Dear Members of the Fairfield Harbour Property Owners Association,
In a Bold move after receiving two defeats in a row by membership votes. Five (5) of your Board members voted behind closed doors, in as little as 36 hours after the election to sign papers to move forward to Build the multi-million-dollar Club House. No meetings or vote by the Community was allowed. This was a pure show of contempt for the membership.
We would like to tell you that a $6.5 million dollar loan for 15 years at 6.6% interest cost us $56,980. per month. The interest alone will be $3,756,385. The total cost not including maintenance and operations is $10,256,385. The 5 have thrown this community into turmoil by their actions. One of them has since resigned but the four still have the majority for now. The two new directors voted NO on all items.
It only gets worse. In the same meeting the 5 voted to change the bylaws and making it extremely harder for the membership to remove them. Changing the required vote to remove a director from 50%+1 at the meeting to 67%. All in a move for self-preservation of their power. There has never been a vote that received 67% of the votes in the 50 years of Fairfield Harbour. We confirmed in a meeting, they were worried that they would be removed next. That worry may become reality now.
The community needs to be informed before all these project plans take place. Open meetings and real community input, not surveys by just a few on the internet. Not listening to what the community wants to vote on is a major problem. We are left with a dictatorship. Even your freedom of speech is being violated with the new POA rules. Telling us they control the roads so these new rules on signs, bumper stickers and flags now apply. We pay for these roads and nobody in the community voted on these new rules.
WE ARE HOLDING A COMMUNITY MEETING at the Community Center.
July 30, 2024 at 7PM
Unlike the 5 POA board members, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. A united membership can change what is going on inside the boardroom. Membership action by hundreds of you make a difference. You have seen that with the Removal Vote and Election Vote. A few of us can organize but it’s you the member, in large numbers, that helps to keep your community moving in the right direction. A Direction you want to live in and can afford. We as a community don’t need this division. We had hoped the Board would be reasonable and hear the community through the 2 votes. They ignored us all and doubled down in an obvious defiance of the community’s wishes.
A small number in the community think we should take this as a loss and let them build the club house. While others say to remove the remaining 4 who vote for this.
Remember these Board members took steps to make it harder for the members to act against them. We hope ALL MEMBERS will sign up to support any needed action. We are all in this together. Time to Act is short so Please come and express your views on a direction the membership would like to see. We need your support by volunteering and financial support as nothing is free. This may require more of a legal fight to correct this. Unfortunately, the Board can spend our money defending themselves. So, we need your support. fhstop.com has a link to GoFundMe.
You can email us at fhstop@yahoo.com . Keep this letter as a reminder.
Thank You.
FHSTOP
P.O. Box 13881
New Bern NC 28562
