Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2018 10:32:30 GMT -7
GLA Board Monthly Meeting on Monday April 16th, 2018
The GLA Board held their monthly meeting at Emigrant Hall on April 16th, 2018. The meeting ran for about 3 1/2 hours and was orderly. Highlights included:
- A 14 page detailed complaint regarding Director Charlotte Mizzi was not dealt with.
- The Communications and Technology Committee was labeled "ineffective" and was disbanded by the Board. It joins the Community Property committee in the graveyard of dysfunctional GLA committees.
- The Treasurer's report revealed once again that the GLA Board is barely bringing in enough in assessment revenue to cover ongoing expenses. The quarterly payment system, along with landowners who do not pay, is starving the GLA for operating funds.
- The Road Committee had prepared a detailed Spring Grading request for the Board to analyze. Board secretary Charlene Murphy failed to make copies and provide that information to the Board. The Road Committee will present the Spring Grading proposal at the next Board meeting in May.
- It was revealed that the GLA Board never took a vote nor did they involve landowners when they decided to cancel the 2017 Annual election and disenfranchise all voters. Rather they thought it was a good idea to cancel the election when they authorized attorney Seth Cunningham to negotiate with Kathleen Rakela last December. Rakela refused the offer but it was presented again at the March 23, 2018 TRO hearing. The GLA Board again offered to void the 2017 Election so Rakela could have her name on a new ballot. This time she accepted their offer.
- In another illogical twist regarding the 2017 Annual election the Board decided that all landowners who submitted Proxy ballots will have them honored in the replacement 2017 election to be held in June. All other ballots will be voided.
- The GLA Board seemed confused as to whether the June 2018 election was a replacement election or a continuation of the cancelled 2017 election. What was clear was that the GLA Board decided to cancel the 2017 election; not Judge Brenda Gilbert via her court order. The court order only states that the GLA can hold an election. The original Rakela complaint only asked that the 2017 election be halted and postponed.
- The Rakela lawsuit continues and no date was given for a final court order regarding the TRO hearing of March 23rd, 2018. Rakela is still suing the Board for damages and that lawsuit could easily continue into 2019. Legal expenses are way over budget for 2018 and the Board has yet to deal with that issue.
- The GLA Board has enlisted the assistance of another law firm to collect past due assessments after the last one failed to send out collection letters in 2017.
- A plan was presented by Leo Keeler to gradually bring private roads into the GLA platted road network so they can receive routine maintenance. He estimated that if assessments could be raised by 10%, a mile of private road could be added. Over the course of 4 years and four 10% assessment increases all of the private roads could be included for regular road maintenance. Several people commented that we do not have enough now to pay for decent road maintenance.
- Director Paul Rantello threatened to sue the GLA Board for finding him not "in good standing" because he built structures without following the GLA covenants. Rantello continues to cast votes on the Board even though the Covenants prohibit landowners who are not in good standing from voting. The Board sidestepped the issue by deciding to ask for attorney advice.
- Director Dan Kehoe of the Legal Committee alleged that CUT has threatened to sue the Board for not providing free maintenance on their private roads.
- Val O'Connell was finally removed from all of the committees she signed up for but rarely attended meetings of.
- A landowner asked that the Board take a vote to ask Paul Rantello to voluntarily step down. Director Leo Keeler made a motion that the Board ask Paul to voluntarily step down. Not one director had the courage to second the motion and it died.