Comments on: #12 Story Dickie Foster, Joan Natali Taken off Bay Creek Board

By: Ron Wrucke

Ron Wrucke — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:47:14 +0000

Editor said “Wrucke claimed the settlement terms (which were unknown at the time) were wholly in favor of Foster and his Association.” Misinformation again — If anybody bothers to take the time to see what I said, I stated “That’s (the settlement) a big win for the Bay Creek HOA, and I can’t understand why any Bay Creek property owner paying HOA dues isn’t overjoyed with the Settlement.” Too bad we can’t get all the delinquents to pay their bills!! I’m not sure just what you mean when you say “Foster and his Association”?

Editor said “Here is our source for the Association members as of November 6, 2014″. I was questioning the credibility of your source for your original compilation of “emotional buffoonery” (I like that term — very appropriate!).

Three comments later, still no specifics on the lack of “factual statements” in the Wave report. Maybe in a fourth comment? –EDITOR

By: Dana Lascu

Dana Lascu — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 04:43:17 +0000

Perhaps, Mr. Wrucke, you did not attend the HOA Board meeting or you were not copied on the March 12 letter from the Bay Creek Citizen Group, hence your peculiar comments regarding this article. Alternatively, why would it be in your interest to criticize a straightforward, well-written article that correctly represents the outcome of the Group’s concerted effort?

By: Ron Wrucke

Ron Wrucke — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:47:40 +0000

Misinformation again — I’m not a Board Member. Editor wrote, “And do you also characterize the challenge from your 200 neighbors who joined the Citizen Group as ‘emotional buffoonery’?” No. The only buffoonery was the Wave article. You wrote the article, so you know exactly how you misrepresented and enbellished your “statements.” Either that, or you used one really poor source for your info. I could see how that could happen.

Mr. Wrucke may not now be a Board member (see below), but he continues in his role as apologist for the Keyser-Sinclair-run Association. CLICK to read his reaction to the Wave’s January 2014 report of a settlement of the Galloway brothers’ lawsuit against the Association and Foster. Wrucke claimed the settlement terms (which were unknown at the time) were wholly in favor of Foster and his Association. As revealed later in a Wave story, the opposite was true. The Association did get payment for the Galloways’ overdue property assessments. But the Galloways got an immediate $450,000 cash settlement plus Foster’s lighthouse (which cost $1 million to construct) and most of the excess proceeds from the foreclosure sale of Aqua Restaurant, Bay Creek Marina, and related properties. Of those excess profits, $260,000 was allotted for infrastructure improvements in Marina Village East, which was a basis of the lawsuit, $50,000 went to Foster (all he saw from his original multi-million-dollar investment), and the roughly $1 million left over went to the Galloways. Mr. Wrucke’s misleading version of the settlement was later invalidated by the Association’s own attorney, Jeff Hunn — but only after Wave reporting caused such an uproar among Bay Creek property owners that the Association was forced to reveal the actual terms of the settlement. — EDITOR

PS: Here is our source for the Association members as of November 6, 2014:

I am sharing the following information received from Brett Campbell, Community Manager for Bay Creek.
— Joan [Natali]

Kings Bay:
Heinz Sommer — Voting Member
Andrew Follmer — Alternate Voting Member

Signature:
Ron Wrucke — Voting Member

New Quarter:
Ann Berg — Voting Member
Richard Leal — Alternate Voting Member

The Hollies:
Joan Natali — Voting Member
Mark Henry — Alternate Voting Member

Fairways Neighborhood Association
John Schoeneck — Voting Member
Everett Arndt — Alternate Voting Member

By: Ron Wrucke

Ron Wrucke — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:26:31 +0000

D. Burke wrote: “This is the kind of reporting that differentiates a newspaper from a blog.” Bingo! This article was “emotional buffoonery” at its best! Very difficult to find a factual statement anywhere.

Mr. Wrucke, as a Bay Creek Community Association Board member, perhaps you could elaborate on your comment by listing some of the non-factual statements you found in the story. And do you also characterize the challenge from your 200 neighbors who joined the Citizen Group as “emotional buffoonery”? –EDITOR

By: Anne Hallerman

Anne Hallerman — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 23:40:51 +0000

Good article. Thank you. One clarification: Brett Campbell of Community Group, the company who manages our Homeowners Association, told homeowners at a meeting last fall that all of the community services were going out for bid in 2015. That would include the landscape maintenance service and the neighborhood security service, as I understood him. You may want to verify your statement about the landscape service as a non-bid.

Thank you — our report is believed to be accurate as of now, but we had not been made aware of plans to bid out landscape services in 2015. If you can, please comment again to let readers know if and when this actually happens (and who gets the bid). –EDITOR

By: Daniel Burke

Daniel Burke — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:49:21 +0000

This is the kind of reporting that differentiates a newspaper from a blog. No emotional buffoonery, just full of information that someone worked their butt off to report. So informative. Great job Wave!

By: Kearn Schemm

Kearn Schemm — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:54:16 +0000

A wonderful, informative article that put many of the dealings in CC in context.