'Contested' Shelter Bay board members served with claim for damages

Four members of a Shelter Bay Community board of directors that has been intensely criticized for more than two years may be headed to court. During a board committee meeting Oct. 13, resident Roberta Fontenot, an attorney, had a process server present Elaine Dixon, Monte Hicks, Louise Kari and Wendy Poulton with a claim for damages against them as individual board members. These complaints had not been filed in Skagit County Superior Court as of Monday morning, Oct. 24.

General Manger Rick Tanner and legal counsel Philip Buri and two former board members were also served, states a letter Vice...