Post by Poor Richard on Nov 9, 2021 14:29:55 GMT -7
A 2nd Petition to Preserve Glastonbury Circulating in The Community
On October 28, 2021 members of the Glastonbury Landowner's Association (GLA) started to receive a mailing from a group called "Concerned Glastonbury Landowners" (CGL). The mailing list was from the GLA and some labels contained parcel numbers. The letter asked landowners to sign a petition to keep the current GLA intact; they opposed dissolving the corporation by splitting it into a GLA-North and GLA-South.
On November 8th, 2021 South Glastonbury landowner and former GLA Director, Clare Parker, emailed a letter and her petition to many landowners. Parker also opposes dissolving the GLA by splitting it in two. She urges landowners to sign both petitions. Parker writes:
You may download a copy of Parker's petition here.
Dear Glastonbury Landowners Association Member,
Attached is a petition for you to sign that has the potential, God be willing, of helping to put an end to the lawsuit filed by three current GLA board members to dissolve the GLA on the grounds that the GLA is dysfunctional. As it stands, because of this lawsuit, Judge Brenda Gilbert and the Park county 6th District Court is now the ruling authority over our Glastonbury Landowners Association.
The GLA’s governing documents were crafted very carefully. The GLA is NOT dysfunctional. The dysfunctionality lies with the polarization of the Board, which new elections should remedy. The Board became polarized when 5 GLA Board members refused to allow certain landowners to be on the ballot who had submitted their applications to the GLA Administrative Assistant in a timely manner. The five refused on the grounds that the applications were not sent to their mailboxes directly or on time (because of a personal crisis the GLA Administrative Assistant underwent, right at that time). Then gridlock set in with the other Board members opposing the motion to keep the candidates off the ballot, and the GLA did not move ahead with the Annual Meeting and election. The same five further refused to honor a landowners’ petition of over 5% of the membership that called for a Special Meeting to redress the ballot situation and to hold an Annual Meeting and election. In other words, they violated the Bylaws and landowners’ rights!
You should have received a petition in the mail from Glastonbury Concerned Landowners. That petition is separate from this petition–but please sign that petition, also. The two petitions are complimentary. They have a different approach towards the same end, namely, a free and self-governing Glastonbury.
Bylaws give landowners the power to decide issues for themselves by Special Meeting anytime the Board gets stuck! If Judge Gilbert cooperates with this petition, as I believe she will because she should, she will direct the GLA Board of Directors to call a Special Meeting of landowners to move forward with the Annual Landowners Meeting and election, which will redress the violations. That done, there will be no grounds for anyone to claim that the GLA is dysfunctional and that it should be dissolved, not so long as landowners have the upper hand and can vote.
This does not mean that there will be no more problems or disagreements. There is an aggressive group of people who have their own agenda who are out to destroy the GLA, at any cost, and I don’t suppose they will just give up; but as long as landowners exercise their rights and make their voices heard, landowners will remain in control.
If you have a scanner, please print and sign this petition and send it back to me at this email address. If you do not have a scanner, then print, sign and mail it to me at my postal address:
Clare Parker
P.O. Box 1152
Emigrant, MT 59027
If you have any questions, you may phone or email me. If you do not want to receive another email from me, just send me an email and put DO NOT EMAIL in caps in the subject header.
Sincerely,
Clare Parker
SG Parcels 31-D and 42-D
406-333-4614
clare@rudyparker.com
Attached is a petition for you to sign that has the potential, God be willing, of helping to put an end to the lawsuit filed by three current GLA board members to dissolve the GLA on the grounds that the GLA is dysfunctional. As it stands, because of this lawsuit, Judge Brenda Gilbert and the Park county 6th District Court is now the ruling authority over our Glastonbury Landowners Association.
The GLA’s governing documents were crafted very carefully. The GLA is NOT dysfunctional. The dysfunctionality lies with the polarization of the Board, which new elections should remedy. The Board became polarized when 5 GLA Board members refused to allow certain landowners to be on the ballot who had submitted their applications to the GLA Administrative Assistant in a timely manner. The five refused on the grounds that the applications were not sent to their mailboxes directly or on time (because of a personal crisis the GLA Administrative Assistant underwent, right at that time). Then gridlock set in with the other Board members opposing the motion to keep the candidates off the ballot, and the GLA did not move ahead with the Annual Meeting and election. The same five further refused to honor a landowners’ petition of over 5% of the membership that called for a Special Meeting to redress the ballot situation and to hold an Annual Meeting and election. In other words, they violated the Bylaws and landowners’ rights!
You should have received a petition in the mail from Glastonbury Concerned Landowners. That petition is separate from this petition–but please sign that petition, also. The two petitions are complimentary. They have a different approach towards the same end, namely, a free and self-governing Glastonbury.
Bylaws give landowners the power to decide issues for themselves by Special Meeting anytime the Board gets stuck! If Judge Gilbert cooperates with this petition, as I believe she will because she should, she will direct the GLA Board of Directors to call a Special Meeting of landowners to move forward with the Annual Landowners Meeting and election, which will redress the violations. That done, there will be no grounds for anyone to claim that the GLA is dysfunctional and that it should be dissolved, not so long as landowners have the upper hand and can vote.
This does not mean that there will be no more problems or disagreements. There is an aggressive group of people who have their own agenda who are out to destroy the GLA, at any cost, and I don’t suppose they will just give up; but as long as landowners exercise their rights and make their voices heard, landowners will remain in control.
If you have a scanner, please print and sign this petition and send it back to me at this email address. If you do not have a scanner, then print, sign and mail it to me at my postal address:
Clare Parker
P.O. Box 1152
Emigrant, MT 59027
If you have any questions, you may phone or email me. If you do not want to receive another email from me, just send me an email and put DO NOT EMAIL in caps in the subject header.
Sincerely,
Clare Parker
SG Parcels 31-D and 42-D
406-333-4614
clare@rudyparker.com
You may download a copy of Parker's petition here.