Residents throughout south Florida attended an all day meeting at Broward Community College South Campus in Pembroke Pines conducted by the new state Select Committee on Condominium & Homeowners Association Governance chaired by Rep. Julio Robaina on Saturday January 26 from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. This is the first of five statewide public hearings. Four others will be held in Miami Beach, Tampa, Orlando and Tallahassee.

People who wanted to speak filled their name out on a form when they arrived. Those forms were placed in front of Robaina and he called the people’s names to speak. As each person spoke it was evident it was a complaint session. Richard Herman, Kings Point community President, who tried to say something positive about boards and board members, was cut short by the committee. “I was deeply disappointed in the bias of this committee,” said Herman.

The major complaints were lack of response to residents from boards; unavailability of meeting minutes and financial records; being unable to get copies of contracts with vendors for services.

Several members of the Alliance of Delray: Robert Schulbaum, President; Barbara Zee, V. P.; Lori Vinikoor, V.P.; Richard Herman, V.P.; Jack Miles, Alliance Board member; Carol Klausner, Vizcaya community board member; Rene Zerah, President Emerald Point; Jerry Mark, board member Emerald Point and Leo Plevy of Tivoli Isles were among those attending the meeting.

Richard Herman and Barbara Zee wrote scathing letters to Rep. Robaina and the committee members which will be posted in this space over the next few days.

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