WPA BOARD NOTICES THE MEMBERSHIP "OPEN BOARD MEETING, MONDAY FEBRUARY 1ST, 7:00PM". MORE SMOKE AND MIRRORS FROM THIS "OPEN BOARD", WHILE THEY CRY DISINTEREST FROM THE MEMBERSHIP, AND IGNORE THE BY-LAWS. THIS IS LIKE BEING INVITED TO A NON PARTY. THE BOARD HAS GIVEN DATE, AND TIME, AND FAILED TO TELL US WHO CALLED THE MEETING, AND THE SUBJECT OR REASON FOR ANOTHER MEETING, LESS THAN TWO WEEKS SINCE THE LAST MONTHLY MEETING.

As I drove into Wedgefield, I noticed a sign announcing an open board meeting.  Good, we should have notice at the gate.  I decided to go the the risky WPA website to view the meeting information, to ascertain the subject of the meeting.  Earlier, my computer antivirus service blocked my access, and provided the following information about the website:
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Curiosity got the best of me this morning, and I went past the block, and warning, to the WPA new website.  I shouldn't have wasted my time, or risked my computer system.  The only message that was there stated, "OPEN BOARD MEETING, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 7:00."

ARTICLE VII, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SECTION 7, SPECIAL MEETINGS, critical portion, states, "Not less than three days notice of the meeting shall be given personally or by mail, telephone, or telegraph which said notice shall state the time, place and purpose of the meeting."  Don't you think that the reason for calling the meeting would be noticed so you could decide whether you would take the time to attend?  Don't you think that if they really wanted you - the MEMBERS, at the OPEN meeting, that they would have wanted you to know what the subject was?  I do, if they really, as they claim, wanted more interest, they would have told you what was such an emergency that they didn't handle it at the short January meeting.  You see your board lamented in January that they would like "more interest (14 members at the January meeting.)"  They plowed over a resident's maintenance dredging question in December, saying they had several offers to canal lot members, over a three year period, but the canal lots owners had "no interest", and yet, I reviewed minutes for 3 years, and found that their offers had never been discussed from the board table.

It is nothing less than, hide, distort, lay false claims, and then claim "no interest" by the residents that they select to be on their step child/member list.  Their agendas are the same.  In fact, they appear to be boiler plate, and only in the case of policy manual changes, are their substantive notices.  The policy manual changes reviewed, generally give the board more power to spend without vote, etc.  I would dare to say that if they had noted an agenda, or meeting notice, that they would discuss the forged ruling on Individual Assessment, that there would have been standing room only.  Was it ever noticed?  No!  Was it ever openly discussed at a board meeting?  No!  Go back to their sanitized minutes.  It was never discussed at the board table.

Precedent, a word the board loves, also plays into this.  The by-laws address how the board member who calls the meeting must notify the board.  If you've followed the notices of OPEN meetings, precedent has been to state the subject, or reason for calling the meeting.

I'm tried of their shell game tactics, and would just like some honesty, and integrity in our board's governance of the place we call home.