HPP road maintainence

[shockwave rider]

There are volunteer boards in charge of much larger organizations with much larger budgets than HPP's, some of them even meet much less than once a month. But they understand the role of the board, hire competent management, and the get out of their way on a day to day basis while keeping an eye on the financial reports and management reports to make sure there is nothing amiss. For the last 2.5 years the HPP board has shown themselves to be unable to do any of those things.

Things were running just fine until a small cabal effectively pulled off a coup, took over the board using stealth candidates, fired all the competent employees and took over the day to day operations. The former management team keep the roads in good shape, right of ways and lines of sight were clear, and the office employees were always knowledgeable, helpful and welcoming. Now our roads suck, the office staff is a revolving door of new people who have no clue what is going on, and the road manager has no game plan to take care of our roads, instead he just sends a crew out wherever and whenever someone bitches. Reactive management is always more expensive than proactive management.

Remember how this group was so sure the old manager was a huge problem, promising they would make everything great if we all just trusted them while they dismantled a functioning organization?