Buckskin Heights Community
Buckskinheights.com
Buckskinheights.com
The history behind multiple Buckskin heights websites
In 2007, the BHRA board reviewed the idea of having a professionally maintained website for housing historical documents, BHRA and Fire Committee meeting minutes, communications and general trivia. A member of the community volunteered to design, maintain and absorb ALL COSTS related to the site, Buckskinheights.com.(hosting, maintenance, domain registration and updates). It was understood that the information posted would be educational, informational and archival in nature and free of any oversite of B,H.R.A. board members.
Buckskinheights.com was accepted by the board and officially announced Aug. 17, 2008 (2008 Annual Meeting Minutes) and continued, in one form or another, up to today.
In 2013 the sitting board made the proposal to make an amendment to create a website (Buckskinheights.org) that is managed and controlled solely by the board or a person(s) of their choosing. (By-Law change). For a short time, the original Buckskinheights.com was listed under Community Resources but was taken down and this warning posted : "Similar documents published on other websites may not be accurate or up-to-date" . Imagine these websites as news source's, one being published by the board and the other by a member of the community.
Members of the Buckskin Heights community deserve to have a source of archived association documents and non-board influenced viewpoints and as of July 2022 this site has been restructured for public viewing, research, information and comments.
As of 12/23 the B.H.R.A board appointed the webmaster of this site to update the look and feel of the Buckskinheights.org, but after 60 days of bickering and nitpicking this webmaster resigned and will continue to show why the official Buckskin Heights is not fulfilling its obligations to the residents of Buckskinheights.
I do not agree that any sitting board should have complete control over all group communications without total disclosure, rotating management and transparency. ( websites, IE: Buckskinheights.org or group communications IE: BigTent, now Groups.io). I am a firm believer that, just like the Fire Prevention Committee, Buckskin Heights should have a communications committee, with members of the community managing the sites versus a select few controlling all modes of information accessable to the residents.