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Letter to the Community and to Members of the Recent events have caused FDALE.COM to publicly withdraw our support for the CCAF, and to no longer have a section of our website featuring the organization (which we had been doing for the past 2 years). On February 14, the CCAF Membership Secretary was informed of our position, and verbally notified that the Board had two weeks to make other website arrangements. The two-week grace period ended on February 28, 2003. We have always believed that a strong and fair civic organization is vital to the well being of our community. As Founding Members of the CCAF we were proud of the fact that our Community Website and our Forum were instrumental in the formation of the civic organization that became known as the CCAF. On a personal level, we were also key contributors and committed promoters of the organization. In a relatively short period of time since its inception, the CCAF played an important role lobbying for the unrestricted Cleanup of the Liberty Site. Part of this major civic accomplishment was due to the hard work and dedication of several CCAF members, including three of the four Board Members who have since resigned their positions. Unfortunately, there are now major flaws with the way the CCAF president has been representing the organization, and with the way the current Board has been allowing him to do so. While the Association's president has many merits as a public advocate, and has contributed a great deal of time and effort to the CCAF, he has also repeatedly committed severe improprieties as president of the Association, and, in our opinion, has proven himself unfit to preside over a civic group. Since November of 2002, the president of the CCAF has misled the public, and public officials, into believing that some of his personal views and opinions were the official stand of the CCAF, when in fact they were not. In an effort to prevent this type of transgression, where an individual misuses the lobbying power of the organization to propel his personal agenda, we formally requested that the Board create a By-laws Revision Committee, as well as a Code of Conduct for the Officers of the CCAF. In the four months since our request was made, the Board has done nothing to address our concerns, and has allowed this misconduct to continue. The CCAF president, once again, misrepresented his personal views at the TEQR Public Hearing on January 22nd. This matter was brought to the attention of the CCAF Board, at the January 28th membership meeting, and the Board was offered access to a videotape of the TEQR meeting as undeniable proof of the president’s latest misconduct. Once again the Board has taken no action. Regretfully, for the reasons listed above, among many others, FDALE.COM will no longer support or promote the CCAF. |
