List of Retaliation

• Retaliation has occurred for at least 9 years and includes retaliatory behavior against Ski School employees, Ski Patrol employees/volunteers, citizens, team/club coaches and entire teams of children.
• The retaliation and fear of retribution is what keeps the dysfunction going at Hyland.  It's quite staggering how much has occurred over the years!  Please see the list above and  here.
• As a result, this impacts trickles down to the many children in clubs/programs at Hyland.
• What is also staggering, high-ranking people within TRPD/Hyland (including commissioners) have participated and have known about this retaliation, and it's been occurring since 2015.
• One major reason why the safety and equity problems at Hyland persist is the ongoing threat of retaliation.  It is well known that if people speak up, they might lose their jobs (volunteer and paid) or get less of the facilities they request for their teams. 
• The favors handed out to Gilboa have been protected over the years at all levels of TRPD, including past and current Board of Commissioners – because they have known about it. Advocates questioning the favors have been intimidated, disrespected publicly and belittled. Several people have lost their jobs, both within TRPD, and externally due to actions by TRPD and letters being written by TRPD representatives.
• We have e-mails/letters and there are board meeting recordings that show this.  We can supply names of people that will share their experiences with this.
• The ending of TRPD’s own profitable development race program (known as Hyland Junior Race or DTeam) in 2016 is an example of approximately 40 coaches losing their seasonal jobs at Hyland.  And,  200 families lost their affordable programming.
• Why did Hyland sunset their own profitable program that provided an affordable ski education for hundreds of families each year?
• Was the cutting of this program a way of getting rid of leaders and signers of a petition organized by a citizen advocacy group in 2015 (Citizens 4 Hyland)?  And a way to funnel the DTeam program families to Team Gilboa – which ended up costing families twice as much to participate?
• When this program was scuttled, the Hyland Director and Supervisors of Snowsports Academy were not notified of this and they were kept in the dark until the brochures dropped, and the 30-year+ program was no longer listed.
• However, Team Gilboa had previous knowledge of this and had already released their own registration for expanding their own programming at the same times and with the same hill space that Hyland’s team had for at least 30+ years.
• At the time, one of the reasons given for scuttling their program is that TRPD would no longer be offering race programs.  However, a similar development race program at Elm Creek has been continuously offered and Hyland has restarted a similar form of this program called “The Mountaineers”. 
• In at least one instance, a similar partner program was required to have stricter terms and conditions in their Operating Agreement (increased liability insurance, fewer members, no mention of “dedicated lane space” (as the Team Gilboa Operating Agreement has), a short cancellation clause on the part of TRPD for no stated reason  and no time to rectify an infraction). Team Gilboa does not have these strict clauses in their OA.  This was despite TRPD being questioned on this multiple times during negotiations. 

• Why would partner programs at Hyland be treated without parity?
• Why wouldn’t TRPD update all their other partner program operating agreements if they had changed their criteria?  
• Why wouldn't TRPD be fair to all partners – and not retaliate against certain groups and people?
• Why wouldn't TRPD want to be fair to all children?  What do they have against equity?

We don't have the answers to these questions and we know that the current BOC will not offer assurances of that we won't be retaliated against!  Hence, the anonymity of this website.

We welcome any information that would provide better insight to these issues presented.