Time for a reality check...
The virus pandemic makes it impossible for :business as usual"
The world wide, Country and local crisis will not be back to normal by November or probably even by July of 2021.
Annual Meeting:
There is no way that a meaningful Annual Meeting can be held, even in conjunction with a Budget Ratification Meeting in November. We will be fortunate if we can even have a member attended Annual Meeting next July 2021/ The usual reports can be sent to the members and posted on line. What would be lost, would be member motions from the floor. This would have to wait until July of 2021.
Board Election:
The election should be put on hold. There is no way that the "normal" election process can be followed this year. We certainly can operate with a Board of five. The Board should make a motion to reduce the members to five. The four expired terms would not have a vote on this as their terms will have expired the second week of July 2020. The remaining five members should vote for the officers for the year 2020/2021
Board Meetings:
With a Board of five members, they could all meet monthly in the Board room and still maintain social distance and wear a mask. The office contains high quality cameras capable of live streaming the meeting live. Members could still call in their comments and questions.
Budget Ratification:
If there was ever a rejection of a proposed budget, the laws require that you could proceed, but only at the amount of the previous year. This present Board of five, should propose a budget of the same as this year, or less. Acceptance or rejection would make no difference. It would be in place. We are required to have the member hearing so that they can make their input. This can be done by phone.
Covenant Complaints:
These should be put on pause for a year. The on;y complaints that should be considered, would be safety and health issues. There are no other complaints, that can't wait for a year. With the current situation, the members are under a great deal of stress in their personal and financial lives, and don't need the association to add more on top of that.
Now, more than ever, complete information needs to be made available to the members in a timely manner.
23 comments:
These are very good suggestions. Thank you George. I agree with all of your recommendations.
This is a excellent example of leadership,I agree as well
Couldn’t agree more! We need a time out for sure!
I hope Mr. Wolfe ( Commissioner) will use his influence & encourage board to “ throw the dogs a bone “
I assume this is all just blog talk.
Has any of this been sent to the board?
4:53 actually thinks the board does not monitor, and some even comment?
They have absolutely no legal or otherwise obligation to take any action based on some blog.
I know they monitor and comment on here. I believe some of them are responsible for some of the most vile and despicable name calling I've ever read on this blog.
Might be good ideas, but never going to happen.
Really 5:24? Some of the most name calling I have witnessed comes from people who sign their names.
I completely disagree and have examples I have documented by saving pdf files of these blog pages.
We all know with the exception of possibly Annette that Trustees, if they're smart which is obviously questionable, they would maintain anonymity.
July 1st 4:53 pm, has made a good point.
I have submitted my recommendations to the five legal Board members for the July 2020 Board meeting. This will be included in the incoming July correspondence and becomes a part of the official minutes.
The first order of business at the July Board meeting should be the election by the Board, of the officers for the corporation. President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, should be selected from the legal five sitting Board of Trustees. Those positions would be filled from the following:
Gary Williams
Rudd Turner
Kurt Olds
James Clancy
Rick Minch
Thank you very much George!
Now were talking with action!
I'll be watching to see if they acknowledge your incoming correspondence.
Good ideas that will happen
If any of these men listed have affiliation with PCSD or board of commissioners it should be known. If someone on BOT is going to rubber stamp the new deputy at much higher cost to benefit county at our expense there is a conflict of interest imo.
I'll submit the recommendations too. Just yours and those exactly. I'll submit mine by formal letter.
Thanks again George!
Doesn't state law require an annual Budget Ratification Meeting? Why don't the AofI/Bylaws or the Operations Manual refer to the November meeting? Is it considered a special meeting?
Excellent ideas George. No where does it mention how many has to be on the board. 5 is perfect as it is an odd number, less turmoil and less everything all around. Ya never know unless you give it a try. What do we have to lose???
The BOT number of positions is a Bylaw issue and can be changed at the Annual Meeting by a vote of the members present. The proposal needs to be submitted well before the meeting is to be held, and ballots can be made or a hand count will decide this. We can expect the board to oppose any change, as is to be expected with any member initiated proposal.
Thanks for trying George!
There is strength in numbers.
good ideas George
Excellent
I'm mailing in the requests today. I modified them slightly.
I added a few proposals too. I just wrote one sentence for each proposal because the board doesn't care what the members propose anyway so there's no reason to spend a lot of time and effort.
Does anyone know why the August calendar documented in the Weekender doesn't show a Regular Board of Trustees Meeting? That's the month the board forms the Budget Committee.
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