Blatant Misrepresentation by the Current Board
The November 6, 2023 Tolomato Owwer's newsletter appropriately notes that the Board is in error when the Board stated that "several members have requested" that a financial audit be performed. A "proposal" for an "operational" audit was presented to the board at the June 2023 board meeting (see attached). I authored and presented the audit proposal. As such I would like to address this item in more detail.
- I did not request a financial audit be performed. With a minimum fee of $15,000, financial audits are not cost effective for small organizations and are typically done in house.
- I did submit a "proposal" for an "operational" audit.
- The proposed investment in an operational audit was made for the purposes of producing a "policies and procedures manual" not simply because TIPOA has not been audited in 20 years.
- I requested that the board review the proposal, attach the proposal to the minutes so that the membership could review and weigh in on the proposal, and include the proposal on the agenda for the next scheduled board meeting.
I informed the President that we did not submit a request for a single year financial audit. My objection was ignored. Furthermore, the Board continued to misrepresent our request in the "Official Notice of Dues Increase for 2024". Finally, the Board used the budgeted amount for an audit we did not request to gut the roads budget. There are other ways the Board could fund this audit, including skipping the budgeted contribution to the $400,000 cash reserves.
In my opinion, the Board's blatant misrepresentation of the operational audit proposal and the Board's actions with respect to budgeting is designed to cast the 30 members who submitted the proposal and the candidates they have endorsed as a "raucous minority" or "cult" bent on imposing their "self- interests" on the "silent majority" and attacking the fiscal performance of TIPOA with their "big spending" initiatives. (See Jeffrey Long's '24 Board Candidate Resume).
In my opinion, the Board's blatant misrepresentation of the operational audit proposal and the Board's actions with respect to budgeting is designed to cast the 30 members who submitted the proposal and the candidates they have endorsed as a "raucous minority" or "cult" bent on imposing their "self- interests" on the "silent majority" and attacking the fiscal performance of TIPOA with their "big spending" initiatives. (See Jeffrey Long's '24 Board Candidate Resume).
This is just another example of you must go along to get along and another reason to vote for a complete change of the current Board.
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