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Post by Admin on May 17, 2016 7:38:09 GMT -7
Gov Doc Meeting May 23rd, 2016 7-9PM At SpecTec, 9 Polaris Way in South Glastonbury
Originally scheduled for May 27th but changed to May 23rd.
Agenda:
1. Pro/Con of Bylaws 5 & 6 changes
2. Pro/Con of Covenants 5 changes
3. Pro/Con of Covenants 6 changes
4. Pro/Con of Covenants 11.06 changes
5. Pro/Con of Covenants 12.01 and Master Plan changes
In a nutshell the changes are:
Covenants Sec 6, drop the exclusion for structures under 200 square feet.
Covenants Sec 11.06, change the interest rate to “12% or the highest interest rate the law will allow.”
Covenant Sec.12.01 change "reasonable hardship" to "unreasonable hardship".
Bylaws Articles 5 & 6 changes - Change the numbering of agenda items to bullets.
Bring suggestions on a thumb drive.
Download Meeting Documents:
Recommendations for Covenants & Master Plan Changes - October 22, 2015
Recommendations for Bylaws Changes - October 22, 2015
GLFPC Summary Courtesy of the Glastonbury Landowners For Positive Change. Visit their website.
Official Minutes Courtesy of the GLA Board
Note:The Official Minutes are seriously flawed. They do not present an accurate picture of what was discussed and they leave out vital information. At least one Committee member was not allowed to view the draft minutes and point out errors.
Read Leo Keeler's June 12th, 2016 Open Letter to the GLA Board regarding the official minutes.
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Post by Admin on May 24, 2016 7:59:19 GMT -7
Gov Doc Meeting May 23rd, 2016 - Forum Commentary It had been almost a year since the last Governing Documents open meeting. What was once a thoughtful and motivated group of landowners was shut down in June of 2015 so the GLA Board had "time to digest and review current recommendations". The Governing Documents meeting last night at SpecTec showed what happens when the landowners are shut out and healthy debate is silenced. The newest proposed changes to our Governing Documents were set in stone and Chairman Dan Kehoe stated at least 25 times that "we are not here to debate the changes". Rather landowners were only allowed to voice what were called "Pros and Cons". Then the GLA Board would review the list of landowner comments and decide which ones, if any, would be presented to the landowners along with the proposed Governing Document changes via their official mouthpiece; the GLA newsletter. The landowners will have 30 days to review the proposed Covenant and Bylaw changes. Then a special meeting and a vote will be held. All attempts to debate changes were suppressed at the SpecTec meeting.
Many landowners came well prepared. They offered intelligent, insightful and thoughtful comments. The Forum has devoted an entire section to the proposed Governing Document changes and you may study them and comment here. Both Chairman Dan Kehoe and President Charlotte Mizzi took notes and recorded landowner comments. None the less, there was a palatable tension in the air; many landowners mistrusted the Board and were suspicious of anything positive coming out of the flawed process. Since no debate was allowed, the final proposed Covenant and Bylaw changes were one-sided, missing checks and balances and often trampled landowner rights. One proposal allowed the GLA Board to have non-landowners serve on Board Committees, formulate Board policy and spend landowner's money. Another proposal gave tens of thousands of dollars owed to landowners back to long term debtors. Yet another allowed the GLA Board to kick any landowner off a committee for any reason. That would effectively quell any dissent. The GLA Board also proposed a change that would allow it to grant variances and waivers to the Covenants for any reason they wished. Effectively they could do anything they desired even if if was specifically prohibited by our Governing Documents. That proposal would make a mockery of our laws and fling the gates of corruption wide open. Glastonbury would become a banana republic.
Adding to the general impression that landowners were not welcome was the recent private GLA Board meeting held in President Charlotte Mizzi's home. Landowners were not allowed inside her home; they could only listen via a crackling, fading and noisy phone connection. Most of the time landowners were muted. For the last 2 hours of the meeting they were disconnected entirely when a director hit the wrong button. Suspicion of Board intentions escalated when Dan Kehoe let slip that the GLA Board is only REQUIRED to meet once every quarter. Not so long ago Treasurer Rudy Parker suggested that financial statements should be limited to once a quarter as well. Currently the Board meets monthly and financial statements are issued monthly.
The old guard or shadow board, dates from an era in the 1980's when Glastonbury was ruled with an iron fist. The 1982 Covenants shredded Constitutional rights. They prohibited free speech and freedom of religion. They allowed the Church to seize private property and kick dissenters out of the community. It was a chilling time for Glastonbury landowners and it appears that the current shadow board would like to take us back to those days when harmony was garnered by silencing and eliminating all opposition.
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chris
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Post by chris on May 24, 2016 8:45:41 GMT -7
As a landowner/observer who attended this meeting I attest to the veracity of this report. If landowners sit idly by and permit this board to have its way, your landowner rights will be further shredded if not squashed completely and you will be nothing more than an assessment-paying serf. Better wake up now, pay attention, start gathering information that is not published GLA board propaganda (by reading this forum), sign up for communications from the GLFPC at glastonburylandownersgroup@gmail.com, and attend the next Governing Documents meeting to see for yourself. Keep up to date with scheduled board and committee meetings here. "Those who are not active in local politics will be forever ruled by those who are." ~ G. E. Griffin |
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Post by chris on May 25, 2016 11:01:45 GMT -7
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission." ~ Ayn Rand
UPDATED: We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: the stage where the GLA board is free to do anything it pleases, while the landowners may act only by permission.
NOTE: This situation will occur unless enough landowners stand AGAINST all of the board's proposed Governing Document changes!
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