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[Whitey]

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Originally posted by DanielP

If you really want to get serious, then call a special membership meeting and vote them gone. BOD can be overuled by a vote of the membership. The process should be outlined in the by-laws.

You might first try petition the BOD. Get many signatures.

This is a result of not staying involved in your community politics.

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Oh DanielP, if it were only as easy as that!

This community has been torn apart by just what you suggest. In 2006 or 2007, a valid petition for a special membership meeting was delivered to the Board[^] The Board did not call the special meeting[V] The members who delivered the petition followed Hawaii State Law regarding this circumstance and called their own meeting, sent out their own ballots to vote for the removal of 7 directors, spent their own money to accomplish this and the vote came back to remove the 7 directors[8]

However, the 7 directors refused to step down. Annual elections came around a couple months later and the directors were not re-elected. This was the second time the MEMBERSHIP had spoken!

Did the Board allow the newly elected Board to take the reins? NO[!]

The banks were notified by a member of the old board that a hostile takeover was ensuing and the Secretary and Treasurer refused to sign off of the bank accounts[B)]

The banks determined there were two separate boards competing for control of the monies and filed for relief in the courts.

Needless to say this is the Reader's Digest version and there was a lot more that went on, but most of it was PERSONAL B******T! Many mistakes were made on both sides of the issue. None of which benefited the membership at large. There were public character assassinations, name-calling, physical threats, allegations of fraud, TRO's etc.

The end result - It cost the membership over $100,000 in legal fees and many of the members who were involved with the community politics have had their names besmirched and reputations ruined as a result. Even the employees felt the brunt of this as some long time dedicated workers lost their jobs.

Fast forward to the present - the members are a little gun shy of the processes as laid out in the bylaws and Hawaii State Law because no one is better off having gone down that path.

I would caution anyone thinking of going down this path to not forget our history. There has to be a better way! Let's learn from our mistakes or we will be destined to make them again[]