Comments on: BW’s Smoke Signals Post on Squires and Stags Meeting http://4kfee.com/every-thought-counts/bws-smoke-signals-post-on-squires-and-stags-meeting/ What are your thoughts on the proposed fee? Sun, 20 May 2012 17:42:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alley_Cat http://4kfee.com/every-thought-counts/bws-smoke-signals-post-on-squires-and-stags-meeting/#comment-258 Alley_Cat Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:07:45 +0000 http://4kfee.com/every-thought-counts/bws-smoke-signals-post-on-squires-and-stags-meeting/#comment-258 Also, I agree Bennett is a sweet fella. Also, I agree Bennett is a sweet fella.

]]> By: Alley_Cat http://4kfee.com/every-thought-counts/bws-smoke-signals-post-on-squires-and-stags-meeting/#comment-257 Alley_Cat Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:26:36 +0000 http://4kfee.com/every-thought-counts/bws-smoke-signals-post-on-squires-and-stags-meeting/#comment-257 I fear that the sunsidy to food and beverage will widen considerably and that is with some VERY creative accounting. Anything that can be charged off to somewhere else to lesses the blow on the financial statements will be done - you can bank on that. I fear that the sunsidy to food and beverage will widen considerably and that is with some VERY creative accounting. Anything that can be charged off to somewhere else to lesses the blow on the financial statements will be done - you can bank on that.

]]> By: Just a Resident http://4kfee.com/every-thought-counts/bws-smoke-signals-post-on-squires-and-stags-meeting/#comment-256 Just a Resident Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:20:39 +0000 http://4kfee.com/every-thought-counts/bws-smoke-signals-post-on-squires-and-stags-meeting/#comment-256 Bennett is a really nice guy, but over the years he has also become a shill for anything the developer or board wants to do. For example, he thinks the new parking lot at the chapel is attractive, is in favor of dog registration, feels that we should have mandatory chimney inspections, ad nauseum, ad infinitim. As we now know, the executive chef left after a very short tenure, they have made the children's menu for ages 4 and under only, no longer can you just get a sandwich at night, breakfast was cancelled after only a couple of days, and the list goes on. My neighbor went to the Sconti for dinner one day last week and their experience was that (a) there were dishes on the tables left over from breakfast, judging by the contents, (b) two of the four entrees their party ordered were inedible, even after being returned to the kitchen twice, and, (c) they had to call three times for a reservation (no one returned the message they left the day before). Is it any wonder that they cancelled their party plans for the 4th and moved their function to Fuego? Please remember that we are already subsidizing food & beverage at the rate of $300,000+ per year. Heaven only knows what the subsidy for the new restaurant will be. I think many of us have lost sight of the fact that this money is coming from our monthly assessments. Now they want more for the amenity reserve. If this restaurant can't pay its own way, it should be shut down. If we eliminated this ridiculous subsidy, it would go a long way toward funding the reserve. We have spent in excess of $10 million for this white elephant and the board expects us to continue to give them more and more money. Soon we will be hearing from the people who want to replace the outgoing board members. I can guarantee you that none of them will say anything substantive about their views on the future of BC but instead will tell us all about what college they went to and what they used to do while they were still working. We won't ask them anything, either. Think about it. Would you really move here now if you knew what was going on? Bennett is a really nice guy, but over the years he has also become a shill for anything the developer or board wants to do. For example, he thinks the new parking lot at the chapel is attractive, is in favor of dog registration, feels that we should have mandatory chimney inspections, ad nauseum, ad infinitim.

As we now know, the executive chef left after a very short tenure, they have made the children’s menu for ages 4 and under only, no longer can you just get a sandwich at night, breakfast was cancelled after only a couple of days, and the list goes on.

My neighbor went to the Sconti for dinner one day last week and their experience was that (a) there were dishes on the tables left over from breakfast, judging by the contents, (b) two of the four entrees their party ordered were inedible, even after being returned to the kitchen twice, and, (c) they had to call three times for a reservation (no one returned the message they left the day before). Is it any wonder that they cancelled their party plans for the 4th and moved their function to Fuego?

Please remember that we are already subsidizing food & beverage at the rate of $300,000+ per year. Heaven only knows what the subsidy for the new restaurant will be. I think many of us have lost sight of the fact that this money is coming from our monthly assessments. Now they want more for the amenity reserve. If this restaurant can’t pay its own way, it should be shut down. If we eliminated this ridiculous subsidy, it would go a long way toward funding the reserve.

We have spent in excess of $10 million for this white elephant and the board expects us to continue to give them more and more money.

Soon we will be hearing from the people who want to replace the outgoing board members. I can guarantee you that none of them will say anything substantive about their views on the future of BC but instead will tell us all about what college they went to and what they used to do while they were still working. We won’t ask them anything, either.

Think about it. Would you really move here now if you knew what was going on?

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