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Deployment of Wi-Fi was made exponentially more difficult today by the Officer's Committee!
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One of the offending motions was to formally nix both Vendor proposals on the table, this despite a recommendation by the Wi-Fi Committee, where actual technical expertise resides, to accept a proposal from DSL express.
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The second motion passed by the Officer's Committee seeks to deploy a subscription service for telephone at $20.00 per month per subscriber and Internet subscriptions up to $30.00 per month per subscriber. All of which are already provided by the DSL Express bid at $2.00 per month per unit.
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There are other provisions in the second motion that are even more onerous, which betray a complete lack of understanding of the concept of Wi-Fi. and Condominium living!
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Finally, if there is to be Wi-Fi in Century Village, only the Delegates can jump over this absurd bureaucracy and make it happen; hopefully at the Delegate Assembly meeting of 1 November, 2013. All Residents and Delegates, please do not make Wi-Fi a victim of the election campaign, on November 1, 2013 pass the budget; and move Wi-Fi forward to contract negotiations phase!
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Your Wi-Fi Committee is ready to proceed.
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Dave Israel
Chair Wi-Fi committee
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Ah, it sounds like another WONDERFUL delegate meeting is in store for 11/1. Rants, raves, gnashing of teeth, wailing, etc. And that's just from the first row in the audience!!
ReplyDeleteThere has been 'confusion gas' in the UCO conference room, affecting Bid and Officers Committees.
ReplyDeleteWhat was wrong yesterday:
A new amateurish Request for WiFi Proposal (RFP) was presented, 2 pages with 36 new requirements. - Any new idea should be passed to the original committee (WiFi) for review, then be passed up the line if warranted.
The RFP was headed 'Motion', and treated as if it was one motion. (NOBODY READ IT OR HAD TIME TO THINK) - a motion should have one clear idea, not >36.
The Officers floundered around in one item (differential WiFi pricing for snowbirds) and then voted for the Motion/RPF without studying it.
Officers also voted to refuse the 2 professional vendor proposals received for WiFi. I think officers who have no WiFi knowledge should at least abstain or wait for the professional review on Friday. The easy, quick and workfree answer is always 'NO'.
A VP launched a mean-spirited attack on a volunteer, the loaded questions could have been easily answered in UCO anytime in the past 6 months.
I am not blaming, we were all equally confused.
Peter, we do not need the front row when we can shoot ourselves in the foot.
ReplyDeleteIf we want an up to date and vibrant village then we need Wifi. If our VPs are mean spirited then they need to not be voted back in. I think you need to let us know who this nasty is, Elaine. Wifi is turning up everywhere. Why not in this village? Do we not want to keep it vibrant to attract new buyers or have a bunch of empty units that the rest of the owners in the associations need to pay for.
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