Aztec Drive

 What do I care what the name of the street is?!?

I wouldn't, if this particular street would not be Cherokee Shores Owners Association's registered agent's address.  But it being a fact that I have to send certified legal letters to the registered agent of the Association it is very frustrating that the address in question is undeliverable. 

For years now I have been knowingly wasting money sending letters to Aztec Drive because that is the address on file with Secretary of State as a legal contact address for Cherokee Shores Owners Association.  At first the Association did not have a mailbox for the mail person to deliver the letter, but even though the mailbox was finally put in place there was another problem - unauthorized improper name change of Aztec Dr. to P. Roberts Pkwy.

I have not come across the record for when Aztec Dr.'s name change happened, but I do know that Google maps, Henderson County and Post Office which goes by 911 address database do not recognize P. Roberts Pkwy as the legal name of Aztec Drive. 

I finally got tired of this cat and mouse game and added the Street name change as a cause of action to the current legal proceedings.  My claim is simple: the improper name change makes the address of our registered agent undeliverable; and Aztec Dr. is a part of our governing documents (in particular Bylaws) and to change the name of that street there had to be a major All-Association Members' Vote with majority of the members approving the change.  There was no such a vote.

What is strange to me and what I find very interesting that the Association is willing to negotiate taking down Cedar Creek Cove sign, yet defending their P. Roberts Pkwy as a memorial to a member, even thought this memorial signage on the street pole was not duly passed by the members. 

The Association further confirms that the official name of P. Robert's Pkwy is Aztec Dr. and claims that it can be used officially by residents even though the memorial sign to P. Robert Pkwy remains.  I guess they forgot to mention this part to the post office, because it's not I who deliver the mail, but the Post Office, and they simply will not deliver if all rules are not being properly followed. 

In conclusion, I would like to point out that if we start changing names of the street as memorial to all of the members that participated in the "betterment of the community" we are going to run out of street names to change.  And who decides which member bettered the community and which one didn't.  I think a decision like that should be subject to all of the members' opinions.

The question today is: 

Who is P. Roberts and what made his impact worth more than many of the other members participated in the betterment of this community?

There are more questions to follow:

Why can't we place the memorial sign on the street that is not a part of the governing documents of our community? ... Or in a park, or a boat dock or even have a memorial stand in the office?  

Do we have to continue to break the procedures to achieve proper change? 

...if that change is even necessary...

What is Cedar Creek Cove Owners Association?

Once upon a time on 9/11/2021 Board of Director of Cherokee Shores Owners Association had a members' meeting.  Out of nowhere as it appears one of the Board's directors proposed to change the name of the Association. "Cedar Creek???" - as the minutes read: "something to just blend into the community.  Cedar Creek Cove." - the director said. 

"Motion to change the name to Cedar Creek Cove..." was made by one of the members of the Association during that meeting.  Another member seconded. "Unanimous vote in favor." - the Minutes of the meeting state. 

...And that is how Cherokee Shores Owners Association became Cedar Creek Cove. 

During the same meeting one of the directors was put in charge of the name change and on or about October 1, 2021 that director filed Certificate of Amendment of the Name Change with the Secretary of State.  That certificate only requires Statement of Approval: "The amendment has been approved in the manner required by the Texas Business Organizations Code and by the governing documents of the entity."

On or about March 30, 2022 Secretary of State filing was filed with Henderson County Property Records, document number: 2022-00005853.

 You can find minutes of the meeting following this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u7GVoNetN_xeb7RkCAwyZQvkKWjSCW1e/view?usp=sharing

And you can find Henderson County Property Record via the link below:

https://hendersoncountytx-web.tylerhost.net/web/document/DOC346S320?search=DOCSEARCH352S3

  So what is the Cedar Creek Cove Owners Association?  Cedar Creek Cove Owners Association is a product of the imagination of some of the previous Board Members who were trusted to be in charge of the Association.  It was a quick fix solution to deal with less than desirable reputation of the Association. 

The majority of the members didn't even know anything changed until suddenly there was a new front entrance sign: "Cedar Creek Cove".  Consequently due to the appearance of the change being legal, last time we took this Association to Court we had to name Cedar Creek Cove as a defendant in the case. 

In reality the name change of the Property Owners Association requires 67% vote approval of all the members.  

One of the many things we ask the Association to fix right now is the front sign of Cherokee Shores.  Despite multiple inquiries from the members to fix the Association's front sign to the correct name the Board of Directors has repeatedly denied these requests.  We are debating in Court right now that stating Cedar Creek Cove on the front sign of our Association is deceiving.  This willful misrepresentation of our community is questionable, shows bad character, gives the members of the Association bad reputation and displays intent to deceive.  

