02-07-2018, 10:15 AM
Eric1600...you got most of it. If I may, I'd like to bring you up to speed on some other points you mentioned.
"It is suspected they are going to kick some people off the board or add in some members in vacant seats to garner more proxy votes for whatever they seem to be planning."
They want to depose the board president and the treasurer who are the ones bringing transparency back to our finances and other important business. By having their people in as all the officers of the board, they can stop all this transparency that's been "recently" going on.
"There's also a wide range of weird things they've been doing. For example the hppoa website developer was paid something like $5000 and no one seems to know how that happened. $5000 for a word press based website is ridiculous. Then the mailbox nightmare which I still don't understand. Apparently people who "got theirs" voted against it and a few more aggressive types pretty much drove the guy who did all the work and proposal out of HPP. So no mail boxes or upgrades."
A person was hired and paid more like $4000+ back in 2014/2015 to revamp the HPP website. It was discovered this person was former Dist 5's niece. The hiring was done outside of a board mtg and no other bids were solicited = no board approval.
Dist 2 rep wants the mailboxes no matter what. She claims that all those that voted No are people who have mailboxes already, which is totally false. Despite the overwhelming # of No votes, she's forging ahead saying the Memberships votes don't matter. There is no land they can use for the mailboxes as HPP's 20 acre lots can only be used for parks and schools. The board can't assess members for mailbox $$$ as there are no bylaw provisions that allows this. If the board officer makeup changes, I believe she will actively forge ahead.
The resignation of a mailbox committee person occurred after the mailbox project blew up in their faces and angry members came forward. There was no board approval to assess the membership $$$ for mailboxes and attach late fees if not paid by such and such a date. There was no board approval to spend $$$ for the printing of the flyers inserted in our billings, nor board approval of the verbiage on that flyer. It got people riled up esp after just getting their road fee bill w/a 10% rate hike.
Add on top of it that there are rarely any published detailed agendas, minutes, or recordings to meetings and all these secret meetings, a lot of people have lost confidence in the board and are at the point of demanding an audit and that they follow the bylaws (which they often seem to violate).
Finding the truth is hard because the sand is always shifting and very little is verifiable. But this is sort of the state of things as I know them.
I believe "the sand is always shifting" has something to do w/these people kicking people off the board, deposing people from officer positions at their whim to suit their agenda, and reps who were elected by their constituents resigning over the mess they see going on, and their bringing in their own kind to fill the vacancies.
The other main thing to add to the mix is this...the former board president who they just put in to fill a board seat vacancy for Dist 3, handed over the board's fiduciary duties to the GM to hire/fire and sign contracts w/out board involvement. That is against our bylaws and Corporate Policy. This has created a potential liability to the association to allow the GM to conduct this business w/out board knowledge.
And as I said earlier, our biggest enemy is complacency.
Edited for clarification.
"It is suspected they are going to kick some people off the board or add in some members in vacant seats to garner more proxy votes for whatever they seem to be planning."
They want to depose the board president and the treasurer who are the ones bringing transparency back to our finances and other important business. By having their people in as all the officers of the board, they can stop all this transparency that's been "recently" going on.
"There's also a wide range of weird things they've been doing. For example the hppoa website developer was paid something like $5000 and no one seems to know how that happened. $5000 for a word press based website is ridiculous. Then the mailbox nightmare which I still don't understand. Apparently people who "got theirs" voted against it and a few more aggressive types pretty much drove the guy who did all the work and proposal out of HPP. So no mail boxes or upgrades."
A person was hired and paid more like $4000+ back in 2014/2015 to revamp the HPP website. It was discovered this person was former Dist 5's niece. The hiring was done outside of a board mtg and no other bids were solicited = no board approval.
Dist 2 rep wants the mailboxes no matter what. She claims that all those that voted No are people who have mailboxes already, which is totally false. Despite the overwhelming # of No votes, she's forging ahead saying the Memberships votes don't matter. There is no land they can use for the mailboxes as HPP's 20 acre lots can only be used for parks and schools. The board can't assess members for mailbox $$$ as there are no bylaw provisions that allows this. If the board officer makeup changes, I believe she will actively forge ahead.
The resignation of a mailbox committee person occurred after the mailbox project blew up in their faces and angry members came forward. There was no board approval to assess the membership $$$ for mailboxes and attach late fees if not paid by such and such a date. There was no board approval to spend $$$ for the printing of the flyers inserted in our billings, nor board approval of the verbiage on that flyer. It got people riled up esp after just getting their road fee bill w/a 10% rate hike.
Add on top of it that there are rarely any published detailed agendas, minutes, or recordings to meetings and all these secret meetings, a lot of people have lost confidence in the board and are at the point of demanding an audit and that they follow the bylaws (which they often seem to violate).
Finding the truth is hard because the sand is always shifting and very little is verifiable. But this is sort of the state of things as I know them.
I believe "the sand is always shifting" has something to do w/these people kicking people off the board, deposing people from officer positions at their whim to suit their agenda, and reps who were elected by their constituents resigning over the mess they see going on, and their bringing in their own kind to fill the vacancies.
The other main thing to add to the mix is this...the former board president who they just put in to fill a board seat vacancy for Dist 3, handed over the board's fiduciary duties to the GM to hire/fire and sign contracts w/out board involvement. That is against our bylaws and Corporate Policy. This has created a potential liability to the association to allow the GM to conduct this business w/out board knowledge.
And as I said earlier, our biggest enemy is complacency.
Edited for clarification.