01-03-2016, 07:15 AM
Our bylaws state that arbitration is the path when there is a dispute between the membership and the board.
This is the membership's only way of getting proper and fair representation in a bylaw dispute. Attorney's work for their client, the board (using our monies). If members want to hire attorneys to represent the membership we'd have to cough up more money. This is why arbitration is in our bylaws for the membership to use.
The membership needs to stand up and insist upon this. It is our right. Otherwise, this board will continue to hire attorneys whenever they want to overturn the membership votes. Why should we vote on anything or attend membership meetings if the board thinks they can overturn whatever the acts of the membership are?
The board is supposed to represent the membership, hence the name board "representative".
As we move through time, the goings on behind the scenes with the board deepens with concerns. This is serious and members need to come forward and speak up at board meetings, membership meetings and writing their district reps to do something with the offending board members.
We have audit and other financial information being denied to members. The treasurer and VP have attempted the ousting of 2 finance committee members who were voted on by the membership back in July 2015. They have requested financial information and never gotten it. They are also denying 2 new members a seat on the FC that was voted on by the membership at the Oct 2015 meeting to fill the 2 vacant FC seats, and are not recognizing them as members. The VP and treasurer have instead brought in another member, their pick, in order to get their majority voting power. The vacant seats were already filled by the 2 voted in Oct 2015, so their adding another member isn't legal.
The VP wasn't ever appointed by the board to be on the FC. So that would make any vote she has made null and void going back to July 2015 up to now. The ousting of the 2 FC members is null and void as is denying the 2 newest members a seat. Why all these maneuvers if there's nothing to hide??? I'm not saying something illegal is going on with our monies, but there sure is a lot of energy being expended in these illegal maneuvers.
Another termination (the Road Crew Supv) has occurred without full board approval and was done by the VP. The officers of the board still think they're entitled to make decisions on their own, hence the current lawsuit we're in. The Pres was not aware of the termination, or the GM upon his 1st day back to work. There is a pattern that keeps going on and on by a particular board member. Hopefully this recent termination will not end up in another terminated employee lawsuit against the association.
What prompted the termination? The employee had permission from the GM to do what he thought was right when a DOH hazardous waste disposal agent showed up at the warehouse asking questions about the leaky equipment on HPP roads. He was instructed by DOH to not allow the equipment back on the road until they were fixed.
The GM was out of town during this event. The Road Crew Supv made the right and ethical decision to fix the equipment despite the VP telling him to never mind what the DOH agent said.
When he came back w/supplies in the morning to fix the equipment after telling the road crew to not take the equipment out on the road, the road crew was on the road using the leaky equipment. The VP had instructed the road crew to get out on the road.
All these events were read aloud at the last board meeting by a member so this is not a secret and not rumors. There are members who've been in touch w/the DOH and verified the information. There was talk of a possible $20,000 fine. The member who brought this event out in the open has also stated that the offending board members should pay the fine if we are issued one, not the association, since the VP went rogue and made a bad decision.
The VP undermined the GM and the Road Crew Supv with their employees. You don't instruct employees to break the law. And most importantly, why in the heck is she telling employees what to do????
She is a VP of the board....and the VP is supposed to be the least powerful officer on the board...read the bylaws. The bylaws doesn't give any kind of power or entitlement to the officers above the other board members. Only the President has innate power when they are supposed to ensure the board follows our bylaws.
Edited to improve word flow.
This is the membership's only way of getting proper and fair representation in a bylaw dispute. Attorney's work for their client, the board (using our monies). If members want to hire attorneys to represent the membership we'd have to cough up more money. This is why arbitration is in our bylaws for the membership to use.
The membership needs to stand up and insist upon this. It is our right. Otherwise, this board will continue to hire attorneys whenever they want to overturn the membership votes. Why should we vote on anything or attend membership meetings if the board thinks they can overturn whatever the acts of the membership are?
The board is supposed to represent the membership, hence the name board "representative".
As we move through time, the goings on behind the scenes with the board deepens with concerns. This is serious and members need to come forward and speak up at board meetings, membership meetings and writing their district reps to do something with the offending board members.
We have audit and other financial information being denied to members. The treasurer and VP have attempted the ousting of 2 finance committee members who were voted on by the membership back in July 2015. They have requested financial information and never gotten it. They are also denying 2 new members a seat on the FC that was voted on by the membership at the Oct 2015 meeting to fill the 2 vacant FC seats, and are not recognizing them as members. The VP and treasurer have instead brought in another member, their pick, in order to get their majority voting power. The vacant seats were already filled by the 2 voted in Oct 2015, so their adding another member isn't legal.
The VP wasn't ever appointed by the board to be on the FC. So that would make any vote she has made null and void going back to July 2015 up to now. The ousting of the 2 FC members is null and void as is denying the 2 newest members a seat. Why all these maneuvers if there's nothing to hide??? I'm not saying something illegal is going on with our monies, but there sure is a lot of energy being expended in these illegal maneuvers.
Another termination (the Road Crew Supv) has occurred without full board approval and was done by the VP. The officers of the board still think they're entitled to make decisions on their own, hence the current lawsuit we're in. The Pres was not aware of the termination, or the GM upon his 1st day back to work. There is a pattern that keeps going on and on by a particular board member. Hopefully this recent termination will not end up in another terminated employee lawsuit against the association.
What prompted the termination? The employee had permission from the GM to do what he thought was right when a DOH hazardous waste disposal agent showed up at the warehouse asking questions about the leaky equipment on HPP roads. He was instructed by DOH to not allow the equipment back on the road until they were fixed.
The GM was out of town during this event. The Road Crew Supv made the right and ethical decision to fix the equipment despite the VP telling him to never mind what the DOH agent said.
When he came back w/supplies in the morning to fix the equipment after telling the road crew to not take the equipment out on the road, the road crew was on the road using the leaky equipment. The VP had instructed the road crew to get out on the road.
All these events were read aloud at the last board meeting by a member so this is not a secret and not rumors. There are members who've been in touch w/the DOH and verified the information. There was talk of a possible $20,000 fine. The member who brought this event out in the open has also stated that the offending board members should pay the fine if we are issued one, not the association, since the VP went rogue and made a bad decision.
The VP undermined the GM and the Road Crew Supv with their employees. You don't instruct employees to break the law. And most importantly, why in the heck is she telling employees what to do????
She is a VP of the board....and the VP is supposed to be the least powerful officer on the board...read the bylaws. The bylaws doesn't give any kind of power or entitlement to the officers above the other board members. Only the President has innate power when they are supposed to ensure the board follows our bylaws.
Edited to improve word flow.