NORTH PORT â Meet John Meisel, president of the West Villagers for Responsible Government.
But first the backstory on a contentious North Port âdivorce.â The estranged couple are the West Villagers group and homebuilders at Wellen Park, or what had been West Villages at conception in 2002.
A political committee, West Villagers for Responsible Government, was started by disgruntled homeowners.
The West Villages Improvement District governs Wellen Park. Its board is represented by builders and a homeowner, Victor Dobrin, a founder of West Villagers for Responsible Government.
Its members had first filed voter petitions last summer to have Wellen Park property removed from North Portâs boundaries and placed within unincorporated Sarasota County. The group filed a second batch of petitions in October.