Post by chadstone on Feb 19, 2016 20:44:25 GMT -7
For the first time in about 2 years, in February, I had the extreme
displeasure of attending the circus side-show called the monthly GLA
board meeting in February. My primary mission at that meeting was to
reclaim a tool that belongs to me, which was built by my grandfather
that was being used as an instrument of tyranny by president of the
board Charlotte Tizzy. The removal of that gavel from Ms. Tizzy’s
hands has been referred to by many as a “High” moment in the meeting.
From the beginning of the meeting the glaring malfeasance of the
majority of this board really began to raise its serpent-like head. I
will say as a caveat that I observed some sensible new board members
this time around although they are still out numbered by the unhinged
like Charlotte, Dan, and Rudy, to name three of them. I have always
had more hope for the future of this association. We landowners
deserve better.
My complaints about how this association is run basically fall into
two categories. The first is the unmitigated destructive cesspool of
legal activity this board forces on every landowner. The second is the
absolute malfeasance this board has demonstrated as it pertains to our
private road system. Both of these issues are tied together in my
point of view and boil down to “Is the GLA board spending OUR
LANDOWNER MONEY in OUR LANDOWNER BEST INTERESTS?” It does not take a
rocket scientist to look around and easily deduce the answer to that
question is: ABSOLUTELY NOT!
During the February meeting I was specifically challenging director,
Dan Kehoe, on his obtuse litigious positions when a visibly unnerved
Kehoe exclaimed “How much do we spend on lawsuits, Chad?” I told Dan
that I did not have the answer to that question, although as the
previous president of the board he should have been able in that
moment to provide that answer to me. The truth is Dan Kehoe doesn’t
even know the answer to that question because Dan Kehoe is too
ignorant to even understand the true cost. My point is that even one
dollar spent on lawsuits is too much - a point not even understood by
Dan. Today with the best information I have available to me I am going
to do my best to provide the answer to that question for Dan and the
GLA board.
These numbers are based on the approved budget for 2016. It is
important to note that a budget and what is actually spent are two
different things. The first line item for lawsuits is listed under the
“litigation” portion of the budget. There are three line items
Lawsuits incurred $1,400, Lawsuits initiated $3000, and Document
production $1,700 for a grand total of $6100. The board has budgeted
at least twice as much to sue landowners as it is to defend itself
against landowners who are suing them. What is not widely known is
document production funds get paid to Alyssa Allen. Although it's
never mentioned, Alyssa Allen remains an employee of the association
and is paid $15 an hour - we are told - to gather documents for
interrogatories and such. This smacks in the face of the GLA Board and
Ms. Allens vehement denials that she has ever been paid by the GLA.
How long has this been going on? How much Alyssa Allen profited off of
these lawsuits? What this also means is we have a non-board member,
who has driven these lawsuits as a board member with an unparallelled
religious fervor, who is still privy to all of the “confidential”
information related to these lawsuits. So when Ms. Tizzy claims
“attorney client privlege” (Ms. Tizzy has no idea what she is saying
when claiming attorney client privlage as it is not applicable in this
situation) as a way of shutting out landowners from this discussion
she is discriminating against all landowners by allowing one to have
access while the rest of us are undeserving pleabs in her eyes. Maybe
she will take this under consideration. Some even say that hiring
Alyssa is a conflict of interest as she is specifically named in at
least one of the aforementioned lawsuits.
What the sycophants on the GLA board want you to do is stop there and
say ”Okay, the O’Connell’s are suing the board and really $6100 is not
that bad.” If only that were the end of it.
Moving on to the Overhead and Administrative costs we find, Legal
fee’s $5,000. It is important to note that because of previous board’s
malfeasance and unmitigated dedication to dragging landowners through
expensive legal processes the GLA lost its cheaper legal insurance. I
believe this happened in 2014. What is not included in these numbers
is the $30,000 of road money the GLA board put into a legal
contingency fund last year. I have not included the administrative
expenses in this but we have heard over and over from this board of
directors and Dan Kehoe himself that one of the reasons we need this
employee is because of the myriad of lawsuits this board behavior has
generated. The administrative assistant is just another way the board
places someone between themselves and landowners in this association.
The board leverages this position to illegally relieve the itself of
its legal obligations to the landowners. Leaving out the
administrative assistance salary the numbers add up to $11,100 OF
LANDOWNERS MONEY that this board has set aside in the 2016 budget for
litigation purposes. Couple that with the road money the GLA board
grabbed last year for litigious activities the number balloons to
$41,600 the board has earmarked for potential legal expenses this
year. Think about that... WE are contributing our money so the GLA
board of directors can spend our money against us, the association
members.
