The three remaining members of the Jonathan Association board of directors filled four of the six vacant board seats at a special meeting Thursday night.
Six board members were ousted last month at the annual election when association member Mike Sibley made a motion to have them removed. It passed 40-4 among the membership present.
The new board appointees are Jim Battenberg for a two-year term, and Nate Bostrom, Walt Ripplinger and Mary Sears, all for one-year terms.
According to the Jonathan Web site, eight people completed applications for the open seats including Gordon Means, Nate Bostrom, Bob Moeller, Walt Ripplinger, Jim Battenberg, David Starr, Roberta Yard and Kevin Masrud.
Three more seats are up for grabs at the annual election. Votes are being done via mail-in ballot and are due by 5 p.m. on March 20.


three people (one already...
Back to page topthree people (one already appointed) have picked four new board members.
Why bother with elections if everyone is appointed!
3,000 residents are completely ignored and treated as irrelevant.
Nothing wrong with this, it is exactly the same method that was used to annex new neighborhoods for the last 20 years.
hadhad, had you been paying...
Back to page tophadhad, had you been paying attention you would have noticed that three of those "removed" were initially "appointed" as well. A fourth was illegally "appointed" as a write-in candidate and the other two were "appointed" due to an incorrect tabulation of apartment votes. It's no wonder one of those "appointed" and later "removed" took it upon himself to shred the ballots from prior elections. Gotta cover those tracks, huh?
You also conveniently ignored the fact that the attorney representing the association and whom this “group” initially retained, recommended the last remaining board members fill the vacated positions.
I don't believe there is any dispute that the neighborhoods were indeed annexed incorrectly, but as the prior board learned, four states have addressed the issue of transferring development rights by intent, rather than by documentation. In each case the states have ruled that development rights can be transferred by intent. I wonder if that's why the board moved so quickly away from litigation to a "Settlement Agreement". You don't think they actually cared what anyone actually thought now do you, hadhad? If they HAD cared, why didn't they put dissolution or the legal action up for a vote?
I think you were "had" by the prior board.