General Discussions/Comments

Many of the comments posted here and those emailed to the Board, are confusing and non-specific, but a few comments from the Board are warranted. In this regard, and especially in response to comments made by Mr Southworth, the following information is offered:

Voting/Discrimination: At the time of the Annual Meeting in 2018, Mr Southworth was not shown in POA nor county records as an owner of property at CCR and, thus, couldn't be registered or vote at the meeting. That wasn't discrimination; we were merely doing our job to enforce the law and the stipulations of our CC&Rs and Bylaws. The recorded owner of the property shared with him later amended county records to include him as co-owner, so there's been no question of his ownership status since, at least not by the Board.

Rights: This issue seemed to be driven mostly by inappropriate postings being removed from our bulletin-board. The bulletin-board is an asset of the POA and is located on POA/community property for private use by our property owners to post social information/announcements, not to promote personal agendas, disharmony, and/or division of the community. Our "civil rights" to protest and of "freedom of speech" does not give or imply the right to use the assets of incorporated communities for this purpose, any more than it would give anyone the right to post in a governmental/municipal facility, on their associated bulletin boards, or on someone's residence. CCR is an incorporated community by law, obligating the Board to regulate and limit the use of POA community assets to their intended purpose, in the same manner as elected officials do in entities like Heber, Holbrook, and the County Complex, all of which, including us, are subject to similar management principles/practices. These latter entities would never allow such postings on their community/municipal bulletin boards, nor should we. This in no way infringes on the rights of anyone to peacefully demonstrate, march, carry signs, circulate information/flyers, knock on doors, etc in public areas or easements, and that right has ever been denied by our POA.

Roads: This has been a very challenging year to get our new roads facilities up and running, a necessity for us to be compliant with county ordinances, and we've been plagued by a lot of equipment failures that have reportedly been the result of improper maintenance in the past. Please trust that our roads are again being maintained, not in a personally discriminating manner, but in order of the relative conditions of each road and by their frequency of use, constrained by the equipment and personnel available to us, and by the budget, limited by the Board in concert with their promise to not allow road maintenance to increase our fees. Please be reminded that we all chose to buy property in a wilderness area and accepted the associated compromises and limitations of such an area, which includes, or should have included the realization that some of our roads will never be as good as we'd like them to be, although we're doling the best we can with what we have. Thanks for your patience and understanding,.