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BACK TO NORMAL?
By
Jan Bergemann
Published April 24, 2020
I guess we all hope that life goes back to normal once the
Pandemic is more or less defeated. And if we go back to normal,
there is no longer a state of emergency and all the association
statutes are again fully enforceable.
We learned a lot during these “stay-at-home” times under the
Governor’s State of Emergency order.
A lot of things can be done by computer, from board meetings to
board member certification seminars. And these unusual times
have shown us that digital communication can be very helpful in
times where meetings of more than 10 people are disallowed.
But let’s face it: Nothing is better than meetings in person,
meetings where you can see all the people in the room – and you
can read from their faces how they feel about topics discussed
at these meetings.
According to the experts of the Corona Virus Task Force we are
getting closer to seeing light at the end of the tunnel, meaning
life will slowly get back to normal, life as we knew it before
the C(hinese) V(irus) 19 changed our lives.
It’s obvious that this Pandemic hit all of us unprepared, but we
can only hope that everybody in charge has learned a serious
lesson: States and hospitals have to be much better prepared,
even for unexpected emergencies.
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Jan Bergemann is president of Cyber Citizens For Justice,
Florida
's largest state-wide property owners' advocacy group.
CCFJ works on legislation to help owners living in
community
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associations. He moved to
Florida
in 1995 - hoping to retire. He moved into a HOA, where the
developer cheated the homeowners and used the association dues
for his own purposes. End of retirement!
CCFJ was born in the year 2000, when some owners met in
Tallahassee
- finding out that power is only in numbers. Bergemann was a
member of Governor Jeb Bush's HOA Task force in 2003/2004.
The organization has two websites to inform interested
Florida
homeowners and condo owners:
News Website: http://www.ccfj.net/.
Educational Website: http://www.ccfjfoundation.net/.
We think that only owners can really represent owners, since all
service providers surely have a different interest! We are
trying to create owner-friendly laws, but the best laws are
useless without enforcement. And enforcement is totally lacking
in
Florida
!
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