07-24-2014, 05:26 AM
For those of you who believe all citizens need to attend all meetings in order to be heard, well that's your prerogative but the great majority of us have placed our trust in sending a representative to deal with all the nuts and bolts of day to day issues- that's called Representative Democracy and it's the system most of us are familiar with.
Alternately, I suppose we could go with a true democracy where everyone who attends gets to vote on every single issue- I am guessing that could get a little messy and issues could take a long time to resolve, if at all.
Aside from the potential liability issues at hand it concerns me that 3 people were fired at once in a relatively small organization. I question the foresight of a board which suddenly fires a large percentage of its staff with no notice and no apparent plan as to how to cover those positions in the interim, as well as a failure to communicate their intentions or justifications to their constituents.
Do you really want 600 angry people with pitchforks attending a laborious meeting next Monday of would it be more prudent to pacify those who put their trust and faith in their board members to do the right thing by communicating effectively?
If this were a case of Grand Larceny or Conspiracy I could understand firing all 3 people at once but I would also expect them to be arrested because I would also assume the board had some sort of damning evidence. But in this situation it feels more like people joined the board with an agenda, an ax to grind if you will, and then carried out their executions without thought as to future consequences. This concerns me because aside from the board members' personal liabilities we the HPP landownersrs collectively share liability for their actions.
Alternately, I suppose we could go with a true democracy where everyone who attends gets to vote on every single issue- I am guessing that could get a little messy and issues could take a long time to resolve, if at all.
Aside from the potential liability issues at hand it concerns me that 3 people were fired at once in a relatively small organization. I question the foresight of a board which suddenly fires a large percentage of its staff with no notice and no apparent plan as to how to cover those positions in the interim, as well as a failure to communicate their intentions or justifications to their constituents.
Do you really want 600 angry people with pitchforks attending a laborious meeting next Monday of would it be more prudent to pacify those who put their trust and faith in their board members to do the right thing by communicating effectively?
If this were a case of Grand Larceny or Conspiracy I could understand firing all 3 people at once but I would also expect them to be arrested because I would also assume the board had some sort of damning evidence. But in this situation it feels more like people joined the board with an agenda, an ax to grind if you will, and then carried out their executions without thought as to future consequences. This concerns me because aside from the board members' personal liabilities we the HPP landownersrs collectively share liability for their actions.