Fractured Fairy Tales Redux, part 2...........

So that brings us to December 28th. At about the same time-the 28th or 29th, it was noticed that changes were being made to the club website in rapid order. Eventually, the club online membership form was taken down, and so was the PayPal link. Four other people who had applied for membership were also expelled without explanation: They are Rachel Peterson, Suzanne Nevada, Margie Buckwalter, and Lisa Stevenson. So five expulsions-an important number to remember :)

On January 8th, the regularly scheduled meeting took place. The club officers attempted to (unsuccessfully) change the time and venue but folks were able to nail them to the original advertised date and place. Obstensibly, this meeting is the one that served as the annual meeting for the club, with election results and installations of new officers the main points. I would post the minutes here-but they are long and boring aside from a few salient facts:

Heather made the five complaints herself (serving as Treasurer, Webmaster and Newsletter Editor of the club) and was eventually forced to recite them into the minutes (on several recorders present) thusly:

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The following complaint was read by Heather Fair:

“I hereby lodge formal complaint against the following parties for violations of the AKMGC's objectives, purpose and bylaws: Suzanne Nevada, Lisa Stevenson, Margie Buchwalter, Tiani Heider, and Rachel Hecker-Peterson. Ten dollars times 5 complaint fee equals fifty dollars deposited pending swift review, response and action Signed Heather Fair. 12-27-2010”

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This is the same meeting the Heather Fair stated repeatedly that memberships could not be "processed" due to a lack of a secretary, so the applications of the five people "expelled" were not members and neither were the new members (or whatever she was thinking, who knows?). This is also the same meeting that President Laura Manary welcomed the new members, and said that our applications would serve as receipt. (You'd think that they'd get on the same page with that, wouldn't you?)

At this meeting, 22 new members joined-including the five of us who had gotten the expulsion notice. Please note that the date Heather Fair recites is the 27th of December.

The very same day I applied.

So in less than 8 hours, I apparantly did....what? What violations? What process was used to handle these complaints? What club does this without giving the accused due process? Is it ethical for a person to bring forth a complaint, and then vote on it too? Do boards have executive powers? These and other questions remain unanswered to this day. But I will say I did see her physically squirm when it seemed that the judge might require Heather Fair to detail the contents of the complaints.

It was a contentious meeting, it is true. Over 40 people showed up, can you imagine? This is the same club that Heather Fair just testified had 5, or maybe 7 members on January 8th. And that has 13 members today. This tidbit of information becomes more interesting when Heather Fair repeatedly denied supplying a member list to the new club members.....

But I am getting ahead of myself-more to come!