I find the $5000 that is set aside for attorney advice particularly
tyrannical because those funds are used to silence landowners and shut
off creative solutions to the problems the GLA faces. It provides
cover for the most obtuse board members like Tizzy, Kehoe, and Parker
and their “we are smarter than the landowner plebes” supercilious
attitudes they carry into every meeting. I have never in my life
observed someone as pompous as Charlotte Tizzy. Furthermore this money
allows the GLA board cover to continue with the infestation of
groupthink.
Even understanding these numbers the GLA board has in their budget we
must ask ourselves, How can we be sure that these numbers are even
accurate (true) given the fact that Rudy Parker has been in error on
most all financial reports since becoming Treasurer in August? He has
admitted in board meetings to fudging the numbers on the books so I
question the validity of these numbers and financials. Our books need
to be balanced and presented to the membership without mistake.
It is important to remember that this is a break down of JUST THIS
YEAR and this board has been participating in this malfeasance for at
least 4 years. Cutting out all of the legal nonsense we could add
10%-15% more revenue to our road systems every year.
That is the cost of lawsuits in dollars this year but I believe there
has been a bigger cost that is more significant than money to this
association. That is the human cost. This board’s continued zeal to
run every decision past their, not OUR, attorney has destroyed trust
in our association and trust in this litigious-minded board . This
board’s litigious actions have destroyed community in the
Glastonbury’s. It will take decades to repair the cost that this board
has affected because of lawsuits in our association and community.
Some say our association will never recover from this and the only
path forward is to completely dismantle the GLA as it exists and
rebuild based on common sense, service to the community and
volunteerism, not the tenants of the Church Universal and Triumphant
or “The Ranch” as Dan Kehoe so reverently and eloquently likes to
refer to it in association meetings.
That’s the cost Dan and board members. That is what you and your
misguided principles are doing in our association. It is time for
troglodytes like Kehoe, Tizzy and Parker to exit stage right from your
circus side-show you and that board have created. It is time for this
board to serve its constituents not itself!
Thanks for reading,
Chad Stone 29 A&D
displeasure of attending the circus side-show called the monthly GLA
board meeting in February. My primary mission at that meeting was to
reclaim a tool that belongs to me, which was built by my grandfather
that was being used as an instrument of tyranny by president of the
board Charlotte Tizzy. The removal of that gavel from Ms. Tizzy’s
hands has been referred to by many as a “High” moment in the meeting.
From the beginning of the meeting the glaring malfeasance of the
majority of this board really began to raise its serpent-like head. I
will say as a caveat that I observed some sensible new board members
this time around although they are still out numbered by the unhinged
like Charlotte, Dan, and Rudy, to name three of them. I have always
had more hope for the future of this association. We landowners
deserve better.
My complaints about how this association is run basically fall into
two categories. The first is the unmitigated destructive cesspool of
legal activity this board forces on every landowner. The second is the
absolute malfeasance this board has demonstrated as it pertains to our
private road system. Both of these issues are tied together in my
point of view and boil down to “Is the GLA board spending OUR
LANDOWNER MONEY in OUR LANDOWNER BEST INTERESTS?” It does not take a
rocket scientist to look around and easily deduce the answer to that
question is: ABSOLUTELY NOT!
During the February meeting I was specifically challenging director,
Dan Kehoe, on his obtuse litigious positions when a visibly unnerved
Kehoe exclaimed “How much do we spend on lawsuits, Chad?” I told Dan
that I did not have the answer to that question, although as the
previous president of the board he should have been able in that
moment to provide that answer to me. The truth is Dan Kehoe doesn’t
even know the answer to that question because Dan Kehoe is too
ignorant to even understand the true cost. My point is that even one
dollar spent on lawsuits is too much - a point not even understood by
Dan. Today with the best information I have available to me I am going
to do my best to provide the answer to that question for Dan and the
GLA board.
