Save Sandy Creek Airpark

Welcome to the Save Sandy Creek Airpark website. This website is provided by Robert Henry, homeowner and prior board member, along other property owners who provide their concerns and ideas. This website is for all Sandy Creek Airpark owners, and it presents information you may not otherwise have or have access to read. It seems many owners have questions and do not know where to find needed information. This website will continue to add more information as it becomes known as much of what the board of directors does is done in secret.

You Pay, They Play!

The Sandy Creek Airpark has a new board of directors, but they are not representing the airpark. They are representing their personal interests, especially with the local EAA chapter located on the airfield.

It seems they asked for everyone's proxy votes for the annual owner's meeting in December to elect themselves, but they no doubt lied to people to get their proxy votes.

The new board claimed the old board was wasting money on frivolous lawsuits and that this year's annual assessment would be very high if the lawsuits were not brought under control. They claimed that a vote for them would bring financial accountability and better management of your money.

However, the old board held annual assessments to $750, but the new board immediately nearly doubled that to $1,378, of which less than $300 per property would be for legal expenses, if that much. They have also claimed they will raise assessments even further in a few weeks, not that such a decision is legal.

Budget was NOT Approved by the Board

The old board never approved the budget or the $1,378 assessment sent to property owners for the 2025 annual meeting held in December. Connie Coy and Amanda, of Burg property management, sent that budget and assessment without any board approval or notification. The old board never even saw that budget before they, too, received it in the mail.

Board demands for even more money!

The current board wants even more money through Special Assessments. The letter Connie Coy put into the annual meeting package (again, without board approval) stated she wants more money to be voted on in January to immediately raise the assessments and has since stated the board will work towards one or more Special Assessments to raise even more money. To pass the Special Assessment, they need your proxy votes and will ask for them, if they haven't already. They need 51% of property owners to pass a Special Assessment and they want your proxy votes to do it.

The board is on a spending spree without any accountability.

The EAA local chapter 202

All members of the current board are either paid members, recently paid members, or active participants in the local EAA chapter 202 activities.

The new board wants their EAA chapter 202, located on the airfield, to allow all EAA members who pay merely $50 EAA chapter dues to use the runway. That’s right. They want to allow anyone who joins their EAA chapter to have full access to all commons areas, which primarily includes the runway. The same board wants you to pay $1378 in annual assessments this year, plus the price of your lot and/or home, but their EAA chapter gets the same privileges as you for $50.

You Pay, They Play.

The prior board held that the EAA members must pay the $1,250 annual invitee fee. The current board just voted to eliminate that fee and just gave all EAA members your runway for $50 dues paid to the EAA. We the property owners pay for them to use our runway because they pay nothing for it. The EAA only pays a single annual assessment. They do not pay more for any members that may be flying.

This also means their EAA chapter is now commercially operating as an FBO and provides the public access to the runway. That was never the intention nor language of the EAA deed. There is already one person who flies from the EAA hangar and is not operating within the Use Restrictions of the EAA. The EAA claims they have an affidavit from someone who back in 1993 helped arranged the EAA deed, but they guy has never been legally challenged and won't be as the new board wants to give the EAA everything they want to dismiss the lawsuit.

EAA Sued the HOA, but the Board wants you to Pay for it!

Meanwhile, the EAA sued the HOA to get out of that deed, and our legal fees have amounted to around $40,000. The previous board had a legal strategy to make the EAA pay the legal bills, but the current board just decided we property owners should pay the legal bills and the new board will allow the EAA out of that deed.

Board decides to pay property repairs for EAA too!!!

On top of all that, the new board decided we will pay for culvert repairs on the EAA property. Our covenants say the HOA pays for commons areas only, but the board members, who are also EAA affiliated, want to spend your money on the EAA. The EAA, that's Ryan Vandeusen, Norman Summers, and Myron Oakley as EAA board members, sued the HOA to fix their private property culvert. They claim the covenants say the HOA fixes all culverts while ignoring the direct statement in the covenants that states the HOA shall be responsible only for drainage in the commons areas only.

Sounds illegal? It probably is. The board, as EAA beneficiaries, cannot take our money to benefit themselves like this.

EAA Use Restrictions

The EAA’s deed requires they stick to one of the following five Use Restrictions. None of their allowed activities includes being an FBO providing public access to the runway for $50.

1. To encourage and foster the continuation of design and development of amateur-built aircraft.

2. To provide information, knowledge, and assistance to the amateur builders of aircraft, restorers of vintage or historical aircraft, and sport aviation enthusiasts.

3. To foster and promote aviation safety in the realm of general and sport aviation.

4. To encourage, aid, and engage in scientific research for the improvement and better understanding of aviation and the science of aeronautics.

5. To provide a source of information and education relative aviation and related activities.

Current Board Members

The current board members and contact information are the following. Contact them and let them know your position on them selling you out for their personal gain.

It is not a privacy violation for this information to be provided as they use these emails and phone numbers for official board business.

Connie Coy, ccoy41@gmail.com, cell: 912-650-9041
Brian McKinney, bmckinney10@gmail.com, cell: 952-292-2250
Jim Stippich, jandbstip@yahoo.com, 239-394-7213
Jim Pannell, jrpflyer@gmail.com

We want to hear from you!

If you have concerns or questions that you want addressed, or if you have comments or questions about how this information may affect you, please send your feedback via email at feedback@savesandycreek.com! Your email goes directly to Robert Henry.

Relevant questions and their answers will be posted on this website.

You may also remain anonymous. Your name will not be used if you ask for it not to be used.