In 2016 – 2017 and a few years before and a few years after, residents who have never served on the Solterra board worked hard to challenge Brookfield’s reign, culminating in a very successful recall petition resulting in the resignation of all the Brookfield employees off the Solterra boards June 30, 2017.

 

 

The current leadership on the Solterra boards present in 2015 -2017 actually opposed those efforts to hold Brookfield accountable.  Which unfortunately set the stage for what followed after the successful recall.

 

 

Here again are a couple blogs from that time.

https://solterracommunity.org/index.php/2017/06/30/board-resignations/

 

 

These unrecognized residents had to fight through opposition by Brookfield and its resident appointees to the board, which included the leadership of the current board initially appointed by Brookfield in 2015.   That person now claims he and his colleagues were responsible for challenging Brookfield when in fact, he and his colleagues opposed the recall effort and instead urged residents to “go along to get along” with  Brookfield and “be afraid of Brookfield” because Brookfield would sue the residents.

 

 

Now Brookfield has sued because the board wasn’t “going along to get along” fast enough.

 

 

Sadly many of the arguments Solterra now makes should have been made 7 years ago.  Unfortunately, because the current board members knew these argument 7 years ago and made a deliberate decision to reject them and “go along to get along” to appease Brookfield, the residents’ position is significantly compromised.

 

 

Here are a sample of those arguments from 2016 and 2017 now made in  Solterra’s current counterclaim against Brookfield that the current board leadership rejected in 2016 and 2017:

 

Final excerpts

 

 

Here is the full document:

https://mobidrive.com/sharelink/p/2BcpxRMb7mDuB6D9AR9n7y5THcJ7Jm0C31OlgNtGMPAr

 

 

In particular, the argument that the developer’s agreements with himself are unenforceable is now relegated to “the documents must be construed against the developer” because the current board leadership decided not to challenge them in 2016 and 2017, preferring to “go along to get along”.

 

https://solterracommunity.org/index.php/2017/11/27/numbers-why-we-including-our-board-must-object-to-following-and-applying-brookfields-agreements-with-itself/

 

 

 

And the current board leadership went so far as to interview potential forensic construction accountants to work up the numbers in 2017 but at the last minute abandoned the effort, preferring to “go along to get along”.

 

https://solterracommunity.org/index.php/2017/10/21/independent-constructionfinance-audit-pro-and-con/

 

https://solterracommunity.org/index.php/2018/04/01/independent-audit-compare-and-contrast-postitions/

 

 

 

And the current board leadership completely ignored a research piece prepared by residents regarding the double billing, preferring to “go along to get along”:

 

New Research Discloses Brookfield’s Double Billing for Solterra Infrastructure Costs

 

 

 

Hopefully, the residents will obtain some relief but that effort is still compromised by the current board leadership’s agenda to “go along to get along”.   Thankfully, many other communities have learned from Solterra’s mistakes and are successfully challenging developer abuses in their communities.

 

 

And even though the current board leadership goes to great lengths to re-write the history and ignore the great work of the residents they opposed, here again is a small tribute to those 26 folks in 2017 who dared to say “no” to Brookfield and walk the neighborhoods to get enough signatures for a successful recall campaign.  A campaign that resulted in the Brookfield employees resigning on June 30, 2017, minutes before the petitions were to be certified as “sufficient”.  

 

They, not the current board leadership, are the ones to be remembered: