Although on the surface the neighborhood-based Master Board idea might seem fair and reasonable (i.e., a 12-member Board consisting of one representative from each neighborhood), applying the same logic to our fees demonstrates how unfair and unreasonable this idea really is.

If it is such a fair and reasonable idea to redistribute voting power by neighborhood (read ReAct's Baywinds Club Proposal Report), by the same logic it must be a considered fair and reasonable idea to redistribute fees by neighborhood. In other words, if each neighborhood now has an equal vote on the Master Board whether or not that neighborhood has 180 homes or 36 homes, shouldn't each neighborhood pay the same fee (i.e., each neighborhood would contribute 1/12th of the budgets for the Master Association and Club Baywinds)?

Anyone who genuinely believes that one vote per neighborhood is fair must believe that it is also fair that each neighborhood pay the same association fees. To believe in one and not the other would be inconsistent and illogical. Either both ideas are fair and reasonable or both ideas are unfair and unreasonable (i.e., How can it be fair for the Lighthouse Pointe neighborhood of 180 homes be considered equal to the Sailfish Cove neighborhood of 36 homes while having the Lighthouse Pointe neighborhood paying 5 times as much in fees as the Sailfish Cove neighborhood?).

Any arguement that claims that it is fair because every homeowner pays the same fees is ignoring the fact that the voting power of every homeowners is not equal on a 12-member neighborhood-based Master Board.

I invite responses to this viewpoint and hope that they too will be published on BaywindsLife©.

Alan Richards, a ReAct Team member pen name