The Association board uses this website to provide information to the neighborhood. Dates of meetings and other information important to the community are posted here as a convenience for you and a cost savings in for the association (this website costs the Association nothing. Annual budget for website = $0.00).
Conversely, comments left by readers of the website are not considered as official communications to the officers. As happened tonight, a reasonable question to ask is "Why?"
A couple of reasons really.
First - the board Secretary is charged with the upkeep of this website. You can trust that the content of this site comes from members of the board. Should anyone hack into the site and post something fraudulent, the board officers will note and correct that in short order. Thus, you can have confidence in the site.
The same cannot be said for comments. To avoid a restrictive, cumbersome registration process, the comments feature allows anyone to post a comment. And comments can be posted anonymously. This means someone who stumbles upon this blog but does not live in this neighborhood can post comments.
In short, we cannot guarantee that comments made actually come from Association members. Even if a comment is posted with a name, there is no safeguard to ensure that person is who they claim to be.
So - official communications to the board should use the email address or the mailing address or approach one of the board members in person.
BUT LET US CONSIDER ONE MORE POINT: As you know, the address to this site is posted at the entrances to the neighborhood. We have many homes for sale in the neighborhood. It is likely that someone looking at a home in the neighborhood will have a look at the website.
It is therefore in everyone's interest to keep the comments civil and charitable. A prospective homeowner might be dissuaded from buying in Pleasant Pointe after reading comments that are insulting or vitriolic. Slow home sales can translate into ever lower purchase prices which hurts the resale value of all homes in the neighborhood.
We want to keep the comments open as a means of neighborhood interaction. Help us do so by posting comments that are positive, constructive or helpful.
If you want to blow off steam -and many of us need to from time to time - use the email address or postal address. That way you can be assured of receiving a response.
