Ruba H. Gnanaratnam
Question:
Why, when you do a corporate search on
WinCAM, does President Melodie Wing's Home Address come up for the corporation on the front page?
This is exactly what soon-to-be-defunct "President" Frank Pilleri did at TV3 Medford
| PRESIDENT | MELODIE A. WING | 189 MYSTIC VALLEY PARKWAY WINCHESTER, MA 01890 USA | 11-01-2015 |
| TREASURER | ALLAN J. EYDEN | 20 WAGON WHEEL ROAD WINCHESTER, MA 01890 USA | 11-01-2014 |
| CLERK | PETER D. PONGRATZ | 55 CHESTER STREET WINCHESTER, MA 01890 USA | 11-01-2016 |
| DIRECTOR | MICHAEL H. SHINDELMAN | 14 WILDWOOD STREET WINCHESTER, MA 01890 USA | 11-01-2015 |
| DIRECTOR | LINDA J. DOUCETTE | UNIT 303, CROSS STREET WINCHESTER, MA 01890 USA | 11-01-2016 |
| DIRECTOR | GILLIAN E. PEARSON | 98 THORNBERRY ROAD WINCHESTER, MA 01890 USA | 11-01-2016 |
Winchester Community Access and Media
32 Swanton St
Winchester, MA 01890
Dear Mr. Ayden,
Term limits have
been installed at WinCAM. Looking at the Articles of
Organization on Secretary of State Galvin's Corporate Data Base it notes
that you have been on the board since the Corporation's inception,
November 11, 2000. Since your term has expired and we members
did
not vote for it to be renewed, please tell this member in good standing
when you are stepping down, now that term limits have been installed.
Staying
onboard, voting for your own "term limits" when you have been on a
publicly funded non-profit for 14 years, is not term limits.
The first time I see Melodie Wing's name is as secretary / clerk dated November 1, 2004
Correct this data if it is wrong, please.
I see Michael Shindelman and Peter Pongratz on the Corporate site
dated filing for November 1, 2010.
Given the term limits that are now in place, and how crop rotation is
essential in good farming, for the health of WinCAM the board
should
consist of
Linda Doucette
Jill Pearson
Margo Attaya
Ruba H. Gnanaratnam
When Deval Patrick stepped down Charlie Baker began his transition team. It is stunning that Allen Ayden has been on for 14 years with Melodie Wing on for ten years. The problems at Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. became scarier for the members when the Board of Directors was dubbed the "entrenched cronies" and the hostilities - false accusations on Dr. William Wood and his wife, bullying Pat Fiorello and his wife (both dead; at least Pat's death hastened by frivolous litigation against him by a member of the board and the station manager...sound familiar?) WinCAM's hostile attacks on members, not seeing Marcia Brown at the meeting last nigh and the other members I listed on a previous e mail, along with Lydia, Dan Houlihan, Susan Guild, John Shawcross, Jeff Dearman, Robert Gotham, James Ravenscroft III - the turnover is much, much too great for David Gauthier, Exec Director, to say with a straight face there's 23 or 26 percent more members...AFTER they disposed of non-residents ...possibly six or seven members, and there are people who wanted to join who never got a call back in August. Having paid a membership and to hear vague numbers is downright deceptive. Some may consider it dishonest. The now defunct TV3 Medford had a Vice President who lives right near Attorney General Martha Coakley. Along with cussing filthy words at people at the City Council that individual did exactly what David Gauthier did : We have 130 percent new members, we have 300 percent more programming, all foolish rhetoric that ended up in the corporation forced to shutter thanks to the Issuing Authority, Mayor McGlynn, being held accountable when McGlynn had phony meetings at pizza parlors so his interaction with TV3 never got on the public record. I filed Public Records Requests and the City Solicitor couldn't give me any documents from the TV3/Mayor meetings at Bocelli's and Pizzeria Regina. That's how business is conducted in Medford. Does Winchester want to go down this slippery slope? News flash to Winchester, the failure of the Selectmen to show up at the Annual Meeting as McGlynn failed to keep an eye on Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. is the Selectmen being negligent familiar?) One member of WinCAM wrote on the condition of anonymity "I feel like they (Dave G and co) are just using the job to relax and have fun all day, not get serious about getting members. etc." Couldn't agree more. And how much programming is being generated by the members who showed up last night compared to the members who are no longer creating content at WinCAM? My show has not taped a live show since May, over six months have elapsed and the board of directors cannot connect to Verizon and Comcast for a live feed? This happened somewhere else too...this happened when MCC TV3 Medford moved to Riverside Ave with no connectivity. This is not fair. We are just seeking fairness. The four new members of the board should take over; six more new faces need to be on the board, Mr. Shindelman, Mr. Pongratz, Mr. Ayden and Ms. Wing need to step down as it has become in the eyes of this member a serious conflict of interest. "My board moves too slow" Melodie Wing said to me. Melodie, Frank Pilleri also controlled his board and considered it his. The minute you say something like that, which you said to me Attorney Wing, is when you are no longer on the slippery slope. You've already slipped and a decade means you have shaped WinCAM as your own personal sandbox, just as Frank Pilleri did in Medford. The Public Charities Division of the AG's office is CC'd. They recently informed me via public records request that "law enforcement" is now involved in the Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. fiasco. WinCAM has treated this member and other members with hostility. False accusations, erased programming, bullying...just like TV3 Medford. It is unacceptable and the Selectmen have an OBLIGATION to the Community to fix it. I will invest a lot of time and energy into this problem until the Town of Winchester has a fully functional access station that serves the community and not the whims of entrenched board members and a rookie Executive Director, so help me God. |
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