7/6/25 CDD Town Hall meeting update - abridged
The comments in black are my take on what was said at the CDD town hall. The comments in red are corrections to inaccurate information said at the meeting.
The CDD held a town hall meeting on July 6, 2025. Dan Leventry, Tim Nargi, Dean Walters and Steve Finley were present. The meeting started with opening comments by Dan Leventry. He threw out key phrases and words like, not a witch hunt, not personal, professional, accountability, fiduciary, transparency etc.
Three minutes later in Dan’s opening comments, Dan related that a resident was introduced to the community, believed to be a helpful individual, but he was a paid consultant for one or maybe two companies. Dan indicated a bid was received and approved by on-site staff. This bid was then paid by GMS even though the bid was never approved at a CDD meeting. He said you will see a theme here with Best Price Roofing. Dan continued, stating, in March, only two bids were received. One didn’t meet the scope of work, but up to 15 other bids were received and not shown to the Board. Lower priced bids existed, and we have seen them now.
The witch hunt is now officially in play, even though Dan said he was going to be professional. First of all, only 50% deposit of $14,500 was paid. Second, no documentation was provided to support these allegations. Third, the data dump on the CDD website has no supporting documentation for these allegations.
Dan related how, in April 2025, the district insurance claim was mostly denied. At that month’s CDD meeting, the attorney recommended a structural engineer be hired as well as an independent insurance attorney. The Board approved the structural engineer but delayed hiring the attorney until we received a full report.
For the record, there was no meeting in April due to lack of a quorum. The Board did not vote on hiring a structural engineer in May, yet the CDD attorney hired one. There has been no discussion of hiring outside counsel to fight the insurance company even though the report was received in May.
During the town hall, Dan referenced the June CDD meeting, saying legal counsel recommended terminating Best Price Roofing’s contract. Dan said the motion was blocked.
At the June meeting, the attorney talked about bids and specifically stated that it is not her place to say whether or not to delay the roofing contract. The motion to hire Best Price Roofing passed 3-1. There was no motion which was blocked.
Finally, Dan goes on to say the motion that passed at the June meeting to bid out the GMS and attorney’s contracts, is invalid since it was not on the agenda and no audience comments were taken.
Florida statute 286.0114 that talks about public meetings and the opportunity to be heard and says, “An action taken by a board or commission which is found to be in violation of this section is not void as a result of that violation.” In my opinion, Dan will do anything, including lying at the town hall, to create his narrative to distract the community from what really happened and who is to blame.
In summary, what did we learn from the town hall beside Board members made excuses, said they could have done better, said they learned a lot and blamed lots of other people for their mistakes?
It is very simple who should be held accountable.
1) GMS is our management company with over 250 districts in the state of Florida. Many districts managed by GMS have had damage caused by hurricanes. Why didn’t GMS provide their best practices in dealing with these situations? Why didn’t the Board ask GMS?
2) Our attorney and management company did not advise the Board to follow Florida statute 190.033 https://m.flsenate.gov/Statutes/190.033 stipulating a job which costs more than $195,000 is required to be bid out. In order for it to be bid out, a scope of work has to be defined so everyone who bids on the job is bidding on the same thing, and you receive an apples-to-apples response.
3) Dan Leventry has been on our Board for six years and the Rivercrest CDD for eight years. He should know this. But worse than that, GMS and our licensed attorney are paid to know this. Neither GMS nor the attorney said anything. Dan Leventry is the Chairman. Instead of taking responsibility and saying the buck stops here, he is creating conspiracy theories, dividing this Board and dividing the community.
DAN LEVENTRY NEEDS TO RESIGN!
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There is much more detail, including audio clips and documents, to support my statements. Please look at my unabridged town hall update for the detail.