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I went with Sam, John, Whitebear. They will whip this joint into shape fas.
Terlingua Ranch Reform Party
TERLINGUA RANCH PROPERTY OWNERS,
Your vote is needed to elect the three Terlingua Ranch Reform Party endorsed Director Candidates. Those candidates are John Hillje, Sam Sledge and Richard Whitebear! You should vote for them to protect your voting rights as a Terlingua Ranch property owner. These candidates, if elected, will join two Directors already on the POATRI Board (Brewster and O'Keefe) to form a working majority of five Directors- and be in a position to protect your rights.
Why is this important? The current POATRI Board majority believes that the way to resolve all problems is to throw more of your money at the problem. Proof of this is demonstrated in the cost increases in fees over the past few years! Last year – we were each billed a total of $245! POATRI just loves those Special Income Assessments and Non Reoccurring Charges that do not require any property owner approval! Better than having a gold mine – no digging involved – just bill the property owners whatever the General Manager requests! And the opposition Director Candidates Demetri – Oxsheer – Willauer have all indicated that they will continue down the current path of ever increasing assessments for questionable projects– i.e. maintain the status quo!
The endorsed Candidates – Hillje – Sledge – and Whitebear have all pledged to have the property owners vote on important issues like fees! You thus have a clear choice of the TRRP endorsed candidates who will let you vote on fees or the other candidates who will decide what is best for you!
As it stands right now, the POATRI Board approved a proposed lawsuit settlement that will greatly increase your fees! It is not a reasonable settlement. The plaintiffs never got to approve the proposed settlement before it was presented as an "APPROVED SETTLEMENT PROPOSAL". It was approved - by all but two POATRI Directors (Brewster and O'Keefe)!
Why did some of POATRI's Board rush to vote their approval of this sweetheart settlement offer? It was because it gave them their "wish list" of a revised Maintenance Agreement, new POATRI Bylaws, and much higher and ever continuing POATRI fees. And all without any vote by YOU the Property Owners who will have to pay the price!
Attorney Jerry Conner has been replaced by some of the plaintiffs because those plaintiffs, proxy givers, and lawsuit contributors disagree with his strategy and we believe a retained attorney is better prepared to take this case forward to trial.
We appreciate the efforts of Mr. Connor, but as a volunteer counsel, we feel that we have exhausted him with this complex matter. A new attorney has been hired to represent the plaintiffs in the lawsuit and he is working with Mr. Connor to transition into this case smoothly and cooperatively. The proposed settlement will be opposed by the plaintiffs' new lawyer, and we ask you to voice your opposition to the settlement with us.
You will be receiving a copy of the proposed settlement offer from POATRI very soon as it was mailed on December 10, 2007. You are urged to review these documents very carefully!
If you disagree with the higher fees, the new Maintenance Agreement, and the new POATRI Bylaws, you are urged to attend the Friday, January 18, 2007 court hearing to protest. All protests must be made in person at the Brazoria County Courthouse in Angleton, Texas at 1.00 PM. If you need help with travel arrangements please contact Don Mahan. Phone 281 496 5034. Also if you are coming to the hearing, please check with me and I will inform you if there have been any last minute changes in the court hearing date or time.
If you absolutely cannot attend the hearing, we urge you to send a letter to the court expressing your disagreement and please tell the court why you were unable to attend in person as requested. You can address the letter to: 412 Judicial Court, Case Number 39329. Judge E. Denman, 111 E. Locust Street, Suite 500, Angleton, TX, 77515. Also we request you send a copy of your protest letter to Don Mahan.
Why should you protest this proposed settlement.
· This is a clear violation of the existing maintenance agreement, which requires a vote of the owners to amend it.
· It authorizes regular and continues extra assessments in an amount determined by the Board. It strips you of your property owner rights to disapprove of Special income assessments or any other form of extra assessments.
· It also strips you of your property owner rights to vote for approval or rejection of higher (than government) COLA adjustments on your Maintenance fees.
· It increases your Maintenance fee to $168.00 plus an acreage fee of $0.80 per acre per year without your vote for approval or rejection
These higher maintenance fees, SIA type fees, the higher COLA fees, and any other fees they tack on like lawyer fees, interest, etc. will be the basis for liens and foreclosure on your property. And nonpayment will mean you automatically lose your right to vote again.
· Currently there are 3,404 property owners in good standing. As of the third quarter of 2007 only 1,813 property owners had paid their NRC. This means that 1,491 property owners who have not paid the NRC and will be disqualified from voting if the sweetheart settlement is not approved. This is blackmail and our new attorney has been asked to help protect their voting rights.
