ACCOUNTABILITY
( 10 a.m.)

One of the overheads here in our Village paradise lately has been wasting part of your life watching a diminutive group blindly protecting insincere Aramark employees from being accountable for actions affecting our Village. In the last nine months when management accountability was a question, something would come to life that one could only describe as the “spin wizards of rhetoric”. These wonder workers would try to change the issue under discussion and put focus on a different one such as agendas, due process, evaluation fairness, wrongful termination, micromanaging, divisive behavior, Aramark’s contract obligations, disgruntle employees, destructive behavior and so forth. My favorite “spinner” is that the Directors were at fault for asking questions which forced them into their unenviable situations. Why simple answers can’t just be explained about simple accountability questions is beyond me. One must scratch their head as to why every accountability question seems to always be answered with additional verbiage that attack the person asking.

Since September, management’s actions have been done with impunity due to a court order that includes having a total re-election of our Board of Directors. This imposed order is the result from what many owners feel is a senseless lawsuit initiated by Director Mulch and last year’s director candidate wannabe Reta Priest. It’s apparent the lawsuit’s intent was to neutralized the majority power of the Board who were for the first time asking the management questions and holding them accountable for their actions and statements. The court order also eliminated any possibility for this majority to once again take action and try to replace positions of management.

The chaos began almost a year ago when President Sullivan decided it was finally time to implement a replacement procedure for the GM’s position that resulted with the majority of Directors approving instead an insignificant 90 day evaluation. This evaluation gave the needed time for this group to incite an extraordinarily invalid recall campaign appearing to be a first attempt to neutralize the Board’s majority power and when that failed this exclusive lawsuit followed. This is wasting thousands of dollars of owner’s money just to appease this group against management accountability. This group says they speak for majority of Village owners. They will soon speak for you again when owners receive the final bill from this court appointed agency running our election called Long, Chilton, LLP.

Everyone in our Village has a right to express themselves stating their concerns and opinions, but to do so at the top of your lungs, pointing fingers, and trying to impose your will like several people of this group did in the last Board meeting in support of a manager was totally unacceptable. This type of planned behavior has happened too many times at Board meetings when the GM is questioned about his actions or statements. This has caused so much damage to our once peaceful, friendly, and carefree Village that it may never get back to the way it was for the rest of our lifetimes.

This group seems to feel the only solution to this problem is to elect Directors who will ignore Aramark management accountability to achieve some peace and give the illusion that everything is just grand. If this makes sense to you then let’s succumb to Aramark’s management and exempt them from their actions. Our GM said they don’t get paid that much so why put this extra burden of accountability on their shoulders and their need to work with every Director. We just need bobble head Directors that will be happy to close their eyes and get our Village back like it was when many owners were fairly ignorant about the Declaration and By-Laws or didn’t really care about what was going on with their investment within our community.

I believe owners are now wanting to become more aware of what has been happening and wish to receive accurate information about their park? I don’t believe the majority of owners want what this group has to offer, the need for management accountability to be ignored, distorted, or erased altogether. If they do, so be it.