2018 HPP District Elections

[reni]

"It was a welcoming, informative and mellow gathering of neighbors. People were friendly and relaxed."

sounds promising, Kenney and I am thrilled to read

"District 5: Unopposed Mayelin Stillwell"

on a previous post. This is my district, Mayelin has spent years standing up for our by-laws &I believe with the support of other decent board members she is certainly up to the challenge of improving our Association.

[Kenney]

I agree Rene. Maelyn has been involved with every Committee for years, and really spent a lot of time and effort contributing and learning the Bylaws.
We really have some good Candidates this time round.
Fingers crossed.
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[mermaid53]

Because of the serious delay in the timeline, it appears the board decided to hire a printing company that would insert the district election ballots into the envelopes costing the association more money. Volunteers were on standby to stuff envelopes after the ballots got printed up, but the board and GM were so far behind..... I have no idea if the board even voted on this at the last board meeting and how much extra this is costing us. People who were there to the end of the meeting don't recollect a board vote.

REASON for the serious setback in the timeline? The Nominating Committee as you know disqualified current president Craig Crelly as a viable candidate for Dist 6. At the April board meeting, the board meddled in the election by overturning the NC's decision. The domino affect they caused from this maneuver is this....the NC gave the board the draft ballots in MARCH, and because the board wanted to put Crelly on the Dist 6 ballot, they had to wait another month until the April board meeting to vote to qualify him. This put the whole schedule a month behind FOR CRELLY. Adding another candidate to Dist 6, taking it to 3 candidates, then meant a Preferential ballot had to be used instead of a regular ballot, which the NC did not provide as it wasn't applicable with the NC having qualified 2 candidates for Dist 6.

This illegal board maneuver set off another chain of events. They didn't want to use the ballots the NC had created and presented to the board at the March board meeting. The printed sample ballots the GM and Murdoch worked on for each district didn't get sent to the NC until last Tues 24 April, for their review. The ballots per the bylaws are supposed to be mailed out to the districts by May 1st after the Nominating Committee has reviewed them and then they're printed up.

The NC reviewed the ballots and told Patrick Murdoch, board appt'd rep, what corrections needed to be made. One of the most obvious was the inclusion of each candidate's lot and block number, which is personal member information that the board is supposed to protect. This has not been past practice nor is it legal to serve up someone's lot and block numbers on hundreds of ballots. The NC didn't hear back after multiple attempts by the NC chair to contact Murdoch wanting to see the "corrected" ballots before they went to the printer. This past Monday P Murdoch contacted the NC chair saying the ballots are at the printers and the ballots are already printed with the block and lot numbers on them.

The NC chair advised that the ballots will have to be removed from their envelopes so that the personal information can be blacked out manually. There was no further communication until yesterday when the NC chair was told the ballots were at the HPP office ready to be mailed out. It is assumed this means the envelopes are sealed and stamped.

Some candidates have objected to the ballots going out with their personal information on them. The last the NC chair was told was that the ballots were on hold now. The NC wrote to the board this morning as the GM and some board members don't see a problem with the lot and block number going out on the ballots.

If this wasn't enough drama, one of the Dist 6 candidates decided to withdraw this past Sunday from the elections. It had to do with the board illegally adding Crelly to the Dist 6 ballot. This blatant board maneuver has made many think this will not be a clean election.

The preferential ballots we believe were already printed, also ready to go, with the same personal information on them. The board hasn't told the NC yet whether they retracted the Dist 6 ballots and reprinted regular ballots in it's place after they learned of Dist 6 candidate, Thomas Fuchtman, withdrawing. Having a 3 way split vote when there's only 2 candidates is NOT GOOD. So at this time, the NC chair is waiting to hear from the board.
(edited for clarity)

[Old Croc]

If Crelly is on the ballot (by whatever means necessary), he will win.

[mermaid53]

I apologize if this seems to be poor timing in regards to what our friends and neighbors are going through right now....BUT some of you may have just received district election ballots in the mail or will very soon.

It appears that Dist6 may have 3 names on the ballot when there should only be 2. As stated in my earlier post above, one Dist6 candidate withdrew. It's hard to imagine how this will affect the elections for Dist6. The board was aware before the ballots were stamped and mailed out and could've redone the ballots for Dist 6 but appears they chose not to fix this...???? The Nominating Committee has asked if there are 2 or 3 names on the Dist6 ballot and the board has chosen to be non transparent. Those in Dist6, please let us know when you get your ballot if there's 2 or 3 names on it. William Shattuck is the only candidate left that the Nominating Committee qualified for Dist6. The other name you will see is Craig Crelly who is the current board president and was disqualified by the Nominating Committee.

Also, the board has chosen to ignore the Nominating Committee's recommendations to follow the bylaws and remove private member information from the ballot. Hopefully this won't come back and bite us in the akole.

[BillyB]

Got this from a friend in district 6. Note "Vote for ONE only"


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=576472089418936&set=a.211877699211712.1073741827.100011684507262&type=3

[mermaid53]

Mahalo BillyB....

I also was notified by a friend in Dist 6 that there is only 2 names on the Dist 6 ballot....

That is Great News!

[leo]

Thanks for the update. Why have they been keeping the nominating committee in the dark though? What would that accomplish? Is it because the nominating committee disqualified their pick for Dist 6?

If Crelly wins I would agree with Old Croc. Same if the lady in District 2 gets on the board again. Most people I've talked to say we need a big change on the board and the only way that'll happen is if those two are gone.

Thanks again for keeping us up to date with the latest.

[mikewj]

Just got my ballot for District 6. Crelly is on the ballot, despite being disqualified by the Nominating Committee.
Personal info, Dist/Block # still on the ballot.
Any way to challenge the Board's decision in overriding the Nominating Committee's recommendation?

[Chunkster]

Any way to challenge the Board's decision in overriding the Nominating Committee's recommendation?

Lawsuit. And the defense expenditures would probably end up coming out of our road dues.