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…
Letter to EWUA Members The current Secretary/Treasurer of Eastsound Water Users Association, Carol Anderson, along with fellow Directors, Jim Cook and Ron Claus, are asking the Members to recall Teri Nigretto, Jim Nelson, and Leith Templin for acting in bad faith. The General Manager, Dan Burke, and the majority of the Board, led by Teri…
Farm to Market LLC lawsuit against Eastsound Sound Water Association This is not a new lawsuit but a continuation of the lawsuit filed in November 2023 regarding the seriously flawed election process. EWUA vigorously defended the multiple errors in the election. Motion to reset the election Declaration of Mike Parnell Declaration of Joan Pradhan Declaration…
The Recall Effort Ends Our efforts to recall Eastsound Water Users Association Board members ends. The recall seems unnecessary now that most of the original list of those to recall are not there. Four of the Board members who we believed were responsible for the many problems at EWUA have departed. Board Members We have…