Just got home from the budget meeting for next year. All 15 or so residents who attended were given an opportunity to make suggestions on how to address the $400,000, or so, shortfall in revenue. Imagine any management company admitting that they allowed something like this to happen! Their answer: raise dues. They had quite an equation and it equals more from our wallets. Still in: $110,000 in salaries and free benefits for the Party Planner (what parties?) and her 3 new part-time assistants. Hmm, no one suggested that she and the assistants be eliminated; an increase in HOA staffing; doubling of the RV Park rental fees; a new full-time Assistant DCC manager; new replacement uniforms for the DCC staff and lifeguards (ever see a staff member wearing uniforms (they weren't, tonight) and many more. There was more "pork" than even Washington could imagine. Well, we warned everyone that community apathy would yield results and it has. Where were all of the community activists and "voices"?