Category: Recall Update


  • RecallWater sent an email to the Members in order to explain EWUA’s proxy form because we think it is confusing. We also placed the instructions on our front page. We did have a question from a Member about why we put an “X” through Step II. We’ve explained that on this page.  

  • By Elisabeth Britt  

  • It seems the curtain has been drawn back enough for Members to see who is pulling the strings. EWUA General Manager Dan Burke asked for his letter to the EWUA Membership to be published in the Orcasonian, then asked Lin to remove it again. Here’s Lin’s post about this. The GM had posted it on…

  • We are asking you to recall Jim Nelson from the EWUA Board.  This documented lists gives the multiple reasons for the recall.

  • Recall Initiated  The short version  The petitions to initiate a recall meeting have been submitted. EWUA must call a Member meeting for sometime between August 11, 2024 and September 30, 2024 where a vote on the recall of several Directors will happen. We are demanding a neutral election inspector to manage the recall process be…

  • Teri Nigretto and Leith Templin Interfere with People’s Right to Hear – July 20, 2024 President of EWUA, Teri Nigretto, and Leith Templin intercepting people and blocking access to the RecallWater.com booth at the Farmer’s Market. Fred Klein and Michael Riordan seated. EWUA Director Carol taking the picture. Teri Nigretto and Leith Templin blocking visitor…

  • Update on the EWUA Regular Board Meeting for July 16, 2024. The Dominant Board Faction (DBF) rejected the motion to have the Association attorney participate in the naming of a neutral election inspector to manage the recall process. This is the second time DBF has formally refused. Yet, those who are being recalled (DBF) and…

  • Excerpt from an email to fellow EWUA Members, July 11, 2024: “The people being recalled should not be the people managing the recall meeting and counting the ballots that could remove them from the Board. “The dominant Board Faction — Jim Nelson, Teri Nigretto, Mike Cleveland, and Leith Templin — refuses to permit a neutral…

  • This is a report on the Farm to Market LLC vs EWUA lawsuit hearing. Written by the Concerned Eastsound Water Users* _____________________________________________________ On July 3, 2024, the San Juan Superior Court held a nearly two-hour hearing on the flawed 2023 EWUA director election process.  At the close, Judge Kathryn Loring said she will take time…

  • Did you see Director Jim Cook’s Statement? Here is an excerpt: “Five years later I met Steve Smith and discovered that the Board of Eastsound Water was fraught with irregularities, if not outright financial malfeasance, bullying, and related organizational dysfunction. Though much of this mess was supposedly “resolved” through a legal agreement between the Board…