There have been two meetings that I can recall since the Sep 25 meeting.  One in Dec 25 and another in April 26 I believe.  It could be three, if I’m not mistaken.  I can’t answer for the Club Secretary about the status of each meeting minutes, but I can confirm that the entire board has been wrapped up in numerous, time-consuming, and exhausting club business issues, primarily the Developer next door but also on-going insurance tasks, Steve’s squatting on Encore property (which they found us liable for enabling), site work, tractor repairs, pond repairs, irrigation repairs, the film crew earlier this year, etc.

People quickly react to any issue at the club with same response, ‘Where are the minutes?’, while they take no consideration of how much stuff the board has been working on, and this year has been very busy.  Also, I don’t know what anyone expects to gain from the minutes because the current issue with Steve’s recent situation and the question of his membership just came up less than a week ago, so it hasn’t made it into any meeting minutes.

I’m pretty sure I’ve adequately covered Steve’s behavior.  No reasonable person should think that living in the LZ for the last 8 years is acceptable in any way.

Luke,

Thank your detailed response. I understand the tension he caused with encore and it has been a pain to the board.

I do not believe that anyone is disagreeing with the board on point 1. Steve cannot camp on CSS property or the neighboring properties. If he refrains from further camping in our vicinity, would the board still have reason to want to exclude him from the property? It sounds like it does, but I can’t imagine what harm he would be doing.

Dan,

Yes, Camping was a feature of our club and many LZ’s.  Some LZ’s are lucky enough to still have that feature because as you imply it IS important to the sport.  We wish we could still have it, it’s especially important to visiting pilots to make the trip the more feasible by avoiding the additional expense of hotels.  Unfortunately for us, camping of any kind is not allowed within city limits due to City of SB and SB County ordinances.

So the ‘Clique of Karens’ you are referring to is located at the City and County Government Offices, I encourage you to take your complaints to them.

I’m sorry you feel that way Jana.  The decision was a vote by the entire BOD, but if you want to hold me personally responsible, that’s fine.

I’m sorry if you feel that I’ve been heavy handed on any issues, no matter how minor or serious.  What I’ve personally witnessed in the last 8 years I’ve been part of the Club is people who take advantage of the CSS at any given opportunity or basically walk all over the BOD when it suits them.  I know you understand what that is like because you were on the BOD when situations like that occurred.

We are not kicking Steve out.  He is still welcome as a Visitor as long as he follows the rules.

Luke, can you point to what provision of the bylaws allow the board to deny/cancel a membership?

luke can you please answer my questions?

Thomas,

Article II, section 1, Line D.

This section of the bylaws does not enumerate any powers of the board, merely objectives of the society. There is a process in the bylaws (Article XI) which is the only enumerated power the board in this regard. Was the process of Steve’s membership cancelation conducted according to Article XI?