We have been told by the Associations' attorneys that the Board of Directors is in the process of removing the Cedar Creek Cove front entrance sign.  I will believe it when I see it...  Right now the sign is being used as a token of negotiations not something that is done because it is the right thing to do. 

Changes within the Property Owners Association must be done properly to be valid.  This is not kindergarten where we make up words for the things we see and encounter.  The Property Owners Association is a community of the members each one of whom is entitled to the answers on everyday operations of the Association.  Those answers reflect the character of the Board of Directors and transparency about the operations of this non-profit corporate entity.  In the eyes of the state Cherokee Shores Owners Association is not just a Property Owners Association but a non-profit corporation that has to operate within the statutes of the State of Texas Business Organization Code.

What can you do?  

Even if you can't help with time, research and monetary support, you can call the Association and ask when the front sign of the Association will be replaced with the correct name "Cherokee Shores".

When someone tells you: "I will." The following question is: "When?"

Ask questions and demand timely answers! 

Members' Rights Awareness Campaign

Cherokee Shores Owners Association is the largest community of its kind in Texas.  As much as I'd like to say that I know all my neighbors, the reality is I only had the pleasure to meet a handful or two of our members.

 There are people from all walks of life here: different national origin, different social standing, different goals for the land purchased, but they all have one thing in common - nobody truly knows how all of our restrictions, rules and regulations came to be.  

 These changes didn't happen overnight.  They are a product of continuous work of the individuals seeking the change.

 My goal is to influence a positive change within Cherokee Shores Owners Association and to encourage members of Property Owners Associations to seek knowledge, to get engaged and to ask questions.  With that goal in mind I am starting an early campaign for President of Cherokee Shores Owners Association and I ask for your help in spreading the word, as word of mouth is still the most influential part of the campaign anyone can have.  

  With the current voting "procedures" the only way I could possibly win is if the members come and vote in person on the day of the election.  Every other method of voting we have right now is unsecured.  The voting in person supersedes absentee ballots, what that means is: if you sent an absentee ballot and came and voted in person anyways, the vote in person is the one that will count.  

  As a part of this campaign I ask for your help in gathering funds necessary to reach more members of this association by mail and other means, to promote the knowledge and to strengthen our community, to let the people know that we can make a difference if we work together towards a common goal.  Some of us have more money and less time and some of us have more time and less money.  Of course there are some that have no time and very little money as well... But:

All of us can contribute in one way or another! 

  Some have a huge social following, some are great speakers, some just like to talk to people and spread the word.  As a whole, as a community of approximately 2700 members, we have what it takes to be better and to make Cherokee Shores Owners Association a healthy and desirable community to be in.  We can make it a long hoped for home, a weekend getaway paradise and an investor's heaven all at the same time.  All we have to do is come together and demand change!

  Help support our future!  Strengthen your investment!  Take pride in the land you own! 

If you wish to donate go to: 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-marinas-fight-for-fairness

Spread the word!  Share the information and continue reading and staying engaged! 

  

  

Update on the Mystery Stamp

   Today is 8.18.2025.  I was able to locate the Notary and I am awaiting the response on: 

- if this is indeed their stamp, 

-what type of notarization was performed, 

-what date was the document notarized,

- and who brought these Revised Restrictions to be notarized. 

 The assumed by me missing number was not a number but a dash and didn't I feel embarrassed!  I did.

 Since none of us caught this until now, I do not know if the Notary Public will even have any record of this notarization as I believe they only have to keep the Notary Journal for 4 years. 

  This document is still insufficient due to the lack of any authorizing signatures or dates.  I doubt it will stand in court as authentic.  Notary Public is not authorized to change Cherokee Shores Owners Association's Restrictions.  67% Vote of the members is the only way the restrictions can be amended. 

  The link to the Restrictions in question:

https://hendersoncountytx-web.tylerhost.net/web/document/DOC316S637?search=DOCSEARCH352S3

8.19.2025. Mystery Solved.  Thanks to many helpful people I was able to get the answer to who brought this document for notarization.

The answer is: Mr. W.L. Warren brought this document to be notarized on 11/22/2019. 

In conclusion, I would like to thank everyone who is reading and all those helping the research into Cherokee Shores Owners Association's governing documents. 

I encourage you to continue to ask questions.  Once in a while you ask the right person the right question and get the answer you are looking for. 

So...now the question is: Who authorized Mr. Warren to notarize these Revised in 2019 Restrictions?  Who revised those Restrictions? 

And... 

Did anyone bothered to have an All-Association Members' Vote to pass those revisions? 

