Letters
to
Editor
The
“second
page” of
Previous
Ruderer
Letter
(This
was left
off in
previous
paper by
accident.
W.C.)
Finally,
the
Board
members
made a
big
production
of
cutting
the dues
this
year.
Many
things
had to
be cut
out of
the
budget
to
achieve
this,
but they
are
spending
money
that was
not
budgeted.
Employees
were
give a
raise
after
the
Board
learned
what the
salaries
were, an
additional
lawyer
was put
on
retainer,
they
gave the
former
restaurant
manager
a
severance
package
to
assure
that he
would
not sue,
repaired
an
additional
residential
drainage
problem
and
hired an
experienced
restaurant
manager.
These
facts
can be
verified
by
reviewing
meeting
minutes.
Unfortunately,
I don’t
have any
facts as
to where
these
additional
monies
are
coming
from.
Surely
they are
not
coming
from
money
budgeted
for
roads
since we
were
promised
“the
money
budgeted
for
roads
will be
spent
for
roads.”For
answers
to this
you will
have to
ask the
“People’s
Board”.
James R.
Ruderer
Question
for
Ruderer:
Who is
your
source
on “they
gave the
former
restaurant
manager
a
severance
package
to
assure
that he
would
not
sue”?
Was it
Rob or
someone
else?
Jim, I
did ask
the
“Peoples’s
Board”
where
the
money is
coming
from to
cover
the Fore
Season’s
Losses
and they
said it
is
coming
from the
$2,500
fee
being
paid by
new
homeowners.
Most of
those
fees are
being
“soaked
up” by
covering
various
aminity
losses.
Were it
not for
the
$2,500
fees
being
collected
we would
already
be in
deep
water
with no
paddle.
If some
homeowners
continue
to
“boycott”
the Fore
Seasons
the
Board
might be
forced
to add a
monthly
Fore
Season
surchange
to your
dues,
maybe
$30 per
month,
where
you will
have
that
much
credit
at the
restaurant
each
month
whether
you come
or not.
(this is
my
observation
and did
not come
from the
Board.)
These
are
serious
times
and we
cannot
keep our
heads in
the
sand.
W.C.
Ex
Hawkins
Mayor
speaks
out on
mosquitos:
I
watched
an
article
concerning
the
declining
population
of Honey
Bees on
a Sunday
TV news
program.
The
report
stated
that the
population
of bees
was down
twenty-five
percent.
I don’t
remember
what the
time
period
of the
study
was, but
I don’t
see it
as
significant
at this
point,
the
important
point is
that
there is
a
decline
in the
number
of bees.
Without
the
bees,
vegetable
and
fruit
production
would
suffer
greatly
and
possibly
come to
a stop.
Bees are
extremely
important
in our
food
production;
without
the bees
and
their
pollination
we would
be in
big
trouble.
I
realize
that
this may
not seem
important
to you,
but you
destroy
an
environment
the same
way you
eat an
elephant…one
bite at
a time.
I read
about an
interlocal
agreement
with Big
Sandy to
spray
for
mosquitoes
in one
of the
local
papers.
Has
anyone
considered
the
impact
that
spraying
poison
into the
air will
have on
bees?
Has
anyone
researched
the
effect
on bees
of the
particular
poison
to be
used? I
understand
that
people
get
upset
when
there
are a
lot of
mosquitoes
because
they
bite me,
too.
There
are
other
ways to
control
mosquitoes;
the most
effective
is to
destroy
their
habitat.
Indiscriminate
use of
poison
can
create
more
problems
than it
solves.
I can
remember
the
effect
of
spraying
mosquitoes
years
ago on
the
number
of
catalpa
worms,
which
were
available.
At that
time, I
did a
lot of
fishing,
so I
noticed;
we
killed
most of
the
moths
and
consequently
there
were
very few
worms
produced.
It
stands
to
reason
that the
poison
will
also
kill
some
bees or
affect
their
activity.
I know
that the
poison
that we
used at
that
time was
very
potent,
because
I was
one of
those
who
sprayed;
I had a
headache
for two
to three
days
after
each
spraying.
You
might
also
research
the
effect
of the
poison
on
people
in the
area who
have
lung
problems.
I
realize
that
this is
not a
factor
that has
been
considered
in the
past,
but
there
are
people
who live
in
Hawkins
who have
lung
disease.
These
people
have
rights,
which
are not
usually
considered
in the
decisions
made by
local
government.
Pollutants
in the
air are
detrimental
to their
health
and
comfort.
Someone
should
research
this
issue.
Is it
more
important
to kill
mosquitoes
the easy
way or
preserve
local
bees? Is
the
killing
of
mosquitoes
by
spraying
poison
into the
air more
important
than the
health
and
comfort
of those
unfortunate
enough
to have
lung
disease?
Should
the City
just
indiscriminately
spray
poison
into the
air and
do a
blanket
kill of
all
types of
insects
to
control
one
insect?
