Campaign Materials
July 19, 2025
Results of the 2025 Election:
| Candidate |
Number of votes |
Elected to board? |
| _______________ |
_______________ |
_______________ |
| Renata Gozdziak |
108 |
Yes |
| Jenna Fliszaer |
100 |
Yes |
| Steven Dowd |
98 |
Yes |
| Patrick O'Donnell |
96 |
Yes |
| Venkat Iyer |
89 |
Yes |
| Ted Thuli |
83 |
No |
| Gene Hartless |
81 |
No |
| Srinivas Sami |
85 |
No |
| Alan Rommes |
72 |
No |
| Bonnie Laslo |
47 |
No |
Here's an analysis, explaining principles and not details about various
candidates.
For 2024 campaign information, look here,
Campaign Statements:
This is a list of five four candidates who can be expected to work
together as a team, unencumbered by any members of the existing
board, recommended shortly before the 2025 election by Carolyn Marquis.
Of the four recommended candidates, two were elected and two were not.
VENKAT IYER:
Professional Engineer by day and Board President Captains Cove in
spare time managing all post storm renovations.
Leadership and contracting expertise.
Highlight that experience with storm infrastructure
renovation list - sea wall, pool, roof, and milestone
repairs.
Getting things done is his middle name.
See also his full campaign statement here
and the statement that he filed with his candidate declaration
here.
TED THULI:
Community Leader Businessman and Metal Fabricator for
multi-million dollar stainless steel fabrication and dairy plant design
company.
Designs and builds coast to coast and has extensive export/import
experience.
Motorcycle connoisseur and collector.
See also his full campaign statement here.
Ted suggests using a search engine for
further information about him. Here's a
link.
Finally, see the statement that he filed with his candidate declaration
here.
JENNA FLISZAR:
Assistant City Solicitor
Owns law firm and is serving currently as Director for her
Bar Association; also past Treasurer and President-Elect.
This lawyer has spent her career fighting for fiscal transparency,
compliance, and fighting for justice for all. Her leadership in
contract negotiations is her superpower.
See also her full campaign statement here
and the statement that she filed with her candidate declaration
here.
SRINIVAS "SRI" SAMA:
30 years Software Architect at IBM, deep Background in cutting-edge
technologies to streamline processes at various properties across
Florida.
Also experienced with condo statutes and by-laws as the secretary of
a condominium association in Daytona Beach Shores and previously
Vice President at a similar condo-hotel in Orlando.
See also his full campaign statement
here.
Finally, see the statement that he filed with his candidate declaration
here.
The Case For Voting For Only Four Board Members
There are five positions on the board, and we get five votes. Perhaps we have four clear favorites.
What do we do about our fifth vote?
Remember that we are not voting for five candidates because we hope that our favorite
five will win. We are voting for four candidates and possibly a fifth hoping that our
favorite four will win and are not as concerned about who the fifth elected candidate is.
Decades ago, my then-girlfriend and I were discussing some bond issue proposals that were
on the state ballot. “No, I won’t vote for all of them, because I don’t want them all to pass.”
As if her one vote on each one would decide passage or defeat of all of them! She should have
(as I did), when considering one bond issue, made the best guess about how the others would be
voted on, then voted yes or no accordingly.
Don’t make the same mistake. Given that others will vote in various ways, what should we do
ourselves?
Suppose our favorite four are expected to have a narrow majority, and some of the other
candidates are very close to receiving enough votes to defeat them. Vote for the four and
choose one additional for a fifth vote, and you may be pushing the vote total for that one high enough to cost us a seat of the favorite four. That’s bad. There is no compensating benefit to selecting one of the others to fill that fifth seat.
That’s why we should vote for the favorite four candidates, only, if we have four clear favorites.
Campaign Statements From Existing Board Members and Other Candidates
Never be content with passion and a stated intent as a rationale for choosing a candidate.
Instead, seek corroborated skill and a track record of actually having done things meritoriously.
Here's an incomplete list of concerns about which you should ask
existing and former board members, current in 2025 but the principles are timeless:
- Lack of access to financial information by all board members, leading to preventable
frustration of the minority (and heroic) members
- No clearly specified chain of custody of money from assessment revenue to repairs and renovations
- Refusal to seek legal remedy/restitution for known negligent financial management
by prior board members
- Complaints by board members of major workload incompatible with refusal to accept
volunteers to committees to assist with such workload, including my being rejected
from the Legal Committee
- Poor communication, including but not limited to unexplained failure to purchase a six-digit
text-message number that can be used for mass communications easily and quickly,
as to announce hurricane damage
- Lack of known negotiations with our neighbor to the south about a shared
coaxial or fiberoptic cable so that we can offer its hotel seminar videos on our
room TV sets (and obtain a good customer base) if the hotel decides to offer it to us
when it has too few rooms for a large convention (we need to hurry this because it’s
easier to bury cables in torn-up ground than in a finished building)
- Known difficulty with Tomoka, including but not limited to mismanaged/lost payments
by us owners and lack of chain-of-custody/responsibility of repair complaints (lack of
repairs themselves is not always the fault of Tomoka, but failure to respond at all to
meritorious calls for repairs is)
- No known interest by the board in trying to revise the governing documents, by-laws, and
easement agreement to take effect after the developer's departure, to prevent legal and
accounting messes in the future
These candidates are on the board now:
Patrick O'Donnell
Renata Gozdziak
Steven Dowd
These candidates are not on the board now, but have been:
Alan Rommes
Bonnie Laslo
This candidate is not and has not been on the board:
Gene Hartless
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