Alarm bells are ringing in the SPPA – six out of nine committee members have resigned in the first three months of the new committee, and the president of the SPPA, Mr Minahan, will not publish the resignation letters.
As a member of the SPPA, I believe I have a right to know what has caused a mass exodus of committee members, and Mr Minahan cannot simply hide behind his comment that ‘the committee determined that the resignation correspondence is not a public document’.
Mr Minahan forgets that he heads a community association, and the community is entitled to know what is going on inside the committee – this association is not some fiefdom of which he thinks he is head.
Transparency is what is needed at this juncture, something which Mr Minahan is acutely lacking.
This cannot be a cover-up disguised as ‘part of our governance and privacy obligations’.
The time for transparency is now, Mr Minahan.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
