09-15-2014, 05:18 PM
That was really hard to read with no paragraphing, but I did wade through it. The lack of any real formatting makes it hard to answer specific points, but I will try, however I will ignore any sentence that begins with "I heard":
There are no minutes, or record of motions made, votes taken, amendments, and motions passed since this board was seated. That leaves the membership of HPP without an actual record of what has transpired to reach an understanding of what this board has and hasn't done since they were seated. Anything else is hearsay.
It was the new board members responsibility to educate themselves on how things work, instead they jumped right in with both feet and were very active right off the bat, especially with the firings, instead of easing in and learning by observing. They dove in and went totally off the rails, and to castigate the old board members for not preventing that is really a bogus argument.
The board would not have had to be "boots on the ground" if they hadn't fired all the employees who run things. Operations is not what a board, seasoned or brand new, is not supposed to do, they do not run the organization, they are supposed to set policy and the employees are supposed to enact it. That is the whole problem here, the board was acting outside of their mandate and failed miserably at it.
Everything negative I've heard from this board about the employees were things that were discovered after the firings, I want to know what was the basis of the firings, AS KNOWN AT THE TIME OF THE FIRINGS, not what the people who did the firings dug up after the fact to justify what they did. I am still very concerned about the spouse of a board member who was part of the firings now running things, talk about someone being in a position to change or destroy records! The board is supposed to be the oversight body, they, or their spouses, cannot be running things and have honest accountability for what is happening.
After Iselle I got up at 4AM every day to dress by flashlight and then go to work to provide my students who were shell shocked from a hurricane with as normal as possible experience every day, my husband who is a substitute teacher was unable to work due to lack of phone lines spent his days tracking down food and water for neighbors who did not have vehicles or were too elderly or infirm to do so themselves. We live right up the street from the HUI and these people could all have easily had their needs met within walking distance, instead of relying on neighbors to help them, if the HPPOA board had been more proactive. Instead they had to rely on the neighbors to get their needs met. There were power lines all over HPP, that is a totally lame excuse for not just moving the dead line aside and opening up the HUI for the people who paid for it. This board was unable to even get that organized and meet the needs of the people of HPP.
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
There are no minutes, or record of motions made, votes taken, amendments, and motions passed since this board was seated. That leaves the membership of HPP without an actual record of what has transpired to reach an understanding of what this board has and hasn't done since they were seated. Anything else is hearsay.
It was the new board members responsibility to educate themselves on how things work, instead they jumped right in with both feet and were very active right off the bat, especially with the firings, instead of easing in and learning by observing. They dove in and went totally off the rails, and to castigate the old board members for not preventing that is really a bogus argument.
The board would not have had to be "boots on the ground" if they hadn't fired all the employees who run things. Operations is not what a board, seasoned or brand new, is not supposed to do, they do not run the organization, they are supposed to set policy and the employees are supposed to enact it. That is the whole problem here, the board was acting outside of their mandate and failed miserably at it.
Everything negative I've heard from this board about the employees were things that were discovered after the firings, I want to know what was the basis of the firings, AS KNOWN AT THE TIME OF THE FIRINGS, not what the people who did the firings dug up after the fact to justify what they did. I am still very concerned about the spouse of a board member who was part of the firings now running things, talk about someone being in a position to change or destroy records! The board is supposed to be the oversight body, they, or their spouses, cannot be running things and have honest accountability for what is happening.
After Iselle I got up at 4AM every day to dress by flashlight and then go to work to provide my students who were shell shocked from a hurricane with as normal as possible experience every day, my husband who is a substitute teacher was unable to work due to lack of phone lines spent his days tracking down food and water for neighbors who did not have vehicles or were too elderly or infirm to do so themselves. We live right up the street from the HUI and these people could all have easily had their needs met within walking distance, instead of relying on neighbors to help them, if the HPPOA board had been more proactive. Instead they had to rely on the neighbors to get their needs met. There were power lines all over HPP, that is a totally lame excuse for not just moving the dead line aside and opening up the HUI for the people who paid for it. This board was unable to even get that organized and meet the needs of the people of HPP.
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb