I reluctantly agreed to serve another term on SkySail’s Board last December.

It’s a great way to leave my condo better than I found it.

But it also feels like I’m toiling at the State Senate again.

We have 121 “voters” here who own Units.

We have 6 other Board Members whose opinions count as much as mine. 

We have annual Budget deliberations.  Our voters love more spending; they hate higher assessments.

We adopt Resolutions to set policy like the one that narrowly passed in April to allow Group Pool Parties.

We have a couple of outstanding staffers:  Tina and Marvin. 

We pay close attention to ethics, transparency and being responsive.

We keep an excellent website.

I’d admit that there are a couple of differences from NY:  we face hurricanes rather than floods here.  And we don’t get paid a nickel to serve on the Board.

But overall it’s déjà vue!