14 April 2014, Vol.1, No.32 > Part
V – Snowshoe-RAD – WHO’S KIDDING WHO?
The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2
PART V > WHAT’S A…
‘SNOWSHOE
RESORT AREA DISTRICT’
…WHO’S KIDDING WHO?
While Snowshoe Mountain, Inc.
(SMI), according to its Chief Operations Officer (COO) Frank DeBerry, will
automatically control four (4) of the proposed seven (7) seats of the proposed ‘Public Corporation
& Political Subdivision’ that
will be permanently carved
out & away from Pocahontas County – what was missing in the 03
April 2014 article in The Pocahontas
Times weekly, was the fact that the THREE (3)
SEATS DELEGATED TO ‘PROPERTY-HOMEOWNERS’
will be determined by ‘ACREAGE-OWNED’, not by
the ‘Square-Foot’! This and other misrepresentations have been
reported here at The Pocahontas Crier, an independent Internet
News Service beholden to none & living by no one’s leave! See Part I to Part IV of our reporting at
this website.
But here’s what the new law
states:
“WVC§7-25-5. Petition for creation or expansion of resort area
district; petition requirements.
(a) The owners of at least sixty-one percent of the real property, determined by acreage, located within the boundaries of the resort area described in the petition, by metes and bounds or otherwise in a manner sufficient to describe the area, may petition a governing body to create or expand a resort area district.”
(a) The owners of at least sixty-one percent of the real property, determined by acreage, located within the boundaries of the resort area described in the petition, by metes and bounds or otherwise in a manner sufficient to describe the area, may petition a governing body to create or expand a resort area district.”
Read the entire new law at: < http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2600%20intr.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=2600
>.
Usually a person doesn’t measure
his condo, townhouse or apartment by ‘metes & bounds’, but by the ‘square-foot’ –
and as pointed out so far in Parts I,
II, III & IV, Snowshoe Mountain, Inc. has control over 12,000-15,000 ACRES compared to the TOTAL
of 115 Acres owned by the Homeowners & their Associations! SO WHO’S KIDDING WHO?
As reported in Part III, figure it
out for yourself, as follows:
Pursuant to ‘square measure’:
♦ one (1) square foot
= 144 square inches;
♦ one (1) square yard
= nine (9) square feet; and,
♦ one (1) acre =
43,560 square feet!
♦ one (1) square mile
= 640 acres!
Since this new state
law establishing a RAD requires ‘The owners of at least sixty-one percent of the real
property, DETERMINED BY ACREAGE…’ – who
do you think will be the REAL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SEVEN?
Let’s say, for example, there are around
25oo current ‘homeowners’
in total within the various ‘Homeowners Associations’ whereby each unit has
an average size of 2000 square feet – that’s 2500
owners x 2000 sq ft = 5,000,000 square feet divided by 43,560 sq ft for one (1)
acre = 114.7842 acres! So the
combined ‘homeowners’
control about 115 acres in total – while
SMI controls an estimated 12,000 – 15,000 acres in total!
And the same calculations can be
used when determining any opposition! Read
this section of the new law:
“WVC§7-25-6. Notice to property owners before creation or expansion
of resort area district; form of notice; affidavit of publication.
(b) A
resort area district may not be created by a governing body if, at the
public meeting required by this section, written
protest is filed by at least twenty-five percent of the owners of real property
proposed to be included within the district. In the event of such a protest,
the petition for the creation of the resort area district may not be
resubmitted to the governing body for a period of at least one year from the
date of the original submission.”
Therefore a strict reading would
require the owner(s) of 3,000 – 3,750 ACRES to
protest in ‘writing’
if they oppose being included in the proposed RAD! Gee-whiz, anyone care to wonder how many ‘Homeowners’ or ‘Homeowner Associations’ own that much ACREAGE!
And according to SMI, of those who ‘own property’ within the proposed RAD,
48% already approve, 2% oppose, and 50% are undecided! Opps, if all 2500 ‘homeowners’ opposed the RAD, that would amount to less than 1% of the total BY ACREAGE!
Now, let’s look at just the
highlights of the actual & proposed revenue generation:
● Now, by Deed, each ‘homeowner’
pays 1.5% of
‘assessed value’ which is usually 60% of ‘fair-
market’ value to SMI for
the ‘Mountain Top
Assessment’ (MTA), for Public Safety, Fire
Protection, Shuttle Transportation,
and Common/
Shared Roads & Grounds Maintenance;
● A RAD ‘sales
tax’, ‘assessment fee’, of up to 5% on
all purchases & services – is
to be determined ‘after
the seven-member board is elected’ for them to
write into the ‘By-laws’;
and,
●
‘Unlimited
Debt’ will be secured by the EQUITY
in
the ‘improved properties’ within the
RAD – the
‘Equity’ is the difference between
the ‘assessed
value’ and the ‘fair market value’
that will be used
to collateralize all Debt – and this
‘Levy’
can be
enforced by government ‘LIENS’!
And since the combined DEBT of
Trump & Intrawest now exceeds $1.5 BILLION – in order to cut corners & ‘pass-the-buck’, according to DeBerry in
the Times article, Snowshoe-RAD
would ‘prefer to
see the RAD pay for more county deputies, rather than forming its own police
force’! OF COURSE – pass the
buck onto the backs of the heretofore ‘rich-citizens’ already living in ‘poverty &
pauperism’ from all the other ‘assessment fees’ & such placed upon county
residents by the likes of the county solid waste authority, the public service
district, and the thieving Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation
(GVEDC) that takes hundreds-of-thousands
a year from us!
