(June 23, 2016) The Ocean Pines Association Comprehensive Planning Committee appears to be close to completing questions for a community wide survey, and could be ready to make a presentation to the board of directors as soon as next month.
The question is, will the board be ready?
After the committee met on June 15, Chair Frank Daly said queries about amenities and capital planning and assessments had essentially been finalized.
“With what we’ve done yesterday and the week before, I would guess that we have probably the two-toughest sections done,” he said. “I think it’s going to move a lot faster and go a lot easier [next month].”
The committee will meet again on July 14 and July 28, and could present a package – including an outline for a new comprehensive plan and a questionnaire that would gather data to help flesh it out – during the July 28 board meeting.
“We could very much still be on target [to meet with the board] by the end of July. The issue is going to be, will the board want to meet with us in July or do they want to defer until after the election,” Daly said. “From our standpoint, we have two more meetings and we can pretty much get done what we said we were going to do to have everything packaged. I think we’re in pretty good shape.”
The committee is recovering from several setbacks that occurred earlier in the year, not the least of which was a derailed meeting with the directors that, in part, did not go as planned because of an apparent scheduling conflict with an outside survey vendor.
Daly, who recently took over the chairmanship when Steve Cohen was asked to step down, said another issue was that the vision of the board had changed.
“The board has really moved – over time – from a model for this comprehensive plan that existed that was identical to what the municipalities use throughout the state of Maryland,” he said. “Now, they want more of a strategic plan for a homeowner’s association.
“Once we got that transitioned, the committee had done a lot of good work – it just wasn’t organized in that fashion,” he added. “Quite honestly, I think it was a situation of just coming to a basic understanding amongst ourselves that we had to respond to what the board wanted – not give the board what the previous agreement was with the previous board. I think once we got past that hurdle things started falling into place relatively quickly.”
The question is, will the board be ready?
After the committee met on June 15, Chair Frank Daly said queries about amenities and capital planning and assessments had essentially been finalized.
“With what we’ve done yesterday and the week before, I would guess that we have probably the two-toughest sections done,” he said. “I think it’s going to move a lot faster and go a lot easier [next month].”
The committee will meet again on July 14 and July 28, and could present a package – including an outline for a new comprehensive plan and a questionnaire that would gather data to help flesh it out – during the July 28 board meeting.
“We could very much still be on target [to meet with the board] by the end of July. The issue is going to be, will the board want to meet with us in July or do they want to defer until after the election,” Daly said. “From our standpoint, we have two more meetings and we can pretty much get done what we said we were going to do to have everything packaged. I think we’re in pretty good shape.”
The committee is recovering from several setbacks that occurred earlier in the year, not the least of which was a derailed meeting with the directors that, in part, did not go as planned because of an apparent scheduling conflict with an outside survey vendor.
Daly, who recently took over the chairmanship when Steve Cohen was asked to step down, said another issue was that the vision of the board had changed.
“The board has really moved – over time – from a model for this comprehensive plan that existed that was identical to what the municipalities use throughout the state of Maryland,” he said. “Now, they want more of a strategic plan for a homeowner’s association.
“Once we got that transitioned, the committee had done a lot of good work – it just wasn’t organized in that fashion,” he added. “Quite honestly, I think it was a situation of just coming to a basic understanding amongst ourselves that we had to respond to what the board wanted – not give the board what the previous agreement was with the previous board. I think once we got past that hurdle things started falling into place relatively quickly.”