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Second Anniversary:
Rigging the election
• - Rigging the Application Process
• - Rigging the Publicity
• - Rigging the Election Brochure
• - Hide the Meeting?!!

• 1. What the County Sold
      to the Community
• 2. Initial Success - 15 projects!
• 3. The 1st Chair:
        "I am in Charge"
     - Useful projects flee
• 4. The "Amphitheater" Bungle
• 5. Selecting the Second Chair
• 6. Bylaw Update Fiasco!
• 7. Appointing the Cronies
•    - Talk, Talk, Talk...
• 8. Rigging the 2008 Election
• 9. Hiding the Minutes

... and who knows what new shenanigans they'll come up with!

The County Commissioners don't seem to care:
No law suit?
No worry!...

The names are changed to protect the innocent!

Vainglorious Bullies Or Conniving Profiteers? You Decide
striving to better eliminate Community Involvement!

Once again, the Darned folk are striving to better eliminate the Community from the Clackamas County (In)complete Communities - Villages at Mt. Hood.

It seems that no one wants to play their game: they have two openings on the BOD, which would have been 4 but they snookered two newbies into being willing to be on it (they "volunteered" by not running away fast enough?)

So, rather than "solve the problem of community dislike, disrespect, avoidance, etc", they are, instead, trying to change the bylaws to:

1. simply eliminate those embarrassing "open positions" and
2. make "Town Halls" just be at the end of their boring, useless "BOD" meetings!

They claim that, with 2 openings, they "can't get things done".  They also worry that, with no one showing up at Town Halls, since there is nothing there of any importance or interest, the County might look at them a little more closely.

Of course, they also whine that "they don't have anything to do", "they need projects to work on", "people don't respect them", etc.  They want anyone who wants to do good for the community to come and beg them for support.  With no value to provide other than "control", all the projects that aren't simply quiesced, are keep hidden from "imperial entanglements".

Background on how the community, which was to be in control was eliminated from real participation. Click here to read more detail.

The "damage" done by this is: now it will be easier for bullies, connivers, neer-do-wells, to get the BOD to "approve" things, spend County tax dollars and resources.  It currently requires that 5 people agree to a motion for it to be "approved" as representing the Community.  With the proposed change, it will only require 4 people and absolutely NO community input.

To insure this slithers through, the Darned folk are doing three things:

1. withholding information: did you know there was a "Town Hall" on Aug. 2?
   No one did, it wasn't really announced as required.
2. Minutes from July 5th BOD were withheld until after the Aug. 2 meeting
   Just in case someone wanted to know what was going on.
3. They plan on a "controversial" dog and pony show on "incorporation" at an October Town Hall.
   Of course they will neglect to mention how much it would cost to simply investigate it: $200,000 to $300,000 for the "economic analysis" on how much taxes would have to go up.
4. Of course, this $200,000 will not be available for other community projects...
   like the proposed new Community Center!.

They weren't totally evil,
nor were they particularly virtuous,
but their incompetence, deceit, snake oil, and intimidation
made them the Villages of the Darned