But the ‘good-news’ for Snowshoe-RAD is that, according to the rationale of
DeBerry, ‘for
the amount of taxes that we pay, we should get more services from the county’! And that means having the taxpayers of
Pocahontas County foot the bill for TRAINING & ARMING & SUCH for ‘more deputies’
– so, ‘[t]he RAD
would avoid liability for officer misconduct if it relied on Sheriff’s
deputies, rather than creating its own RAD police force.’ So instead of raising their own
private-militia, called ‘Rangers’, as the new law allows, Snowshoe-RAD wants the liabilities placed upon the
Citizens of this county for the likes of a Brad Totten, Ben Wilfong,
Chris Cole, J.L. Clifton, and other such low-life ‘scalawags’ that come along! How convenient since the Snowshoe-RAD will be
outside the control of the county government and under the complete ‘corporate
control’ of Donald Trump & Associates!
WOW! Does that sound like the GVEDC or what? They take almost $10,000
PER/MONTH from the former Howes Leather site in Frank – and what do we get in return – yep, the LIABILITY on all the
county-land now in the hands of the GVEDC! The only ones getting ‘jobs’ from the alleged ‘economic
development’ from the Greenbrier Valley –ED– Corporation are those THAT
WORK FOR THE GVEDC…in Greenbrier…&
the insurance companies! They get
the cream-on-the-coffee and we get the used coffee-grinds at the bottom of the
cup! Now along
comes another proposal for a ‘quasi-municipal-Public-Corporation
& Political Subdivision’ – carved out of the county to establish
yet another FINANCIAL DRAIN ON THE RESOURCES OF THIS COUNTY AT OUR EXPENSE…while
being paid ‘Minimum-Wages’ and no
more food assistance program!
BUT HEY! Ain’t it great that ‘masser’ Donald Trump is already shifting his financial obligations UPON THE TAXPAYERS of
this county, like he tried to do in Scotland – even before he even gets approval? But getting ‘approval’ won’t be that difficult since our county ‘Three Stooges’
are already ‘in
the bag’ as far as SMI is concerned.
Just like former commissioner Reta Griffith did by getting an executive-title
after giving ‘Frontier Communications’
a monopoly over this county, so too is David Fleming looking to suck-up to SMI in the hopes of looking
important as well! And as far as William
Beard, Jr., he’s already bought & paid for now that he’s a board member of
the Pendleton Bank – thanks to his ‘good-VP-buddy’
Phil Cane – since the bank transfers SMI bank-deposits from here to Trump’s NY
Fortress Hedge-Fund, and also to Intrawest in Vancouver, Canada! Tens-of-Millions of dollars coming into this county via ‘Tourism’
is transferred OUT-OF-THIS-COUNTY to Trump in New York & Intrawest in Canada!
Only two candidates – NORMAN LEE ALDERMAN (Rep-SD) and PATTI HEINEMANN (Dem-ND)
have the foresight, intelligence & courage to call upon the State of West
Virginia to TAKE RECEIVERSHIP OF SNOWSHOE MOUNTAIN,
INC. NOW and turn day to day operations & PROFITS over to the people
of this county in a ‘Workers CO-OP’ with 60% to West Virginia &
40% to be shared by the Workers CO-OP for the Progress & Prosperity of the
County!
Meanwhile you see ‘Chicken-man-Dave’ & ‘Billy-Bob’ continue their ‘bootlicking’
since GROVELING DOES HAVE ITS REWARDS & then
some… doesn’t it for you two! As for Jamie Walker, well let’s just
say that he is always the unpredictable, ‘Yes’ vote!
None of the ‘Three Stooges’ have the competence or the guts to
just say ‘No’
– since none of them have ever placed THE COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF OR ANY SELF-SERVING
SPECIAL INTEREST!
And then folks here wonder why WE PAY….while
the rich-folks PLAY at the expense of those kept in poverty &
pauperism! But now is the time to
RISE & RISE AGAIN ‘TILL LAMBS BECOME
LIONS!
WE PO’ FOLKS
HAVE A ONE-TIME CHANCE TO ELECT TWO
COMMISSIONERS IN THE SAME ELECTION…SO
THIS TIME…there’s no excuse…
IT’S YOUR
CHOICE…
TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER!
Just say ‘NO’ to
those who want to keep this county in Poverty &
Pauperism
– and –
Just say ‘YES’ to
real Progress
& Prosperity for the future!
On Primary Day – YOU have a chance to elect two persons
that will always put YOU first! They know that:
THE
GREATER COMMON GOOD ALWAYS COMES BEFORE SELF OR ANY SELF-SERVING SPECIAL
INTERESTS!
Keep up to Date – Stay tuned to these Websites:
► IF YOU are registered to vote as a Republican,
you can
Vote for Norman
Lee Alderman in the Primary Election
on
13 May 2014;
► IF YOU are registered to vote as a Democrat,
you can
Vote for Patti Heinemann in the primary election on
13 May 2014;
► If you are not registered to vote, then you must
register
to vote on or before 22 April 2014;
► If you are registered to vote, but with no party
affiliation, then you must request
Loud & Clear either
a Republican or Democrat ballot
on Primary Day when
you go to the polls; &
► Since Norman
is unopposed, he recommends that you
request a Democrat ballot to vote for Patti so that
this
county can again have an Honest & Just county
commission!
►
Early Voting is from 30 April 2014 to 10 May 2014 – so
Vote Early & avoid
the rush!
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–
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