11-30-2017, 10:37 AM
Makona84, I looked up your name in my handy Hawaiian dictionary and I’m sure you are aware that makona, used as a noun, means “an unpeaceful disposition”. I’ll leave it there.
Here are 2 of your comments; “They are like our state legislature or congress, representives elected by the members in each of 9 districts with powers afforded by the bylaws to make those decisions for the Association.” and “There is no authority under the bylaws for those decisions to be made at the Membership meetings.”
Mermaid already debunked the 2nd comment so I’ll just respond to the 1st. Our association is nothing like an elected government body. We are a non-profit corporation. That means the members of the association are similar to a corporation’s shareholders with voting rights that authorize and direct the board to conduct business as we see fit (reread mermaid’s post concerning Art. VIII).
The members who bought property here did not buy into a non-profit corporation that some want to operate like an unelected dictatorship. Maybe instead of your analogy of the association being similar to an elected government you should have used a comparison to a state or federal bureaucratic agency.
You may not know this, you can review some of my old posts, that I had occasionally called Jo Maynard, one of our recently departed (as in moved) board directors, as Chairman Jo because of her relentless dictatorial and corrupt board practices that have immeasurably damaged HPP.
Now that I think of it, your comments kind of remind me of the way she would have created a debate just like this one, designed to confuse and then obstruct proper and legal membership decisions. And in fact, some in the community are already wondering if makona84 is actually an office employee with the initials of BH. After all, any one on FB knows that the Chairman is still communicating and scheming with the office from her bunker on the mainland. If that rumor were ever verified, I’d hope that that employee wasn't using association time and property to spread disinformation.
Here are 2 of your comments; “They are like our state legislature or congress, representives elected by the members in each of 9 districts with powers afforded by the bylaws to make those decisions for the Association.” and “There is no authority under the bylaws for those decisions to be made at the Membership meetings.”
Mermaid already debunked the 2nd comment so I’ll just respond to the 1st. Our association is nothing like an elected government body. We are a non-profit corporation. That means the members of the association are similar to a corporation’s shareholders with voting rights that authorize and direct the board to conduct business as we see fit (reread mermaid’s post concerning Art. VIII).
The members who bought property here did not buy into a non-profit corporation that some want to operate like an unelected dictatorship. Maybe instead of your analogy of the association being similar to an elected government you should have used a comparison to a state or federal bureaucratic agency.
You may not know this, you can review some of my old posts, that I had occasionally called Jo Maynard, one of our recently departed (as in moved) board directors, as Chairman Jo because of her relentless dictatorial and corrupt board practices that have immeasurably damaged HPP.
Now that I think of it, your comments kind of remind me of the way she would have created a debate just like this one, designed to confuse and then obstruct proper and legal membership decisions. And in fact, some in the community are already wondering if makona84 is actually an office employee with the initials of BH. After all, any one on FB knows that the Chairman is still communicating and scheming with the office from her bunker on the mainland. If that rumor were ever verified, I’d hope that that employee wasn't using association time and property to spread disinformation.