About Irvine's University Park

Your VOTE is your VOICE.

There are little less than 1000 homes in University Community Association, Irvine CA Village-One and Village-Two. Approx. 50 % of the home owners voted. Others did NOT vote for any candidates for whatever excuse they may have in their minds to ... justify NON-PARTICIPATION. A Few ballots were disqualified for various technical reasons.

University Park Community Association concluded the elections today for two of their Board members. As per the HOA Elections, the Inspector of Election and election administrator, announced that quorum requirements had been met. HOA Elections proceeded to count the ballots. After about an hour and 30 minutes, they announced the results.

Kyle Weichert and Frank Hopper are the newly elected Board Members. Here is the breakdown of votes per candidate.

Kyle Weichert = 238

Frank Hopper = 233

Linda Lisiecki = 222

Steve Morton = 220

Board members present (existing and new) agreed to call a Special Meeting of the Board for this evening, November 17th 2011 at 7:30 PM to elect officers and make liaison assignments. All UCA Homeowners are welcome to attend this meeting.

The official results of the election should be posted on the UCA bulletin board within the next 24 hours.

I commend all participating VOTERS for trusting someone who is ready to take the hot seat and volunteer to serve the Board. These Board and Committee members dedicate lot of time and effort for the Community

I always have great respect for the people who simply ... VOTE.

As anticipated the quorum was not met tonight. The UCA Annual Meeting of the Membership was adjourned on November 2nd for lack of a quorum. After a discussion, those present voted to resume the Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 at 7:30 PM. The resumed Meeting will be held at the UCA Club House.

All proxies collected until November 17^th will be processed in the same fashion. The HOA elections company was not able to provide exact count of the valid ballets. Some of the proxies were rejected because of duplication, or inaccurate information in the records of UCA. Company asked for more evidence to validate those proxies.

Here are the instructions to access the current status of the quorum of University Community Association- HOA Elections?

This is the link for the Election Inspector for the UCA Board Election for 2011: http://www.hoaelection.net/

Click on the My Community tab. Select University from the drop down menu. (Enter 'university' for the user ID and 'uvc112' for the password).

Click on Statements to see the official statements for all four candidates.

http://www.hoaelection.net/images/University_Candidate_Statements-11.pdf

I hope the UCA Home Owners will find this information useful in making a decision regarding who to vote for in the UCA Board Election for 2011. More info follows ...

Being part of the HOA Board Is a Service to Community not a Job or public office opportunity.

Incumbents keep claiming they have the experience and know how to deal with delinquent dues, differed maintenance and rising costs, at the same time they are stockpiling the money and having high ambitions to spend money recklessly on discretionary pet projects.

Contestants have a different approach, they want to make it easy on the home owners to reduce the costs of HOA, encourage the “investors” or “First time home buyers” to occupy the vacancies and thereby reducing the delinquencies situation.

As the artificially inflated dues are dropped, the affordability of the buyers will improves and it will help make the properties more “Valuable”.

The buyers are very wise; they know the difference in the terms “Value” and the “Price”. Making the community valuable attracts the buyers.

We in University park Irvine CA are already are privileged and blessed to have outstanding schools in the area, let us do efforts to make it easy for the next generation of buyers to move University Community association area Village one and Village Two.

I hope the home owners will find this information useful in making a decision regarding who to vote for in the UCA Board Election. More follows …

Two Positions for Board of Directors for Village One &Two in University Community Association are up for elections ... dead line to vote November 2^nd, 2011.

Two incumbents Steve Morton and Linda Lisiecki have been challenged by Frank Hopper and Kyle Weichert. The incumbent’s team is serving the Board of UCA for many years. Here is the Statement of the candidates for the elections. http://www.hoaelection.net/images/University_Candidate_Statements-11.pdf

For last many months the hot topic of discussion in the neighborhood was to remove about 40% of the turf and plant drought tolerant plants to conserve water. As per the participants the cost of this project was projected to be over millions of dollars, all in the name of conserving the water usage and covering up the shade areas where nothing else may grow because of protruding roots of the trees and shedding berries and leaves. The payback of the investment is expected to be 35 + years and the life span of the select plants for the beautification is 7 years.

A petition signed by 240 residents to stop the project and get Home owner's vote was submitted to the UCA Board. It was instantly invalidated, by the Board without considering the concerns and view point of the residents.

The challengers have claimed as per the report of Irvine Ranch Water District: there is only 3% of the potable water used for the irrigation of common areas of the University Park UCA areas, so why incur such a high price for the project and remove the unique feature of the UCA forever.

I hope the home owners will find this information useful in making a decision regarding who to vote for in the UCA Board Election. More follows …

As per one of the qualified UCA members, who served on a UCA Irrigation Committee to evaluate the Irrigation System the committee has submitted a detailed report to the current UCA Board on the status of the current irrigation system.

As per the report the current Irrigation System does not need to be replaced. It does need some additional maintenance on “as needed” bases, but to install the new controllers that would automatically determine whether the sprinklers need to be triggered via satellites ... would be very expensive. Since we have people on-site to re-set the controllers during rainy periods, the benefits of an automated system cannot be justified in terms of the additional cost.

General opinion of many home owners is, the current Board Members in favor of replacing the Irrigation System were using that as an excuse to fund the Landscaping Project that would involve replacing up to 40% of the greenbelt grass with low-water-use shrubs.

The scope of irrigation and replacement of Landscape project may cost over mare than a million of dollars, and even with the money currently set aside for the Irrigation Project, it would not be nearly enough. There is almost half a million dollars stashed for this discretionary project, a project of such a wide scope need to be phased in over a longer period of time, perhaps many years. We could expect costs to increase over that period of time which would drive the overall cost of the project even higher. If undertaken, it would require someone with more experience in managing a project of that scope to handle the finances and other aspects.

The home owners believe the Board should not be collecting the increased dues to finance this project and that the benefits of such a project cannot be cost justified.

We need some people on the Board who will act more rationally, and observe caution when spending home owner’s money. UCA is consuming only 3% of Potable water, 97% of water used for irrigation is recycled water.

I hope the home owners will find this information useful in making a decision regarding who to vote for in the UCA Board Election. More follows …