Got this in today's email. Hope it's okay to post, if not, Moderator, kindly delete. Thanks !
Also, hope it's not a duplicate. I'm still trying to get the hang of Westin ownership and process all of the invaluable info on this thread.
" A Message from your Westin St. John Newly Elected Owner Representatives
Dear Fellow Owner at the Virgin Grand Villas:
We are the newly elected owner representatives on the Board of the Virgin Grand Villas – St. John Condominium Owners Association. We are writing to introduce ourselves and to let you know that we will try faithfully to represent owners’ interests on the Board. As our first step we have requested that Starwood allow us to communicate by email, as frequently as is warranted by developments affecting the villas, with you and all other owners who want such communication. So that we can most effectively represent your ownership interests, we also hope to hear your concerns, although (as our predecessors on the Board have made clear), some owners’ desires sometimes conflict with those of other owners.
You may know a little about us from the short statements on the election ballots. Philip Schrag is a law professor at Georgetown University. He was the first official Consumer Advocate of the City of New York, before beginning a full-time teaching career in 1971. He is the author or co-author of 14 books and dozens of articles on consumer protection, legal education, immigration, legal ethics, and many other subjects. He owns 3 units at Virgin Grand Villas and an every-other-year unit in Bay Vista, and he loves visiting St. John and snorkeling on the north shore with his wife Lisa Lerman (also a law professor), his four children, and his two grandchildren. His full bio is at
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/facinfo/tab_faculty.cfm?Status=Faculty&ID=324
Robert Werbel has practiced law in New York City for more than 40 years, specializing in corporate and securities laws matters, as well as issues of corporate governance involving shareholders and boards of directors. Prior to that (from 1963-67) he was an attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. Since first becoming a Virgin Grand Villa owner in 1997, he has been enjoying St. John with his family (including children and grandchildren) as a welcome refuge from his day-to-day work as a lawyer. He was motivated to seek membership on the Virgin Grand Villas Board out of concern, shared with many other villa unit owners, over rapidly rising maintenance costs and certain of Starwood’s priorities that appear to be at variance with the interests of the owners.
We have each set up a dedicated email address to communicate with owners.
Phil Schrag -
phil.schrag@gmail.com
Bob Werbel -
robert.werbel@yahoo.com
June 2010 "
Beaglemom3 Owner WSJ week 32 Villa 3319
