11-19-2015, 10:08 AM
It has been reported to me by someone who attended last night's Board meeting that, when asked about the monthly financial reports, the Treasurer stated that they are given to the Directors. The President of the Board promptly said that he has not received them. A bald-faced lie by one of those two.
This leads to the recent debate about whether the Board members are incompetent or malevolent.
However one characterizes their agenda (evil, beneficial, etc.), at every turn, they have been tripped up.
Case in point: Last night's attempt to remove two members from the Finance Committee, by quoting Bylaw Article X – Committees, Section (b) Committees of the Membership, Point 2. Finance Committee "...at least two Association members...who shall be elected by the membership at the June membership meeting." Note the absence of the word "only" from the provision relating to the timing and the inclusion of the words "at least two". That permits addition of committee members by the general membership at any time.
And since this particular issue was not on the agenda for the meeting or added at the beginning of the meeting, it's consideration is invalid. It only served to reveal the Board's intention to remove two qualified Committee members who have been asking penetrating questions.
The accusation that the two members in question "are hostile witnesses in the lawsuit" also does not arise. These two persons appear on the witness list submitted by the Association's attorneys. The Board members either do not know what their attorneys are doing (!) or are lying to the membership again.
Whether their intentions are good or bad, they cannot even get their stories straight ("given to Directors"/"not to me"). Nor can they understand a simple declarative sentence. My judgment is that, as a body, they are too inept to be entrusted with a $2 million corporation (which is possibly why the financial reports have not be promulgated, as several posters here have posited).
And I repeat my question, where is the audit?
This leads to the recent debate about whether the Board members are incompetent or malevolent.
However one characterizes their agenda (evil, beneficial, etc.), at every turn, they have been tripped up.
Case in point: Last night's attempt to remove two members from the Finance Committee, by quoting Bylaw Article X – Committees, Section (b) Committees of the Membership, Point 2. Finance Committee "...at least two Association members...who shall be elected by the membership at the June membership meeting." Note the absence of the word "only" from the provision relating to the timing and the inclusion of the words "at least two". That permits addition of committee members by the general membership at any time.
And since this particular issue was not on the agenda for the meeting or added at the beginning of the meeting, it's consideration is invalid. It only served to reveal the Board's intention to remove two qualified Committee members who have been asking penetrating questions.
The accusation that the two members in question "are hostile witnesses in the lawsuit" also does not arise. These two persons appear on the witness list submitted by the Association's attorneys. The Board members either do not know what their attorneys are doing (!) or are lying to the membership again.
Whether their intentions are good or bad, they cannot even get their stories straight ("given to Directors"/"not to me"). Nor can they understand a simple declarative sentence. My judgment is that, as a body, they are too inept to be entrusted with a $2 million corporation (which is possibly why the financial reports have not be promulgated, as several posters here have posited).
And I repeat my question, where is the audit?