PART VI: THE APRIL 16 WPA MEETING, OLD BUSINESS - LEADS TO A REQUEST TO VISIT THE OFFICE, REVIEW DOCUMENTS, AND QUESTIONS ABOUT COMPLIANCE

I've listened to the tape of the April 16 WPA board meeting.  I'm not going to transcribe every word of each report.  I'm reporting what I heard to the best of my ability.  Please listen to the tape yourself.      COMMENTS IN RED

This section of the meeting is under Old Business. There are three items, all changes to the policy manual.  Keep that in mind as you read the comments at the end. The items I was most interested in were numbers two and three, (2)  "2nd reading - Approval of Accountant job description" and (3) "2nd reading - Administration, add 7:0l.01.  Service contract to be a 2 year term for Accounting and Maintenance".

What took place won't take long to report. DeMarchi makes the motion to approve the accounting job description.  It passes. President Walton asks McMillin if he'd like to make the motion to approve the change to accommodate "service contract to be a 2 year term for accounting and maintenance.  There is some discussion to add the word grounds to maintenance.  There is an objection because then it wouldn't be second reading. They leave it as stated and then pass it.

COMMENTS:

I have an objection whether they changed one word, or not.  The objection is in general because your board has been violating the by-laws for months.  This board changes the policy manual like most people change their socks.  They don't even attempt to do it legally, let alone ethically.  Additionally, they treat the residents like they don't have a functioning brain.  What's the problem?  I'll attempt to list a few. 

*Doesn't read mean that they will read the change?  DeMarchi NEVER READ THE JOB DESCRIPTION.  He didn't do it during the March Board Meeting when first READING was to have taken place.

*At the 2011 annual meeting a by-law was passed by the residents that basically said that if the board was going to make a change to the policy manual that there was to be two READINGS during two board meetings, and the change was to be published on the WPA website so residents would have an opportunity to comment.  I have searched the website several times for the published changed job description and it isn't there.  This has been the case with every one of the changes your board has made.

*If you'd like to read the by-law, you can't.  The by-laws are on the website but this one isn't INCLUDED!

*If you would like to view the old job description in the policy manual,  you can't.  It has been off the site for several weeks, "to make changes".  As a resident, you aren't provided with copies of these documents.  GUESS YOUR BOARD CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT BECAUSE THEY HOPE YOU DON'T LOOK, READ, OR ASK. 

*This looks, in the least, like a compliance problem.  GUESS WHO IS IN CHARGE OF COMPLIANCE?  DeMarchi.  It could also be a LEGAL problem.  Have you heard Legal Chair, Garrison, say one word about all this?

*Don't bother to write the board. President Walton was going to form a committee to determine how the board would answer residents, but that was over 6 months ago and HE HASN'T DONE A THING ABOUT IT.

I'll write the board over the weekend and post the letter on the blog.