Starwood Board Maui

[Scott & Laura]

There are a lot of savvy people on TUG that have Villas at Maui.

Would someone like Kath or someone else be willing to be a board member.

I would like to start a lobby early so I can give them my proxies.

As it is I just ash can them because it seems Starwood maniupulates things so owners are precluded from involvement.

I just read that Starwood said the owners wanted layoffs at some villas.

Scott.

 

[DavidnRobin]

I do not think Kath owns there - the problem with getting a member on the board is that Starwood controls this. It is a logistic issue.

1) ~260 units x 52 weeks = a lot of unit-weeks (therefore Owners)

2) The WKORV owners on TUG (incl lurkers) easily represent less than 1% of Owners

3) Importantly, Starwood does not allow for communication system between Owners

Given these things - it would be very difficult to get a TUG member on the WKORV HOA board.

It would be easier at WSJ (Hillside) because less unit weeks - as I have about a 100 emails of owners - and some mailing info for owners can be attained via the USVI Recorders/Tax Assessors office.

Where did you read that Starwood Owners wanted layoffs?

 

[LisaRex]

My recent proxy didn't give the names or contact information for any of the HOA board members. It just had boxes to check that I either voted for All the Board Members, Just the Members who Showed up to the Meeting, or no one. Very odd.

In any event, I'd run but I think it would make more sense to nominate someone from the West Coast who could conceivably fly to WKORV on short notice to attend the Board Meeting given the very short notice of the Board meetings.

 

[Denise L]

My recent proxy didn't give the names or contact information for any of the HOA board members. It just had boxes to check that I either voted for All the Board Members, Just the Members who Showed up to the Meeting, or no one. Very odd.

In any event, I'd run but I think it would make more sense to nominate someone from the West Coast who could conceivably fly to WKORV on short notice to attend the Board Meeting given the very short notice of the Board meetings.

Do you suppose that Starwood gives Board members more notice on meetings? I would hope that they would know a year ahead of time when the next meeting would be, or 6 months in advance.

 

[DeniseM]

Starwood chooses the candidates and most of them are Starwood employees. Owners are not allowed to nominate themselves. We have had Tuggers apply in the past. At the board meeting I attended the "big" yearly meeting, NONE of the board members were there - they had a tele-conference. The last time I looked, the only two non-Starwood board members were a corporate attorney from Texas, I think, and a transportation mucky-muck from San Francisco. Like the head of BART or something like that.

Oh - and Kath doesn't own on Maui.

 

[TheUnitrep]

I tried back in 2006. Made it as far as the telephone interview, but didn't make it on the ballot.

I applaud anyone who makes the attempt to become involved. However....the process to get elected seems much more difficult than simply getting a couple hundred TUGGERS to vote for a particular individual as a "write-in" candidate.

I truly believe Starwood stacks the deck in this area (BOD elections) to prevent owners from having too much of a voice in what goes on at a particular resort.

 

[clsmit]

Starwood's practice seems to vary by resort. Perhaps it's the original covenants or statute/law that governs what they have to do. As expected, Starwood adheres to the letter, but perhaps not the spirit, of what they have to do. As I mentioned in a previous thread, for our SBP week we got a letter asking for nominations. I nominated the DH, who has lots of good qualifications (making him someone Starwood would not want on the board). He didn't make it to the 2nd round, but what appeared to be other true owners did show up on the ballot.