Mystery Notary Stamp

 

  During my ongoing research into Cherokee Shores Owners Association's paperwork I came across another mystery.  This time it's not a misunderstood by me policy or absence of a policy, it is a Notary Stamp.

  The revised in 2019 Restrictions posted on Cherokee Shores Owners Association's website at the end of the complete document have a Notary Stamp and a signature of A. Arnold.  I want to remind you that this document has been filed with Henderson County and you can find it by entering document number: 2019-00016453 on Henderson County Property Records Search, or you can follow this link and it should bring you straight to it: https://hendersoncountytx-web.tylerhost.net/web/document/DOC316S637?search=DOCSEARCH352S3

This same document in pieces can be found on Cherokee Shores Website via this link:

https://cherokeeshores.org/architectural/

or straight to the point of the stamped portion go to the end of this links document: 

https://cherokeeshores.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/SECTION_E_except_1038-1077.pdf

  What is so strange about this Notary Stamp?

First of all there is no Notarial Certificate included with this Notary Stamp and normally the Notary will not notarize the document without a Notarial Certificate that clarifies the type of the Notarization being performed.  Even a copy of the document is normally stapled to the Notarial Certificate accompanied by a Notary Stamp and a Signature.

Again as so many other members that even pay attention it took me a year to actually see it and pay attention!  There is a Notary Stamp and a signature, but when I got an idea of reaching out to the Notary to figure out what type of notarization that was and possibly get a copy of the record of this notarization I suddenly had to pay attention: the stamp is missing a number...it is...1304205_?_5?. The expiration appears to be 10.30.2023.  The name is A. Arnold. 

I tried running the search on Secretary of State Notary Search with no valid result.  Here is the link to do that: https://texas-sos.appianportalsgov.com/sos-direct

I tried different numbers to fill in the gap with no results, I tried running just Arnold without finding matching expiration date for the Notary commission and when I got tired of doing all that I wrote Cherokee Shores Owners Association's attorneys asking them to provide me with the full Notary ID so I can get record of Notary performed for this particular document.  Guess what? ....with no result so far...

 Now I am stuck with this Mystery Notary Stamp on this Mystery Document.  These Revised 2019 Restrictions have no identifying futures other than my Mystery Stamp.  No name of people involved in it's creation or approval, no date this was voted on or passed by the members, no Notarial Certificate to show who brought it for notarization and no way to figure out who's Notary Stamp it is. 

???

  Maybe Ms. Sanders can answer these questions.  Maybe if the members start calling and asking Ms. Sanders who passed Revised 2019 Restrictions, who approved it, when was the members vote to approve the changes to the restrictions and who and where notarized it...  Maybe we can get her to look into this mystery and try to solve it together. 

 Please, if anyone knows the answers to these questions contact Ms. Sanders or me or Cherokee Shores Owners Association attorneys so they can answer my simple request and let me know who this A. Arnold is and what is or was their Notary ID number, when this notary was performed, what type of notarization that was and who was notarizing it. 

Ask questions and demand answers!

Mail-In Voting

 Main-In Voting is debated in the highest levels of government.  Mail-in and Electronic Voting lays an easy foundation for election fraud.  Not only identification of the person filling out the actual ballot is nearly impossible to establish, the access to such ballots is harder to control and the outcome of the election is easily controlled by those in charge and in possession of the List of Voting Members. 

We requested the List of Voting Members last year and this year and we have not been provided such a list for neither August 2024 Election, September 2024 Vote or August 2025 Election.  As a non-profit corporation Cherokee Shores Owners Association has to have this list available and be able to provide it to the members who request it in writing in accordance with Business Organization Code, Chapter 22., Sec. 22.158 Preparation and Inspection of list of Voting Members. See: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BO/htm/BO.22.htm

  Cherokee Shores Owners Association Bylaws, Article V, Section 3 states: Voting must be in person.  Absentee ballots will only be accepted on the Thursday and/or Friday prior to the Annual Election at the Association office during posted hours.  

Why is that important? 

  I personally with proper procedures in place could be convinced that mail-in voting is a convenient future.  But the amount of security needed in order to guarantee fairness of such election/votes is very tough to establish and calls for utmost trust in the establishment.  

  Not only our Bylaws strictly require our Election/Votes to be in person by specifying that our voting: must be in person; Cherokee Shores Owners Association is using our regular P.O. Box 1126 as a method of collection mail-in ballots making those ballots accessible by anyone who checks mail for Cherokee Shores on the regular bases and our regular connect@cherokeeshores.org email making those ballots accessible by anyone who has access to that email.  

