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49 posts, newest first, copied from the original site. Many posts are photos of letters and notices — tap a card to open the full image.

June 4, 2024

Watercolor Painting Classes

September 12, 2022

Permanent Bathroom Update

Revised September 21

July 26, 2022

Did You Know? Permanent Bathrooms at the Beach.

The following are some interesting items from the July 2022 BOD meeting:

October 13, 2021

Suissevale Marina Boat Dock Fees

Below is an excerpt from the November 2020 BOD meeting minutes. Note: The meeting minutes are still listed as “Draft” even though they contain a reference to a vote that unanimously accepted them.

July 27, 2021

Did You Know? LS is for open discussion.

During this years Annual Meeting that took place in the Pavilion, Board Member Mike McManus continued to refer to Love Suissevale as the “Hate Group”. Love Suissevale is dedicated to sharing important information with the membership…

June 22, 2021

Did You Know? LS helped make $18,500 for Suissevale.

May 2, 2021

Upcoming elections and the marina docks

Please consider voting for new board members, listed below, who will work to make a more inclusive and fair community for all.

March 1, 2021

Join the BOD

Annual Board of Director Elections

January 25, 2021

Welcome to 2021

Here is hoping that Covid will be brought under control with everyone gradually getting vaccinated, and the world returning to normal.

December 18, 2020

Waterfront Garage at Shore

During the September 2020 BOD meeting the Waterfront “Garage” project was approved. The minutes reflect the cost of the project was $15,000: $12,000 for the Garage ($1,000 more than the previous estimate) and $3,000 for site work. The…

November 13, 2020

Suissevale Dock Survey

The Survey was offered to members of Suissevale on 8/29/20 to 9/4/20 via email or Facebook. There were 145 responses. 16 responses were removed as duplicates. Respondents were asked if they had a dock or not and whether they would change…

November 13, 2020

Suissevale Dock Survey

The Survey was offered to members of Suissevale on 8/29/20 to 9/4/20 via email or Facebook. There were 145 responses. 16 responses were removed as duplicates. Respondents were asked if they had a dock or not and whether they would change…

October 5, 2020

BOD Approves Waterfront Garage Despite Survey

September 17, 2020

Saturday's POASI Agenda

The agenda for the 9-19-20 meeting was posted. Conte Street and the Waterfront Shed are both back on the agenda. Conte Street was voted down in April. See below:

August 9, 2020

Time to Address Common Property

Regardless who is elected to the Board of Directors this year, fixing the dock assignment system is long overdue. Creating a fair dock policy may seem impossible but it’s not. If people created a problem, people could fix the problem…

July 8, 2020

A Candidate's Perspective

Love Suissevale was born a couple of years ago out of frustration with the lack of communication and openness to new ideas and ways of thinking. I think its "born on day" may have been the first BOD meeting that my wife and I…

June 30, 2020

Good Stewardship

This past year the Love Suissevale Committee has shared several communications on different topics to enlighten Suissevale owners on issues and projects that are in various stages of discussion and implementation. This information can be…

June 2, 2020

Recent Suissevale BOD Newsletter

I was happy to see a newsletter posted on the Suissevale Web site dated May 25, 2020. See:Suissevale.com Newsletters. After reading it I still have lots of questions and concerns.

May 20, 2020

POASI BOD Proposes Dues Increase

The current BOD has chosen not to engage the membership in the decision-making processes. Use your vote in the upcoming election to elect members that will be Good Stewards of the community and provide openness and transparency.

May 17, 2020

Member reply to BOD Newsletter

Suissevale owners,

May 11, 2020

Suissevale Board Members Attendance - Rules apply to Some

At the February 15, 2020 monthly Suissevale Board of Directors meeting, I asked a question concerning Mike Donahue’s' violation of the Boards attendance policy.

