunroom, Three Season Room, Deck Pier, Boat Lift, 2 Car garage Bamboo Floors, Granite Counter tops, Screen Dr. 3/1400 $4000 1/806$4000 Wooded $34,000 3/1400 $34,000 $4,000Septic 2/350Approved Cleared, Septic Approved $4,000 2/350 Cleared, 1/806 Wooded $4000 1/806 Wooded $1,500 5/41 Wooded, SepticWooded, Approved $3,000 3/1642 Cleared, Septic Approv Cleared, Water Cleared, 82’ Water $1,500 5/41 Septic$3,000 Approved $3,000 3/1642 Cleared, Se $1,500 5/41 Wooded, Septic Approved 3/1642 Cleared, Septic Approved Cleared, 82’ 82’ Water $5,000 2/134 Wooded, Septic Approved frontage $4000 11/27 Wooded $5,000 2/134 Wooded, Septic Approved $5,000 Septic Approved frontage2/134 Wooded, $4000 11/27 Wooded frontage $4000 11/27 Wooded WATERFRONT LOTS $1,500 5/2455 Wooded, Septic Approved $3,000 4/2088 Wooded WATERFRONT WATERFRONT WATERFRONT $1,500 5/2455 Wooded, Septic Approved $3,000 4/2088 Wooded $1,500 5/2455 Wooded, Septic Approved $3,000 Wooded, 4/2088 Wooded GOLF COURSE LOTS $1,500 1/467 Mostly Cleared, Septic Approved $3,000 Septic Approved $6,000 2/206 Cleared, Septic Approved $1,500 1/467 Mostly4/2104 Cleared, Septic Approved $3,000 4/2104 GOLF COURSE $1,500 1/467 Mostly Cleared, Septic Approved $6,000 2/206 Septic Approved $3,000 4/2104 SepticWo Ap $6,000 Cleared, Septic 3 2/206 BR 2.5LOTS BA sunroom, 2015Approved sqCleared, ft., 2 sheds, 3BR/2.5 BA •Approved 2167 sq.Wooded, ft., 168’ bulkhead, GOLF COURSE LOTS $1,600 9/123 Wooded, Septic Approved 4BR/2.5BA • 2072BAY sq.ft., Sunroom, 3 BR/2 BA 1680 sq ft., New Construction, $3,200 1/477 Wooded, W&S REDUCED VIEWS LOTS REDUCED GOLF COURSE LOTS $1,600 9/123 Wooded, Septic Approved $4000 5/2562 Wooded, Septic $3,200 1/477 Wooded, W& $1,600 9/123 Wooded, Septic Approved REDUCED $3,200 1/477 Wooded, W&S REDUCED BAY VIEWS BAY VIEWS LOTS $4000 5/2562 Wooded, $1,500 11/58 Wooded, Septic Approved $3,000 9/185 Cleared LOTS $4000 5/2562 Wooded, Septic Approv $1,500 11/58 Wooded, Septic Approved $3,000 9/185 Clea Sunroom, Three Season Room, Deck Pier, Boat Lift, 2 Car garage Bamboo Floors, Granite Counter tops, Screen $6,000 2/125 Cleared, Septic Approved Concrete Dr. 2/377 Cleared, $5,000 2/134 Wooded, Septic Approved $2,000 10/119 Mostly Cleared $1,500 11/58 Wooded, Septic Approved $3,000 9/185 Cleared $2,000 Secondary System $6,000 2/125 Cleared, Septic Approved $6,000 2/125 Cleared, Septic Approved $1,600 5/24 Wooded $3,400 Wooded, Septic Approve $2,000 2/377 Secondary System $4000 11/97 Wooded, Septic $1,600 Wooded $3,400 9/127 Wooded, Sep $1,600 5/24 Wooded $3,400 9/127 Wooded, Septic Approved $2,000 2/377 Cleared, Secondary System 3 BR 2.5 BA sunroom, 2015 sq$1,500 ft., 2Cleared, sheds, 3BR/2.5 BA 9/127 •Approved 2167 sq. ft., 168’ bulkhead, 4BR/2.5BA • 2072 sq.ft., Sunroom, 3 BR/2 BA 1680 sq ft.,5/24 New Construction, $4000 11/97 Wooded, 4/2231 Wooded $3,000 3/1727 Wooded $4000 11/97 Wooded, Septic Approve $1,500 4/2231 Wooded $3,000 3/1727 WoS CED $6,000 2/150 Wooded, Septic Approved $1,500 4/2231 Wooded $3,000 3/1727 Wooded $34,000 3/1400 $5,000 2/442 Wooded, Water & Sewer $2,000 1/1081 Wooded $4,000 2/350 Cleared, Septic Approved Sunroom, Three Season Room, Deck Pier, Boat Lift, 2 Car garage REDUCED $6,000 2/150 Wooded, Septic Approved $6,000 2/150 Wooded, Septic Approved Bamboo Floors, Granite Counter tops, Screen Dr. $1,850 3/1776 Wooded, Septic Approved $3,500 7/169 Wooded, Septic Approve $34,000 3/1400 $4000 1/806 Wooded $4,000 2/350 Cleared, Septic Approved REDUCEDConcrete $1,850 3/1776 Wooded, Septic Approved $3,500 7/169 Wooded, Sep $1,850 3/1776 Wooded, Septic Approved $3,500 7/169 Wooded, Septic Approved $34,000 3/1400 $4,000 2/350 Cleared, Septic Approved $4000 1/806 Wooded $1,500 5/41 Wooded,$1,500 Septic5/41 Approved $3,000 3/1642 Cleared, Septic Approved Cleared, 82’ Water $4000 1/806 Wooded $62,000 1/921 $1,500 5/413/1810 Wooded, Septic Approved $55,000 1/1196 $3,000 3/1642 Cle Cleared, 82’ Water $48,500 1/1195 $62,000 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46 Ocean Pines PROGRESS

