02-18-2016, 07:17 AM
This is what I have just learned about the BOD meeting last night.
Chip seal will commence on Feb. 24th - 25th.
The board spoke about where and how to put in the new mail boxes. The GM said he's estimates on costs are about $30,000 to $38,000 for the clearing and other work per acre for the 4 lots.
The director's voted to add on to the agenda an agenda item called "legal council".
That turned out to be Janice, a.k.a. The Treasurer, who made a motion (2nd by Jo, the VP of course) to hire an attorney to find out what to do about the notice of arbitration they received. One director had not seen the notice from the American Arbitration Association that the president said he emailed to all the directors so, he didn't know what the AAA had sent. The president said the other directors had a meeting about it on Saturday. Hence, it looks like the motion was planned. Isn't that conducting business at an illegal meeting?
It was mentioned that the board has until Friday to respond to the AAA but that they didn't know what to do. I believe they received the notice from the AAA about 2 weeks ago.
One member in their 3 minute "owners comments" said that he had noticed that the "Notice of Arbitration" was not included on the General Membership meeting agenda. He said that the agenda item was sent to the board secretary and thinks that it should be included since the board is so willing to spend HPPOA money on lawyers and since it concerns every member in the park.
He also advised the board to come up with a budget for the very expensive work to be done on the new mail boxes, that that money is not a part of road maintenance and needs to be voted on by the board first before any thing else is done.
That would be my first thought too, where's the money going to come from to pay for the boxes on 4 different lots that, according to what I understand, would possibly cost about $140,000 (but don't hold me to that amount).
Janet, your comments are correct and the abuse of the executive sessions by the board is one of the 6 issues in the arbitration.
I was given a copy of the "Notice of Arbitration" and I will donate to their efforts as I have been told that the costs of arbitration is coming out of members pockets. I suggest that other interested members donate as well. The 6 arbitration issues and the resultant "demands" that the claimants are seeking relief for were selected, I'm told, and narrowed down out of a very long list of grievances.
Chip seal will commence on Feb. 24th - 25th.
The board spoke about where and how to put in the new mail boxes. The GM said he's estimates on costs are about $30,000 to $38,000 for the clearing and other work per acre for the 4 lots.
The director's voted to add on to the agenda an agenda item called "legal council".
That turned out to be Janice, a.k.a. The Treasurer, who made a motion (2nd by Jo, the VP of course) to hire an attorney to find out what to do about the notice of arbitration they received. One director had not seen the notice from the American Arbitration Association that the president said he emailed to all the directors so, he didn't know what the AAA had sent. The president said the other directors had a meeting about it on Saturday. Hence, it looks like the motion was planned. Isn't that conducting business at an illegal meeting?
It was mentioned that the board has until Friday to respond to the AAA but that they didn't know what to do. I believe they received the notice from the AAA about 2 weeks ago.
One member in their 3 minute "owners comments" said that he had noticed that the "Notice of Arbitration" was not included on the General Membership meeting agenda. He said that the agenda item was sent to the board secretary and thinks that it should be included since the board is so willing to spend HPPOA money on lawyers and since it concerns every member in the park.
He also advised the board to come up with a budget for the very expensive work to be done on the new mail boxes, that that money is not a part of road maintenance and needs to be voted on by the board first before any thing else is done.
That would be my first thought too, where's the money going to come from to pay for the boxes on 4 different lots that, according to what I understand, would possibly cost about $140,000 (but don't hold me to that amount).
Janet, your comments are correct and the abuse of the executive sessions by the board is one of the 6 issues in the arbitration.
I was given a copy of the "Notice of Arbitration" and I will donate to their efforts as I have been told that the costs of arbitration is coming out of members pockets. I suggest that other interested members donate as well. The 6 arbitration issues and the resultant "demands" that the claimants are seeking relief for were selected, I'm told, and narrowed down out of a very long list of grievances.