I've prepared the following information to the best of my ability. To verify for yourself, please go to The Wedgefield Times (as soon as it is available), and listen to the tape of the WPA 2015 Annual Meeting, visit the WPA office, and ask to review the 2 Beverly documents, and read the article ""No Real Title For This, Let's Just Call It Injustice, At The Hands of The WPA Board", published on this blog on November 5th. If you don't read the article, you won't be able to follow today's piece, and it is important.
We'll start with some questions that can't be answered, unless your board opens up, and handles the situation with honesty, integrity.
*Is forgery on a official document a crime?
*If forgery is a crime, and it is committed against your association, should your board make the members aware, and follow it up with a proper OPEN investigation, and refer it to the proper authorities?
*Why would a board go quiet, under the board table, on litigation, where it appears forgery took place, when the issue contained in the litigation, has rocked, and shredded our community twice?
*Why haven't you been following this board's actions, researching for yourself, and calling members of this board on their actions?
Here we go! During the annual meeting, where we are advised that this is the one time during the year that we can participate, DURING the meeting, people asked various questions from the floor, respectfully raising their hands, waiting for acknowledgement from the board table, giving their name and address, and presenting their question, or information, and getting feed back from the board. I did all of the above. One of my comments/questions related to the Beverly documents, requesting answers as to why the membership was not kept informed.
I explained that I had reviewed the two documents. It appears that the first order reviewed involves two members – A&B, who refused to pay their canal related assessments. The order is dated 6/25/2013, signed by HAL L. BEVERLY, SPECIAL REFEREE OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICAL CIRCUIT, MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. This litigation revolves around both of the types of canal dredging assessment – the $175.00/yr. every member paid, and the $5,000 Individual Assessment that all canal lot owners, were assessed. From my reading, and understanding, which I verified by a question to a credible (to remain unidentified) person, the WPA had won, and both types of assessments were legal, and owed by both member/defendants – A&B, along with penalties, and assorted legal fees. It appears, one member paid. We’ll call him A. That leaves us with the “last man standing”, member “B”
During the annual meeting, I asked why we had to go, almost a year and a half later, and get a second ruling, from the SAME referee (both sides of the litigation have to pay the referee), when we had won? At one point in my questioning, our Legal Chair, said something about not wanting to talk about it. I said, we had a right to know. It was explained that Hal L. Beverly, had NEVER SIGNED the document. I reviewed the document. His name is typed in, and the signature is in ink, and this document came from the WPA legal file. Who gave the board the document? Who DID sign the document? Who told the board it wasn't Beverly's signature? When was the board informed? Why did this board vote in October of 2014 to go back and pay Beverly, again, for a new order, reversing half of the old order? Why didn't your board notify the membership, and the solicitor, and the authorities, that they had a forged signature, on a document that was intended to serve as a legal decision, on an issue that has torn this community apart with each dredging? Why didn't the board give resident "A", his money back, when they knew they had pressured the member, with a false ruling?
Where are you? Why are you allowing this corrupt, blind eye, governance of our community?
