Windswept Dunes Golf Club
When Windswept Dunes opened in 2004, it was destined to be one of the premier golf facilities in the Florida panhandle and has pleased golfers ever since. The Windswept Dunes golf course was designed and built by nationally-renown Doug O'Rourke. O'Rourke's overall vision was to keep the course harmonious with the natural feel of the area and not just blindly follow a preconceived blueprint.
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Part Two: Windswept Estates Annual Meeting and Election 2019
Part 2: Annual Meeting and Election 2019
I have included notes that I took from the video of the meeting. These notes are my interpretation of what took place. There are some direct quotes of people speaking at the meeting, that will be in quotations. If any of these quotes are not completely accurate, it was done in error, on accident, and not intentional. I have tried to include the rough time that these events or statements occurred in the meeting. Please review the video if you have any questions.
Kaufman explains the election process.
About 45 seconds in, Kaufman gives campaign speech about getting electronic voting.
@ 4:20 minutes: Wayne’s campaign speech. He wants to get a Master Planner, not a planning committee.
He might be a little “overprotective.”
“Now that Bob Cushman has found out from the county that we don’t need another pool…”
He wants to invest that money in a Master Planning firm.
While he is speaking, he stops and calls out one of the homeowners (Martin Lebouf) and makes fun of him. The homeowner is not present.
He wants to work on the parking area in the back for the storage of boats and RV’s. He would like to think about acquiring land for the storage area. He wants to put storage buildings on the clubhouse property. A 10 x 12 to store HOA stuff, like signs, holiday decorations.
County says that there has to be a 20ft berm around the perimeter of storage lot. The property is 100 foot wide by like 1/2 mile long. They want to sell the property and put it in the fund to by another piece of property.
We have additional money coming in from foreclosed and sold lots.
He’s going to be a “transparent” as he possibly can. “Now sometimes I’m not. Sometimes I can’t be as vocal. I’m limited.” (My opinion...Lol)
You are welcome to email or call him whenever you want. (My further opinion...Also lol).
11:10: Nial’s campaign speech. It’s short.
After that they choose volunteers to count votes.
@15:00 minutes: They discuss who owns the clubhouse parking lot. They say it’s shared use between the golf course and us.
Wayne says (paraphrasing) that since the golf course owns half he, the golf course owner, can pretty much do what he wants, and they don’t have to worry about permits.
They are negotiating shared cost and liability with the golf course.
The guy across street from the clubhouse (I believe he was across street) is discussing flooding issues. He basically says that if they pave it and don’t move the entrance then any heavy rain is going to flood his house. His house was permitted to be built 6 inches under grade.
Wayne ensures that if and when it happens that the water will not make it across the street. He’s going to put a 4 inch drain (but later says 4ft drain) across the road and it won’t flood. He says that it’s a simple process.
The homeowner says that they already have a drain with a grate and the water still runs onto his property.
Wayne asks another homeowner, who has knowledge about this stuff and has been in road construction for 25 years what his opinion is.
The guy says that the bottom line is that it needs to be surveyed and engineered the right way.
Wayne disagrees with this…
The homeowner, who is in road construction, says that he’s, “seen projects that were just done, and they couldn’t afford to do it the right way the first time. Then, they really couldn’t afford to do it or fix it the second or third time.” He says, “I still recommend this paved parking lot be engineered so that the drainage is done in accordance with state laws. That’s the reason that these laws are there, to protect property owners.” He recommends again, a survey and permits. Later, he says that a four foot drain can be overloaded and result in flooding, he doesn’t see how you can design a project without doing the work.
Wayne says that he’s right, but that this is private property. Paraphrasing: If Doug O Rourke can build a golf course here then you can figure out 250 ft of road and get it to drain. Basically, he seems against surveys and permits.
@ 21:30 minutes: Homeowner asks if they will get to vote on these projects that the board is proposing. If they get to vote on whether or not we want them.
Wayne doesn’t understand the question and gives an unrelated answer.
Laken says no. Basically, (paraphrasing here) that those decisions are those of the board. He tells the guy to run for the board if he wants to be involved in these kinds of decisions.
The homeowner says that he doesn’t have the proxies to run for the board and that’s how these guys get elected.
He would like to be able to vote on major projects. He also says that even though they voted on the storage lot, a long time ago, that only 16 people voted for the 200,000 lot. (The last part of the conversation is on the next video).