Statement of
Terry Maynard,
Co-Chair, Reston 20/20 Committee
To the StoneTurn
Group
Re the Independent
Review of the Tetra Property Acquisition and Renovation
February 9, 2017
Good afternoon. My name is Terry Maynard, 2217 Wakerobin
Lane, and I have been a resident of Reston for more than three decades. I am co-chair of the Reston 20/20 Committee,
an informal committee of Restonians interested in sustaining Robert Simon’s
vision for our beautiful planned community.
In other community roles, I have served as a member of the Reston
Citizens Association Board of Directors and its representative on the Reston
Master Plan Task Force.
As Reston 20/20’s co-chair, I am here this afternoon to
encourage you to pursue a vigorous investigation and comprehensive report on
what we believe is the greatest leadership crisis in the history of the Reston
Association. Never have so many people
in Reston’s leadership on the RA Board of Directors and among its senior staff
behaved so unethically if not outright illegally, demonstrated such complete
incompetence in analyzing and managing the finances of a single RA project, and
used secrecy behind a legal façade to protect the guilty while so neglecting the
interests of the community.
The challenge ahead of you to try to uncover, digest,
analyze, and present to the Reston community, not just the Board, a report in
just one month detailing all the errors and misdeeds that have been reported,
much less a course of corrective action, is daunting. Still, the community needs you to detail the
who, how, when, and why of all these events or we will continue to be
ill-served. A simple set of process
improvement recommendations will be inadequate and a further waste of RA
members’ money on the Tetra fiasco. Moreover,
your process recommendations will quite likely be ignored by the Board of
Directors and RA staff in the end.
Reston 20/20 has been at the forefront of the effort to
prevent and expose the ongoing fiasco dating back to at least April 2015. Our blog has more than 40 posts about the
evolving Tetra morass ranging from analyses during the referendum period of the
financial hole it has now put the community in to RA’s prejudicial negotiations
with Mediaworld for the independent review contract you now have. Most of it is original; some of it we
re-posted from other sources, including our op-eds that have appeared in
RestonNow and the Reston Connection. And
we have testified before the RA Board and at its community meetings during the
referendum period.
I look forward to discussing any and all of our work with
you at your convenience. You will find
in reading our products and in our discussions that we try to document our
methods as well as our results, including any assumptions that we may have made,
wherever we can. Nonetheless, our
analyses are based on publicly available information—including information we
have requested and received from RA—and, as a result, are necessarily more limited
than we would like.
To get you started in looking at what we have done, I am
giving you a selection of posts from the Reston 20/20 that shows a bit of the
range of work we have done on the issues surrounding Tetra. I hope you come to understand, challenge, and
report on these issues and others. Maybe
most importantly, it includes a paper identifying the eight key issues that we
believe ought to be addressed in your effort.
This issue paper was included in the RFP you received. We think it should be the foundation document
for your investigation and report.
You have a challenging task ahead that is of vital
importance to the good governance of our community. I wish you the best in your efforts and offer
to sit down to discuss the Tetra matter with you at your convenience.
Thank you for your time and good luck.
Attachments (in chronological order):
2. Misinformation on Tetra property purchase from Rick Beyer, former RA Board member, April 12, 2015.
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