May 8, 2020

Reply to John Barba

We have a Board of Directors that is out of touch with the members of its own association. Our proof of this is our recent Good Stewards Survey conducted among Suissevale members in April. You can read and download it here. We encourage…

April 26, 2020

Water, Water Everywhere

During the board meeting held on April 18th there was discussion on the Suissevale water system. The discussion centered around leak detection, who fixes them, household water turn off and turn on and who pays, who owns the water shut off…

April 9, 2020

Ginny Davis Petition Update #2

I received notice from the court that the associations Motion to dismiss the petition as amended will be heard on May 29th. As that date is later the the date the ballots go out, I will have to file a restraining order to have the judge…

April 2, 2020

Suissevale Owned Land

Over the past couple of years we have attended several BOD meetings. At each board meeting printed financial information is provided for the attendees in handout form. These handouts provide a snapshot of the financial workings of…

March 25, 2020

Shed and Beach Parking Survey

Survey Method

March 16, 2020

Ginny Davis Petition Update

Many people have asked LoveSuissevale what is happening about Ginny Davis' petition. Before the March BOD meeting was cancelled, we asked Ginny for an update. Here is what Ginny sent to us:

March 8, 2020

Member Letter to Suissevale Members

We have recently learned that the POASI BOD is denying Ginny Davis’ petition to run for the Suissevale BOD.

February 25, 2020

Rebuttal to Suissevale’s Open Letter of January 24, 2020

As some are already aware, I am the member who was removed from the Board at the January meeting. I was removed because, after giving the Board several months to investigate the policy of not making the voter checklist available to the…

February 21, 2020

Waterfront Garage Planning

After reading & hearing about a proposed waterfront garage and its location in the waterfront area near the Kayak racks, we sent a request to the Board of Directors that they poll the members for feedback on their plans for the…

February 17, 2020

BOD Elections 2020

We found out at the BOD meeting yesterday that the Petitions for this year's election are due back to the office on Friday, March 20! (day before the March BOD meeting). This topic was not on the Agenda yesterday and no one on the…

January 6, 2020

Capital Improvement Projects

My wife Cathy & I recently saw some of the docks in the Marina being torn down and became curious about how capital improvement projects like this come to be. We have only owned a home in Suissevale for two years; and after reading…

November 15, 2019

Notes from September and October BOD meetings

Several members attend BOD meetings every month and want to share certain items that they feel are important. Audio and video recordings of these meetings are not allowed, nor are there any means for members to dial in and listen. The BOD…

September 20, 2019

Email sent to the POASI Board

The following email was sent to the POASI Board by Mark DeJon who has served to consolidate questions from Suissevale Members.

July 19, 2019

Lots Can Happen in One Year

This marks one year since we opened the LoveSuissevale.com website. We thank all of you who have read and followed the website.

June 30, 2019

Vote by July 3rd @12 PM

Dear Suissevale Neighbor,

May 12, 2019

Response to POASI President

Dear Suissevale Neighbor,

March 29, 2019

2nd Letter to Suissevale Members

Dear Suissevale Neighbor,

February 20, 2019

Info from February Board Meeting

Several members of the LoveSuissevale committee attended the February 16th meeting of the POASI board meeting.

January 23, 2019

The Last Year

It has been one year since I flew up to NH from my Florida winter residence to present my ideas for Suissevale to the Board of Directors. I had hoped to get buy-in to the idea that ALL Suissevale members should be treated equally with…

October 22, 2018

September and October BOD Meeting Notes

This provides notes from the last two POASI board meetings.

September 12, 2018

August Board Meeting

We have not had time to post about the August Board meeting, as we were spending most of our time developing the Suissevale Survey. You can take the Survey Here.

August 17, 2018

More Input from Love Suissevale Members

Our purpose is to expand the discussion on Suissevale issues by reaching as many Suissevale owners as possible.

August 10, 2018

Can POASI Board Change By-Laws?

Should LoveSuissevale members hire a lawyer to review the By-Laws. Turns out that two of our fellow members have already done that. Here’s the story.

August 3, 2018

August 18 By-Laws Discussion

The next board meeting is August 18 at 8am (See Agenda), and the Board will be discussing changes to the By-Laws. They have posted the new By-Laws on the Suissevale website and said at the annual board meeting that they will post the…

July 6, 2018

Text of Letter sent to members on July 6

Dear Suissevale Neighbor,

June 19, 2018

An "unofficial" Suissevale Site

First read the some history blog.

June 19, 2018

Some History June 19, 2018

This blog was established after I approached the Suissevale Board and presented a proposal to save most of the Suissevale members a considerable amount of money.

June 19, 2018

Open Letter to Suissevale Members May 15, 2018

May 15, 2018