To: La Colina AGM 2024
From: The Committee serving in the past period (2022-24): Roy Crewdson, Martin Watkins, Stuart Rose, Val Thomas and Jorgen Bugge
Date: February 22nd 2024
Issue: Proposal for a program for the coming period and election of President, Vice President and Committee members
This proposal for the 2024 AGM contains the following:
1. The proposed program we want to promote for the coming period
2) Proposed persons to be elected
3) Getting the needed support for our proposed program and election
1) Program (what we want to achieve with the management team proposed for election):
We aim at the continuation of the culture we have done our best to bring about to La Colina since the start-up of La Colina Owners Association in November 2019 and further into our period of service in the Committee during 2022-24, when it comes to the following:
a) A team working closely together: The President and Committee members proposed here will work close together as a team of equals. The proposed team is to be considered as a package, where the Board of Owners being present at the AGM either vote for the whole team or elect somebody else.
b) We aim for transparency and openness: The proposed team can be contacted via email, (committee.lacolina@gmail.com), in person, or on our owner’s information sharing meetings. We also want to continue using the methods for communication, utilising modern IT-channels like email, our private Facebook group, website and also video-conferences if and when considered as appropriate.
c) We will continue to adhere to the Committee mandate, decided on the AGM 2020, and by this achieve an open and democratic governance, where the whole Committee works as a team, discussing issues and pursuing a mutual agreement of the best possible resolutions on any issues on the table. We want the Committee meetings to be well prepared with a pre-made agenda and a list of clear actions decided for implementation and follow up between our meetings. To support the needed efficiency and close communication and follow up with the Administrator, we will continue to have the Committee meetings in the Administrator office.
d) We will continue to adhere to the policy for Systematic Maintenance & Repair (M&R), decided on the AGM 2020, and by this achieve a proactive and preventive way of planning, prioritising, and executing our M&R activities. The aim is to save cost, increase quality, uphold, and improve the robustness and value in our complex and reduce risks for negative surprises and severe damage in La Colina. See details on the decided policy here.
2) Persons proposed for the different roles
We believe that the following list of persons represents good and proven experience, competence, and motivation to fulfil the assignment listed above:
Role Name Relevant background
President: Roy Crewdson Has been President in LC for many years, being responsible for big, critical maintenance & repair projects. Served also two years as chairman of the Owners Association. Roy also lives permanently in La Colina and has a wide collection of local contacts.
Roy is an experienced team player, a considerate and active listener, as well as a unifying figure in any meeting he attends.
Vice President: Martin Watkins Has been a Committee member in LC for several periods. Has good competence in electricity and general maintenance & repair. Martin has been a key person in driving and implementing our Systematic Maintenance & Repair policy. Worked in the Admin group of the Owners Association during 2019-21.
Treasurer: Stuart Rose Has been Treasurer for the Committee for 10 years. Worked in the Admin group of the Owners Association during 2019-21. Apart from this, Stuart has been an active and supportive generalist member of the Committee for many years.
Committee member: Val Thomas Has supported the Committee by making minutes from their meetings during several periods. Served as a Committee member during 2022-24. Apart from being a generalist Committee member, she has been particularly active in the maintenance and improvements on the garden areas and the green plants around the pool area.
Committee member: Terry Minett Is one of the persons with the longest period of ownership in La Colina. Has been a positive, clear, and active person in several meetings with the Committee and the OA-period.
3) Getting the needed support for our proposed program and election:
If you support the program and the election persons proposed and listed above, please consider giving us your support, either by showing up at the AGM in person, or by giving your proxy vote to one of us or another neighbour that shares our views.
Our simplified Proxy Vote by email
We hope to see as many owners as possible in person on our coming AGM on March 12th.
If you cannot make it, please consider sending your proxy vote via email (in Spanish and English) by the structure/ format explained on this page:
https://www.la-colina.org/proxy-vote-for-agm-egm-esp-eng/
Please use the proxy vote email (see link above) for La Colina and name a trusted neighbour as your representative.
You need to know the name and the email address of the person with whom you trust with your proxy vote.
If you want to give your proxy vote to one of the persons proposed as a Committee member in the table above, you can either do it by using his or her respective email addresses if you know it.
As an alternative you can simply use the email address of the Committee (committee.lacolina@gmail.com) and name one of the proposed persons from the list above when you submit the proxy vote form.
4) See also: AGM in the bigger context
Before you enter the AGM, it can be good to get the basic understanding, or just repeat the knowledge if there was some time since you had it clearly in your mind – on how the authorities are distributed in La Colina, what is decided on the AGM, the authority of the President, Committee and Administrator vs. the AGM, which laws and rules we all must abide etc.
On this page, you can get or repeat this basic understanding in plain Spanish/English.