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Fellow Eastpointe Residents and ECC Members, 

 My purpose is to inform the Eastpointe community (residents & members) and seek their support in engaging the HOA Board of Directors and ECC Board of Governors to make smart decisions based on real information. There are a lot of issues & information so I have created this Website that provides the following information:

• What's Happening & latest Update
• Legal Issues
• Requested Amendments to Governing Documents
• Proposed Member Initiatives
• More Info such as :
• Bad Policies that contribute to Clubs failing
  • Recent Survey Results
  • Fee Impacts
  • Proposed Initiatives
  • Bad Club Policies
  • Bad Club Governance
  • Open Communication

I believe Eastpointe Country Club should be a member friendly club providing enhanced services at a reasonable price. Eastpointe Country Club should focus on becoming the hub of social activity in the community. Our community consists of residents and non-residents, young and old, enjoying amenities including golf, aquatics, fitness, tennis, pickleball, and food services provided at our multiple restaurants and banquet facilities. Their are many member initiatives that should be discussed and adopted to enhance member experience. (See the proposed initiatives Tab above)

Somewhere along the line the ECC and HOA Boards have lost focus on Eastpointe being a residential Country Club. Over the last couple of years the ECC Board has implemented polices and increased costs that have driven 198 golf members out of the club with 110+ of these being resident Golf members. This has cost the club over $2 Million in annual revenue loss. 

New policies and new  Board members are needed to reestablish our Residential Country Club status. Instead of driving out older members, we should create a new membership category ,i.e., "Golden Membership" where older golfers who meet the criteria discussed on the initiative tab, to retain their golf status and increase the annual revenues of the club. Initiatives should be adopted to enhance member experience, keeping in mind that Eastpointe is a club for the Residents, to enhance quality of life and property values. Non Resident Golfers should be invited into the club to augment the residential membership, not replace it as is happening now. Initiation fees for residential golfers should be lowered to attract and retain new residential golf members. Recent surveys have shown that 80% of residents do not support the current Bi-Party Agreement and 75% of residents support legal action against the HOA Board. We need change! 

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UPDATE 12/02/2024

The HOA finally provided their rationale for not allowing the residents to vote on modifications of the last two Bi-Party agreements, and to why they rejected and failed to act on our Petition by over 200+ property owners to modify the governing Documents. The HOA contends that they do not require a vote of the membership to authorize future modifications because the Bi-Party agreement authorizes them to make future modifications. The contention by the HOA that the EHOA and ECC are free to design, create, and adopt agreements on behalf of the community, without community input or properly noticed voting, …” is based upon a gross misreading of the applicable governing documents. The Board of Directors of the EHOA is not granted unfettered authority to act on behalf of its constituent members on matters that are explicitly called out by the applicable Florida statutes and governing documents”,  additionally  “the governing documents of the ECC and the EHOA are crystal clear in their directive that these types of amendments to the By-Laws are subject to strict member voting requirements”. 

For several months, many residents and I have engaged a variety of sources, to understand what Florida Statutes, and our governing documents, require for the HOA Board to approve a Bi-Party agreement and what the property owner’s rights are within our community. We have found that the last two (2) Bi-Party Agreements, approved in July 2021 and recently in Mar 2024. were significantly flawed, improperly noticed, were not done with the voting consent of the members, violated several state laws, had grotesque conflicts of interest, and that any fees collected above the amount of the original Tri-party agreement, were improperly assessed and collected.   (See Legal Issues Above for Details)

This is important because it was mostly the same few HOA Board members who, over the last three (3) years, improperly forced through both Bi-Party Agreements, which significantly increased annual fees on Resident Social Members (RSM), added initiation fees on new property buyers, reduced benefits, and increased user fees for golf and fitness center classes, without allowing the property owners to vote on and approve the proposed Bi-Party agreement as required by Fl Statute and our Governing Documents.

And they can do it again! 

During the last Bi-Party negotiations in Feb-Mar ’24, the HOA Boards actions were so egregious and not in the best interest of property owners, that one (1) HOA Officer resigned from the Board in outrage and 1 Director opposed to these actions, was forced off of the HOA Board. The negative impacts on the property owners have been significant. These include financially stressing many residents, reducing quality of life for many, forcing several property owners to move or attempt to sell their homes, and depressed real estate values. This HOA Board must be stopped before they raise fees again!

 The HOA Board believes that the residents of Eastpointe are too apathetic to take legal action. We must band together to end the improper actions of the HOA Board.  

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