12-20-2014, 12:46 PM
"... Joan was also voted into the Finance Committee by the Association membership at the June 30 Membership Meeting. ... The current BOD removed her from all committees as well. ..."
Thank you, caveat emptor, for bringing to light what might be another example of this Board's disregard of the Bylaws. I hope you don't mind a few questions about the removal of Ms. Galante from the Finance Committee.
According to the Bylaws (emphasis added):
ARTICLE X – COMMITTEES
Section 5. Removal of Committee Member or Chair.
(a) Member. At any meeting of a committee of the board or membership, any one or more of the committee members may be removed with or without cause by vote of the majority of the committee members.
Therefore, the Board itself does not have the authority to remove any member of any committee. The only way for it to engineer such an action would be for it to "convince" the other members of the subject committee to do so.
Do you know if it was the Board or the members of the Finance Committee that acted? Is there some way to find corroboration of this? Do you know if the removal occurred before or after the incident with Ms. Escobar?
On a related note, does anyone know the current membership of the Finance Committee? I cannot find anything on this committee on the HPPOA website after the minutes of the 14 June 2014 meeting.
And I still cannot access the Minutes of the BoD meetings on the website (more than three weeks now!)
Thank you, caveat emptor, for bringing to light what might be another example of this Board's disregard of the Bylaws. I hope you don't mind a few questions about the removal of Ms. Galante from the Finance Committee.
According to the Bylaws (emphasis added):
ARTICLE X – COMMITTEES
Section 5. Removal of Committee Member or Chair.
(a) Member. At any meeting of a committee of the board or membership, any one or more of the committee members may be removed with or without cause by vote of the majority of the committee members.
Therefore, the Board itself does not have the authority to remove any member of any committee. The only way for it to engineer such an action would be for it to "convince" the other members of the subject committee to do so.
Do you know if it was the Board or the members of the Finance Committee that acted? Is there some way to find corroboration of this? Do you know if the removal occurred before or after the incident with Ms. Escobar?
On a related note, does anyone know the current membership of the Finance Committee? I cannot find anything on this committee on the HPPOA website after the minutes of the 14 June 2014 meeting.
And I still cannot access the Minutes of the BoD meetings on the website (more than three weeks now!)