After this Board – A Better Airpark Future!

To steal from the words of a recent Presidential speech: “You don’t need new rules or a new organization.  You just need a new board.”

What you don’t need from a board:

• An open declaration that no productive work will be done (not doing HOA work because we’re a charity, not doing charity because we’re an HOA).
• Spending 10’s and perhaps 100’s of thousands on lawyers, who will not talk to you and are likely working against you — with your dues money.
• Roads that continue to deteriorate.
• Unclear motives and direction — at best.
• Unwillingness to engage in open discussion and debate.
• Constant attempts to engineer conditions to dissolve the Association.

Rather, what you need is a board that:

• Will maximize funds for productive work!! (Why we even have SAEPOA!)
• Is active with charity and the community
• Is neighborly
• Is open to discussion, including the difficult kinds
• Will follow the rules that you make
• Will protect your investment
• Does not have hidden business motives

We should immediately prepare for this better future.  Join us!  I am just calling this informal group “Friends of SAEPOA”, because rather than tearing our association and airpark down, we will build it up, have fun, reach out to the community and do so much more.

• We meet every Friday — just for fun — at our place (normally, no politics, just food, fun and airplane talk)
• We are working with organizations like EAA to do activities like the upcoming Young Eagles Rally on 17 May
• We host a pilot’s breakfast for EAA (and non-EAA pilots) every month
• We will make sure that we do things like the Santa Fly-In 
• We are planning a first Sandia Airpark Fly-In for the 4th of July with the coordination of Sandia Airpark, Inc.
• We will defend your property rights!
• We host meetings for all property owners, including those who disagree with us in order to have the tough conversations that our current Board is unwilling to host
• We will ensure that, to the best of our ability, that your dues gets put to work for the betterment of the airpark, rather than to pay lawyers who are likely against you.

It is my sincere hope that out of this group we will find the volunteers to form a new board that does what is actually needed, rather than to seek our harm.

It is my hope that you will join us, no matter where you stand on our political issues.  We can plan a better path ahead together with more of the neighborhood together.  Also, out of this group, we can form up who we really want on the new board…the board that will actually help us!

Finally, as a personal disclosure, I understand that my role in trying to stop this rogue board is controversial for some.  Thus, neither Deborah nor I plan to run for any board positions, although we are also not unwilling to do so.  In the meantime, we’re having fun organizing and doing the “friends” activities!