Settlement meeting
New board members
Open letter to the Utah Dispute Resolution Center
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Settlement Meeting Results

Thank you to everyone who attended and supported the Hideaway Valley settlement meeting! We applaud you all. There was an estimated 250+ attendees. What a turnout! The largest ever for Hideaway. We have been given a new beginning by all those that worked so hard for this to happen--on all sides. We have taken the first step into putting the 'unity' back into community because we all have worked hard to achieve this goal. Congratulations to us!

Terri Martin from the Utah Dispute Resolution chaired/mediated our settlement meeting. She skillfully kept the meeting on track while allowing members to voice their opinions. The association is extremely grateful to Ms Martin for her willingness to take us on and for the excellent way she ran our community meeting.

Attorney's Jim Blakesley and Alvin Lundgren presented the positions of the board and CPO in a straightforward manner and members were allowed to contribute in a discussion before each vote.

The votes carried as follows:

Quorum 228
 
For a proposal to pass it needed 115 votes.
 
Results

(1) Corporate status: choice one passed 214/11/3 abstain
 
(2) Number of trustees: choice one passed  159/67/2 abstain
          I want five (5) trustees on the Board
 
(3) Property Manager: choice one passed 197/28/3 abstain
            I do not want to retain the services of Carpenter and Associates
 
(4a) Annual Assessment: choice one passed 158/65/5 abstain
            I want the annual assessment of $350 for the 2007-08 fiscal year to
             remain
 
(4b) choice one passed 199/29
            I want the new board to establish a budget for fiscal year 2008, and to
            suggest an  annual assessment which shall be placed before a vote
            before enacting
 
(5) Attorney’s Fees for the CPO: choice one passed 148/77/2 abstain
            I authorize the newly elected Board to pay the reasonable attorneys
            fees  incurred by the Concerned Property Owners (CPO)
 
(6) Lot owner Membership Meetings: choice three passed 158
            I want to hold Association membership meetings quarterly
 
(7) ByLaws: choice one passed 200/21/4 abstain
            I want to form a subcommittee to (or have an attorney) review
            rewrite and recommend new Bylaws

New board members

Congratulations to our five new board members. They have inherited a really tough job and we commend their courage and dedication to take this on.

New Board members:            Vote count
Cliff Johnson                          171
Roy Walker                             154
Jim Taufer                              149
Dustin McKinney                     135
Kristin Hatch                           102   

Open Letter to the Utah dispute resolution Center

Dear Ms. McGahey,

Let me qualify myself before I share my comments. I am presently a senior member of the faculty of a college in Phoenix, Arizona.  I hold a BA and MA in Communication, and was a doctoral fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah in the early 1970's. I finished my Ph.D. in Ed. Psych, also at U of U, in the early 1980s.  In addition, I am also a trained mediator.  (I completed the Northwest Mediation Center's basic and advanced mediation training for in-service professionals in 1992.)  I have 20 years experience in family and individual therapy and in teaching those skills, and beyond that, I have worked in both industry and in the public sector in training and in community psychological services.

I was a party to a community dispute that held its "settlement meeting" this weekend.  (I prefer the term "reconciliation" to "settlement" but the latter term is the one the judge used.)  That meeting was chaired (officiated?  conducted?) by Ms. Terri Martin of your office.

 I want to tell you what an outstanding job she did.  She was relatively informal, but fully professional.  She was friendly and concerned for the welfare of the whole community, but still independent, impartial and firm when necessary.  Her manner in dealing with members with conflicting views and agendas was quite a work of art.  I must say, on this latter point, that even with nearly 40 years experience in dealing with conflict situations, I doubt if I could have been as effective as she was.  This is a professional that I would be most proud to have on my own team...

While I told Ms. Martin in person that I thought she had done a good job, would you be so kind as to convey my compliments to her once again for a superb job of helping a damaged and wounded community reconcile and resolve its differences.

Most Sincerely,

Willis J. McNabb, Ph.D.
Phoenix, Arizona

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