Message to the Marina Members from Fields Enterprises Inc. to Move the Elevator Repairs Forward for the 2021 Season

 Dear Marina Members,

 

While the messages from the BHVA Board of Directors to the community continue to pile up, I am writing to offer my shock and disappointment in the most recent announcement concerning the elevator shutdown.  I had a letter drafted announcing the opening of the marina for the 2021 boating season, but without access to the waterfront the future of the marina is once again in question. 

 

The marina’s continued viability depends on the elevator; without it, we have no business.  For this reason, I have attempted to have reasonable conversations with the Board of Directors in the spirit of compromise.   The Board has acknowledged to the community that the elevator’s control room sits on the marina’s property, and I have offered a legal document to memorialize a grant of access with proper indemnification and insurance requirements.  I have also offered to assist BHVA in bringing equipment to the elevator worksite, including by offering to barge that equipment across the lake.  This offer was not conditioned on BHVA making any concessions in the pending litigation; instead, it was offered in the spirit of neighborly cooperation.  Unfortunately, my requests for a compromise and offers of assistance have been ignored over the past several months and the messages you continue to receive suggest a bitter battle to the very end.  That is the last thing the marina is looking for.  Perhaps the Board of Directors feel differently. 

 

The Board’s most recent communication is full of mischaracterizations and falsities in an effort to place all of the blame for the current situation on me.  I do not feel it is necessary to get into a tit-for-tat with the Board of Directors, but one thing should be very clear: they have decided to use the elevator as a weapon, to the detriment of the Bristol Harbour Village community.  Despite this tactic, I stand ready to discuss ways to resolve all issues on the table as soon as possible and in a reasonable way.  Please encourage your BHVA Board of Directors and their attorneys to reach out to our attorneys to begin working through these issues.  We are running out of time and Summer 2021 will be upon us before we know it.  The issues that plague the BHVA as outlined in the Board’s e-mail communications also plague the marina.  We may have more common ground than some folks believe.

 

Respectfully,

Jeremy Fields