These numbers are based on the approved budget for 2016. It is
important to note that a budget and what is actually spent are two
different things. The first line item for lawsuits is listed under the
“litigation” portion of the budget. There are three line items
Lawsuits incurred $1,400, Lawsuits initiated $3000, and Document
production $1,700 for a grand total of $6100. The board has budgeted
at least twice as much to sue landowners as it is to defend itself
against landowners who are suing them. What is not widely known is
document production funds get paid to Alyssa Allen. Although it's
never mentioned, Alyssa Allen remains an employee of the association
and is paid $15 an hour - we are told - to gather documents for
interrogatories and such. This smacks in the face of the GLA Board and
Ms. Allens vehement denials that she has ever been paid by the GLA.
How long has this been going on? How much Alyssa Allen profited off of
these lawsuits? What this also means is we have a non-board member,
who has driven these lawsuits as a board member with an unparallelled
religious fervor, who is still privy to all of the “confidential”
information related to these lawsuits. So when Ms. Tizzy claims
“attorney client privlege” (Ms. Tizzy has no idea what she is saying
when claiming attorney client privlage as it is not applicable in this
situation) as a way of shutting out landowners from this discussion
she is discriminating against all landowners by allowing one to have
access while the rest of us are undeserving pleabs in her eyes. Maybe
she will take this under consideration. Some even say that hiring
Alyssa is a conflict of interest as she is specifically named in at
least one of the aforementioned lawsuits.
What the sycophants on the GLA board want you to do is stop there and
say ”Okay, the O’Connell’s are suing the board and really $6100 is not
that bad.” If only that were the end of it.
Moving on to the Overhead and Administrative costs we find, Legal
fee’s $5,000. It is important to note that because of previous board’s
malfeasance and unmitigated dedication to dragging landowners through
expensive legal processes the GLA lost its cheaper legal insurance. I
believe this happened in 2014. What is not included in these numbers
is the $30,000 of road money the GLA board put into a legal
contingency fund last year. I have not included the administrative
expenses in this but we have heard over and over from this board of
directors and Dan Kehoe himself that one of the reasons we need this
employee is because of the myriad of lawsuits this board behavior has
generated. The administrative assistant is just another way the board
places someone between themselves and landowners in this association.
The board leverages this position to illegally relieve the itself of
its legal obligations to the landowners. Leaving out the
administrative assistance salary the numbers add up to $11,100 OF
LANDOWNERS MONEY that this board has set aside in the 2016 budget for
litigation purposes. Couple that with the road money the GLA board
grabbed last year for litigious activities the number balloons to
$41,600 the board has earmarked for potential legal expenses this
year. Think about that... WE are contributing our money so the GLA
board of directors can spend our money against us, the association
members.
I find the $5000 that is set aside for attorney advice particularly
tyrannical because those funds are used to silence landowners and shut
off creative solutions to the problems the GLA faces. It provides
cover for the most obtuse board members like Tizzy, Kehoe, and Parker
and their “we are smarter than the landowner plebes” supercilious
attitudes they carry into every meeting. I have never in my life
observed someone as pompous as Charlotte Tizzy. Furthermore this money
allows the GLA board cover to continue with the infestation of
groupthink.
Even understanding these numbers the GLA board has in their budget we
must ask ourselves, How can we be sure that these numbers are even
accurate (true) given the fact that Rudy Parker has been in error on
most all financial reports since becoming Treasurer in August? He has
admitted in board meetings to fudging the numbers on the books so I
question the validity of these numbers and financials. Our books need
to be balanced and presented to the membership without mistake.
It is important to remember that this is a break down of JUST THIS
YEAR and this board has been participating in this malfeasance for at
least 4 years. Cutting out all of the legal nonsense we could add
10%-15% more revenue to our road systems every year.
That is the cost of lawsuits in dollars this year but I believe there
has been a bigger cost that is more significant than money to this
association. That is the human cost. This board’s continued zeal to
run every decision past their, not OUR, attorney has destroyed trust
in our association and trust in this litigious-minded board . This
board’s litigious actions have destroyed community in the
Glastonbury’s. It will take decades to repair the cost that this board
has affected because of lawsuits in our association and community.
Some say our association will never recover from this and the only
path forward is to completely dismantle the GLA as it exists and
rebuild based on common sense, service to the community and
volunteerism, not the tenants of the Church Universal and Triumphant
or “The Ranch” as Dan Kehoe so reverently and eloquently likes to
refer to it in association meetings.
That’s the cost Dan and board members. That is what you and your
misguided principles are doing in our association. It is time for
troglodytes like Kehoe, Tizzy and Parker to exit stage right from your
circus side-show you and that board have created. It is time for this
board to serve its constituents not itself!
Thanks for reading,
Chad Stone 29 A&D