Please
consider
that
insects
are an
important
part of
our
biosphere
before
you do
something
that
indiscriminately
kills
them.
Government
should
make
informed
decisions,
not just
make
decisions
just
based on
emotion
alone.
You
might
even
have to
inform
the
public
why you
made the
particular
decision.
Please
be
responsible.
Respectfully,
Wayne
Kirkpatrick,
Jr., Ex.
Mayor
Hawkins,
TX.
This
Letter
is in
reply to
the
letter
written
by Mr.
Ruderer:
Mr.
Ruderer,
Your
letter
doesn’t
really
deserve
a reply,
but I
just
wanted
to help
you get
your
facts
straight.
(since
you seem
to be
worried
about
the
facts)
There
are
seven of
us on
the Road
Work
Group,
five of
us being
on the
RWG last
year.
The
reason
we
stayed,
was to
see that
the
infrastructure
of the
roadways,
at some
point,
get the
attention
it so
badly
needs.
That is,
when
they
stop
sending
the
money to
the Golf
Course,
and
actually
use it
for the
roads.
The road
money
and the
$2500
initiation
fee, was
used for
the
Restaurant
according
to one
of the
quarterly
reports,
HLR
Management
mentioned
$60,000.
We are
supposed
to get
about
three
miles of
roads
done
each
year,
you
might
ask HLRM,
just how
many
miles
they did
last
year or
the year
before.
What
about
this
year,
how many
miles
are they
going to
do? Here
are the
answers
to your
so
called
“issues”
about
the
“laughingly
Sterner
Canal”.
These
are the
Facts:
The
repair
of the
area on
Oxbow
Cove,
was sent
to the
2006B
Board,
last
year.
(Didn’t
have
anything
to do
with the
Campaigning
for the
new
seats on
the B
Board.)
At which
time,
they
told us
we
didn’t
have the
money to
repair
the
problem.
Yet they
put it
into the
budget
for the
year
2007and
was
voted on
by the A
and B
Board.
The B
Board
Members
at that
time
was
Armstrong,
Sparks,
Beggs,
Johnson,
they are
the ones
who set
up the
Budget
for the
year
2007.
The
drainage
was
coming
off the
Golf
Course
and made
a canal
down the
yards of
at least
11
homeowners.(
I do
have the
names of
the
Homeowners,
if you’d
like to
see
them.”
The
roadway
was
being
damaged
as well,
the RWG
had
asked
for the
work to
be done.
(Did not
get done
in the
year of
2006)
HLR
Management
had
tried a
few
things
to
correct
the
problem,
all of
which
did not
work.
HLRM did
send the
crew out
to work
on this
area
many
times in
the last
four
years.
This
repair
work was
not just
for the
Sterners,
but for
the
entire
neighborhood,
that it
was
affecting.
We, as
the RWG,
do not
favor
anyone
here on
the
Ranch.
We try
to give
the
entire
Ranch
what is
need the
most,
and that
is “Good
Roads”.
Yes, the
project
was
approved
by the
New B
Board,(
made
sense,
the
2006 B
Board
did
budget
for the
repairs.)
and yes,
Sterner
was on
this
2007
Board.
But the
problem
here is,
this
2007 B
Board
did what
we
needed
them to
do,
which
showed
me they
were
working
for the
“Good of
the
Entire
Ranch.”
They
didn’t
give the
same
answer,
“we
don’t
have the
money
for
this”
There
are
Sandbars
forming
down at
the
Lake,
all of
which
are
causing
problems
and do
need to
be
addressed.
The
problems
have
been let
go for
so many
years,
it is
now
going to
take a
lot of
work to
bring
the
Ranch up
to par.
Yes, it
is going
to cost,
but
isn’t
that
what we
paid for
all
these
years??
Why
wasn’t
it being
done all
along.
You
could
ask the
2006 B
Board
members
this
questions.
Maybe
using
the
words(
Golf
Course
Repair )
was not
the
correct
wording
that
should
have
been
used.
But then
again,
the
drainage
was
coming
off the
Golf
Course.
Last but
not
least:
Yes, the
facts
can be
“Verified”
just
give me
a call.
We do
have the
maps and
our
reports
that
were
given to
the
2006B
Board
Members
and to
HLR
Management.
This
Road
Work
Group,
works
very
hard to
make
these
reports,
with the
hopes of
the
Roadways
and the
Drainage
problems
being
fixed.
We spend
many
hour
driving
all the
roads
here at
the
Ranch,
not once
but many
times
over the
last two
years.
Mr.
Ruderer,
we don’t
believe
all your
facts
are
truthful.
Don’t
use
bogus
findings,
until
you
actually
see what
we have.
Members
of the
Road
Work
Group,
Alice
Darby,
Carol
Ulrich,
Shirley
Strong
and
Pamela
Cameron
