Leeming to run for Village POA board of directors

Frank Leeming, an 18-year-resident of Hot Springs Village, has filed to be a candidate for the Property Owners’ Association’s board of directors. Three seats on the seven-member board will be up for election next spring.

Leeming, who was editor of the Hot Spring Village Voice from 2005-08, said he would work with the board to bring the delinquent-assessment problem under control. A recent POA report showed owners of 7,490 Village lots were more than 60 days past due in paying their monthly assessments, and owed $5.9 million.

One way to deal with the problem, Leeming said, is to improve the Village real-estate market and curb declining lot prices. He strongly supports a $400,000 marketing campaign for 2012 presented last week.

Leeming praised the current board’s open presentation of the 2012 Village budget and said all phases of the Village government should open to the public. He said improving communication between the POA and resident and non-resident property owners is a key to good government.

Since building a home in the Village in 1993, Leeming has been on the boards of the Village Concerts’ Association and Village Community Foundation, and serves on its endowments committee. He is chair of the Friends of Coronado Center Library and was chair of the POA’s publications and communications committee.

Before moving to the Village, Leeming and his wife, Joyce, owned a newspaper and printing company in the San Juan Islands in Washington State. He was publisher of the Kingsport (Tenn.) Times-News, was a news and circulation executive with The Philadelphia Inquirer and was a reporter and editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, newspapers in Illinois and Life magazine.


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