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Text Box: Originally planned as a quarterly event to allow the Kona Kai residents an opportunity to fellowship over a meal, the DNO has moved by popular demand from quarterly to every other month and then to monthly. On our get together last month we had 19 in attendance. In scheduling our last meeting this month, the 16th, we failed to

Text Box: consider “spring break” and our number understandably went down to 12. We were pleased to meet and greet new owners Harry and Linda Spears as well as Ron Garlock’s brother Warren Garlock and his wife Vicki. At the end of each night we decide when we want to meet again and where. Our next DNO is scheduled

Text Box: for April 20th., 6:30 P.M. at Jose’s Cantina. It’s Dutch treat and you are welcome to bring friends or family. Alumni of Kona Kai is always welcome. We’ve had most on Thursday nights, but will consider any

Text Box: Fontenot’s and the Holbrook’s, are loosing substantial amounts of land. Cost to them for maintenance and remediation is very high. We can’t do anything about the erosion that takes place as a result of barge traffic, but we can help on the canal side. All we need to do is slow

Text Box: Nearly all of the Kona Kai Board of Directors have in the past had to deal with the speed and wakes produced by boats using our canal. Those efforts have paid off and that’s good. Now we need to focus on a related issue that you may not be aware of. The two lots facing the ICW, the

Text Box: down to a proper slow speed before we enter the canal, and wait till we completely clear the canal when exiting. The appearance of their concrete gives a false impression of substantial protection. These are the only two owners having to deal with this costly problem, and they could use our help! Be a good

Text Box: and Bay down to the ICW. Initial inquiries were not very favorable. It seems as though there is a justification for erecting a new stop sign, but it’s not to control speed. That is seen as an issue of the proper speed limit being set and as an enforcement issue. We can individually contact

Text Box: the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office and request additional officer scrutiny and patrols. Other than that, speed bumps might be an option , but at our expense. The BOD is continuing to investigate options and alternatives. Let the BOD know if

Text Box: Ronnie Scheck among others have asked the Board of Directors to look into the prospect of getting a stop sign, or three, at the intersection of Bay street and Boyt road. In looking at this problem, it is really an issue of trying to control the speed of traffic from the intersection of Boyt

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