CENSORED!

The
Secretary of State, State of Washington,
requires nonprofit corporations to file an annual report containing
names and addresses of all officers and directors.

For more than a year, t
his page listed the names and addresses of
the Directors and Administrators, Council House, Seattle.

Judge James A. Doerty, Superior Court of Washington [806-00],
ordered the publisher to remove that information from this web site.

That order pends appellate review. It denies use of information contained in
public records disclosable under RCW 42.17 (Washington Public Disclosure Act).

The Council House directors and administrators have plenty to hide.
This court order helps them to hide it.

Send email requests for censored items to: Webspinner@ContraCabal.org


Council House Inc. classifies as a domestic nonprofit corporation registered in the State of Washington. The Secretary of State requires nonprofit corporations to file an annual report that contains the names and addresses of all officers and directors. The directors neglected to file a report during 1993 and the Secretary dissolved the corporation. The board of directors applied for reinstatement and the Secretary granted a certificate to that effect October 8, 1993, on payment of a reinstatement filing fee.

However, the board of directors choreographing this theater of the absurd apparently does not learn from its negative curtain calls. The registered agents, Pooh-Bar* (a pompous, ostentatious administrator employed to perform many job functions who fulfills none of them) and his clone Tall Pygmy who acts similarly, have responsibly for filing the annual report but have consistently not filed all the directors' names and addresses according to RCW 24.03.395 and WAC 434-110-120(d). They refuse access to this information for which the law requires public disclosure. By this, they deny residents contact with the directors.

Much more serious neglect has occurred at the federal level. For six years, Pooh-Bar and the board have not complied with US Department of Housing and Urban Development Directive 4381.5 Rev-2 (1994). In addition, they have filed neither borrower's certificates nor management entity profiles required by that revision. By association, this neglect has denied residents the right properly to organize and to present complaints about adverse living conditions to the directors and to HUD. It has allowed Pooh-Bar to evade the issues by denying access to mandated resident complaint procedures.

Nmesis applied pressure to HUD under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by insisting that officials obtain and furnish copies of documents that they should have had on file. Following that pressure, the co-presidents retroactively signed and filed those documents on April 22, 2000. Nmesis also obtained names and addresses from a variety of other public sources. He then compiled and published the list as a resource that residents could use to bypass Pooh-Bar's blocking tactics and approach the board directly. Doerty has now censored that list unconstitutionally.

*Pooh-Bar, Lord-High-Everything-Else, a character in The Mikado by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.



Directors' list censored by Judge James A. Doerty.