UPDATE APPEARS AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE IN BLACK
NOTE: The Wedgefield Examiner has transcribed a portion of the treasurer's report. It is transcribed from a tape of the October WPA Meeting, to the best of our ability. Verify the transcription of this section of the report for yourself by visiting The Wedgefield Times. Your board appears to have determined that it isn't necessary to put the tapes of the meeting on the WPA website. The decision wasn't made at the board table, so once again, it must have been one of those cohesive, behind the scenes decisions. Sorry members, it appears you get what YOU vote for - those you put in office. Transcription is in BLUE, IN QUOTATIONS, AND UNDERLINED. Comments will be in RED.
DeMarchi, "I would like to express my thanks to Carol Zieske.....She did an excellent job of helping me with the accountant by providing me with past records that were either unavailable, or unlocateable (Spell check indicates it is not a word, but it was used by the board member.)."
COMMENTS:
Read the transcription. Listen to the tape. What follows DeMarchi's thank you, is a thank you by our President to DeMarchi for his report. What should have followed was questions. Unless our president and the bulk of the board was completely aware of the record situation mentioned above, a lot of questions should have followed.
*Exactly, what were the records that DeMarchi secured from a resident that should have been in the office?
*Why weren't the records in the office? Has our board become that sloppy with pertinent records?
*How did the resident obtain these records? What other records does she have?
*How did DeMarchi know to go to this resident with a records question? Who did DeMarchi inform on the board that records were missing?
Our president thanks DeMarchi and doesn't have questions. Our Legal Chair doesn't have questions. That is strange. Not one board member asks how we will keep this from happening again. Where's our compliance committee? I forget myself. DeMarchi is in charge of compliance. Unheard of in any strictly run organization, because he is the Treasurer. Up until he changed so many items in the policy manual, the treasurer could not sit on the compliance committee.
Ms. Zieske has not served on the board since late 2008. That year was audited. How could she possess financial records that could be that relative to what DeMarchi is doing in audit or finance now? The board attorney of record in 2009 wrote Ms Zieske asking that she turn over all the records that she had. In 2009 Ms Zieske, along with Wilson and Thomas sued the 2009 board. Why would DeMarchi be thanking her, or seeking records from her, without bringing legal into the conversation? Only in Wedgefield, particularly with this so called cohesive board, could you sue a previous sitting board, and be trusted to provide lost records. It just appears to be more of their good old boy, I'll wash your back you wash mine, board. As members, we are thrown out with the dirty bath water, and lack solid representation. Think that is hard? Read, Conflict of Interest - Lack of Common Sense & Ethics, on this site late Tuesday.
UPDATE: Just a thought about what we are about to face as a membership. President Walton and Legal Chair, Garrison are running unopposed for board this year. There will be three vacancies on the board and your board offers you three candidates. If you review your proxy you will note that you aren't even given the privilege of voting yes or no. If you feel that they are not the men for the job, write "NO" on the line beside their name. If nothing else it is a statement of principle. These men are failing to serve in the best interests of the association. They continually diminish our right to information as residents, abuse the only board member who does question, and conduct our business behind a wall of "we are the experts and we know best", as though we have less intelligence than a herd of cattle. In the next article we'll address their most recent escapade - conflict of interest.
