Candidate for Tolomato Island Board of Directors
Steve Anderson
My name is Steve Anderson. I am announcing my candidacy for the 2024 TIPOA Board of Directors. I am looking forward to serving our community by helping to develop a collaborative, transparent, and open administrative environment. My focus will be to enable the committee structure, by utilizing effective leaders, and giving them the resources and responsibilities to meet our goals. And importantly, while I will represent EVERY owner, I am going to pay particular attention to the largest Tolomato owner block, the non-residents. We seem to be either taken for granted or dealt with unresponsively.
Currently non-residents, my wife Shelley and I decided to make Tolomato our home so we can live closer to our grandchildren and enjoy what Tolomato and Southeast Georgia offer a semi-retired active couple. We are in the initial phases of planning and building our dream home. That recent experience has motivated me to be an instrument for change and good for what clearly seems a fragmented and dysfunctional Tolomato administration.
I believe an effective Board must demonstrate the ability to:
-manage and perform its responsibilities by listening to ALL community members equally without bias.
-adhere to a budget, and only spend association funds wisely and not waste funds on non-essential legal matters.
-limit Board responsibilities to those they are specifically charged with in the Covenants and By-laws or charged with by the owners.
These abilities are fundamental. I will bring these needed abilities, and other leadership attributes to the TIPOA Board. I ask for your vote to help make a well-functioning TIPOA Board of Directors a reality for our community.
I have a strong background in creating and managing highly successful businesses. After earning my BS in Computer Science, I worked for companies such as Apple Computer, Oracle, and Arthur Andersen's professional consulting services firm. I founded a multi-million-dollar dental software company in the late 1990s. I then pursued an advanced education as a Doctor of Dental Medicine and founded a highly successful cosmetic and dental surgery practice in Atlanta. I have always worked in professions and industries that require professionalism, compassion, openness, and complex diagnosis skills followed by executing real life solutions that demand personal and professional accountability. I also have extensive experience in volunteering at a local church and the Boy Scouts (as an Eagle Scout), and most recently—for the last decade – I am the formative member and current elected Board president of a retail Commercial Owners Association (COA) in metro Atlanta
I am an approachable but no nonsense "get it done" kind of person. I listen to those around me and look for improvement opportunities that make sense and ultimately benefit the community that I work and live in. I truly believe that all of us, if we work together, openly, and reasonably, can make Tolomato Island an even more wonderful community for ALL its members.
As your Board member, I will work with new Board members and owners alike to:
- Unify the community by creating transparency and implementing meaningful open Board communications.
- Move to focusing on serving its members.
- Dedicate the Board to focusing on its specific duties and responsibilities as clearly outlined in the correct interpretation of the Covenants and By-laws.
- Establish accountability of individual board member actions and put in place rules that identify and restrict financial gains from insider information and clear conflicts of interest when carrying out board duties.
- Establish committee protocols and committee charters for self-governance that encourages community participation while promoting the community.
- Establish pragmatic approaches to solving community issues and/or problems.
- Govern for the needs of the owners of Tolomato by listening to and carrying out what our community desires.
As your Board member, I will also work with all stakeholders to:
- Immediately conduct a thorough financial and operational audit and establish regular audits of all association finances focusing on revenue and collections and regularly publishing audit results.
- Develop a meaningful Master Plan that addresses infrastructure concerns, amenities, and preservation of historic monuments and the community pond and our natural landscapes.
- Make improvements that increase values in our homes, lots or investments.
I respectfully ask for your support and vote to become a 2024 TIPOA board member.
Yours Truly,
Steve Anderson
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