There is no question that both of those methods of voting are not secure and all one has to do to get rid of the unwanted ballots is to throw it in the trash either it is a real trash basket or a virtual one.  With this organization being a Private Owners Association no government oversees these elections and only the members of this POA may demand change.  

  The current lawsuit is asking the Court to uphold our Bylaws by declaratory judgement that the voting must be in person.  I am a new member and I am not sure how far back this goes.  But as of right now Cherokee Shores Elections are improper and according to our Bylaws illegal. 

  Congratulations to Karen Sanders Johnston on winning the Election!!!

Post Election Audit

 To all of you who voted for me this Election I want to Thank You!  Thank you for participating and understanding how important it is.  Those who called us and couldn't be there to vote Thank You for participating in any way you can!

In this post I simply want everyone to know the Official Post Election Audit Demand I have submitted with attorneys of Cherokee Shores Owners Association.  The answers to these inquiries would be simple if our elections have proper policies and procedures. 

For your review here are the questions I am asking Cherokee Shores Owners Association.  Needless to say I do not expect them to provide me with any of this information simply because I do not believe they have any idea what fair election process entitles. 

I encourage each one of you to ask these questions!

 Official Post Election Audit Demand

   August 16th, 2025 Cherokee Shores Owners Association had an annual member/Election.  The current lawsuit questions the legitimacy of mail in and electronic voting and is asking the court to enforce that the voting in Cherokee Shores Owners Association must be in person in accordance with our Bylaws.

  August 16th, 2025 Election allowed mail in and electronic voting without having proper amendment for mail in and electronic voting.  We demand a Post Election Audit with full Procedural Audit and Tabulation Audit of the August 16th Election with detailed records of all the ballots received with distinction of all accepted and rejected ballots and the reasons for their rejections.

  This is not a hard or time consuming task as all together there were only 96 votes and less than that ballots accepted and counted towards the results.  

Specifically we demand copies of the records of:

1. Voting List for August 16, 2025 Election;

2. Policy regarding Proxy for August 16, 2025 Election;

3. For mail in votes: 

• All date-stamped envelopes the mail in votes were received in;

• Dates each stamped envelope with ballot was collected from the P.O. Box 1126, Mabank, TX, 75156.

• Names of all persons having access to the envelopes with ballots from the time they were received in the P.O. Box 1126, Mabank, TX, 75156 to the time they were counted.

• Names of all persons having access to P.O. Box 1126, Mabank, TX, 75156 in June 2025, July 2025 and August 2025. 

• Dates each stamped envelope with ballot in it was opened; 

• Names of all persons having access to the ballots from the time the envelope was opened to the time the votes were counted;

• All rejected ballots and reason for their rejection;

• All accepted ballots and number of votes assigned to them;

• Procedure for handling PO Box 1126, Mabank, TX, 75156 during Election season;

• Procedure for handling envelopes received in PO Box 1126, Mabank, TX, 75156 during Election season;

• Procedure for handling envelopes with ballots in them until they are counted. 

4. For email votes:

• All date-stamped emails in which the ballots were received;

• Dates each email was viewed for the first time;

• Names of all persons having access to connect@cherokeeshores.org;

• Names of all persons who viewed emails with ballots in them;

• Procedure for handling emails with ballots in them from the time those emails are received until the time the ballots are counted;

• All rejected email ballots and reason for their rejection;

• All accepted ballots and number of votes assigned to them;

5. In person Absentee Ballots:

• The Dates the Drop Box for Absentee Ballots was available during August 16th, 2025 Election;

• The Location(s) of the Drop Box for Absentee Ballots during August 16th, 2025 Election;

• Names of all persons having access to the Drop Box during August 16th, 2025 Election;

• Names of all persons having access to the key to open the Drop Box during August 16th, 2025 Election;

• Procedure for securing the Drop Box for Absentee Ballots to ensure fair elections; 

• Names of all the persons who had access to the Absentee Ballots from the time the ballot was submitted in person to the time the ballot was counted;

• Dates for all absentee ballots submitted in person;

• Procedure for clarifying identity of voters during the Absentee Voting Process and names of the persons performing identity verifications;

• Procedure for collection of Absentee Ballots in Person;

• Hours for collection of Absentee Ballots in Person during August 16th, 2025 Election.

6. In Person Election Day Ballots:

• Time the Election Began and ended; time the count began and ended;

• Name of the person who officiated the election and counted the votes, what office they work for if any and their title; 

• All rejected ballots and reason for their rejection;

• All accepted ballots and number of votes assigned to them;.

• Procedure for collection of Ballots in Person;

• Procedure for Identity check for Voting in Person;

• Procedure for counting Ballots in Person.