BUDGET CONCERNS

 It’s budget time of year. I want to caution the board against the incessant increasing of property dues. The more dues increase, the greater incentive for vacant lot owners to just relinquish their lots back to the association.

Many vacant lot owners live remotely and rarely, if ever utilize PML facilities. This equates to lot ownership strictly amounting to being a financial expense with little to no benefit for the owner. This leads to greater incentive for vacant lot owners to just give-up and relinquish their lot back to the association.

As thousands of dollars are “lost” by the defaulted collection of each relinquished lot, property owners with houses with be required to pay higher and higher dues.

For some homeowners, this increase in costs, could also price THEM out of their own ownership. In time, this could lead to the “house of cards” falling and ultimately the downfall of PML. The issue has not been the lack of revenue, but rather the SPENDING (i.e. considering a new multi-million dollar indoor swimming pool facility that will likely only be regularly used by a handful of people- what are they thinking?). We already paid to redo the pool facility not long ago.

PML is a great place & has been maintained well, but enough already with ever expanding and rebuilding or remodeling facilities we have ALREADY paid for not long ago. Please don’t drive PML into the ground with ever increasing spending, expanding, overhead, and costs.

Cindy Phillips

Coarsegold, CA