Promise Number Three – No Secret Agreements:

The POA Board Directors must promise the following:

“We promise that the POA Board will not make “secret” agreements with the Developer.”

The Directors must understand that only through truly open communications and open documents will the property owners trust the POA Board Directors and understand the need for any negotiated agreements.

The Directors must understand that the property owners must be able to see and to question negotiated agreements.

The Directors must show that every negotiated agreement is also in the best interests of the property owner.


The property owners understand:

That the reason for secret agreements is to avoid being second-guessed by the property owners and is due to Section 3.1 of the By-laws.

The Directors must stop making “secret” agreements with the Developer.

The Directors must not enter into a pledge of secrecy with anyone, or others, to keep information from Big Canoe property owners.

The Directors must provide copies of any POA documents to any property owner upon their request (employee related documents will be the only exception).

The Board must go one step further, they must publish a listing of all of the current and the past secret, or otherwise, agreements/understandings/deals documents in the Smoke Signals. A listing of these documents must be made available to the property owners.

(A “democratic” POA Board will never exist in Big Canoe until the POA Board Directors publicly make and fulfill the Six Promises.)