BoS66:
I get your point, however, there are clubs run by parents, and/or clubs that have a board. Bears and Pasadena come to mind. It's not so much a case of parents wanting to run things, but rather to have their questions and concerns addressed, or simply to get information about what was being planned.
I could provide a number of examples of completely valid concerns and suggestions people had about communication or lack thereof, in regards to what was going to transpire in the spring or upcoming coaching decisions and the like. While they finally got onto a team publishing platform, there were several years where the club website was literally never updated, and at Valencia it was hard to find out who if anyone was responsible for anything, or what was going on. In a vacuum, and without information, people will sometimes head for greener pastures.
I should also add that the Jr. Flyers are, as has been described to me, a legal not for profit organization, where various people have called into question whether or not the club is actually meeting its requirements along that line, rather than being run for profit by the owner of the rink. There was supposed to be chinese wall between the organizations, and transparency that I don't think anyone believes exists.
Are there crazy parents past and present at the club? Yes absolutely, but I also know of many that had completely reasonable ideas or gripes, and the feeling is that really nobody cares about the customers who are spending a small fortune for their kids to play hockey there for years at a time. I also was very much in the camp that all the voting SCAHA/CAHA member clubs need to be active and attend the meetings and represent their constituents, especially when the Ducks, Kings, Sharks and GSE have so much clout.