· There are 683 exempt property owners are in good standing. This means that there are only (3,404 - 683) = 2, 721 property owners which currently paying maintenance fees. This also means that 56 % of the 4884 owners are paying all the fees and that 44 % are not paying a dime in fees. This is not fair to the property owners that pay fees. Any proposed settlement should address these injustices.
· The proposed POATRI Bylaws did not contain a property owner's Bill of Rights
· The proposed POATRI Bylaws did not contain any meaningful election or voting reform rules.
· The proposed POATRI Bylaws did not guarantee property owner and board members access to Terlingua ranch membership records, financial records, membership lists, and voting lists in digital format.
Lawyers, a board of directors and a judge should not determine our future. The property owners should have the final say regarding our future by a written ballot.
We thought we had raised enough money to fund the expenses of the property owner's lawsuit. Since we had to hire a new lawyer, we now find ourselves in need of further donations of unused property (for resale) or cash to be able to continue the lawsuit and fund campaign letters such as this letter. We can put that unused 40, 20, 10 or 5 acre tract of land that you never used/never visited to good use and win back some of our rights.
Sledge, Hillje, Whitebear want YOU the property owners to decide what you want to pay for.
Sledge, Hillje, Whitebear want YOU to decide if you want future extra assessments.
Sledge, Hillje, Whitebear want to give YOU more control over your investment in POATRI.
Sledge, Hillje, Whitebear want to help protect your private property rights.
Sledge, Hillje, Whitebear want to help you preserve the value of your investment.
Support Sledge, Hillje, Whitebear, they support YOU.
Working together, we can rebuild a better Terlingua Ranch, where all property owners can have a say in its operation. If you have any questions or comments regarding this message, please contact me.
Donald W. Mahan
12800 Briar Forest #10
Houston, Texas 77077
Phone: 281 496 5034
dwmahan(at)sbcglobal.net
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Ronald H. Mahan
205 Flurnoy
Florence, Alabama 35633
Phone: 257 766 2847
rhmahan(at)hiwaay.net
BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT
There is an error in the 2008 Ballot form recently mailed to eligible POATRI
Voters.
The deadline for receipt of the completed ballot reads: November 25, 2007
The correct deadline for receipt of the completed ballot is: November 25, 2008
This typographical error will not affect or invalidate any ballot or the 2008 Directors Election.
http://www.poatri.org/
WAKE UP ALIDA!!!
"The correct deadline for receipt of the completed ballot is: November 25, 2008"
November 25, 2008?
I guess they will not be electing any directors in January 2008.
Will the incompetence never end?
Donna
A typo is an error resulting from striking the improper key of a keyboard, mechanical failure, or the like. Last time it was only a typo of the year. This year it's the month and year and then the month in the correction post. These are not typos. They are screw ups.
How many ballots will be trashed because the Manager screwed up again and people think it is already too late to vote?
Posting this on the web alone does not cut it. How will all the others know it is not too late to cast their ballot?
People are already talking behind the status quo scenes that if their choice of candidates do not get elected they will oppose the whole election process due to this.
If the BOD was doing their job in the first place the ballots would have had 8 other sets of eyes checking them before they were even mailed out. The BOD is so accustomed to having Alida and the staff do THEIR work for them and then covering up her screw ups because they fail to oversee the manager.
They wouldn't want to micro-manage her - so they do not manage her at all.
What is next, the wrong name with a candidates answers? The wrong candidate contact info?
Ever hear of quality control? Ever hear of responsibility? Ever hear of managing your employees?
Okay, so the BOD already learned earlier that typos and screw ups do happen. But, did they learn to prevent it in the future? Obviously not.
Donna
Y'know, life was so much easier back in Terlingua Ranch Brouhaha #1,when Snake Smith and Chuck Bradford had the Mahan role.
Everybody knew that the ballots were due before the January Board meeting. Probably coulda said "July" and it wouldn't have mattered. I volunteered to take care of counting ballots. I guess it was I (I disremember) who said that any ballot received before the end of counting would be accepted. I got Snake and Carolyn Ohl (Chuck's then-ladyfriend) to help with the counting and do whatever checking they cared to.
And back then, we had to do a lot of cross-checking, since it was still a corporate style instead of Modern Democracy: One vote per five acres owned.
The only complaining was from Snake, who, hoist on his own petard, had to work something besides his mouth.
One thing I've noticed over these last five or six decades: Name-calling tends to be the big eraser of credibility of the Big Mouth Tribe.
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