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Residents, this is a difficult article to organize. It is an important article, as we will all be voting soon. One of the key offenders, McMillin, is running for board again. The assemblage of 2011 actual facts, speaks to the integrity, honesty, and illegality (against our governing documents), and general creepy operating tactics, of McMillin. Posing in front of the entrance planting flowers, putting down pine straw, etc., does not weigh in as boardmanship, if you are representing the best interests of Wedgefield, and doing these ridiculous things in secret behind, and at the board table. In 2011 I back checked facts, and was at the board meetings. As outrageous, and sometimes hilarious, as the facts get, I'm not afraid of presenting it, in hopes that this character, who has continued this behavior, right up to today, will not be re-elected.
In case you are reading board member/community liaison, canal dredging committee member, Anderson, don't write, or comment around cronies, that she is digging up that old stuff again - because it directly relates to today. What answers are you willing to provide as to how the spoil site was neglected, lied about as having been maintained, then needed a controlled burn, and is now damaged, along with cutting of trees on private canal lots? Why can't you answer now about the tree cutting? This old history, as you call it is exactly what lead us to the disastrous governance of 2017.
To set the stage to this, I'll tell readers that in 2011 McMillin (board member than, and now) had been sued along with the whole 2009 board. McMillin, as part of that board, had countersued the 3 originators of the lawsuit, and several others, Garrison (resident when countersued, board member by 2011). First hand to me, around 2011 McMillin began to tell me what a great guy Garrison was, despite the despicable things he was publicly doing at the board table. I note this, because you'll see Garrison come into play in the following 2011 postings.
In 2011, I, and a large group of residents (The Wedgefield Civic Group), secured petition signatures, required under non profit state law (used by the concerned citizens for the first time in the history of the association in 2010 to remove two board members), to remove five 2011 board members, Garrison included. McMillin was helping me! I delivered the petitions to the office, as required by law. Long story short, the board's hand picked attorney, Moran, put his legal opinion in writing to the board that a notice of recall meeting, and vote, should be called. Wilson then president of the association, who was also one of the 3 individuals who brought the canal lawsuit, so to remind you again, McMillin was suing him, didn't like what his board attorney of record said, and ran off with another concerned citizen board member, who McMillin was countersuing, hand picked another attorney Moody (who was later disbarred while our new board attorney of record), and incurred more expense. Garrison in his usual hide and seek game, acted the part of good cop in the moment, and objected saying the board would not be paying the second bill, which later the board did, and Garrison sat back as the board made the payment. The 2011 board fired Moran, and hired Moody. The only 2011 board member who stayed with it, wanting answers from the board table was John McBride. I'm sorry that the board has taken the official meeting tapes off of the website. I'd send you there to listen how that whole board, treated McBride. McMillin sat back, and didn't help protect good governance, help McBride, etc., with questions, or response. When then President Wilson, from the board table, ON THE OFFICIAL MEETING TAPE, tried to justify the firing of attorney Moran, he made outrageous, and litigious statements about him. Now you have the cast of characters, and we can go to the blog postings from 2011.
Note: Today, Sept. 2, 2017 I've added comments in RED to this 2011 article to help new residents understand the position these people held, and identify names you might not recognize. This was the beginning of no tapes, sanitized - and then no minutes, or financials, on the WPA website in 2017.
"Then McMillin came to me (Wedgefield Examiner - Madeline) with the information that Wilson had gone to Kathy (paid WPA staff secretary) and asked her to erase part of the official meeting tape (the remarks about attorney Moran). He told me I couldn't write about it, or tell anyone, and he would handle it. I began to receive phone calls from people who said, I can't tell you who said it but ....and they would repeat the story. McMillin then went into a Finance Committee Meeting (as the chair) and told the whole group the story, and told them they couldn't repeat it. This time, he told them that he and Walton (our current president) were in the office closet and overheard Wilson make the request. The following morning I received three calls from people telling the story given by McMillin (some members of the finance committee - laughing at the idea that Larry and board member then - our president Walton now, would happen to be HIDING in a closet together any time, but particularly AT THE EXACT MOMENT when Wilson would drop in - no prescheduled appointment, and state his request to Kathy. It should be noted that the story was so unbelievable that one of the finance committee members went to Jacky Walton, and asked him if he was in the closet with McMillin, and heard this? No he was not. What ADULT, let alone board member would fabricate like this?). I never wrote the Board, or published information from McMillin until I got it from other sources. I wrote the Board, delivered the letter to the office with specific email instructions. Garrison was to get the email, return receipt, and when that was received, it was to be emailed to the rest of the Board. Kathy, did not send it as directed, she notified McMillin, and in less than 5 minutes he was telling me, I had to pull the letter. I wouldn't. From that time on, he went to our mutual friends and complained and moaned and made me the bad guy. Many of those friends were involved in the Wedgefield Civic Group. When McBride questioned Wilson at the July Board Meeting about the incident, "I'll take care of it McMillin, just sat there. Why didn't he help McBride take care of it? (Why didn't our now President Walton speak up, or Garrison?) Ask Walton whether he and McMillin were in a closet and heard Wilson. I'm told it wasn't so. Wilson did ask, McMillin carried the story to boost his ego, but no one was allowed to tell (JUST WHAT DID HE DO TO TAKE CARE OF IT, BESIDES LIE, AND HIDE)" END OF POSTING
HERE IS ANOTHER RELATIVE POSTING FROM THE BLOG IN 2011. RELATIVE BECAUSE IT COMPLETES THE STORY OF THE INCIDENT, BUT IT ALSO BRINGS US TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY WITH THE RECORDINGS, SANITIZED MINUTES, TO NOW NO PUBLISHED RECORDINGS, MINUTES, OR FINANCIALS
As published on the blog -"Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Garrison Acknowledges Wilson Did Ask The Staff Secretary To Erase A Portion Of The June Meeting Tape: To view concrete details of Wilson's request, please read, "The WPA Board Majority Elected George Wilson for His Leadership?" , at The Wedgefield Times. As reported earlier, during the July Meeting, under questioning from McBride, Wilson admitted to asking Kathy to erase a portion of the tape. Garrison touched on the fact during the August Meeting. No one on the Board raised questions about what actions should be taken. Why? Where is ethical representation? Has our administration fallen to such a degree that this is OK? Your Board turned a blind eye, and moved on. Many of you have experience serving on Boards, if this situation played out at one of those Board tables, what would have happened?
MinutesVersus Transcripts: Wilson has been "burned", caught red handed, two months in a row, because there is a tape of the meeting and he knew it would be transcribed. During the June Meeting, he made some potentially litigious statements about Attorney Moran. During the July Meeting, he is on tape admitting that he asked Kathy to erase part of the June tape. Real transcription from the tapes to an official record, isn't working for them. What do they do? They enter into a discussion led by Jacky Walton about transcription versus minutes. They can't remember why the Board went that route. They offer a few suggestions as to why it might have been implemented and decide that the Board will review this and decide which format is better. If you can't erase the tape, then let's give a reason for cutting out items in print, in the permanent record."
