01-26-2017, 07:09 AM
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein
Mermaid, I respect your multiple efforts over the years to improve HPP, but forming yet another committee, doing yet another by-laws revision, attending just one more meeting, or trying one more time to elect some decent board members is not going to help. The fundamental problem with the HPPOA is what several other people have said, i.e., the whole thing is beyond what a volunteer board can handle.
I ponied up $100 for the arbitration process as a last resort to try to work within the current framework, but the earnest and well-meaning people who spearheaded the arbitration blew it. They went once to see a lawyer who took their consultation fee and told them he couldn't work with them due to past involvement with the hui. Instead of seeing another attorney, they proceeded without one and lost on a technicality to the board which had plenty of legal representation.
I am prepared to contribute again, but only if the objective is to place the whole mess into court supervised receivership pending its dissolution or replacement from the ground up with appointed outside directors. This will require legal action. Surely there is an attorney living in HPP who is fed up with the craziness and would help with this. If not, then we need to raise the necessary money to do it. I will chip in.
I could regale you all with five pages of the sorry history going back through the 15 years I have been involved in the HPPOA, but let's just say that self government for HPP has been an abject failure. The system is broken and needs to be replaced from the ground up.
Albert Einstein
Mermaid, I respect your multiple efforts over the years to improve HPP, but forming yet another committee, doing yet another by-laws revision, attending just one more meeting, or trying one more time to elect some decent board members is not going to help. The fundamental problem with the HPPOA is what several other people have said, i.e., the whole thing is beyond what a volunteer board can handle.
I ponied up $100 for the arbitration process as a last resort to try to work within the current framework, but the earnest and well-meaning people who spearheaded the arbitration blew it. They went once to see a lawyer who took their consultation fee and told them he couldn't work with them due to past involvement with the hui. Instead of seeing another attorney, they proceeded without one and lost on a technicality to the board which had plenty of legal representation.
I am prepared to contribute again, but only if the objective is to place the whole mess into court supervised receivership pending its dissolution or replacement from the ground up with appointed outside directors. This will require legal action. Surely there is an attorney living in HPP who is fed up with the craziness and would help with this. If not, then we need to raise the necessary money to do it. I will chip in.
I could regale you all with five pages of the sorry history going back through the 15 years I have been involved in the HPPOA, but let's just say that self government for HPP has been an abject failure. The system is broken and needs to be replaced from the ground up.