1.During a board meeting last summer Liz Wilson said she represents the land owners not the people who have homes. She was elected by the land owners, she was called on that and told that as a board member she represents all of us. She never did agree to that.
2.From the very start they harassed our road maintenance operator who had a written contract to maintain our roads and do snow removal. He has never been allowed to run the front end loader only the grader, and they hired another operator at 18.00 per hour to run the loader without posting the job. The new operator is a friend of the chair of the board.
3.Just last week approximately Jan 8th they terminated the contract for our road maintenance operator for reasons not valid. As an example they said he was not sufficiently trained to run equipment but yet they gave him the option to return on the 28th to renegotiate his contract or become an employee of the park.
4.They cancelled the security patrol contract and refused to pay the bill for services of the contract right in the middle of hunting season.
5.They dropped the fire ban in the middle of hunting season and never put it back in place. We are having a very dry winter and it needs to be re activated.
6.There were approximately 60 volunteers that had almost 10000 hours of time in 2011. There are now roughly 12 volunteers.
7. They dismissed an appointed board member without the required 2/3 majority vote of the membership. They consulted the FP attorney and were advised they could not do that so they consulted an attorney whom one of the board members had a previous relationship with and would tell them what they wanted to hear. This resulted in our attorney resigning apparently due to the unprofessional nature of the action, violating the legal code of conduct. The “new” attorney has a lower rating than our attorney.8.Advice from volunteers on how to save money on equipment parts etc. were ignored resulting in over expenditures.3.Just last week approximately Jan 8th they terminated the contract for our road maintenance operator for reasons not valid. As an example they said he was not sufficiently trained to run equipment but yet they gave him the option to return on the 28th to renegotiate his contract or become an employee of the park.
4.They cancelled the security patrol contract and refused to pay the bill for services of the contract right in the middle of hunting season.
5.They dropped the fire ban in the middle of hunting season and never put it back in place. We are having a very dry winter and it needs to be re activated.
6.There were approximately 60 volunteers that had almost 10000 hours of time in 2011. There are now roughly 12 volunteers.
9.They tried to cancel the purchase of equipment to do our road work which would have put the park in a situation with John Deer. The purchase of this equipment should save us hundreds of thousands of dollars in the long run.
10. A new board member took on the position of chairman without a vote of ALL the board members claiming two of the members didn’t vote. Those two were never advised the vote was to take place. This is a pattern that has continued.
11. They recently replaced the board member they voted off (illegally) with one of the road chairs, that person is now wearing two hats in direct violation of existing By Laws which they elected to ignore on a technicality. That By Law prohibits board members from being officers or committee chairs simultaneous to holding a board position. This By Law is currently being violated by three of the board members. Probably because there are not enough volunteer to spread the work load. Such an incestuous arrangement is not good for the membership and is exactly what the By Laws were designed to prevent. This appointment gives the board a super majority enabling changes to the By Laws without constructive opposing viewpoints. They are changing the By Laws as we speak to meet whatever their agenda may be.12.They voted the 1st road chair off because he would not agree to go with their plans.
13. They accused past board members (ironically including two current members) of misappropriation of funds and when the final audit was completed, not only was no money missing but the association was tens of thousands of dollars to the good. This was apparently done as a vendetta against the previous administration and to get them elected by creating a false emergency. No apology has been forthcoming post audit
B. They have joined in with a disgruntled landowner to attack the associations past efforts to procure an emergency water supply for wild land fire- fighting by installing a cistern in Wagon Creek. This work was done to be proactive in protecting all of our properties in the event of a major fire. The cistern was installed by the association under the auspices and approval of the state water inspector for this area, yet they have sabotaged the association and made it subject to intense scrutiny by any and all federal and state agencies in order to find some technicality to punish the association for these efforts. The motivation for this action by“our” representatives should be seriously questioned by the membership.
C. They paid RMS $20,000 for an invoice that was not valid. The previous RAC had checked all charges and all past invoices and said no more money was due but these folks decided to pay it anyway. No one knows why.
D. A sitting board member used their vote hostage to get their road improved ignoring the RAC priority list by conditioning their approval to purchase the front end loader on having their road done first.
E. There is also a blog that is monitored/ owned by Liz Wilson. This blog contains false information about landowners which in turn divides the park and influences board elections. This for one should not be monitored or owned by a board member and if we want to bring the community together should be shut down.
F. Somehow we need to find ways to bring the community together. If we continue down this path we will possibly fail and or have constant bickering like we have had for years. Boards should be required to overlap for 2 months minimum to review past projects, status of projects in progress and a ten year plan that cannot be changed by the incoming board. It could however be improved on by adding to it to create a stronger and more harmonious outcome for all. This is a wonderful place to live, let’s not ruin it with all this division
Jane
10. A new board member took on the position of chairman without a vote of ALL the board members claiming two of the members didn’t vote. Those two were never advised the vote was to take place. This is a pattern that has continued.
11. They recently replaced the board member they voted off (illegally) with one of the road chairs, that person is now wearing two hats in direct violation of existing By Laws which they elected to ignore on a technicality. That By Law prohibits board members from being officers or committee chairs simultaneous to holding a board position. This By Law is currently being violated by three of the board members. Probably because there are not enough volunteer to spread the work load. Such an incestuous arrangement is not good for the membership and is exactly what the By Laws were designed to prevent. This appointment gives the board a super majority enabling changes to the By Laws without constructive opposing viewpoints. They are changing the By Laws as we speak to meet whatever their agenda may be.12.They voted the 1st road chair off because he would not agree to go with their plans.
13. They accused past board members (ironically including two current members) of misappropriation of funds and when the final audit was completed, not only was no money missing but the association was tens of thousands of dollars to the good. This was apparently done as a vendetta against the previous administration and to get them elected by creating a false emergency. No apology has been forthcoming post audit
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A. They paid thousands of dollars in county taxes unnecessarily on the new road equipment because they thought the association claim to exemption was wrong even though there was legal opinion it was a valid claim. This would have made the audit bottom line even better had this not been done.B. They have joined in with a disgruntled landowner to attack the associations past efforts to procure an emergency water supply for wild land fire- fighting by installing a cistern in Wagon Creek. This work was done to be proactive in protecting all of our properties in the event of a major fire. The cistern was installed by the association under the auspices and approval of the state water inspector for this area, yet they have sabotaged the association and made it subject to intense scrutiny by any and all federal and state agencies in order to find some technicality to punish the association for these efforts. The motivation for this action by“our” representatives should be seriously questioned by the membership.
C. They paid RMS $20,000 for an invoice that was not valid. The previous RAC had checked all charges and all past invoices and said no more money was due but these folks decided to pay it anyway. No one knows why.
D. A sitting board member used their vote hostage to get their road improved ignoring the RAC priority list by conditioning their approval to purchase the front end loader on having their road done first.
E. There is also a blog that is monitored/ owned by Liz Wilson. This blog contains false information about landowners which in turn divides the park and influences board elections. This for one should not be monitored or owned by a board member and if we want to bring the community together should be shut down.
F. Somehow we need to find ways to bring the community together. If we continue down this path we will possibly fail and or have constant bickering like we have had for years. Boards should be required to overlap for 2 months minimum to review past projects, status of projects in progress and a ten year plan that cannot be changed by the incoming board. It could however be improved on by adding to it to create a stronger and more harmonious outcome for all. This is a wonderful place to live, let’s not ruin it with all this division
Jane
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