PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Why Must POA Buy Something They Own?

In recent news a lot has been said about the properties being sold to the city of Bella Vista by the Property Owners Association. Let us mull a few facts.

How many ways do we have to be told that the POA is the property owners in Bella Vista? It’s been said Cooper Communities Inc.

paid for the buildings and gave them to the POA; that is a moot point. If they did, they gave them to the property owners, not the POA Board. Is that clear enough?

The property owners own the buildings. Why should they have to or even want to purchase something they already own?

Don’t let Tommy Bailey and his band of eight on the POA Board con the property owners into buying something they already own.

If the POA Board owns the property, why would they need the vote of the property owners to sell it or raise the assessments? Their existence is a ruse.

Their haughtiness of the “secrecy pledge” and “my way or the highway” ideology are hogwash.

Which reminds me, why would current and former board members want to take these secrets with them to their grave? On Judgment Day, each of us will face our Lord and Savior and I doubt Christ will look kindly on those who use Sir Bailey’s “secrecy pledge” as defense for redemption. We cannot serve God and mammon.

Can we give them to ourselves? Yes.

What a bunch of nonsense.

HIRAM B. COOPER

Bella Vista LIQUOR, ROADS, TRAGEDY

In response to Ted

Talley (March 25 guest commentary): I grew up in a dry county where people were on the road to get liquor. I’ve seen the other side of the coin. Not everyone will show the same good judgment his daughter did. A number of them will drive to the liquor store and be drunk before they get home. Tragically, that is the other side of this coin: People are killed by drunken drivers, as was my cousin. It happens all the time.

There are two sides to every argument. Both warrant consideration.

CAROL TRAPHAGAN

Fayetteville

Opinion, Pages 5 on 04/04/2013

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