Four names come up in the one year saga of conflict of interest. They are President Walton, Garrison, De Marchi, and Mc Bride. Three appear to push the agenda of conflict of interest using the powers of their committee chair assignments, and their officer positions. They are President Walton, Garrison, and De Marchi. The fourth, McBride, has repeatedly asked questions about conflict of interest. Definitely, must not be worthy of important committee assignments. He has one, Welcome Committee.
PRESIDENT WALTON:
*Sets the agenda for meetings, after seeking possible items from board
*Conducts meetings, putting motions for a vote
*ASSIGNS COMMITTEE CHAIRS
*He is ARC Chair (now a contractor) * Note: Error, was ARC chair, now member
*Member of the Legal Committee
*Allows Executive Meeting to be called for PERSONNEL, to discuss his ability to be paid as a CONTRACTOR, UNDER HIS BUSINESS
*POWER TO SIGN CHECKS
GARRISON
*Vice President
*Named by Walton as Legal Chair, (Note: Legal Committee members are Garrison, President Walton, De Marchi, and Bob Nichols, another of the authors of "don't pay your canal assessments, put them in escrow")
*Blatantly pushes for Walton to have contracts
*Refuses to seek legal opinion on conflict of interest
*POWER TO SIGN CHECKS
DE MARCHI
*Treasurer
*Finance Committee Chair
*Compliance Committee Chair
*Drainage Chair
*Legal Committee Member
*ARC Committee Member
*Must be temporary Grounds, at times, because he made motions for both the Storm Debris Clean Up and the Gate House Fix
*Seeks the bids for Gate House Fix, no Request for Proposal available really - sends bid to Walton, we don't know how it got there
*Accepts and reviews the bids - from Walton
*Responsible for the Contract - isn't one really - with Walton
*Approves payments to contractors and his accounting dept. writes checks
*POWER TO SIGN CHECKS
MC BRIDE
* Only Committee Assignment by Walton - Welcome Committee
*Only board member who keeps questioning conflict of interest over this one year period
*Most board members have more than one committee, or sit on other committees, rather than including eligible residents. President Walton sits back and watches as Water Amenities Chair John Walton throws McBride off that committee, after he asked to many questions in the dock fiasco.
WHO did Walton give all the power? Those that squashed any questioning of this year plus drive to make him, under his business, contractor to the WPA. He has given De Marchi, who seems to accept it, he could have refused these conflicting committee assignments - and more, controls not only the bidding and contracting, but the financial, as far as payments. President Walton, leaves the table legal talk - at board meetings, to Garrison. President Walton tops it all off, gives credibility to their moves, by naming De Marchi Compliance Chair. While a board can develop a new committee assignment, and it is a new committee, because it was never in the governing documents, until it showed up after De Marchi, redid the policy manual. Having checked the motions regarding significant changes to the policy manual, your board never discussed it or voted on it. De Marchi often gives a Compliance Report, never lists the members of his committee, and never states the committee met, when he says the board is in compliance.
The board could send this issue to the Legal Committee, but it appears it is a committee of four, and President Walton, Garrison, and De Marchi, hold 3 out of the 4 votes.
Who can sign the checks, in addition to these three? Board Secretary Cline, who has laughed at various times to Mc Brides questioning. It takes two board officer signatures. That leaves Cline and one of these three, on the mess they created.
Who says residents now, can't have copies of records, checks, or invoices? These three are involved, and that new rule came swiftly, at the time I wanted to see these records. They all reviewed, Community Liaison Anderson's email to me. It was sent to all of them. It was never discussed at the board table. What's more, the same email denied copies to board members, were they too afraid for them to have the information? Why? Some of it was in De Marchi's home.
Does McBride ever stand a chance in his questioning? Not so far. This just looks staged.
I've been asking President Walton to explain. Are the other two telling him that he doesn't have to? It could appear to be all wrapped up by President Walton, by the power he vested and left stand, in Garrison and De Marchi, to make him a WPA contractor.
