Remember the game Duck, Duck, Goose? You'd form a circle, someone would circle the group singing duck, duck, and finally tap someone and say "goose" and you were it - the goose. My maternal grandparents were farmers. Grandma had geese. She would mutter about the destruction they would cause and always - how dumb they were. As residents, we may have been tapped as the "goose". Frankly, I never quite saw the point in the game and don't believe I played it beyond age 4 or 5. I won't be participating now.
Here is a transcription of a portion of the Board tape. Go to the Wedgefield Times and listen for yourself. As always, I've done the best I can with the transcription. The speaker is Secretary DeMarchi. A small note: You'll find that DeMarchi and Garrison are often the speakers. They take a lot of "tape" time. There is no vendetta. I can only transcribe the words of those who speak. The topic he addresses, is another closed meeting of the Board.
Secretary DeMarchi, "Regarding the special meeting on July 11, 2012 to discuss liens, foreclosures, etc. Called to order by Jacky Walton at 7:00 PM. Jacky Walton, Bob Garrison, Janine Cline, Adam Anderson, John McBride, John Walton, Barrier, and DeMarchi were present. Motion made by John McBride to adjourn, seconded by Bob Garrison, motion passed & the meeting was adjourned. The Board members wishing to stay after adjournment discussed informally the business of the association, which would be brought before the Board at the July 17, 2012 meting. "
The meeting had been called by DeMarchi, titled as a "special meeting", announced on the WPA website, and posted at the front gate, as "closed". Since then, RUMOR is that DeMarchi, called the after meeting (after adjournment), a workshop. RUMOR is that he used that term in defense of having called the closed meeting, when others told him that it wasn't legal. Residents, this is where we get duck, duck, whose the low mentality goose who buys any of this, goose droppings governance?
These articles get to long when I have to keep dragging in history. Briefly, there is nothing in the By-Laws that allows DeMarchi to call his "special meeting"? Two - DeMarchi, McMillin, McBride, and Cline signed platforms during the 2011 election period, stating there would be no closed meeting. The 2010 - 2011 Board Attorney of record said there shouldn't be closed meetings. Additionally, President Walton had no problem with the former Wedgefield Civic Group jumping all over the 2011 Board, when they called closed meetings to remove him as President. President Walton knows the truth about these meetings. You should have five people on your Board saying, "no way". The only one of the five who appears to fight to keep the promise, follow the attorney's advice, and the governing documents, is McBride. Otherwise residents, five is a majority and it wouldn't be happening.
The real "goose" would be those of us who fail to recognize that we are being played, as though we have such low mentality that we don't know any better, and have no functioning memory, or ability to read our governing documents. Want to add insult to injury? Call a closed Board Meeting, a workshop (I believe the rumor is true.).
