A Message from Larry Movshin
“Tomorrow’s 10 AM CSA Board Meeting”!!
April 27, 2020
12:30 PM
Hello, again!
When my Chairmanship started, I had planned on writing to the Community once a month – well, as my Grandmother used to often say, “men plan and God laughs.” So here I am again, with still another message to the Sea Pines Community in the month of April.
The lifestyle disruptions created by the COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for all of us. One “victim” of the COVID-19 disruption has been the “normal” meeting activities of our CSA Board of Directors. Sam Bennett and I have kept the Board well informed of important operational matters, and our Executive Committee has been involved in determining policies responsive to the various governmental mandates and guidelines. But it is time for the Board to meet to ratify various actions taken by email, and to continue our consideration of the various financial matters that remain of critical concern to the Sea Pines community -- made even more serious by COVID-19’s impact on our revenue.
Given the Governor’s various mandates, this meeting will be accomplished under unique protocols. Our Board members and our senior CSA Staff will be participating through a Zoom conference meeting, while members of the public will be able to watch the meeting on a live stream through our YouTube channel. Press conferences held by Governor McMaster and recent Town Council meetings have operated this way successfully, so we hope it will be just as effective for this Board meeting.
Viewers who tune into tomorrow’s Board meeting can provide their questions to the Board and CSA Staff on a real-time basis throughout our meeting via email at
questions@csaseapines.com
or via the YouTube chat feature. Questions will be collated and curated by our Staff, and then presented to the Board following a brief adjournment of the Board meeting. The Board will address the top questions and it is our hope to stick as close as possible to the format we have used for our “live” Board meetings and Community updates.
As for what is on the agenda itself, I have asked Sam Bennett and his senior Staff to present updates on the activities undertaken by CSA to maintain to the maximum extent possible CSA’s “regular” operations, but also to respond to the many mandates and guidelines issued by governmental authorities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. I have also asked Sam, our Board Treasurer, Dave Borghesi, and our Chief Financial Officer, Victoria Shanahan, to provide an update
and
some projections as to the impact that the pandemic has had on our budgeted and projected revenues – including the impact on gate fees, which have typically provided close to half of the annual revenue stream in CSA’s budget.
As you may recall, I promised back in February to be announcing in March our plans to raise the revenue needed to fix and maintain our critical infrastructure. The pandemic clearly threw a monkey wrench in those plans. While the Board will continue to discuss potential funding sources tomorrow, we will now also need to continue to consider the additional impacts on daily revenues created by the COVID-19 pandemic and what those impacts mean for our ability to sustain our “normal” operations for the next few years.
I urge you all to join us for our very important Board Meeting tomorrow morning in order to best stay informed. In the meantime, stay safe and healthy (and keep your social distance)!
Meeting Information
CSA Board of Directors Meeting, Rescheduled
Via Video Conference with Live Stream via YouTube
Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 10:00 a.m.
Links to live steam the meeting:
(Note- Live stream will begin once the meeting starts)
How to submit your questions to the Board during the Live Meeting:
Submit questions through YouTube Live Chat Feature:
Note you must have a YouTube Account to use this function.
Click here
to get started.
