12-10-2014, 08:44 AM
HPPWatchdog...Supporting the terminated employees is not watch dog behavior. Seeking truth and speaking out for the association is what watchdogs do. Regarding your last post..seek out who the current HRC members are.
I attended my last board meeting for awhile for one reason only..to speak to the board face to face after they decommissioned the RTSC via an email, and to educate them and the newest directors of the various road safety improvements and safety policies (approved by the previous board) that the RTSC was responsible for. Most of them have not attended previous board meetings or volunteered on committees, so are unaware of the many improvements made over the past 4 years.
RTSC's responsible for the road reflectors on the main drags and many are missing now after the albizia tree clean up during post storm Iselle. Share the Road signs, 4 way stop @ bottom of Paradise to slow traffic before proceeding into the curve on L Rd, road markers on a main drag next to a deep embankment (we have many yet to be done), new red diamonds at bottom of Makuu and Ala Heiau, blind hill and stop signs where there was none before, etc.
Our signs will be installed to the whim of whomever's in charge and not to county specs. There is need for safety improvements on our sloped and/or rocky shoulders along our main drags which no GM or board since I bought in HPP has tackled. Many of us are scared to pull off our roads in an emergency. Our roads are not private because they're used publicly 24/7 so it's prudent to be proactive with road safety and liability.
Almost finished was a potential road safety policy that will never be. It would've given all future GM's a standard to follow on ensuring line of sight for the cross streets. Also in the works was proposing a policy that would ensure that encroachment removal costs wouldn't be absorbed by the association but by the owner who encroached. Our road fees are supposed to be used to maintain our roads and shoulders, not for the removal of our neighbors' encroachments. I believe we will be paying for our neighbors' encroachment removals as this is what's happening right now.
These RTSC improvements are what most would call proactive or forward thinking (their term). I asked the President to tell me why she/they considered road safety redundant and RTSC not forward thinking. I wasn't given a reply. Mahalo to "D" and the new RTSC member for your support in requesting the board reconsider decommissioning RTSC. There is fear of retaliation by certain board directors towards members who speak up for our bylaws and policies. Some of us have experienced what happens when you speak up.
The question is how do we make the board accountable when they're breaking our bylaws without going the expensive and laborious route of recall? Something perhaps can be added to the bylaws to assist with this issue? Mandatory bylaw education for their 1st 3 months on the board? Any other ideas out there?
I attended my last board meeting for awhile for one reason only..to speak to the board face to face after they decommissioned the RTSC via an email, and to educate them and the newest directors of the various road safety improvements and safety policies (approved by the previous board) that the RTSC was responsible for. Most of them have not attended previous board meetings or volunteered on committees, so are unaware of the many improvements made over the past 4 years.
RTSC's responsible for the road reflectors on the main drags and many are missing now after the albizia tree clean up during post storm Iselle. Share the Road signs, 4 way stop @ bottom of Paradise to slow traffic before proceeding into the curve on L Rd, road markers on a main drag next to a deep embankment (we have many yet to be done), new red diamonds at bottom of Makuu and Ala Heiau, blind hill and stop signs where there was none before, etc.
Our signs will be installed to the whim of whomever's in charge and not to county specs. There is need for safety improvements on our sloped and/or rocky shoulders along our main drags which no GM or board since I bought in HPP has tackled. Many of us are scared to pull off our roads in an emergency. Our roads are not private because they're used publicly 24/7 so it's prudent to be proactive with road safety and liability.
Almost finished was a potential road safety policy that will never be. It would've given all future GM's a standard to follow on ensuring line of sight for the cross streets. Also in the works was proposing a policy that would ensure that encroachment removal costs wouldn't be absorbed by the association but by the owner who encroached. Our road fees are supposed to be used to maintain our roads and shoulders, not for the removal of our neighbors' encroachments. I believe we will be paying for our neighbors' encroachment removals as this is what's happening right now.
These RTSC improvements are what most would call proactive or forward thinking (their term). I asked the President to tell me why she/they considered road safety redundant and RTSC not forward thinking. I wasn't given a reply. Mahalo to "D" and the new RTSC member for your support in requesting the board reconsider decommissioning RTSC. There is fear of retaliation by certain board directors towards members who speak up for our bylaws and policies. Some of us have experienced what happens when you speak up.
The question is how do we make the board accountable when they're breaking our bylaws without going the expensive and laborious route of recall? Something perhaps can be added to the bylaws to assist with this issue? Mandatory bylaw education for their 1st 3 months on the board? Any other ideas out there?