Follow up on HOA Board installing drainage pipe without a permit

This is still going on since 2010. Go back and read everything if you feel it is necessary. I thought everything was settled with me. After about 16 months the Board finally obtain the permit and extended my landscape easement on one side of by property another 5 feet and on the other side 18". They replaced the pipe and attached to the drainage basin. Now the Board has sent me a certified letter to pay them $392. for replacing the pipe. Remember my lawyer told me I could remove it as it was on my property. Now they won't me to pay for them to put it back in. The letter they sent me wasn't even signed. My lawyer tells me to just ignore them because I can prove they put the pipe on my property prior to obtaining the easement and permit. I must say the Board and my neighbor has made my life miserable. I can just imagine what the Board will say at the Annual meeting coming up in August. I guess what I am looking for is some input as to how to handle the Board if they do bring this up at the annual meeting. Could they not let me vote for Board members? My dues are paid to date. Someway they will tell the community that I owe this money I suspect it will be in the 6 month profit and loss statement. They mentioned me by name in the year end report for the $l,000. attorney fees it cost them to handle the suit I filled in small claims. Sorry to say I lost my suit. I couldn't prove my damages. I was hoodwinked because the Board had an attorney and I didn't. I understand that made the difference. I wanted to take it to civil court but my attorney said it would cost to much money. Now I wished I didn't take his advise and took it to civil court. What bothers me most and I need help with is what would some of you do if you were in the same situation. I did the right thing to keep my property in compliance with the covenants, state and county laws, but they are trying to make me look bad to cover their mistakes. How do you handle something like this? By the way I was the only homeowner to remove the pipe.