01-16-2016, 06:02 AM
You can bet some board reps will try to find out who's spearheading this collection for an atty. If you're going to go to battle you have to be prepared and thick skinned. Retaliation's against the board's code of ethical conduct, with enforcement of reprimand spelled out, yet they blatantly have gotten away with it by advocating for each other, not the membership. 2 reprimands w/in a one year term equals justification for the board to ask the offender to resign. Had action been taken, this behavior would've stopped some time ago.
In all fairness, when anyone speaks of "the board" being culpable, you are literally saying the whole board. Not everyone on the board has a voice as 1-2 are outnumbered by the same majority group on the board as we have witnessed at board mtgs. It must be frustrating to get outnumbered by a group of board reps w/an agenda hot on their heels, while trying to follow the bylaws and advocate for the membership. I am appreciative of their efforts to advocate for us and I'm not alone as others have noticed as well. The majority board is culpable when they participate in bylaw breaking, esp the officers who continue to make a lot of decisions outside of board mtgs.
Ratifying rogue members' actions has become biz as usual on this board, and that's illegal per RR's 11th edition p. 125...
"An assembly can ratify only such actions of it's officers, committees, delegates, or subordinate bodies as it would have had the right to authorize in advance. It cannot make valid a voice-vote election when the bylaws require elections to be by ballot; nor can it ratify anything done in violation of procedural rules prescribed by national, state, or local law, or violation of it's own bylaws, except that provision for a quorum in the bylaws does not prevent it from ratifying action taken at a meeting when no quorum was present. A motion to ratify can be amended by substituting a motion of censure, and vice versa, when the action involved has been taken by an officer or other representative of the assembly."
In all fairness, when anyone speaks of "the board" being culpable, you are literally saying the whole board. Not everyone on the board has a voice as 1-2 are outnumbered by the same majority group on the board as we have witnessed at board mtgs. It must be frustrating to get outnumbered by a group of board reps w/an agenda hot on their heels, while trying to follow the bylaws and advocate for the membership. I am appreciative of their efforts to advocate for us and I'm not alone as others have noticed as well. The majority board is culpable when they participate in bylaw breaking, esp the officers who continue to make a lot of decisions outside of board mtgs.
Ratifying rogue members' actions has become biz as usual on this board, and that's illegal per RR's 11th edition p. 125...
"An assembly can ratify only such actions of it's officers, committees, delegates, or subordinate bodies as it would have had the right to authorize in advance. It cannot make valid a voice-vote election when the bylaws require elections to be by ballot; nor can it ratify anything done in violation of procedural rules prescribed by national, state, or local law, or violation of it's own bylaws, except that provision for a quorum in the bylaws does not prevent it from ratifying action taken at a meeting when no quorum was present. A motion to ratify can be amended by substituting a motion of censure, and vice versa, when the action involved has been taken by an officer or other representative of the assembly."