I have provided both my letter to the board dated Feb. 24, and the response I received from Anderson, WPA Community Liaison AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE. You'll note that his response letter is dated Feb. 25, but was not emailed to me from the office until March 3rd via email. First, I sincerely and genuinely thank Anderson, who serves as Community Liaison, for his efforts in providing any attempt at an answer. Residents had not been answered for well over a year by this board.
If you review the two letters presented below, you'll note as Anderson does, that it is not a complete response. One striking omission is that I requested to review records tomorrow, March 4th, at 11:00am. The night before the WPA office finally sends me Anderson's letter without an answer as to whether I will be allowed to review files. Anderson's letter states, "As to you request to review and copy records, we have always tried to be as open and transparent as possible so long as the request are reasonable and do not violate the privacy of the residents or contractors involved. Someone will contact you via email to facilitate your review of records you are interested in." I gave the office plenty of advance notice. Look at the dates. A properly run office should have these files in folders so that they can just be pulled and provided. Additionally, our WPA By-Laws, ARTICLE XII, BOOKS AND RECORDS, Section 1, states, "ALL books and records of The Association may be inspected by any member, or his agent or attorney, for any proper purpose AT ANY REASONABLE TIME." This is nothing more than this board playing biased games with a resident they don't like.
My second concern about this answer is that when I asked the board to explain how they could award President Walton's business a contract due to conflict of interest, I receive the following answer. "Your question about conflict of interest was addressed during the discussion prior to the vote." With all due respect to Anderson, that's not true. I was at the meeting. When McBride said it was a conflict of interest to award Walton the contract, our illustrious Legal Chair, Garrison, called the discussion MORONIC, and our heavy handed Treasurer/COMPLIANCE Chair, DeMarchi, refused to take President Walton's offer to withdraw his bid. Our weak PRESIDENT, Walton didn't disagree! Yet, President Walton, Compliance Chair DeMarchi, and ever alert Legal Chair Garrison, along with every board member signed the Conflict of Interest, which states in part, "We recognize that Board Members have outside business, professional and personal interests. Board Members, however, MAY NOT PROFIT IN ANY WAY in their outside BUSINESS, professional or personal interests from their association with WEDGEFIELD PLANTATION ASSOCIATION." Obviously, your board did not address this prior to the vote. What they let Garrison, President Walton, and DeMarchi, do was ABUSE, called the questioner MORONIC, and then voted ignoring the very document THEY SIGNED addressing the issue. DO THEY REALLY THINK THIS IS ANY THING MORE THAN NEAR AVOIDANCE OF OUR GOVERNING DOCUMENTS AND OPEN, HONEST ADMINISTRATION?
STAY TUNED. TOMORROW IS THE DAY TO REVIEW RECORDS. IF THEY DENY ACCESS I WANT IT IN WRITING
MY LETTER TO THE BOARD _Please note this letter was amended immediately. The date request to review records was changed to March 4th. Corrected copy on file in WPA office since Feruary 24.
ANDERSON/COMMUNITY LIAISON PARTIAL RESPONSE
ANDERSON'S LETTER WAS RETYPED DUE TO SCANNER PROBLEMS
/February 25, 2014
Dear Mrs. Claveloux,
This letter is to acknowledge receipt of your inquiry. Please allow me to briefly go over your request and answer the ones that I can, and then allow me some additional time to answer the ones that will require checking with the appropriate committee leader.
1. It is my understanding that Great Lawns declined to bid on the post storm cleanup work. The board discussed the post storm clean-up at the special meeting on the day of the storm and voted to spend up to a set amount for debris removal, with the understanding that if more funding was needed an additional vote could be taken at another meeting once we had a better grasp of the situation.
2. Mr. Walton announced at the January meeting that the materials needed for the gate house project had been ordered and work would begin soon. I am sure the weather over the past few weeks has been a factor but I will ask Mr. Walton for an updated timeframe and get back to you as soon as possible. Your question about conflict of interest was addressed during the discussion prior to the vote.
As to your request to review and copy records, we have always tried to be as open and transparent as possible so long as the request are reasonable and do not violate the privacy of the residents or contractors involved. Someone will contact you via email to facilitate your review of the records you are interested in.
Sincerely,
Adam Anderson
Community Liaison
