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This article has been festering - yes, festering for more than a few days. Hopefully, my intentioned thought, and silence will tone it down from what it might have been. The board, and water amenities committee has the audacity to continue to ignore the governing documents, blindly using their conniving manipulation of a chain of less than credible lawyers (at your expense), and legal opinions - not rulings, because they have cowed most into thinking that they are serving in the best interests of Wedgefield, rather than their own individual egos, false promises to their hidden constituency, bullying, etc. As residents, for the most part you have just let their actions slide by, stating they just want peace - don't want to get involved, to the point of physical decay of community, and any real governance to benefit all.
We shouldn't allow the board to pretend to try and resolve the problem of 79 lot owners, when we still have overall poor maintenance in common areas, and failure of ARC to force individual lot/home owners to follow the restrictions. We still have the vast majority - golf course lot owners facing a huge mess that impacts all of us. This board loves to divide - when in the end we are all part of the whole of Wedgefield.
Why the word PRETEND? We have the great pretenders serving as legal/compliance chair , and president, and water amenities committee that has 4 or 5 board members on it. We don't have the time or space, but if you have lived here long enough a few words will bring back memories of the actions of this crew, at times all, at others - blind governance, and the raise of a hand for a vote, that wasn't individual, but nothing short of collusion, and underhandedness. We've had the dock supposed to be destroyed, never in our back yard - the canals (according to the legal chair), dragged into the canals, and left there for months, with omission of reports, and gross treatment to anyone who questioned. The conflict of interest and the gate house - your legal chair "not inclined to take the question to the attorney" for months, when any average 3rd grader could have told them they were in violation. The failure of our legal chair to announce for a year and a half that the board had a a settlement, by a referee, that they acted on, in regard to the use of individual assessment, and regular assessment on the last dredging. Key to solving the problems of any lot owner regarding canals, or now the golf course. Then your legal chair didn't want to answer questions, and finally said it was forged, and got a second settlement from the same referee, disavowing individual assessment. If the board was doing its job as individual board members, looking at the facts as presented at the time, someone - especially a good intentioned legal chair, would have shouted from the roof tops that THE BOARD HAD WON! You can guess why it didn't happen that way, but here would be the most likely opinion if you followed this for years - it didn't fit his agenda, and that is to see that those canals are never dredged with WPA money again. Your water amenities committee has danced to his tune for years just to get their next dock, etc, listened to him talk out of both sides of his mouth, attaching at many points the only board member who questioned him through all of this.
We've now reached the point that the water amenities committee has bought his self serving biased advice just to get the next dredge, to you. You, the canal lot owners have brought them encouragement by failing to look at our miserable legal history in regard to canals, or everything else. Our legal chair, and his cronies have you just where they want you - trusting under fake promises, just so you get what you want, under terms that are just where he has been driving us. Soon he'll be able to give credibility to all his hard work. How gullible are you? Why do I ask that? History! You will walk on the backs of people who tried to do the right thing last dredging - legally, ethically, and right out in the open. Why are you honoring his devious work by registering to attend this meeting, when he has nothing to offer you under his legal tillage, but the total bill, which by the way, if you follow his pile of fake rulings, doesn't even let the WPA assess you in the legal world according to him! You are about to meet, and give credibility to his schemes! He has you where he wants you. This committee did not discuss any of their work at the board table. When a resident asked about the dredge, they were told that the canal lot owners weren't interested, by HIM. So if you don't attend their illegal meeting, he'll claim he is right! If you do, and buy his interpretation of what has happened legally (his world), than you have removed the board's ability to individually assess forever, because he, and his ilk will call it precedence.
We've now reached the point that the water amenities committee has bought his self serving biased advice just to get the next dredge, to you. You, the canal lot owners have brought them encouragement by failing to look at our miserable legal history in regard to canals, or everything else. Our legal chair, and his cronies have you just where they want you - trusting under fake promises, just so you get what you want, under terms that are just where he has been driving us. Soon he'll be able to give credibility to all his hard work. How gullible are you? Why do I ask that? History! You will walk on the backs of people who tried to do the right thing last dredging - legally, ethically, and right out in the open. Why are you honoring his devious work by registering to attend this meeting, when he has nothing to offer you under his legal tillage, but the total bill, which by the way, if you follow his pile of fake rulings, doesn't even let the WPA assess you in the legal world according to him! You are about to meet, and give credibility to his schemes! He has you where he wants you. This committee did not discuss any of their work at the board table. When a resident asked about the dredge, they were told that the canal lot owners weren't interested, by HIM. So if you don't attend their illegal meeting, he'll claim he is right! If you do, and buy his interpretation of what has happened legally (his world), than you have removed the board's ability to individually assess forever, because he, and his ilk will call it precedence.
You should have written your board by now of your objections to the canal meeting tomorrow. You still have time to drop letters in the drop box, email etc. Why write? Countless times this board has told us to write, and we should be making an undeniable record.
