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My apologies for offending anyone who feels blame has been laid upon Priest, DeMalade, and Burke. Casting blame was never the intent nor do I believe that was reflected in the two articles.
Giving opinions on Village issues are important including from these three, they are owners too, well maybe two, but I get it, everyone has the right to speak up and express themselves, but my pointing out the debasing manner in which this group of people systematically took it to a board member over an issue needed to be noted along with relevant history about the group leading up to such an event. In my mind any debasing manner, even if the Board member is guilty as hell, should not be tolerated in a Village of good hearted people.
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The Rental Office has been an issue as far back as May of 2000 when the Board debated on its existence.They ultimately decided to keep it operational as long as it didn’t cost the owners.
Six years later our Rental Office had a two year record of losing big money. A Rental Committee is formed. They concluded these losses were due to an ever increasing number of landlords violating the “exclusive rights” clause found in Article VII of the Declaration of Covenants. In trying to find a way to correct this, our Directors were surprised to find they could neither close the Rental Office because that would more than double the losses nor could they enforce the “exclusive rights” provision because of previous years of non-enforcement. So the 2006 Board threw up their hands and said “Oh well”.
Since 2004 owners have poured around $25K a year into this money pit and how many times during those eight years did owners hear from these people who showed up at the Wednesday McBride bash expressing such a concerned about the Rental Office finances? ZIP, ZERO, NADA!!! Why was that?
I agree on virtually every point Larry Schroeder delivered during the Coffee blitz. For example his opinion that no one should be vilified over a conflict of interest nor should McBride be made to step down. Add to this was his wish that the Board enforce the Declaration of Covenants and figure out a way to keep all conflicts of interest from happening which by the way a week later the Board did the latter with eliminating any possible circumstance that could cause a conflict of interest for McBride.

Since McBride’s ethics were brought up numerous times at and after that Wednesday slugfest, I have to ask where were these people having these sharpened ethic concerns during 2008, the year a director sued six other directors. Where was this moral outrage in December of 2010 when yet another director thought to sue our Village over dredging? Finally, what grade did these ethic crusaders give the director who helped support the obstruction of our 2011 Annual meeting?
It was clear to many that the COOL gang was not at the last Coffee because of ethics, rule violators, nor were they concerned about Rental Office’s financial failures. They were there for McBride and no matter how you slice it; the COOL’s axiomatic grandiloquence supports that conclusion.
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