02-13-2014, 01:45 PM
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Originally posted by kimo wires
The Orchidland board is not following protocol. All of the entrance roads running perpendicular to Highway 130 are supposed to be paved in an order set by the paving plan before any other paving work is done. There are roads that aren't finished and those are the neglected roads that are in terrible shape and need to be done first. It's the right and fair thing to do for the people that use those sections every day and have been waiting years. The money diverted from those paving projects have been marked for resurfacing,paving, the existing chip seal roads.
Iilima road is a classic example of how this board operates. They spent 60,000 dollars to prep the road for paving and have abandoned the final phase, asphalt, and are now planning to instead pave over the chip seal. Meanwhile the prep work will degrade from weather and will probably need more prep, and wasteful spending, to bring it up to ready again.
Wes is Only trying to do what's right. As President he was chiefly responsible for bringing in a lot of the funds needed and resigned in protest when the BOD started enacting this unfairness.
This is hilarious! Ilima was prepped after the 2009 paving collection expired. Most of the funds in were depleted doing that work. At the same time, for years residents have complained about the chipsealed sections. Given that the 2006/2009 President OPPOSED both collections and paving, the subsequent board's hands were full. They had to make a decision as to which child would eat and which would have to wait for the next meal. NOTHING was DIVERTED, no assessments were in place at that time for chip-seal OR paving. They simply had to make a hard choice as to which would take priority as they knew, the membership would NOT approve both.
Ilima btw has a few potholes but it is holding up fine. Much of the cost was for removing tons of trash and hammering the road bed. Even if the substrate washes away (which it isn't), it wouldn't take much to prep again. At least those that use Ilima appreciate it.
[u]WES had NOTHING to do with the collections policy.[/u] He started serving on the BOD AFTER the collections policy 99% complete.
This alone was a hard fought 1 1/2 year battle within the board as they were all threatened with lawsuits challenging the legality of it. They spent countless hours agonizing over the articles of inc., by-laws and 414D to finally come up a policy.
It's amazing how he takes credit for increasing compliance for a policy he had nothing to do with, counting people on payment plans as "compliant" while a majority of them have already stopped paying.
He resigned (to put it mildly) at a gen. membership mtg. after the MEMBERSHIP voted for something he did not agree with. He had presented a fee schedule ON HIS OWN as then President, that the BOD had no knowledge of, and expected everyone to fall in line. The BOD had nothing to do with his resignation. What unfairness are you speaking of? The fact that he did not get his way? Life's tough isn't it? It's all moot though, that vote will be rescinded and the membership will have yet another chance to disappoint him.
I agree that paving MUST be completed but Wes's solution by confiscating a fund that has a very clear and specific purpose, is simply wrong. He was at the meeting when this vote went through in 2011. He held his tongue for 2 years. Only now it's a huge injustice? I'm pretty sure he paid this assessment for the 2 years, otherwise he couldn't serve on the BOD. Or maybe, he knew the membership would not pass a paving assessment in 2011, so he let this chip-seal vote pass only to raise hell when there was a significant amount of money to go after. Just a thought.
Assuming he is correct (which I don't), the ONLY remedy I see is refunding those that have paid and start all over again. IF they take my money and use it for anything other than CS repair, game on.