To all owners,
At yesterday’s meeting of the committee we took the unprecedented step of deciding that we would, in UK terms, work to rule. That is for the immediate future, we will only perform such duties as are legally required of us. The alternative option was that the entire committee considered stepping down but this, it was felt, would be exactly what the minority are aiming for.
The cause of this decision is the threat by a small minority of owners to take legal action against all and individual members of the committee. This is on top of a continuing barrage of inappropriate e-mails and postings on various forums which have been insulting, inaccurate and deeply upsetting. This cannot be allowed to continue as it will make future recruitment to the committee incredibly difficult as few are likely to volunteer in the face of such vitriol.
In the short term, the two persons at the heart of this campaign have also been banned from our forum.
The work to rule will continue until such time as all threats of legal action against committee members are rescinded, there is a public apology for the nature of their e-mails and forum postings and a commitment that their future behaviour will conform to socially acceptable standards.
In the meantime, the committee’s work will be restricted to emergency management and matters covered by the Horizontal Property Act. Regrettably this means that contacts by owners to committee members will not garner their usual response so please do not expect correspondence to be answered.
The committee wish to assure all owners that they continue to have the best interests of Hacienda Riquelme at heart and look forward to an early return to normality.
Nigel Bradbury
Resort President
Hacienda Riquelme Golf Resort
10th July 2013