12-22-2015, 05:38 AM
Janet, as far as I know it is still a "rumor". I know of no one who has seen it even though our bylaws let alone state statute requires members access to it and other financial documents. One thing these directors on the board have to understand is, the BOD is just as responsible as the 2 miscreants, i.e. the Treasurer and the VP, at this point in breaking state law by allowing the 2 miscreants to continue their destructive behavior.
It took me a couple of days of phone calls to find out what happened at the last Finance comm. meeting and the last BOD meeting. Four members of the FC followed the bylaws to the letter and removed the 2 miscreants from the FC. It looked like they (The 2) had planned to snipe the FC by bringing in a friend of theirs and appoint her to the committee. The person they wanted to appoint is reported to be a friend of the VP and who just happened to be the newly hired admin person that had also just quit the position. The VP has a long history of nepotistic hiring.
I was told that the reason the majority of the FC wanted rid of the 2 was for dereliction of duty, that is, not providing the financial reports and for gross misconduct in trying to have the BOD illegally remove 2 new members from the FC who were just elected by the membership at the Membership Meeting held in Oct. They wanted the BOD to do their dirty work (reminds me of that song "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap") in going against the decision of the Members vote. The BOD ignorantly (because too many do not understand the bylaws) voted to have an attorney look into the matter. What? Spend association money to get an expensive opinion? An opinion "rumor" has it, from an attorney that is the VP's personal attorney, the same attorney that was hired last year for lands use issues. Remember nepotism when you are speaking of the VP.
At the Dec. BOD meeting the Treasurer read the attorney's opinion and guess what? He agrees with the Treasurer and VP that the 2 new FC members could not have been voted on by the membership for a membership committee. A committee that according to the bylaws is there to make sure that no one is manipulating our money. You have to wonder why these 2 miscreants would go to such an effort to keep the 2 new members from getting their hands on the financials and the audit. Both of the 2 new elected members were, until last year, prior treasurers themselves. It begs the question, what are the 2 miscreants hiding? If nothing, then let the members of the association have the financial documents as required by state statute.
After looking myself at the bylaws that the FC members used, it is very obvious that they followed the bylaws correctly. I heard that one member who is on the FC in his 3 minutes during the last BOD meeting gave a "passionate" speech defending the actions of the FC meeting. He also asked the BOD a very interesting question, show us proof that the VP was indeed appointed to the FC by the BOD. He said there is no BOD minutes in the records (another BOD violation of state statutes) showing that BOD action. Did the BOD do it in exec. session? Well, where is the proof of that? The vote to appoint any director to any committee has to be done in an open BOD meeting not in exec. session. As we all know what the bylaws say on what an exec. session is to be used for and one of them is not to appoint directors to committees. And besides, the actions of the exec. sessions are supposed to be on an agenda before the meeting and the actions of the session to be released afterward (however, not the vote). Just 2 more state and bylaw infractions, they have really piled up under these 2 miscreants.
It looks like we have some board of directors who are willingly going along with breaking state law.
By the way, isn't the President of the board culpable in illegal activates by the BOD?
It took me a couple of days of phone calls to find out what happened at the last Finance comm. meeting and the last BOD meeting. Four members of the FC followed the bylaws to the letter and removed the 2 miscreants from the FC. It looked like they (The 2) had planned to snipe the FC by bringing in a friend of theirs and appoint her to the committee. The person they wanted to appoint is reported to be a friend of the VP and who just happened to be the newly hired admin person that had also just quit the position. The VP has a long history of nepotistic hiring.
I was told that the reason the majority of the FC wanted rid of the 2 was for dereliction of duty, that is, not providing the financial reports and for gross misconduct in trying to have the BOD illegally remove 2 new members from the FC who were just elected by the membership at the Membership Meeting held in Oct. They wanted the BOD to do their dirty work (reminds me of that song "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap") in going against the decision of the Members vote. The BOD ignorantly (because too many do not understand the bylaws) voted to have an attorney look into the matter. What? Spend association money to get an expensive opinion? An opinion "rumor" has it, from an attorney that is the VP's personal attorney, the same attorney that was hired last year for lands use issues. Remember nepotism when you are speaking of the VP.
At the Dec. BOD meeting the Treasurer read the attorney's opinion and guess what? He agrees with the Treasurer and VP that the 2 new FC members could not have been voted on by the membership for a membership committee. A committee that according to the bylaws is there to make sure that no one is manipulating our money. You have to wonder why these 2 miscreants would go to such an effort to keep the 2 new members from getting their hands on the financials and the audit. Both of the 2 new elected members were, until last year, prior treasurers themselves. It begs the question, what are the 2 miscreants hiding? If nothing, then let the members of the association have the financial documents as required by state statute.
After looking myself at the bylaws that the FC members used, it is very obvious that they followed the bylaws correctly. I heard that one member who is on the FC in his 3 minutes during the last BOD meeting gave a "passionate" speech defending the actions of the FC meeting. He also asked the BOD a very interesting question, show us proof that the VP was indeed appointed to the FC by the BOD. He said there is no BOD minutes in the records (another BOD violation of state statutes) showing that BOD action. Did the BOD do it in exec. session? Well, where is the proof of that? The vote to appoint any director to any committee has to be done in an open BOD meeting not in exec. session. As we all know what the bylaws say on what an exec. session is to be used for and one of them is not to appoint directors to committees. And besides, the actions of the exec. sessions are supposed to be on an agenda before the meeting and the actions of the session to be released afterward (however, not the vote). Just 2 more state and bylaw infractions, they have really piled up under these 2 miscreants.
It looks like we have some board of directors who are willingly going along with breaking state law.
By the way, isn't the President of the board culpable in illegal activates by the BOD?