Cemetery Lot

"Porter's Corner"

To update those that might not be aware of the facts; the Noffsingers requested for the maintenance fees to be waived on lot#1321.  DRC and the ACC both deemed that this lot is unsuitable to build a house on due to the graveyard in the front yard.  We submitted to the board for special consideration to wave the maintenance fees and we were willing to put in writing that the sewer and water will never be used on this lot.  Currently there is no sewer or water taps.

John Cumming (board director) drafted up a motion and resolution to wave the fees on this lot, and the Noffsingers agreed to continue to maintain the cemetery as they have for the last seven years.  A vote was taken during the Oct. 24th Board meeting ; (2) abstained, (2) no, and (3) yes, and the acting President at the time also voted, which made this vote (4) yes.    By Robert’s Rules of Order this was a legal quorum and legal vote.  Therefore the motion passed.  John Porter (board director) was one who abstained.  Mr. Porter was upset that this passed and announced ‘this is not over yet!’

At the November Board meeting, Mr. Porter brought this issue up again and the board chastised Mr. Porter and told him he was out of order. He had abstained, and had no dog in this fight.

On December 11^th my wife heard a rumor that Mr. Porter was going to fight this issue again.  Lynn ran into Suzzi Combs (President of Board) at the POA office and Lynn asked Mrs. Combs, point blank, if our property resolution was going to be discussed again.   Mrs. Combs stated very firmly that “this is a done deal; it will not come up again!”  Lynn told her we would be at the meeting if needed.  Mrs. Combs said “you don’t need to be there, it is not coming up!”  

The day after the Dec. Board meeting we found out that the issue did come up, and the resolution was rescinded, due to a discussion presented by the two that abstained from the vote on the resolution in the first place.  Contrary to the Robert Rules of Order, no one called for point of order and an illegal motion and vote was taken due to Mr. Benck and Mr. Porter who both abstained from the first vote.  By Robert’s Rules, all discussion about this motion and any motion to resend must come from the winning side.  For Mr. Porter and Mr. Benck to bring up discussion on this resolution would have been out of order.

The resolution should have stood and not been changed or tampered with by anyone other than the winning side. 

Mr. Porter wrote and promoted a code of ethics and pushed for all members of the Board to sign.  I bring this up for one reason: According to Mr. Porter’s code of ethics, he is out of line.  Mr. Porter should be removed from the board.

I witnessed Mr. Porter going through personnel files at the POA office, of which he had no business or authority to do so.  Recently, Mr. Porter was micro-managing the golf pro-shop causing the manager of the pro-shop to resign.  Mr. Porter tried to authorize more work hours for the newly hired bookkeeper without permission from the board or the President, but the office manager put a stop to it. 

After the November Board of Directors meeting, Mr. Porter’s wife investigated our property and drilled the ACC Chairman for one hour trying to find a loop hole in the resolution that was passed in October.  Mrs. Porter has no business checking into our private property and all of her actions reflect back to Mr. Porter.   I will also make the allegation that Mr. Porter has miss-appropriated insurance money received by our police department and no one seems to question him about this.  We show in Diamondhead that our Police Department is in the red, and this is not a truthful report. Funds that were supposed to go back into the police budget were assigned to the general fund at his direction. 

Now Mr. Porter has made our property situation his personal vendetta due to the fact that he intensely hates the Noffsingers.  This has been a subject at many meetings by the board.  In order to protect ourselves we are forced to make decisions we did not want to do. To the community we whole heartily apologize. As of today, we have closed access to the Cemetery site on our property.  All the responsibility and security of our property, as well as your safety, falls on our shoulders. Due to this current board’s inability to do what is right, we are forced to shut down something that has been part of this community forever. 

John Porter has acted with malice and prejudice. He has sworn to be fair with every issue pertaining to Diamondhead and he has demonstrated that his hate for the Noffsingers is clouding his judgment.  This makes his action unethical for a member of the Board of Directors.

It is rumored that we are leaving.  This is correct, we are. However we are not going anywhere pertaining to this one piece of property.   It will stay in the family.  “Porter’s Corner” has a nice ring to it.

One more issue we have is the President of this board blatantly lying to us.  And this is not the first time, but it is the last. We will never again believe anything she tells us.   This board is so power hungry they forget to serve the people of this community. Instead they dictate to us. We did not elect a parliament; we elected a board of directors.  They forget they need to serve all the people whether they like us or not. 

Sorry we went over our ‘two minute time’ on this memo.

God bless and Merry Christmas,

Rick and Lynn Noffsinger