FROM THE WPA WEBSITE:
"President Walton has called a closed Board Meeting on Monday August 10th at 7:00 pm at the WPA office. The reason is Legal Issues."
WHY A CLOSED MEETING? HERE IS WHAT A PREVIOUS BOARD ATTORNEY OF RECORD SAID ABOUT THESE MEETINGS:
April 11, 2011: "I reiterate my advice to the Board to refrain from conducting business in executive session. There are very few purposes of conducting meetings which are not OPEN TO THE MEMBERSHIP. Members may be prevented from participating in the meeting, BUT THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND."
MAY 14, 2011: "My advice WAS, and ALWAYS WILL BE, that executive sessions only need to be held in the most narrow of circumstances."
To the best of my knowledge, this is the last written legal opinion from a board attorney of record, regarding closed meetings. What legal issues are there, that could not be discussed in front of the membership? Currently, three board members sit on the board today, that sat on the board when these opinions were rendered. They are President Walton, Legal/Compliance Chair, Garrison, and Grounds Chair, McMillin. During their years of tenure on the board, they have seen this board discuss the canal lawsuits, threats of prison time to two female board members, denial of resident rights by the board to call for a recall of 5 board members utilizing state law (right verified by the board attorney of record), and residents publicly called idiots, morons, dumb as another resident, unauthorized video taping of residents, etc., and a board member slugging a member, exiting a board meeting. What could be so delicate that we cannot hear, or see our board at work? Nothing!
Perhaps, it is the canal owner who refused to pay the canal assessment lawsuit. Can't be. Your board voted to settle it. Shouldn't we all know what they are up to now, or is it another done deal, settlement, on the tail end of this type of legal issue?
I've been waiting for notice of another board meeting, hopefully "OPEN", for the board to discuss a replacement for the accounting function contractor, who has been gone for "months and months", and our treasurer failed to inform us from the board table. During the July meeting, Garrison asked our treasurer to take steps, get moving with correcting the vacancy, and call the board together to discuss it, around the first of August.
