PLEASE NOTE: In order to publish this I need to provide one more piece of information. This resident writer's email is only two lines long, when it was sent it included a link to a previous article on the blog. I had trouble copying and carrying the link, so here is the article the writer questions:"YOUR BOARD'S SLIMY TREE CUTTING ON PRIVATE CANAL LOTS", published June 29th. If you want to review the article again, go all the way to the bottom page of the blog to Achieves, and select June, and a list of articles will appear.
HERE IS THE UNEDITED EMAIL:
"Can you provide some more detail on this? Mainly which board member owns the lot and what the lot address is?"
HERE IS MY UNEDITED EMAIL BACK TO THE WRITER USUALLY RESPOND ONLY ON THE BLOG, BUT I FELT THE WRITER DESERVED AN IMMEDIATE RESPONSE, AND THE BLOG EMAIL IS A BIT LOADED TODAY.
Thank you for writing. Your name remains confidential. I'll answer to the best of my ability. It isn't a matter of a board member owning the lots that trees were cut on. If you go back to the article, and read through the bid information that I copied - hand copied from the original bid papers, you'll note canals 1 through 4. There were privately owned lots on each of those canals that the board used association funds, which they categorized as emergency funds. The board, according to our governing documents, cannot use our assessment funds to benefit individual lots. Additionally, if you only deal with "fairness", every other resident who had trees fall on their property during the storm had to do one of a few things. Either they paid someone to come in and cut them down and carry them out, or they paid someone to cut them - and they hauled them to the road side and then the board crew picked them up, or the resident cut them themselves and hauled them to the road for board pick up. These favored lots were cleared at our expense, way later. Not only did the board spend our assessment on privately owned lots - all canal lots, they did this way after work had ended, the emergency fund was exhausted, and they pulled current funds into emergency for what is illegal (against the governing documents) use of our funds. If you read the rest of the article, on top of that the bidding process - none really, was against our governing documents. I hope I have answered your question. Again, I will publish the question and my response without your name, unless you ask me to publish it.
