Fox Mill's monthly board meeting was held at 7:30 p.m. last week, and Fox Mill's power-hungry Passion Princess was at her transparent finest. Amidst numerous allegations of mismanagement of funds and skyrocketing legal costs facing the Fox Mill community, Kristin and her buzzy cohorts responded to residents' concerns with a hard-hitting, hour long presentation on.... flowers. At 8:30, they began the meeting. Back on the board after the Judge ruled she had been illegally removed by Kristin, Gina Fischetti asked the Board to address some of the communities concerns regarding finances, legal, etc. Kirsten said no. She had a full meeting scheduled, and she had no intention of addressing the roomful of residents who had stayed beyond the "critical" flower talk. When a resident stood up and told Kristen what he thought of her, um... lack of transparency, Kristin ordered that the police be called. Campton Hill's finest (whose jobs Kirsten is looking to eliminate) responded quickly. The frustrated resident left without incident.
With the residents' properly silenced, Kristen announced (around 8:50 p.m.) that the Board was going into "executive session" and the meeting would resume when they were done hiding. Another resident pointed out that an executive session at the END of the meeting might be better, as there was a room full of people who had taken the time to attend the meeting and who had issues they wanted to address with Kristin's honest and responsive Board. Kristen said no; there were four items they wanted to discuss in secret..... And with that, Kristen and her band retired to the basement.
A roomful of residents remained upstairs..... waiting.... Around 10:00, the crowd started thinning out a bit. Around 10:15, it thinned out some more.....A little after 10:30 or so, having realized that they could not all fit through the escape windows in the basement of the community center, Kristen and a few of the Board members trickled slowly back into the room. Not surprisingly, they had no news to report as to why they had been hiding in the basement for nearly 2 hours. After a kind of sketchy announcement about the upcoming Fox Mill HOA elections, it FINALLY was time for the few remaining residents to voice their concerns. Kristen said that the meeting had been long, however, and it was late, so she wanted to limit how much time the residents should have to speak. She instructed Laura (from Caruso Management) to allow one question per homeowner and to allow only 2 minutes for the question and the response.
After more than 3 hours of waiting, concerned residents asked Kristen about the issues that mattered most to them (and not one question involved flowers). Questions poured out regarding whether Kristin was going to continue the Board's efforts to remove Gina Fischetti, how much the HOA had spent to date on legal and on counselor, Brian Fornek, why the HOA Board was spending HOA money to fight the Village regarding an illegally rented farmhouse, whether it was true that Kristen did not allow full access of documents to board members, etc.
How did our Vibrating Model of Transparency do? One resident best summed it up when, after getting the run around on his question, he proclaimed that the Board was "all a bunch of Bozos". In the end, no answers were forthcoming, and a weary and frustrated group of homeowners left the meeting shaking their heads.....
Please don't inflict this kind of leadership on Campton Hills.
I left the meeting after waiting about 1 hour. Thank you for telling us what happened. Fox Mill has become a nightmare.
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