What's Up With The BTMA?

Well, let's see................

Minutes from meetings have not been  posted on their website since June, no mention of the newly elected directors and officers from the September Annual Meeting, and where and what time are the meetings currently held?

Meanwhile, all the trees in the common areas (rose bushes, crepe myrtles) are withering and dying from lack of water. The green belt areas are starting to look like 'the land that time forgot'.  One can only surmise that is what happens when you have a board of directors with tunnel vision, as in, the pool is the only thing worth spending people's money on. Does the board not realize that maintaining the common areas and greenbelt areas is the BTMA's responsibility?

And in another completely related story:

A homeowner who is in the process of re-financing their home, found out  the value has dropped $8,000 dollars in just 3 years! This home has been completely remodeled, is on a very large lot and has a pool! The question was asked if it was because the housing market in Tulsa is down, and the reply was no; the housing market in Tulsa is very much alive and prices are holding steady. It is the perception of a declining area that will hurt home values, and the appraiser surely got an eye full while cruising the 'hood'.

The dead and shriveled shrubs and trees just scream neglect! Falling down fences, garbage cans in front yards, limbs piled high in the greenbelt areas (for weeks on end) sends a message to those driving by, this is a neighborhood in decline.

Alas, all this will just fall on the deaf ears of the board because they only have eyes for their beloved pool. One will never find plants in need of water inside those gates, nor a lack of money spent on making certain the pool area looks good! Projects are discussed, some are started; most are left in the trash bin to be recycled with good intentions ad nauseam.

Fingers will point, tempers will flare and next year all the dead trees and shrubs will be uprooted and new ones planted, only to die yet again from lack of water and neglect. Brings to mind the old adage: the more things change, the more they stay the same.