Kandy

The 2017 Convocation is posted in the ABC owners area on this site under “Information for Owners”.

The convocation is posted for information only. You need to use the proxy ballot and the envelope that is sent with the convocation in order to vote.

Hi Gail,
ABC does not have a portal for paying maintenance fees online. You have to mail them to the address on your bill or you can do a bank wire transfer, instructions also on your bill.
You might try emailing the Members Relations Coordinator at [email protected]
and asking if there is a way to pay over the phone. The office probably won’t reopen until Tuesday, January 3 so I wouldn’t expect a reply until then.

Mr. Busch

As I’ve mentioned in the few postings I’ve put on the ABC Owners Facebook page in the past, I do not like to conduct club business on a public forum like Facebook.

Just send me an e-mail and you will get a response as soon as possible. However, I do have other responsibilities, obligations and priorities in my life beside the ABC so it may not be an immediate response but everyone will get a response from me.

This Board was elected by the majority of our members and given the responsibility to manage club business and make decisions that we feel are in the best interest of the majority of our 6,000 members and the future of our club, not to run every decision we have to make by 6,000 members for approval first before we proceed. If we had to do that before every decision we made nothing would ever get done. The only exception according to our Articles is that any expenditures exceeding $250,000 must be put before the members for a vote.

One thing I’ve learned as an ABC Board member for the last 6 years is that the saying “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time” is so true.

We as a Board realize that we will never be able to please everyone but I do think that this Board does a pretty good job of pleasing most of the people most of the time with the decisions we are making.
As for your comment, “This lack of transparency and response are totally and completely unacceptable. This project has a been in the works for months and NOTHING was officially discussed by the Board and shared with the membership” is a ridiculous statement when you then went on and copied and pasted two statements I made at two separate owners meetings where I clearly discussed Ricardo’s and the deck expansion clearly contradicting yourself.

I don’t think you have ever had a Board of Directors that provides its members with as much information as this Board does, providing detailed minutes of our Board meetings, a monthly financial report, detailed minutes of every Tuesdays owners meetings as well as every Board member attending ever owners meeting whenever they are at the ABC, personally I attend about 17 meetings a year.

Our beach took a tremendous hit from Hurricane Matthew and believe me when I say that the pictures and videos you’ve seen on Facebook don’t begin to do it justice. The damage to our beach was devastating. We lost 46 huts, 8 palm trees with a few more that are so damaged they may not survive and most of our beach.

As I stated in my previous posting every hut will be replaced and will be replaced as soon as possible. What more can I say, every hut as soon as possible!

Now that I am at the ABC, on vacation I might add, and the cleanup is finished we are trying to figure out just what help if any we will get from the government, what we must begin doing ourselves and what we we’ll just have to leave for mother nature to finish. She took it away now lets just hope she brings most of it back.

As for Ricardo’s and his rent, Ricardo’s is a tenant in a building owned by the ABC and their rent is based on a percentage of his gross sales. The better Ricardo’s does the more rent the Club receives, which helps keep our maintenance fees still the lowest of any timeshare on Aruba, so we all benefit.

Ricardo’s patio deck we propose, and applied for through the new Beach Commission months ago, is not an extension of the building or will it take up a significant amount of the beach. We just took advantage of having all the heavy equipment and personal on the beach for the storm clean up and repairs to set the pilings.

This is a project that we have been discussing openly for months, as you can see from your own copied and pasted inserts from the owners meetings of weeks 21 & 25. It has not been a secret and nothing has been hidden from the owners as you have suggested.

This is why we post the minutes of every owners meeting on the ABC website, trying to be even more transparent. Owners just have to have enough interest in their club to take the time to either attend the weekly owners meeting or take the time to read the owners meeting minutes that are posted weekly, as well as the minutes of the Board meetings and the General Manager’s quarterly report on the ABC website.

No secrets, no hidden agenda, just complete transparence.

As I stated at the beginning of this reply we realize that we will never be able to please everyone, we just try to make sound business decisions that we feel are in the best interest of the majority of our members and the future of our club.

Respectfully yours,

Kevin Foley, Chairman
ABC Board of Directors

Yes, this is the place to discuss club related matters.

@sunshine365 wrote:

Confirmation for mid Dec this yr.
Which of the following items are included?
dish soap, dish towels, sponge, paper towels, salt/pepper/ shampoo, bath soap, toilet paper?
Thnx in advance

No paper towels or salt & paper the rest is there.

The “giveaways” at the weekly members meetings just started this year at the May 24th meeting and they are not given by ABC but by Jean, a representative of Pelican Adventures. She does this after her presentation about what Pelican trips have to offer members and guests. If Jean is not present there are no giveaways.