THE COMMENTS THAT FOLLOW ARE THOSE OF THE WEDGEFIELD EXAMINER AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED APPROVED BY OUR RESIDENT WRITER.
If you read the transcription of the June 26th Open Board Meeting, or listened to the tape, there is no way that you don't realize that this writer is correct. Yes, it was a melee. Yes, your President did nothing to resolve the situation - bring it under control. Yes, he participated in it and caused it to get worse. Yes, it is his duty to maintain order, but that duty probably comes in second, to the real duties he ignored as President of our association.
It appears that our President will sacrifice duty to get what he wants, collaborate with those who he has titled as committee chairs, to cover up mistakes in governance, or move forward with an agenda that might be kept from some on the board.
First, it appears he violated the very by-law, noted in previous articles, read to him by the questioning board member, regarding notice to board members of meetings. His apparent actions also put him in violation of a policy manual document, that all board members must sign. This very President took it a step further. During a regular monthly board meeting, he insisted that that board sign the "Code of Ethics" at the board table. The Code of Ethics reads, "Directors shall act with SCRUPULOUS good FAITH and CANDOR. They will avoid even the perception of conflict of interest, FAVORITISM and acting out of SELF INTEREST. DIRECTORS SHALL UPHOLD AND SAFEGUARD THE BYLAWS, CONDITIONS, RESTRICTIONS AND POLICIES GOVERNING WEDGEFIELD PLANTATION ASSOCIATION."
It could appear that our President did not operate with ANY SCRUPULOUS GOOD FAITH AND CANDOR, BUT WITH FAVORITISM AND ACTING OUT OF HIS, AND OUR LEGAL CHAIR'S SELF INTEREST.
WHY??????? First, there was no scrupulous good faith and candor in our President's performance on the night of the 26th. It is as simple as this, if the questioning board member's claim was that there wasn't notice to the meeting of the 17th, than with scrupulous good faith and candor, your President should have called for a copy of the notice, and presented it to the board member. IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
Instead, in apparent self interest, probably an attempt to cover the fact that there was no notice, as dictated by our by-laws, with favoritism of his self appointed Legal Chair, he allows the Legal Chair to go on attack, against the questioning board member. He had to have heard the Legal Chair using words like absurd, nonsense, and ridiculous, when the questioning board member has simply read the appropriate by-law to them. Obviously, our Legal Chair has added to his vocabulary of attack words against this board member. Last time the board member asked questions about conflict of interest, and requested a legal opinion, our Legal Chair used the term MORONIC. What could be worse, is that our President assists in this attack.
There is a reliable RUMOR back side to the story. The Wedgefield Examiner always tells you when it is RUMOR - CREDIBLE RUMOR. The first rumor was that the questioning board member did not spring his legal questions on our President, at the meeting on the 26th. He brought his concerns to the President, prior to the meeting on the 17th. Additionally, it is rumored that he contacted another board member, and was told the Legal Chair was at fault for holding up the notification process, because he was waiting for answers. If the rumors are true, and I believe they are, then your President and Legal Chair, decided to ignore the by-laws, and in their own self serving interest, attacked this board member. What about the 3rd board member? If true, he is as bad, if not worse than the other two, and sat back and watched the show, at the expense of our governance. As for the others at the table that day, they also appeared to have violated ethics, along with our governing documents, and as stated earlier, by their actions appear to be nothing more than cowards. It appears as none of this board minus one, are willing to commit themselves to governing according to our governing documents, and aren't worthy of a board seat.
IN THIS CASE, YOUR BOARD HANDLERS - PRESIDENT & LEGAL CHAIR DON'T APPEAR TO WANT TO HANDLE OUR AFFAIRS UNDER THE GUIDING LIGHT OF OUR GOVERNING DOCUMENTS. INFACT THEY WANT TO LEAVE AT LEAST ONE BOARD MEMBER IN THE DARK!
