Page 5 - The Friday Flyer • March 4, 2016

MARCH 4, 2016 THE FRIDAY FLYER A-5 Five candidates run for CLPOA Board . . .
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Another of Dale's goals is to try to bring about a more unified community by improving communication between the POA and members. This can be done by encouraging POA staff to develop better documentation and presentations to the members as to how and why decisions are made, and by providing members with better ways of giving constructive feedback to the Board.
He believes one of the most critical elements of a commu- nity’s success is its members’ ability to find common goals and work together to achieve them.
Matt Poland
Matt Poland and his wife moved to Canyon Lake in 2000 because they loved boating with their children, Ryan and Emily. They lived here full time from 2000 to 2006, and have been weekenders from Huntington Beach since 2013. Last year they spent more than 100 days in Canyon Lake. As a hobby, they build homes and have built four homes in Canyon Lake.
Matt has a Computer Science and Economics degree from the University of Colorado, Boul- der. He currently works as a sales engineer for Splunk, fo- cused on internet security and data analytics.
Maintaining property values is his primary goal. He wants
to continue the capital invest- ments the current Board is making, but stop the unneces- sary lawsuits by restoring com- munication to find reasonable solutions.
He says, “Since the fall of 2014, when the bold effort start- ed to reduce the $26 monthly that each property owner pays for the lake lease, Canyon Lake home values have lagged the surrounding area. Based on the average of four surrounding cit- ies, Canyon Lake values are 16 percent lower. This translates into over $250 million in lost equity since 2014. It just isn’t worth it.”
His website is MattPolan- d4CanyonLake.com.
Paul Queen
Paul Queen has been a Can- yon Lake resident and home- owner for more than 16 years. He has served as chair of both the Community Patrol Commit- tee and the Appeals Committee. He enjoys Canyon Lake water sports and recently started tak- ing tennis lessons.
He has worked in the field of computer systems at the cor- porate offices of large compa- nies and currently is a senior systems administrator running computer servers, storage and backup systems for a multi-bil- lion dollar company.
He lists his goals and objec- tives as follows:
First and foremost I will rep- resent the people of Canyon
Lake; they are my top priority. I will not be a Board mem- bers who says “aye” to what- ever pet project other Board members want . . . I have the courage to stand up and op- pose bad policies and wasteful spending that are not supported
by our members.
I will support projects that
are fiscally feasible, needed and requested by the members of our community.
New rules and policies must make life better for our mem- bers, not worse. I’ve seen too many good people move away because of ridiculous rules and policies passed by recent Boards . . .
I want transparency between the Board and our community. All discussion on public mat- ters should be discussed in pub- lic at the Board meetings; not decided behind closed doors at executive sessions.
I have no agenda. There is no “secret project” that I want to do . . . I will also work to eliminate wasteful spending and fight to reduce our dues every year with the savings.
Most importantly, I am a rea- sonable person willing to hear allsidesofanissue...Iwill consider members’ opinions be- fore I vote.
Paul Chenette
Paul Chenette has been a Canyon Lake resident since 1985 and was the previous business owner of Autocare USA. He was
awarded Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year in 2008 and 2012, and was Business of the Year in 2004, 2009 and 2011. He has been on the Chamber Board of Directors since 2004, serving as president and vice-president two of those years.
He was on the CLPOA Board of Directors from 2010 to 2012, serving as president from 2011 to 2012. While on the Board, he created the “Amnesty Program” that provided members with an avenue to resolve their finan- cial difficulties with the POA. While serving as president, he also filled in as POA general manager while the Associa- tion was seeking a new general manager.
During his past 31 years in Canyon Lake, he has been a member of the Ski Club, Cho- raleers, Men’s Softball, Light- house Players, Canyon Lake Community Theatre and the World Record Helicopter Team.
Paul says, when he sought election to the POA Board in 2010, he was “just an unhappy and concerned” resident. He didn’t know how the Association worked, and it took nearly a year to learn. He says, “The most important thing I learned was that, as a Board member, if you always took the approach that you would listen to the members collaborate with your fellow Board members to come up with ideas and solutions that would best benefit the entire community, you would have
done your best. I believe I did and I’ll do it again!”
Paul says his immediate goal is to get projects completed that were approved when he was on the Board that remain unstarted or unfinished: the Community Building, Happy Camp im- provements and the Dog Park. His objective is to work closely with fellow Board members and the general manager to build a strong leadership team that will do what they say they going tol do.
Election Calendar
Wednesday, February 24 – Candidate Orientation Meeting
Saturday, March 12 – Election signs can be posted; CLPOA election signs can only be placed in the community set- back in the 60-day period prior to the election in accordance with the Election Sign Policy.
Friday, March 25 – Mem- ber of Record Date. Determines members entitled to meeting notice and eligibility to vote.
Thursday, April 7 – Mail Notice of Annual Meeting, Candidate Statements and Se- cret Ballot Thursday, May 5 – Last day it’s recommended a homeowner mail a ballot.
Thursday, May 12, at 8 a.m. – Annual Meeting of the Mem- bers and Election of Directors at the Lodge.
Saturday, May 14 – Alter- nate Adjourned Annual Meet- ing Date if quorum is not met on May 12, 2016.
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