A Response to Letter Mailed by TAJ BOD

The following letter is being posted here at the request of unit owners that received it via email on 5 Aug, and with the permission of the author Bryan Sklar. It is in response to a correspondence that was apparently mailed by the TAJ BOD.

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Mr. Lovell - I would appreciate if you are going to share my letter with the community that you do so in full, and without edits or changes. I don't like being plagiarized or misquoted.  While I am happy that you found some of the information in here useful, you changed the tone of the message to one that supports your activities.

Let me be clear - I think you should resign. I think you are immoral, that you behave in an unethical manner, that you are self-serving.

The Board acted - in my opinion - in an unethical and immoral manner when they allowed Wendi to remain on the board after she transferred title of her property. Basically John, you decided it was better to keep Wendi on the Board by giving her half of one of your units, then for the 6 remaining board members to step up and take responsibility.

You hired Wendi as the Property Manager, creating a potential conflict by having a unit owner and Board Member receiving compensation. The Board had a resolution many years ago that prohibited unit owners from working in the office - I believe you voted on this as well (it was when E [unit owner] worked in the office and was sharing information about JN [the property manager at the time] ).

Perception becomes reality - and the community perceives what you all did as underhanded, manipulative and deceitful.

John, you made a comment recently that you were concerned about why people were trying so hard to get on the board and their motivations - after 10 years on the Board that could be said about you as well. Isn't it time you resign, take care of your health, and let others be on the board? How many times has Building 1 been repaired in the past 12 years when you were on the Board?

If you cannot fix your own building right, where you owned 5 units at one time, how can the Association expect you to work in their best interests to fix their buildings? It's obvious from looking at Building 1 how bad a job you have done selecting contractors and fixing the problem.

An Open Letter to the Community: Leadership...Communication...Commitment

The following letter was submitted by a concerned TAJ resident.

Neighbors -

Recently we all got notice that we are going to have an election to fill 4 positions on the Board….again (didn’t we just go through this in March?). Like you I hope this time we get some people who are LEADERS, who can COMMUNICATE with the owners and contractors, and who can make a COMMITMENT for positive change in our community. There is no need for the Board to work as hard as they do – they need the right office staff, the right property manager, and the right contractors. There are many of you who come to meetings and have great suggestions for change – please volunteer and put your name in to run for the Board. We need fresh faces, new ideas, people who are motivated by their sense of duty to the community to lead us.

Our Board should have people who dissent and do not agree with everyone else – we need debate. We need free thinkers. We keep putting the same people on the Board over and over, expecting different results.

You manage “things”, you lead people – we need leaders.

If you won’t run, convince a neighbor to run. If there are bad people on the Board, let’s recall them and start from scratch.

Let’s put in term limits, so no one can be on the board for more than 4 years in any 10 consecutive year period.

Instead of building captains let’s vote in one person from every building (47 board members) who would then elect the 7 directors and officers – one building/one vote and equal representation – isn’t that what our country was founded on?

If not you – then who?

Thanks for listening.

Bryan Sklar