UCO Special Election

Hi All,

In further support of my potential candidacy, should I be nominated and elected; the following are the basic components of my plan for UCO and Century Village. Hopefully, in consonance with the Delegate Assembly, the issues in the following "Platform" would find favor and in due course be implimented.

This structure should not be considered complete, in Office I would seek the ideas of the Delegate Assembly and the entire Unit Ownership. I would surround myself with the most knowledgable and experienced people and would seek the advice of Professional Experts in fields critical to the running of Century village.

There are already in this BLOG some excellent suggestions, which I have printed out and made part of my "Things to be done" list;

Thanks to you all.

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NEW IDEAS – NEW DIRECTIONS: BALANCED GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE. DAVE ISRAEL FOR PRESIDENT OF UCO

WHAT DIRECTION CENTURY VILLAGE

New Beginning!

If you have not been watching, permit me to observe that we have just undergone a transformational event here in Century Village. The Board of Directors of UCO voted against the President on a matter of significance, as a result, the President has resigned along with a Vice President.

Additionally, a second Vice President had resigned earlier over basic philosophical differences with the President. Hence the first order of business is to fill these critical UCO positions.

Open meetings are now the buzzword of the moment; clarified and cemented into our bylaws, we must be ever vigilant and make sure it works. We now enter what I hope will be an "Era of Cooperation and Good Feeling."We must leave behind fighting, blaming and divisions of groups and work together for the good of all. Now is the time!

Now is our chance! Let's use our heads and not our emotions! Let's stop fighting and start working!

Listed below is some of the business that needs to be addressed:

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1. Open communication so everyone knows first-hand what is happening in the village by conversion of the UCO paper to a full-service paper with more news coverage and less personal columns. Also develop Channel 63 to a full service TV station with talk shows on items of interest in the village, news broadcasts and other live programming.

2. Streamline services for more efficiency and less waiting. For example, do all passes in the same place and do transponders instantly with no appointments, better yet, explore new technology like License Plate Recognition, and eliminate transponders altogether.

3. Computerization of all UCO operations and records for more accuracy and faster, more uniform service.

4. Run UCO like the $5 million business that it is.

5. Consolidation of willing associations to streamline operations, records,management and to increase purchasing power.

6. Create a better informed and revamped Delegate Assembly with more power.

7. Reopen the Q and A to allow residents to express themselves.

8. Place professional talent in key UCO positions. For instance, finance and accounting

9. We pay the salaries of UCO staff and also the clubhouse staff. By combining some of their tasks we will be able to bring savings to these budgets.

10. We need to get started on addressing shoreline restoration.

11. Recruit and place talented, thinking people in committee chair positions. The newly elected President should appoint a "Volunteer Committee". The purpose of this committee would be to actively search and compile lists of willing and experienced residents, along with their bios, for submission to each committee chair.

12. Reaffirm term limits.

13. Bring back help for associations.

DAVE ISRAEL FOR UCO PRESIDENT