Post by Poor Richard on Mar 23, 2021 10:18:52 GMT -7
Open Reply From Director Brockett to a Landowner
A landowner recently wrote an email to the Glastonbury Landowner's Association (GLA) Board. He was concerned about financial transparency, the 2020 postponed election and other issues. He offered several ideas for solving various problems.
All GLA Directors are allowed to answer landowner questions. Director Brockett answered the landowner's comments and then provided the Forum with his letter. Brockett stated "It is critical that landowners participate in local government and write letters to the GLA Board. Letters are read and often discussed by several directors. Landowner ideas are considered and sometimes create actions that positively influence Glastonbury".
Brockett's reply is below:
Brockett's reply is below:
Thank you for your email to the GLA Board. Your thoughts and comments are appreciated and helpful.
100% transparency is needed with GLA finances. Currently a few members are allowed to monopolize this critical information. Director requests for time cards, invoices and bank statements are routinely ignored or ridiculed. Without full access to primary financial records directors cannot determine if money is being spent properly or wisely. Landowners are effectively kept in the dark by just a few board members.
Not so long ago $5,000.00 went missing from the GLA bank account. In August of 2020 Director Mizzi, who then and now, has full legal access to all landowner money, "borrowed" $5,000.00 to help finance her August family vacation to the Mediterranean paradise of Malta. The Treasurer discovered the missing funds quickly and notified the GLA Board. Every member of the GLA Board kept the information from landowners for almost 4 months. Finally, in a fit of anger, the Treasurer, Mark Seaver, released the terrible information at the November 2020 Board Meeting. Mizzi blamed it on a "teller error". She thanked confidant and bank employee Charlene Murphy and GLA Administrative Assistant Karleen McSherry for "fixing the problem" while she remained offshore and out of contact.
100% financial transparency is sorely needed.
The GLA membership list could easily be posted to the GLA website. The courts have ruled that any member has a right to that information.
GLA Minutes are not available because Secretary Mizzi refuses to work with five directors. Several directors have asked Mizzi to edit and correct the minutes from August 2020 on. Claudette Dirkers sent Mizzi the same corrections eight times. Each time Mizzi refused to change her flawed narrative of the GLA Board meetings. Minutes are a legal record of GLA business and must be precise. Flawed minutes have not been approved by the Board and thus no minutes are available to landowners.
Mizzi has also signed a petition asking for the removal of the five directors she refuses to work with.
The GLA 2020 Election must be resumed. I will have more to say about this in a week or so.
Yesterday I presented a motion to fill the two empty GLA Board seats. They have been vacant since August and October of 2020. Claudette Dirkers seconded my motion. 8 members still need to vote. If the motion passes I hope that you and other landowners will apply for the positions. We need more thoughtful, hard working and innovative members on the board.
Thank you again for your letter.
The opinions expressed in my letter are my own and may not represent all board member's views.
Sincerely,
Director Tim Brockett
100% transparency is needed with GLA finances. Currently a few members are allowed to monopolize this critical information. Director requests for time cards, invoices and bank statements are routinely ignored or ridiculed. Without full access to primary financial records directors cannot determine if money is being spent properly or wisely. Landowners are effectively kept in the dark by just a few board members.
Not so long ago $5,000.00 went missing from the GLA bank account. In August of 2020 Director Mizzi, who then and now, has full legal access to all landowner money, "borrowed" $5,000.00 to help finance her August family vacation to the Mediterranean paradise of Malta. The Treasurer discovered the missing funds quickly and notified the GLA Board. Every member of the GLA Board kept the information from landowners for almost 4 months. Finally, in a fit of anger, the Treasurer, Mark Seaver, released the terrible information at the November 2020 Board Meeting. Mizzi blamed it on a "teller error". She thanked confidant and bank employee Charlene Murphy and GLA Administrative Assistant Karleen McSherry for "fixing the problem" while she remained offshore and out of contact.
100% financial transparency is sorely needed.
The GLA membership list could easily be posted to the GLA website. The courts have ruled that any member has a right to that information.
GLA Minutes are not available because Secretary Mizzi refuses to work with five directors. Several directors have asked Mizzi to edit and correct the minutes from August 2020 on. Claudette Dirkers sent Mizzi the same corrections eight times. Each time Mizzi refused to change her flawed narrative of the GLA Board meetings. Minutes are a legal record of GLA business and must be precise. Flawed minutes have not been approved by the Board and thus no minutes are available to landowners.
Mizzi has also signed a petition asking for the removal of the five directors she refuses to work with.
The GLA 2020 Election must be resumed. I will have more to say about this in a week or so.
Yesterday I presented a motion to fill the two empty GLA Board seats. They have been vacant since August and October of 2020. Claudette Dirkers seconded my motion. 8 members still need to vote. If the motion passes I hope that you and other landowners will apply for the positions. We need more thoughtful, hard working and innovative members on the board.
Thank you again for your letter.
The opinions expressed in my letter are my own and may not represent all board member's views.
Sincerely,
Director Tim Brockett