A QUESTION FROM A RESIDENT

As I was walking out of the WPA Annual Meeting a male resident asked me how a board member who does nothing can receive 300 votes?  It appears that most of our residents are happy with bench warmers.  The majority of your board only wants bench warmers.  During 2012 when the board had to fill board vacancies they rejected candidates who would ask questions, research, and vote based on their education, work experience, or what was in the best interests of Wedgefield.  They desperately wanted the three board members running for re-election to keep the status quo.  It appears that they felt that they could control them regardless of what they did - or didn't do.  They raised their hands when they were told to, drank the cool aid and spread the so called cohesive board's propaganda.

Many of our residents are bench warmers.  The last several board meetings have had fewer than a dozen people in attendance.  Attending meetings is currently the only way a resident can get a picture of how the board is performing.  Attendance doesn't mean they will get a clear, open, honest view of the board because we have board members who consistently fail to provide reports, or those provided contain verbal legal interpretations that are sometimes recanted, reports of actions that will follow and then we wait months for, and at times half truths. 

Until recently residents who didn't attend meetings could catch up on what was happening in the association by reading committee reports in the quarterly Wragg.  Again, those members who fail to provide reports at board meetings, also fail to provide them to the Wragg.

Our residents can't really follow the votes of individual board members because our board meeting minutes have been sanitized.  We often aren't able to determine who voted yes or no on an issue.

If residents write the board for answers and clarification, they don't receive answers.  This board and the members you just re-elected have spent almost an entire year making excuses for not answering residents, and have been working for months, avoiding the policy manual, to develop a system to answer residents. 

Residents who request the opportunity to review documents are often denied because of "confidentiality".  This new vehicle of closed access to fact was brought to you by one of the board members you just re-elected.  In fact the story behind the confidentiality agreement was false.  What is worse is that board members have broken confidentiality numerous times, but information must be with held from residents in the name of "confidentiality". 

Board members who do ask questions, want the facts out, are treated in public meetings, and behind closed doors with ridicule.

I now have the answer for the resident who asked, "how does someone get 300 votes for doing nothing?".   They are voted in by bench warmer residents, who fail to attend meetings, and take the word of bench warmer board members.

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