This year, almost more than ever before, your vote, and who you vote for, could change the course for Wedgefield. Every one of our property values is decreasing by the day. My home isn't for sale, but I've signed up to follow my property value on Zillow. The notices keep coming, announcing another drop in value. Today, a resident told me that a real estate agent stated that potential buyers, who had made an appointment to view a particular property in Wedgefield, had told the agent to turn around, they no longer wanted to view the properties, when they saw the conditions here. This happened with several of the agents clients. The golf course, part of the PUD is closed, and the overgrown mess leads potential buyers up Wedgefield Rd, and to our front gate, wraps itself around many of our homes, and twists through our interior roads. Our canals are silted, and there is an illegal plan, approved by this board behind our backs, to dredge. We have had a series of grounds maintenance contracts, and the management of them by this board, that have left us with poor general maintenance, and unbuilt grassy lots overgrown as high as 5 feet. Our board continues to hold closed meetings, blocking us from observing them working on key issues. They separate us, and pit us against each other - "no you can't attend the canal lot owners meeting", "no you can't attend the closed meeting with the potential golf course buyer". The board speaks for us without asking us, whether you live on the canals, or golf course. It is time they quit surmising what we want, and that they work with the governing documents rather than insult them, and serve us in the open, legally, and ethically.
Jacky Walton, Bob Garrison, and Keith Johnson, have not served in the best interests of Wedgefield. All three of them, met with the Water Amenities Committee on May 12th, and promised the canal lot owners up to $135,000 of our assessment dollars, and never took a public vote from the board table, and never even mentioned they had met, at the May, and June WPA meetings. Keith Johnson serves as ARC Chair, ARC is failing to take complaints of violation seriously, and enforce our governing documents, and Wedgefield is deteriorating! As president, Jacky Walton names all the Committee Chairs, and he has sat back, and watched poor performance of chairs, who violate our governing documents, insulting any who question - in public, and at times just by ignoring the questioner. Bob Garrison has chaired legal, and compliance, and has failed us through a long chain of hiring, and firing attorneys, failing to get opinions in writing, and verbally insulted, and laughed at anyone - from the board table, who questions his opinions on the law.
Peggy Phillips has served on the current board for only a few months - this time! Last time she served on the board, she, and five of her cohorts resigned, after 3 of their friends on the board were not re-elected. She contributed to a lawsuit against the new .board, trying to deal with the mess they had left on the board table. The following is provided from the December 16, 2008 approved WPA BOARD MINUTES - President's Report:
"The past month and a half has not been without challenges. As you know three of the board resigned at last months meeting. Ron Pietkewicz, Calvin Foxwell and Rick Buono. And now, just last Friday, both Len Aberle and Carol Zieske resigned. Peggy Phillips had resigned on December 9th
This left your current board at some disadvantage, but we welcome the
Now, it is time to fill out your ballot. Residents, don't waste this opportunity. Last year, I actually had residents tell me that they didn't vote. In some cases, they told me that they didn't trust the election committee, and the board to keep how they voted private, and they were afraid of the ramifications of voting their honest vote. Others, wasted their vote writing in Micky Mouse. Things are going down hill in Wedgefield too fast, not to stop the bleeding, and at least try and make a difference.
Fill out your proxy, and mail it in, even if you are going to the annual meeting. The best laid plans, often get interrupted, and we don't get there. Don't waste this opportunity. There is a spot on the proxy to appoint a proxy above your vote, to vote in your behalf in the event that a vote comes up from the floor at the meeting. This year, unless you note otherwise, CANDIDATE, BOB GARRISON will vote in your behalf! Why? He isn't the board secretary, Janine Cline is. This looks shaky. In that area of the proxy, you can name someone who is a member, and you know will be attending. If something comes from the floor, they will vote in your behalf.
I, Madeline Y. Claveloux, am on the ballot this year. I hope you will vote for me. I'm dedicated to following our governing documents. I'm dedicated to full disclosure, and discussion at the board table. In fact I promise to question - not fight, at the board table to bring hidden agendas, and facts forward for you to hear. I am not afraid of the wrath of board members like board member, Garrison, who has a long history of abusing board members who question. I will do everything possible to get rid of closed meetings, and conduct WPA business out in the open. I will review requests for proposal, bids, and contracts, and bring to the board table, and question anything that is less than sound business, and contracting processes. Most of all, I'm genuinely concerned about the conditions on the canals, condo area, and golf course. Wedgefield needs to be whole again.
Vote for Virginia (Ginny) Sheckells! She appears to bring great experience to the table. Give her a chance. Her experience indicates that she knows the commitment to a board, and stays with it.
We know how Jacky Walton, Bob Garrison, Keith Johnson, and Peggy Phillips have failed us - YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOR SURE TOMORROW! Even though there are four board slots, only vote for two. Don't build the numbers for Jacky Walton, Bob Garrison, Keith Johnson, and Peggy Phillips. PUT A BIG "NO", by their names!
SO, HERE IS YOUR BALLOT:
Jacky Walton NO
Madeline Y. Claveloux YES
Bob Garrison NO
Keith Johnson NO
Peggy Phillips NO
Virginia (Ginnie) Sheckells YES
WRITE NO AFTER THEIR NAMES! IT IS IMPORTANT. VICE PRESIDENT/COMPLIANCE/LEGAL CHAIR GARRISON HAS SAID THIS VOTE WILL BE A REFERENDUM ON DREDGING, IT IS TIME IT IS A REFERENDUM ON WHAT IS GOOD FOR ALL OF WEDGEFIELD, NO MATTER WHERE YOU RESIDE!