CAPTAIN’S COVE

September 2017

Cove election From Page 44

Roger Holland and resident Rosemary Hall. Holland and Hall are running for re-election and are the presumptive favorites, if, as expected, developer-controlled ballots are cast for them. Newcomer MaryJo LeLoe is the

third candidate, who says her candidacy is based on a desire to involve herself in financial decisions for the Cove POA. Holland offered in no reason for his candidacy in ballot materials sent to property owners. Hall cites her work to improve EMS service, to improve school bus service, and to secure funding for committees. As a director, she said

she encouraged play on the golf course and supported pool safety programs. “This term I will work to balance expenditures for amenities through prudent budget decision-making,” she said. Section one development – In recent remarks to the Progress, Hearn spoke optimistically about the pace of new home construction in Cap-

tain’s Cove, acknowledging slow lot sales have been an issue for awhile. As a practical matter, he said that lots regain lost value when they are sold as part of a lot-new construction package. Hearn said that Section 1 in particular will be showing new signs of life as developer Michael Glick has added sewer connections for 450 lots in that section.

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J&A Builders specializes in spec home sales and new home construction. All of our models are “stick built” and feature a first floor master suite with standard appliance package, and Low-E windows. These are a few of our models we can build on your lot. Prices DO NOT include the cost of clearing a lot OR the lot. Homes are of similar design and may have upgrades. Prices good for Captain’s Cove, Greenbackville, Va. Only. MHBR #4790

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Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Pen Fed Realty 4323 Captain’s Corridor • PO Box 28 Greenbackville, VA. 23356 302-381-6910 (cell) • 757-854-1604 (office) 757-854-1606 (fax) • Email: candhwelsh@aol.com ©2017 BHH Afﬁliates, LLC. An independently owned and operated franchisee of BHH Afﬁliates, LLC. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices symbol are registered service marks of HomeServices of America, Inc.® Equal Housing Opportunity.

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