Four board seats on the Boca Del Mar Improvement Association (BDMIA) are up for election on January 13 at the annual meeting.
Your attendance and support for the leaders who are fighting to preserve Boca Del Mar’s model P.U.D. Master Plan and protect Mizner Trail from becoming a housing development have never been more critical.
BDMIA Board Under Attack
As the election nears, and Boca Del Mar’s legal appeal of the county’s development approval continues, hard pressure from the developers and their representatives and supporters is mounting.
A letter from a former BDMIA board president is being circulated to various HOAs, predicting dire financial consequences for residents if the board continues its legal appeal.
Sources say the letter is misleading. Please attend the January 13 meeting to get the facts.
Another communication addressed to “BOCA DEL MAR RESIDENTS” is publicizing a $500,000 settlement offer from the developer to the board, to expire January 16. The communication quotes resident Terry Kollman, a developer-friendly board candidate. It also predicts the failure of the board’s lawsuit, based on the recent court denial of Century Village’s appeal for its golf course.
On Nov. 7, the Sun-Sentinel reported that developer Compson Mizner Trail, Inc. claimed it had offered the board $250,000 for legal expenses if it would drop its suit. The offer was disputed by Peter Sachs, the attorney handling the BDMIA appeal. He added that Compson’s stated intention to seek court fines of $250,000 per month on BDMIA for its legal expenses if it wins was a “legal tactic.”
ELECTION INFORMATION
The proxy ballot is a small, thin postcard with 6 candidates and space for write-ins. If you did not receive your proxy ballot with all the candidates’ bios in your meeting announcement that was mailed out more than a month ago, please call the BDMIA office at 561-368-1503.
See the BDMIA agenda at
http://bocadelmar.org/frames-news.html
If you have not already returned your pre-addressed proxy card, please return it today.You can also bring it with you at the annual meeting, which convenes at 7 p.m. at the Via Mizner Country Club, 6200 Boca Del Mar Drive, Boca Raton, FL 33433.
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United Palm Beach County, Inc., supports the following four candidates as most consistent with its values:
William “Billy” Vale (incumbent)
Thomas “Dale” Haley (incumbent)
Eli Zakharia (incumbent)
Jonathan Palmer (new candidate).
Other candidates on the ballot are:
Steven J. Foster (incumbent)
Terrence J. Kollman (newcomer).
NOTE: Terrence Kollman has worked closely with the developer and has publicly supported the zoning changes to build housing on Mizner Trail fairways. Mr. Kollman, however, does not mention his support for development on Mizner Trail and the developers in his candidate bio submitted to the BDMIA nominating committee.
Boca Del Mar is one of Florida’s oldest and largest Planned Unit Developments. The current Board and various grassroots organizations have worked tirelessly to protect the development’s Master Plan and the Plan’s south Mizner Trail golf course green space (designed for the benefit of residents), from being turned into a housing development. The political battle has been fought in the courts and in the Palm Beach County Commission arena for nearly a decade. The Board has filed a legal appeal to the Commission’s zoning decision last June to grant the zoning change requested by the would-be developer.
The Proxy cards with 6 candidates were included with the notice of the annual members meeting mailed out near the end of November. The annual meeting is Tuesday January 13, 2015. The Proxy card ballot is a small, thin postcard that was included with the announcements and the candidates’ bios.
Again, if you did not receive your mailing for the annual meeting with the Proxy Card and the candidate bios, please call the BDMIA office . We would appreciate it if you also drop us a line .