As of today, Windermere Oaks Water Supply Corporation has gone 139 days without holding a board meeting. That is one‑third of an entire year with no agenda, no minutes, no public discussion, and no opportunity for members to ask questions about the sale to Central States Water Resources (CSWR).
This is not normal. This is not routine. And according to WOWSC’s own meeting‑minutes archive, this is unprecedented. In all years where minutes were properly kept, the gaps between meetings were:
- 30–60 days in most years
- 70–90 days occasionally
- Rarely above 100 days
- Never as long as 139 days
The current lapse is therefore the longest documented period without a meeting in WOWSC’s recorded history. How is that for Transparency from the current Board?
What are you hiding?
Why This Silence Matters Now More Than Ever
SpicewoodNews.com has already documented how Aqua Texas customers are experiencing:
- 50% higher bills despite lower usage
- Wastewater charges for water that never entered the sewer
- Rate tiers jumping 66% to 92% in a single year
- Neighborhoods filing protests with the Public Utility Commission
These are real consequences of the private sectors’ takeover of public sector utilities, backed as they are by private‑equity concerns far removed from Windermere Oaks.
CSWR uses the same model: Acquire → consolidate → impose regional rates → extract revenue.
Windermere Oaks members deserve to know whether CSWR will follow the same pattern. But without board meetings, they cannot ask — and the board cannot be required to answer.
Questions That Should Have Been Addressed Months Ago
A board meeting is where members should have been able to ask:
- Will wastewater bills resemble the $400–$800 Aqua Texas bills seen statewide?
- What protections will members once local control is gone?
- Why was the sale conducted without a contract, valuation, or fair‑value analysis?
- Why did the board stop meeting immediately after the sale process began?
- When will WO members get their promised equity buy in checks?
These questions are fundamental. The board’s silence is not.
Windermere Oaks Deserves Better
A board meeting will not undo the sale. But it will force accountability.
It will require the board to explain what happened, why it happened, and what comes next. It will give members a chance to ask questions that should have been answered months ago. It will restore at least a fraction of the transparency that disappeared the moment the sale process began.
139 days is long enough. Windermere Oaks deserves a board that meets, answers questions, and respects the people it serves.