September
10, 2003
SUBJECT: CLARIFICATION OF MISINFORMATION GIVEN TO PROPERTY OWNERS
(001) On August 22,
2002, there was a letter sent to all
property owners of RRLE.
(002) That letter implied several things
including what happened at a Board Meeting on August 10,
2002.
(003) A property owner chose to sit and
observe the pre-meeting of the Board and two board members slammed out of the
meeting in anger.
(004) They said they resigned from the
board.
(005) There are witnesses to the fact
that they stated they resigned.
(006) We will not bore you with the
details other than to say that from beginning to end, a letter intending to
state the "truth" to everyone at RRLE, contained total misinformation
concerning various issues.
(007) The letter went out under the
signature of Raymond Jachim.
(008) At that time, the Board took no
action.
(009) Perhaps it should have but it
didn't.
(010) On August 16,
2003, two letters went out to the
membership.
(011) One of these was, again, under Ray
Jachim's signature, for the unauthorized "RRLE Oversight Committee,"
dated August 9, 2003.
(012) The RRLE Oversight Committee is not
a committee authorized by the Board.
(013) It is a group that meets secretly
at various lots; attendance is by invitation only.
(014) There is a list of members.
(015) There are also agendas.
(016) Several people on the list did not
realize their names appeared as members of the group.
(017) This smacks of something right out
of the McCarthy Era!
(018) A second letter in the August 16, 2003,
mailing, indicates that W arren Jendel, Ann Frandel, Frank Kozina, June Amell,
John Jay, Pat Phelps and Bob Woodward acknowledge they are members of the
unauthorized "RRLE Oversight Committee."
(019) This letter urges "informed
citizens" to vote for specific candidates in the election which recently
took place on August 30, 2003.
(020) Let's look at the facts:
(021) In 2001,
the then-board changed the bylaws to prevent a specific person from being
included on the ballot.
(022) The bylaws were reversed last year
because, according to the By-Laws, Article III, Section 3. Membership: "The Association may not expel a member
under any circumstances."
(023) The philosophy of the Board at that
time, 2002, was that citizens of RRLE should
decide whether they wanted a person on the Board tbrough their vote.
(024) Karen O'Rourke resigned on
February 1, 2003.
(025) At a Meeting with the Board on
November 9, 2002,
Karen O'Rourke was requested to cease overtime hours.
(026) She was requested to take a
reduction in salary, as were other employees of RRLE, due to budgetary
constraints.
(027) She then applied for unemployment
and it was granted November 2002.
(028) The salary reduction did not take
place until January 1, 2003.
(029) Karen O'Rourke continued to get
full salary through December 31, 2002, plus unemployment compensation.
(030) Due to massive overtime hours
approved by a former board president, she qualified for unemployment in a
seasonal, part-time job.
(031) Karen O'Rourke was also asked to
fill out the same time study other employees at RRLE are asked to fill out.
(032) The Board wanted to find out why so
many overtime hours were necessary during winter months.
(033) It is noted the Oversight Group
reviewed the minutes of meetings.
(034) Their letter says Park Manager Rick
Josephson has been excluded from decisions made by the Board.
(035) The Oversight Group states there
are " biased and slanted meeting minutes."
(036) Why, then, has the Oversight Group
referred to the minutes at all?
(037) Park Manager Rick Josephson has a 5-year Contract that signed by Rick Josephson on
July 14, 2001.
(038) The Contract amounts to the
authorization of a more than $250,000
expenditure over a 5-year period of time.
(039) The Contract is signed by Raymond
Jachim on behalf of the RRLE Association.
(040) Park Manager Rick Josephson has
consistently been the person the Board turned to for information or bids
concerning Park business whenever possible.
(041) The Board requested his feedback on
matters every single month.
(042) Current Board members have not
"entered into several costly, and in some cases, ill-advised contracts for
service without getting more than one bid”, or without consulting the Park
Manager.
(043) A list of bids for all work
completed is available in the Office or from President Bob Haas.
(044) Those bids include repaving of the
blacktop road leading to the back pool (3
bids), fixing of the silo, (3 bids) and the
lease of washers and dryers (2 bids for
commercial coin machines, rather than standard machines.)
(045) All projects have been discussed a
minimum of three meetings before any action is taken or the project is voted
upon.
(046) A rough draft of the "Laundry
Room Lease/Equipment" letter from Dave Anderson, apparently meant only for
the Oversight Group, mentions Craig Hughes.
(047) It was E-Mailed to the RRLE Office
on July 16, 2003.
(048) The Board knew of the letter, yet
chose to not to respond because the letter was not directed to the Board.
(049) RRLE has not paid anything for
washers/dryers.
(050) RRLE is not in the washer/dryer
business to make huge profits.
(051) The Board wanted to provide new
equipment for members since this project has been "overlooked"
consistently every single year prior to 2003.
(052) Dave Anderson wrote to the Board
early this past year, indicating he was going to form an Oversight Group.
(053) He has done so.
(054) The information from that group cannot
be substantiated.
(055) The information from the Board can
be substantiated as fact.