Back again

We went to the Bahia park water park in Algeciras yesterday with some friends. It's a great place to spend a day with the kids. They just love it.

But I had to enjoy it with some pain...

In the morning before we left I decided to pop into the office and just check a couple of things. As I left I went down the stairs and slipped half way down....landing right on my back! Ouch.

During the day, going down the rides at the water park, landing heavily in the pools at the end of the slides, my back took a right hammering. By the evening I looked like a walking leaning tower of Pisa!

Today the cold pack is out again and I won't be going anywhere!

Moral of the story...don't go to a water park if you have a bad back.

Nightmare AGM...again

We had our annual community meeting last Thursday and in true fashion for our community....it was a complete nightmare.

I don't konw what it is about our community but most don't seem to suffer the same way we do. Everyone dreads the AGM after the first one took over 4 hours, the second one resulted in a chair being kicked across the room and the administrator walking out, the third one was quite civilised by comparison but last week's was another of those dreaded AGM's.

Guess what happened? No, no chair got kicked but....our latest administrator resigned. So in three years we've had two administrators walk out on us. This has to be a record. Normally communities sack the administrator, it's not normal for the administrator to leave....twice!

What was it all over?

Every AGM is always taken over when discussing the next year's budget. Now, we're not a wealthy community by any means. In fact, we've only got enough money just to get by. There is no emergency money in the kitty. We've had a really tough year and it keeps getting more and more difficult.

This year we put the budget up by 7% compared with last year, mainly just covering increases in lift costs, electricity costs, etc. We knew people would react badly but the majority voted against the new budget. As a consequence, the administrator stood up and (rightly so) declared that she would be unable to run our community on last year's budget and hence made her exit speach.

And good on her too. This is a nightmare of a community with no money and some really difficult people and if I'd been in her shoes I would have done the same.

That just leaves me, as president, in rather a tough spot. We need a new administrator. But having been dropped by 2 so far it means it's not going to be easy explaining why we have no administrator.

So, seeing as it's not my fault they've walked out, I've decided to let those that voted against the new budget (and hence causing the departure of the administrator) to find a new administrator.

I will be putting signs up around the urbanisation later today to this effect. I have no time to go hunting for quotes.

We will then need to call yet another AGM with the new administrator at which point I will step down as president. I've really had enough of battling my way trying to keep this place going with little or no appreciation from anyone and with mounting debts.

It's time someone else took the stress on.

Anyone got a worse community that ours?