CABPRO Controversy Continued

[CABPRO is going through some considerable internal dissension between its formerly uncontested Executive Director Mr Chuck Shea and its formerly uncontested Board of Directors.  Today both parties are claiming to be in legitimate control of the organization.  Ms Melinda Monaghan, one of the formerly uncontested directors wrote a letter to the CABPRO membership and asked me to post it on RR.  It was posted on 27 February last (‘CABPRO’s 25feb14 letter to member’). 

Mr Shea wanted me to inform readers of his side of the controversy which I offered to do.  In response he emailed me the following disclosure which has now also gone out to the CABPRO membership.  It is printed below as received (minus some formatting).  The email had attached three JPEG images of the marginally scanned resignation letters by the formerly uncontested directors.  The referenced video will explain.

FYI, the formerly uncontested directors have called a membership meeting for this coming Monday for the purpose of receiving guidance on the future disposition of the organization.  Mr Shea’s piece follows.  gjr]


                             What’s really going on in CABPRO
 
First let’s deal with just the facts.
 
You all have been getting only one side of this dispute and it is from the people who resigned and who have “Pirated the corporation” under false pretenses.
 
Please watch the video on the CABPRO  You Tube Channel at
               http://youtu.be/81SDuMs7hmQ
 
or on Facebook at:   www.facebook.com/#!/cabpronews
 
Please refer to these points below as well as the attachments to this email.
 
Point one. On September 1, 2013 the following people resigned in writing from CABPRO
1.     Kim Janousek,
2.     Kirk Pharis  
3.     Melinda Monaghan
 
Please see the resignation letters from each Defendant which are attached  
 
THEIR CLAIM: They claim that there have been a number of “Official Board Meetings” and that Dick and Tina Marshall failed to attend three Board Meetings that they were properly noticed, that they failed to attend and were kicked out of CABPRO.
 
FACT: there have been no Official Board meetings since April 9, 2012, there have been no Board Meetings ever called or recorded at all, by anybody as they have stated.
 
FACT: Dick and Tina Marshall did not resign. Period
 
Please see Dick and Tina’s memo to the defendants which is attached
 
FACT: If there were Official Board meetings as the Defendants claim, then where are the records and minutes of those meetings?
 
We have asked multiple times for these minutes to be “Brought forward.  They have refused! Because,………….They do not exist!
 
FACT: on the weekend of October 5, 2013 Kim Janousek telephoned Dick Marshall to request reinstatement to the CABPRO Board, The request was denied!
 
She was also asked by Dick Marshall, “Was Chuck Shea aware of what she was doing"? Kim Stated; “No! Chuck was not aware and would prefer that the conversation was kept from him".
Dick Marshall declined and stated that He is required to notify Chuck since he is the Executive Director
 
This conversation is another confirmation that Kim Janousek recognized she had resigned and had “No Standing”!
 
FACT: these people all resigned, in writing and have no legal standing to do or act;
1.     as “CABPRO or
2.     to spend CABPRO Funds
3.     To contract on behalf of CABPRO
4.     To appoint or assign any persons to perform Duties or functions within CABPRO corporation,
5.     To conduct any activities as set forth in the Corporate BYLAWS  
6.     AND they have not had any standing in CABPRO since Sept 1, 2013.
 
FACT: Anything that they have done has been illegal, a misrepresentation and a miss-  
            appropriation of funds.
 
FACT: To date they have spent over $4,000.00 of CABPRO funds in an attempt to justify their illegal actions.
 
We suspect that it is higher as they have refused to provide an accurate accounting with an actual Bank Statement.
 
FACT: They have retained the Services of a Peter Broson Attorney who specializes in Bankruptcy at the initial cost of $963.50
 
So If their intent is to preserve CABPRO, Then why the Bankruptcy attorney?
 
 
If you have any question after watching the video please give me a shout!
 
Best Regards,
Chuck Shea, Executive Director
CABPRO

Comments

[RL Crabb]

The proverbial circular firing squad.

[Todd Juvinall]

Breaks my heart.

[stevenfrisch]

Funny how this issue has received so little comment.

Many here have been board members or even founders of CABPRO. They defended CABPRO's business model as a private corporation.

The weakness in CABPRO's system seems to have been the very business model they defended (and disingenuously hid by allowing the corporation to be identified publicly as a 'not-for-profit) where corporate decisions are made by a handful of people with little transparency, no requirements for annually audited financial statements, and lax enforcement of the articles of incorporation.

I think it just goes to show, if you profess to serve a public purpose you have a public responsibility, and taking that responsibility seriously is the role of board members and staff. I have read the CABPRO articles and it is pretty obvious that no one was watchdogging them.

But I am curious, we have founders, board members, hosts of columns in the newsletters, and voluntary or paid consultants to the organization all posting here, yet this thread received a grand total of two comments.

Is CABPRO dead? If so what do you think of that? Does it deserve to be dead because of mismanagement? Has the Nevada County Tea Party Patriots moved into the space CABPRO used to occupy? If so are the same clique of leaders running the show for that 501c4 non-profit, and will they take their responsibility as board members and stewards of the public trust seriously?

I am happy to see that the NCTP is disclosing on their web page that donations to their organization are NOT tax deductible ( a precaution CABPRO did not take). That is a good sign.