Board of Directors & Meeting Notes

Palmetto Bay Plantation's Board of Directors for the year of 2010 are as follows:

Gary Chamer - President - Development Partner & Palmetto Business Owner
Joel Moscowitz - Vice President - Retired Resident building a home
Clay Donnely - Treasure - Bay Island Airways
No Secretary - He resigned out of frustration
Bob Brown - Vocal - Bay Island Airways

The above BOD members conspired together and mislead 2 of the previous BOD members and homeowner's who gave them their proxies to vote.

Below you will find an account from the 2009 Secretary of Palmetto Bay Plantation.

PDF of the General Meeting notes 2009
PDF of the General Meeting notes 2007

Palmetto Bay Plantation Design Review Commitee

Gary Chamer - President, General Manager, Developer
Joel Moskowitz - Home Builder
Heather Donnelly - Lot Owner

This is a board appointed committee. Last year when another home owner, Theresa Viola requested to be a part of the committee her request was ignored. Joel and Gary did NOT discuss her nomination at a BOD meeting and just appointed Heather Donnelly. At the time all 3 members were in the process of planning or building homes. Home owners felt that there should be a member on the commitee that didn't have something to gain by the making of or approving of home designs.

Palmetto Bay General Manager

Gary Chamer - Developer, President & Design Review Committee

Palmetto Bay Plantation Landscape Committe

Ana Moskowitz
Heather Donnely

As is obvious by the above names, it seems that although there are other families that live here and wish to particiapate in making Palmetto Bay a better place to live, that there are 3 families that insist on full control of everything.

NOTE From 2009 Secretary to Home Owners
October 5, 2009
Hello Palmetto Bay Plantation Owners,

I wanted to report to the members a disturbing result from the Annual Meeting of the HOA held on October 3rd. The 2009 operating year has been a difficult one due to the economic and political situations affecting the world and Honduras. Despite those situations I thought that the board members worked well together over the past year to accomplish the tasks necessary to keep things running through severe cash flow issues. However it became obvious Saturday in events leading up to the general meeting that Joel and Gary had personal agendas to fix the voting in order to achieve a board of directors to suit their personal wishes. Let me relate to you the events leading up to yesterday’s meeting.

On Wednesday the BOD meet to work out some remaining details for Saturday’s general meeting. There are no minutes of this meeting as I was told by Joel that it was not necessary. The discussion began with reports from the three members whose fax numbers had been used to collect proxies. I reported the four proxies I had received, Joel reported that he had not received any and Gary reported that he had only received 3 or 4. However as we were organizing for the meeting later in the week it was revealed that Gary had solicited 24 proxies and had them in hand on Wednesday when he told the board of directors he only had 3 or 4. This bloc of proxies was enough for him to be able to control the votes and consequently elected the individuals he desired to the board of directors.

With this power in hand Gary and Joel decided that they did not want Michael Kintner to be on the board and asked him NOT to run for the board and told him if he did run they would ensure he would not be elected. As became obvious during the general meeting my name was also on the list of members Gary and Joel did not want on the board. Instead they selected two owners, Alex McDonald and Bob Brown who had not previously expressed any interest in running for the board and voted them onto the board of directors. The down side to this selection is that Bob Brown and Clay Donnelley (previously on the board) are family members and that reduces the diversity of interests on the board.

This type of back room politics does not serve the best interest of the home owners and only divides the community at a time it was just beginning to pull together from previous years of mistrust. Trying to move forward from this type of under handed subversion of the election process puts a dark cloud over anything Gary and Joel try to propose. There will now be doubt as to Gary and Joel’s real intentions on everything that come from their mouths.

The point of relating this detail is to make all you aware of the danger in giving “blank check” proxies to anyone for the general meeting. I’m sure you had the best intentions of having your vote count, but giving your vote to anyone without restrictions opens the opportunity to abuse the privilege of your vote.

This note was emailed to Palmetto Bay Home Owners and reproduced on this site without Philip Buck's knowledge. We apologize to Philip Buck as this has caused some to believe this is his website, when it is NOT! We would remove the note, as Philip requested, but since the BOD is harassing Philip about his opinions on the event, he was served papers and threatened with legal action if the below wasn't posted next to his letter. So he forwarded the below on to us and we are more then happy to help clear his name.

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Since the Palmetto Board disagrees with the previous Secretary's accounts below is their rebutal.

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