Joe - I didn't claim anything, its a matter of official record.  Here is an excerpt from the minutes of the June 23, 2017, OPA Board meeting:

President’s Remarks – Tom Herrick- Mr. Herrick stated “it is unfortunate, but I feel the need to address yet another misrepresentation of fact by one of our local newspapers in an opinion column. I would like to add truth and clarity to the circumstances regarding this issue for the benefit of our membership, as it affects the majority of your Board of Directors. One of the reasons for the closed meeting this past week was to discuss management concerns and Board member contact with staff. Our attorney was contacted to discuss the content of these conversations that were conducted with a number of our staff members and he advised it to be right and proper for our Board to discuss this matter in closed session. The circumstances were not as reported in the local newspaper and classified as being "obvious" to the writer that an employee by-passed their immediate supervisor, Brett Hill, and expressed concerns to one of our Directors, but, in fact, the complete opposite. A Director repeatedly was by-passing the acting GM and went directly to individual staff members causing alarm to a number of our employees. These were not "routine inquiries" that are permitted by our By-Laws. Some members of the Board understood the need to not allow this type of activity to continue, and in order to protect our association employees from this type of behavior in the future, brought the discussion to the entire Board of Directors for review. I hope this clears up any previous misconception of what had actually transpired.”

The Director who by-passed the Acting GM and went directly to individual staff members was Slobodan Trendic.