Open Letter of Disappointment

January 17, 2014

Dear Member’s,

Disappointment has occurred once again with our sitting interim Treasurer.  An email was sent to him on January 6, 2014 asking him (Rich Kelly) to provide me (Sheri Johnson) a member of this association the financial records for the year end of 2013. As stated in Article XI of our by-laws that he has 10 days to produce these records to any member for any  proper purpose. He did not comply.  His excuse is that he did not read the email that was sent to him and his wife Karen along with 91 other members at their gmail account which is listed as Rich and Karen Kelley karenkelley9@gmail.com and he said I did not give him a proper purpose. Who gave him the authority to decide what is a PROPERpurpose is. My purpose was to see where our membership monies had been spent and to double check his accounting.  More excuses on his part than cooperation. Therefore, he is was in violation of this article. 

So my question to the members is that when we have a board of director that is in violation of the by-laws and one that is running again for office is this someone we want as leader of our association?  My answer would have to be NO.  It is of my opinion that the current sitting board is picking and choosing what they want to comply with and what they don’t. 

Another problem with our current Secretary is that I brought to his attention at the Special Board meeting on January 12, 2014 that he is also in violation of the by-laws for not including in the minutes the comments and concerns and objections of the members that are in attendance of these meetings.  When this was brought to his attention (Dave West) his answer was it was his choice of what he wanted to record as minutes.  So in reality the minutes that you members have been reading for the past several months is only partial information.  You are not getting the views of the members that are in attendance.

At the January 12^th meeting our President Al Duff said to the members that it is was in his opinion that we legally own the grader in question. He had been out voted by both Dave West and Rich Kelly.   The members present at that meeting and previous meeting have been very out spoken as to why Rich Kelly and Dave West have been on this vindictive quest regarding the grader.  You have only heard the board’s side and what they think is the best interest of the association. Unless you were in attendance at these meetings you would never know that the majority of the members who did attend think that this issue with the grader has gone on long enough and that this has become a personal vendetta.  It will be very interesting to read the minutes from the meeting that was held on January 12, 2014. UPDATE- The minutes did not reflect the members comments or concerns. The excuse was we did not ask them to be included. Another excuse.

Just to keep you up to date at that January 12th meeting, once again it was the agenda of the board to send out to you the members a ballot to buy a grader that we as an association have already purchased.  They voted to do this and you will be receiving in the mail the pros and the cons of owning and operating a grader that we already own, and you will be asked to vote on keeping it. The board is trying to push this agenda through really fast so that when the elections are done in February and if they are not re-elected this agenda will already be set in motion.  This did not sit well with the members at that meeting.  We kept asking why the rush to vote on something we already own.  I would ask you the membership to really think about the one sided information that you have been receiving in the minutes and why does the board have a problem with including the objections and concerns that members have?

In closing, I hope that I have given you a hint of what has been going on.  If you would like more information please email me with any questions or comments. My email is katsz06@live.com. 

I would love to hear from you.

Sincerely,

Sheri Johnson (Lot 249)