Feedback to HPPOA on HPP roads

[Chunkster]

Joe, some of us long-time residents moved in when the roads were well maintained and the HPPOA had better leadership. I bought my home 16 years ago, and things were not perfect, but dramatically better early on.

[Eric1600]

You can go to the HPPOA board meeting tonight and listen to the circus at 6pm.

http://www.hppoa.net/newsite/wp-content/...a_Only.pdf

[leo]

Chunkster, ditto.
The park seemed to be getting maintained on some sort of a schedule before. I'd say normal maintenance stopped a couple years ago. Considering the timing of the negligence my conclusion is because chip seal took front and center.
Now I found out the botched chip seal might have to be removed. I'm not paying for that! I didn't vote for my road fees to go to chip seal and I heard the board of directors didn't either. Sounds shady to me. Word around the park is that employee general manager, signed the joke of a contract and the chip seal contractor is unlicensed.
All the board directors who ramrodded chip seal through without checks and balances should pay out of their own pocket to fix the mess they brought on us.

[kalakoa]

I'm not paying for that!

Yes, you are...

I didn't vote for my road fees to go to chip seal

I didn't vote for a fuel tax increase...

[leo]

If I don't pay my road fees I'm not! This is about HPP not the county, not state.

[kalakoa]

This is about HPP not the county, not state.

HPP is not some magical kingdom which exists in a separate dimension; it's merely an additional layer of people getting screwed after they've already been screwed by the government which created the "privately owned roads (open to the public)" problem in the first place.

For some reason all the subdivisions that got screwed are fighting separate fights instead of uniting to solve the larger problem once and for all.

It would be somewhat amusing if it weren't so pitiful.

[leo]

You got that right.

[caveat emptor]

leo you ask, "Isn't Murdoch the guy that was behind the mailbox extortion plot? Another screw up by the same guy?"
That is true, he and another ill tempered ex-board director named Jerry Sodan hatched that scheme to extort money from lot owners by lying about a bylaw that allows the board, with lot owner vote approval, to raise a special assessment for road maintenance proposes only. And then, at the following board meeting after that mailing went out with the extortion plot, the chair of the so-called "Mailbox Committee" the ever congenial, always pleasant and enjoyable (sarcasm), Ruth Mazuba was so angry with the 2 going rogue on her and releasing the plot too earlier (apparently) and with out her permission that she gave them such a verbal spanking that I bet Murdoch still flinches when she enters the room.

leo you also mention something very interesting," Word around the park is that employee general manager, signed the joke of a contract and the chip seal contractor is unlicensed."
I heard about this as well, here is more detail. The chip seal contract is indeed a joke but quite seriously, it is also very troubling because the GM, Don Morris, had no authority to sign any contracts let alone one that is costing the Association 100's of thousands of wasted money. We have already wasted well over $300K on Morris' boondoggle. But, as I stated on page 3, the Association doesn't have a clue how much, because the Finance Committee doesn't know. As I said, Don Morris has no authority to sign any contracts and chip seal wasn't the only one that he illegally signed. Don't you think that would put HPP in some kind of legal quandary?
Thankfully because there are 5 directors voting against the “4” at board meetings, some times, that the finance committee was able to get the contracts and immediately saw that they were signed by the GM – which is against the bylaws. So what do you think his response was to the questions he received from FC members on who gave him the authority to sign contracts? I was told his answer to everything that he was questioned on was the same, The “board gave me the authority”, or “the board told me to”.
Obviously those answers go back to the collusion between him and the Crelly’s, Patrick Murdoch and Ruth Mazuba in previous boards and all behind closed doors making all of those decisions violations to the bylaws on multiple levels.

[kalakoa]

no authority to sign any contracts ... some kind of legal quandary ... against the bylaws ... collusion

All of which is obviously totally fine, because the only penalty (so far) is pseudonymous griping on an internet forum.

[leo]

kalakoa you might be underestimating "pseudonymous griping on an internet forum". We live in a small town and lots of people read this forum. There may be some kind of justice or karma for screwing over 8,000 lot owners.
Lets be clear, I'm not inciting physical violence AT ALL.
Thanks caveat for responding.