You Really Want Us to Disband Because of This?

We the SAEPOA members now have a board that has been intending to dissolve the association for some time.  Various arguments have been made and tactics employed, but the one that has not been employed is to engage in meaningful discussion with the members in an open forum.  If their logic is strong, why are they afraid of open discussion?

 The latest attempt appears to involve another scare tactic.  This time it is that we will be forced to dissolve by a judge, or that we will have to spend a lot of money to defend ourselves from legal action.

This entire action, however, appears to have been orchestrated by the Working Group created by Jerry Powers, who also seems to dominate the Association’s board.

Consider the following:

• The filed complaint (“lawsuit”) lists many members of the Working Group formed by Jerry as the plaintiffs, even though no board member is on the list.
• Much of the language in the complaint is the same language that Jerry has used in prior attempts to dissolve SAEPOA.
• We are now being asked by the board to spend large sums on attorneys to defend a lawsuit that they likely created themselves.
• Our board clearly knew of this lawsuit for some time.  It was filed on the 20th of February!!
• We were just informed of the lawsuit and the recommendation (dissolve SAEPOA!) with just 48 hours prior to a board meeting with a resolution planned.
• The board will vote (and probably approve) the resolution without our full discussion.
• We (the lot owners who are not on the board) are potentially being squeezed by a lawsuit that is essentially a collusion between those Working Group members on the board and other Working Group members who are not on the board — all with the intent of destroying our association, perhaps taking our association’s money, and leaving our roads and neighborhood in limbo.
• Many of these Working Group members have various real estate interests in the area, such as to the North of the runway, that may benefit from these actions and we don’t know what harms are involved for us.
• We have little reason to believe that the board will diligently defend the Airpark should this case ever go to trial, as this appears to be an inside job.

Collusion between litigants is serious, but in this case it appears very likely.  Deborah and I went to breakfast the day after the election last December.  As it happened, we saw the Working Group saunter in.  We engaged in some chit chat about the election, and we were informed very clearly by those members that their next objective was to dissolve SAEPOA.  About 10 minutes later, Jerry entered and convened their meeting.  The Working Group members clearly submitted to his leadership.  Many of these people are now party to the lawsuit against SAEPOA.  This whole thing appears to be a setup, and we, the lot owners, appear to be the intended dupes.