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BLOG -December 21, 2016 "HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WPA DECEMBER BOARD MEETING":
3) Then John Walton moved to a report on the spoil site. He starts by saying that the maintenance has been NEGLECTED! He goes on to say that it is OVERGROWN, and suggested a burn, and that it must be completed by March. He makes a motion requesting a controlled burn. He states it would be rather COSTLY. Anderson seconds the motion! Jacky Walton wants to know what the alternative is. Someone at the board table says what they need is a driver tract (my best guess because I'm not familiar with the equipment). It would be expensive because they would have to get it out there. The words again, that the spoil site was NEGLECTED. Now, McMillin says, "WE KNEW WHAT THE PROBLEMS WERE WITH THAT". No one from that board table acknowledges what THEY KNEW. McMillin goes on to say that he'll get Howard Landscaping out there - a crew of 4 with CHAIN SAWS. Someone says the trees have to come down. Jacky Walton says that he is concerned. He states that there was a problem near water in the condo area where a burn was tried. He states he doesn't want a wind change, and a Wedgefield house to burn down. Another board member says that it is expensive to do a PROFESSIONAL CONTROLLED BURN, AND THERE WASN'T ANY MONEY FACTORED INTO THE PROJECT FOR THIS. The motion is tabled until next month when more investigation into cost, etc. can be developed. Comments: Some of you find me to be hard on this board. I have no patience for people who fail to follow the governing documents, who exercise their power using my money foolishly, and lie to me thinking I am too stupid to see through it! This is where I live - my home, and I am sick and tired of losing value, and reputation to where I live, because of fools. How did this NEGLECT HAPPEN? Your entire board, their mismanagement - failure to follow sound business contracting - oversight - arrogance - and total disregard for our governing documents. Most of this NEGLIGENCE rests on McMillin's shoulders, and on the heads of every board member for allowing it, because they all ignore what each other does, and for sure McMillin's opps! The maintenance of the spoil site resides in the grounds contract. I believe that it called for 2 clean ups a year. We don't know what he puts out to bid in his requests for proposals. We don't know how he contracts, and selects. His vendors just appear, after some CLOSED MEETING, and your board just lets it all happen, because many of them are just as bad. McMillin lied to me, during a recent open meeting. When your board gave Southern Lawns an approval on a second year contract with a raise, knowing they were going to be fired on a condo contract, I had some questions. I directly asked McMillin about the spoil site maintenance. I asked if the terms of contract had been met the previous year, and current year, and he stated YES! Forget the fact that he won't look at you, makes gestures, and has total disregard for any respectful treatment of a questioning resident, who followed the rules of when you could question. I won't contribute to an illegal, mismanaged project!
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NOTE: The above is quoted from an article on the blog providing information from my December 2016 meeting notes. The following is what the sanitized approved minutes say about it. "John made a motion, Inge seconded for a controlled burn on the Spoil Site. After discussion, motion tabled until next month's meeting." Guess that's all I'd have to say if I was covering up how the spoil site got neglected and everybody at the board table knew, and didn't want to talk about it. Look at the role McMillin plays in this hide and seek funds game, and remember that he is running for board again, and he has been at this since 2008 - too long!
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BLOG: January 17, 2017, "A FEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WPA JAN. 17 BOARD MEETING......."
Water amenities chair, John Walton had reported during the meeting that during the last dredging that more money was spent on preparing the spoil site than the dredging itself. He also reported that the spoil site was very over grown. I asked how the board could knowingly let that happen. I explained that McMillin had reported last month that everyone at that board table knew why it got that way. I asked why everyone at that board table knew, and yet we didn't, and asked what they knew. McMillin wouldn't name names, but said he had trusted someone that was no longer there.
President Walton shut the meeting down.
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NEW TO THE BLOG: THE AUGUST WPA BOARD MEETING WATER AMENITIES REPORT:
The report was brief. There has been damage to the spoil site. Earth Works will determine the specs of the necessary repairs.
COMMENTS ON THIS WHOLE SHADY, CONTORTED, SECRET MESS!
BEFORE I WENT ON WITH MY COMMENTS, I JUST COULDN'T RESIST!
This whole mess is just so ridiculously blatant that it is difficult to know where to begin. First, follow the information in the time line listed through the articles. Second, note that I only provided quotes from one set of approved WPA minutes. There is a message as you try and access the WPA website that says there is an error. Quite frankly, it isn't much of a loss since the minutes are so sanitized by the board, that they don't reflect what actually happened on key issues. No problem there either, because the board often makes their decisions away from the board table, and Garrison and our president make declarations as though there had been a discussion of fact at a board table.
The spoil site situation should be a sound fact of just how poor, illegal (against the governing documents), and represent just how dumb the board feels residents are. McMillin lies from the board table stating all the terms of a ground's contract that includes the spoil site, have been met. John Walton reports that the spoil site has been neglected - no one asks how that happened. John Walton says they need a controlled burn, but they have no money (canal committee). A month or two later, they've found the exact amount they need for the burn in the ground's money. At some point when questioned, McMillin states the whole board including him knows how the spoil site got neglected. Not one person at that honorable board table says "we do????????". So they must all know but don't think we should. Then when pushed at a later meeting, we get no answer from McMillin except that he trusted a board member. Which one, he won't say, and neither will anyone else on the board, and President Walton shuts the meeting down. No where in all the months it took to get us to this miserable spoil site place, does anyone declare that the spoil site is damaged, until recently. No one tells how it was damaged, but they've hired an engineering firm to tell us what it will take to get it done! Can't wait to hear the story about that. Will it be the hurricane? Will someone level with us if it was caused by the burn, or the landscaping crew - the new one that the committee boated over to the spoil site a few months ago - after the neglect that everyone of the people at the board table knew about - according to McMillin?????????
Looks to me like this board's usual performance, plus their effort to bill every place possible but the canal residents, to keep the total cost of their illegal proposed dredging low, so that more will sign up to pay. The spoil site is owned by the association, but they have cut deals amongst themselves to get this done, according to a plan that harms us all. Who would trust this crew to take a row boat down the canal?
I hope that someone, like last time sues regarding the dredging. There is a phrase I often hear on legal shows, "you have to come to court with clean hands". Where will they find someone to speak to the cleanliness of this board, and this is just one example of their illegal process as it relates to dredging, and general operation. I'm looking for some other residents. Where's that crew from the last dredge that shouted from roof tops that they wouldn't pay ONE DOLLAR? You are paying everyday, here there, and everywhere! Where are you, wherever you live in Wedgefield that you can watch this illegal comedy, and not notice, or act?
YOUR BOARD, AND WATER AMENITIES COMMITTEE IS COUNTING ON YOU TO STAY SILENT.
