04-17-2018, 07:39 PM
Board meeting tomorrow night...here's the link to the Board Meeting Agenda.
http://www.hppoa.net/newsite/wp-content/...da-BOD.pdf
Take note of:
New Business, item #3, "Validity of Membership Meeting, proper procedures with votes, ballots and committees".
This is in regards to the Feb membership meeting where over 100 members voted favorably for several motions. Most were straight forward bylaw amendments...i.e. Forensic Analysis etc. These items were put on a ballot and were supposed to be mailed out by 11 April and the board decided to get legal counsel instead, to question everything about the whole meeting.
What some of you are unaware of is that the Bylaw Committee followed protocol and requested that they be put on the membership meeting agenda. We were dealing w/D Roe (then board secretary) and all was fine. Then P Murdoch was appointed board secretary and he removed the Bylaw Committee presentation off the agenda. The Bylaw Committee had no choice but to amend the agenda at the beginning of the meeting which is valid. We also put in a member to chair the meeting which we are entitled to do, instead of having the board pres chair it. There's no reason for the board to be questioning what went on. Per the bylaws and state law, the membership has the right to amend their bylaws whenever they want, WITHOUT board interference. Their interference is taking our rights away.
After the votes were taken, we met our 2/3 vote on each motion as the bylaws state, and the next process is ballots were to be mailed out to the entire membership for vote. After that, the amended bylaws become new bylaws immediately after the votes are counted if it meets the 2/3 vote of minimum 600 returned ballots. The board has stalled in mailing out the ballots. I assume they are trying to stop the whole process period and make it null and void.
The Bylaw Committee has requested the board provide their attorney letter and the attorney's response letter tomorrow night. I wonder if they told the attorney they broke the bylaws when they removed the Bylaw Committee off the membership meeting's agenda.... And what was the attorney fee this time?
There should be transparency to the membership on this matter. Many of you voted and should ask the board questions.
http://www.hppoa.net/newsite/wp-content/...da-BOD.pdf
Take note of:
New Business, item #3, "Validity of Membership Meeting, proper procedures with votes, ballots and committees".
This is in regards to the Feb membership meeting where over 100 members voted favorably for several motions. Most were straight forward bylaw amendments...i.e. Forensic Analysis etc. These items were put on a ballot and were supposed to be mailed out by 11 April and the board decided to get legal counsel instead, to question everything about the whole meeting.
What some of you are unaware of is that the Bylaw Committee followed protocol and requested that they be put on the membership meeting agenda. We were dealing w/D Roe (then board secretary) and all was fine. Then P Murdoch was appointed board secretary and he removed the Bylaw Committee presentation off the agenda. The Bylaw Committee had no choice but to amend the agenda at the beginning of the meeting which is valid. We also put in a member to chair the meeting which we are entitled to do, instead of having the board pres chair it. There's no reason for the board to be questioning what went on. Per the bylaws and state law, the membership has the right to amend their bylaws whenever they want, WITHOUT board interference. Their interference is taking our rights away.
After the votes were taken, we met our 2/3 vote on each motion as the bylaws state, and the next process is ballots were to be mailed out to the entire membership for vote. After that, the amended bylaws become new bylaws immediately after the votes are counted if it meets the 2/3 vote of minimum 600 returned ballots. The board has stalled in mailing out the ballots. I assume they are trying to stop the whole process period and make it null and void.
The Bylaw Committee has requested the board provide their attorney letter and the attorney's response letter tomorrow night. I wonder if they told the attorney they broke the bylaws when they removed the Bylaw Committee off the membership meeting's agenda.... And what was the attorney fee this time?
There should be transparency to the membership on this matter. Many of you voted and should ask the board questions.