Documents withheld
I have been searching for a Voters List, past Proxies, and evidence that the CCHOA held legal votes for the board of directors and post the minutes of past board and committee meetings.
It has been an exhausting search and full of roadblocks, intimidation, and disappoitments.
When CCHOA decided to hire the expensive law firm of Gray & Becker (who also did work for Gary Bradley), I visited their offices to review the CCHOA document that they were ''protecting''.
At that time, Rick Gray told me that ''all the documents that CCHOA had are here, except for a few they pulled''
He listed:
1) Voter Lists (there never was one)
2) Voter Proxies (several were still in the files from years past, evidence of a very casual, informal process.
3) Attorney / Client communications (especially the billing information !)
4) Complaints (to pretect the identity of the people who complained)
I also noted that all but two of the past IRS returns were missing and that there were no records of phone calls and emails of comments from the members at all.
This was important, because without that information, it's impossible to see the comments and questions from the CCHOA members.
About the web site and the CCHOA email list.
We live in modern age where almost nobody has time to visit the CCHOA offices or even make phone call inquires. We rely heavily on email and web access in most of our homes (not all, I do understand that some people will never access the Internet - we have Newsletter and snailmail, too). But, my point is, that if we don't use a valuable community resource like the web site and email (AND SHARE IT), then we are passing up a valuable tool that serves as a Town Hall.
That's really why this web site is so popular. It serves a need that CCHOA can not and will not provide.
There is no good reason why everyone in Circle C Ranch with email access can't receive email through CCHOA. That email is just like the mail center bulletine boards - it's a communit resource and it should be share. Nobody's email address ever has to be revealed and subjected to spam, if the email is routed though our CCHOA offices.
However, it is the comon property of every member and as such, everyone of us has the right to use that email to share their own opinions. I don't like everything I read in email, either, but it's free speech and not the exclusive domain of the BOD. They are DEAD WRONG to withold the email list to every CCHOA member who wants to post to it.
That's not SPAM, that's community access. It's exactly the same thing as ACAC - if you don't like it, don't watch it, but you can't shut it down.
