From September 29, 2005 until at least December 31, 2005 the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation was in violation of its bylaws requiring that the, "minimum number shall be 9" directors. According to form CT-12 received by the Oregon Department of Justice on September 12, 2006 there were only 7 members serving on the board of the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation in 2005. There is NO available written evidence in the possession of Tom Potter, Dan Saltzman, Erik Sten and the Oregon Department of Justice that can certify that there were at least 9 board members serving on the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation, the minimum number as required in its bylaws, on October 25, 2006 casting LEGAL DOUBT that the Portland city council could have done any kind of legally binding business with the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation on that date.

The Portland Hope Meadows Corporation was incorporated on 12-20-04. As of December 31, 2005 it had net assets of $22,204.05. It main activity was to spend $2,770.95 on professional fees and office supplies. The Portland Hope Meadows Corporation was less than two years old with NO TRACK RECORD on October 25, 2006 when it was offered control of $1.4 million dollars of public property known as the John Ball School site.

An Oregon Public Records law request revealed that no member of the Portland city council that presumably vetted then voted to give 1.4 million dollars of public property to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation i.e. Potter, Saltzman, Sten, had any written records - letters, faxes, emails, reports - with the names and contact information of any board member of the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation BEFORE the vote to give away the John Ball School site property on October 25, 2006. This total lack of written data includes missing financial information on funders and expenditures.

Tom Potter, Dan Saltzman and Erik Sten gave $1,400,000 of OUR public property to persons that did not even reach the level of strangers to them. Potter, Saltzman and Sten stampeded over due process in order to give away public land to UNKNOWN individuals who would support the discredited and abhorrent public housing policy of UNlimited concentration of public housing in any neighborhood in Multnomah county.

The guilt, shame and public embarrassment associated with the shadiness of this back door deal and flagrant disregard for long established standards of due process is, no doubt, the reason neither those public officials that voted to give away the public property nor those corporate officers that participated in the theft of this tainted gift have been willing to come forward with the most basic information regarding the names, contacts and financial data of the non-profit Portland Hope Meadows Corporation.

Potter and Sten have been after PGE for public documents to uncover a hidden treasure of misdeeds. Yet when it comes to revealing the public documents which coverup their misdeeds regarding the Housing Authority of Portland and now the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation they play the PGE "it's none of your business, you can't have our public data unless you take it by force" game. Potter and Sten have long since abandoned their falsely ascribed "progressive" creditials. I don't recall anything in the Progressives Handbook that includes hiding essential public information from the citizenry as a defining principle. In fact, quite the opposite is true.

With regard to the conspiacy to coverup incriminating information related to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation, Tom Potter, Dan Saltzman and Erik Sten behaved in the same reprehensible manner as Vice President Dick Cheney when he refused to tell the congress and the public which lobbyists had covertly met with him to write our nation's disastrous energy policy. 


HAP Watchers Can Send A Message To Politicians That Back Room Deals That Trample On Due Process Destroys The Democratic Process

HAP Watchers Can Send A Message To Politicians That UNLIMITED Concentration of Public Housing Clients In Any Neighborhood In Multnomah County is A Discredited and Abhorrent Public Policy

HAP Watchers Can Send A Message To Politicians That Refusal To Provide Public Statistical Data Diminishes Public Confidence In Good Government

Do you know any of the people listed below? Do you know their families, friends, coworkers, employers or neighbors? If so, then phone them, write them, email them and knock on their doors. Tell them the Portland Hope Meadows Corporate board must find a majority, 5, of board members to vote to withdraw from the John Ball School site. For more detailed reasons go here: http://www.goodgrowthnw.org/PotterPummels.html .

The public campaign to persuade Portland Hope Meadows Corporation board members and its funders to withdraw their interest in the John Ball School site needs your ongoing support. Please contact those below and tell them that their good intentions are now being used to pave the road to hell. Tell them they must uphold due process in the political arena. Tell them they must not support unlimited concentration of public housing clients in any neighborhood. Tell them they must vote to withdraw from the John Ball School site immediately.

If these folks were on the board of the Portland Art Museum or the Oregon Historical Society would they accept an artwork or an artifact valued at $1,400,000 that was stolen from a public treasury by three miscreant members of a conniving city council and gifted to them?

Rhonda Meadows (Board President) 
(H)2806 NW Fairfax Ter
Portland, OR  97210-2806
(503) 997-6266
Unemployed
 
Kristen Simmons (Board Secretary)
(H)420 NW 11th Ave., #609
Portland, OR  97209
(503) 525-0180
ksimmons@panthersys.com
Controller - Panther Systems - Vancouver Washington
5408 NE 88th St # D2
Vancouver, WA 98665
(360) 750-9783 

Leah Y. King
(H)4201 NE 19th Ave.
Portland, OR  97211
(503) 317-8577
leah.king@fnf.com
VP, Lender Sales
Fidelity National Title Company of Oregon
1001 SW Fifth Avenue, #400
Portland, OR 97204
www.fidelityportland.com
503.223.8338 Office
503.317.8577 Mobile

Kevin McCullough
(B)2050 NE 25th Ave.
Hillsboro, OR  97214
(503) 640-3711
kmac@aeroair.com
President, AeroAir Inc.
Cellular:  503.572.8527
Fax: 503.681.6513
 
Madeleine Rose
(H)600 SE Marion #309
Portland, OR  97202
(503) 234-0699
rosem@windermere.com
Windermere Cronin & Caplan Realty Group, Inc.
733 NW 20th Ave.
Portland, OR 97209
Office Phone: 503-220-1144
Cell/Direct: 503-781-4667
Agent Fax: 503-226-6227

Julie Peterson
(H)831 SW Hume St.
Portland, OR  97219
(503) 977-0161
jpeterson@grouponelending.com
Account Exec - Group One Lending
503.703.9398 
10220 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 120
Portland, OR 97223
503.327.4000
Fax 503.327.4001

Pam Resnick
(H&B)5738 SW Riverpoint Ln
Portland, OR  97239
(503) 224-1047
pamresnik@comcast.net
Unemployed? OR Employee?
Market Insights Incorporated

 
Many thanks to Victoria Cox in the Charitable Activities Section of the Oregon Attorney General's office for providing much of this public information. No thanks to Portland's mayor Tom Potter, commissioners Dan Saltzman and Erik Sten as well as Portland Hope Meadows Corporation president, Rhonda Meadows, who have all REFUSED both before and after the vote to voluntarily provide the names, contact and financial information of the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation. This is shameful, dishonorable and inexcusable behavior by those that claim the mantle of leadership in our community. They disgrace Portland city government and carelessly threaten the generally positive public image of non-profit corporations in Oregon.


Richard Ellmyer
Community leader coordinating a local effort to bring the Oregon National Guard to the Sharff Army Reserve Center
Community activist leading the campaign to Stop The Portland Hope Meadows Corporation From Adding To The Overload Of Public Housing Clients In The Portsmouth Neighborhood And North Portland
3-6-9 Resolution author and project champion
Writer/Publisher - HAP Watcher commentary - Published on the Internet and distributed to 13,000 readers interested in public housing policy in Multnomah County.
http://www.goodgrowthnw.org
President, MacSolutions Inc. - A Macintosh computer consulting business providing web hosting for artists and very small businesses. Located in Portsmouth, the neighborhood with the second highest concentration of public housing clients, 18% and rising, within HAP's Multnomah county jurisdiction of 117 neighborhoods.