Tuesday, November 4, 2008

More "Let's Keep a Secret"

Last night I contacted our President to volunteer with the normal sending out of postcards to announce this Saturday’s BOD meeting. Despite knowing that this Saturday's BOD meeting was called in accordance with our Bylaws, the association President advised me we would not send notification cards out for this meeting. Why? The President did not call the meeting, did not approve of the meeting, and did not think the meeting was necessary therefore the association would not send out notification.

So much for inclusion and openness.

Whether or not any BOD member agrees with the reason or necessity the fact is that this is a correctly called BOD meeting. It is a legal and official meeting and according to our bylaws, Article IV, Section 15, all BOD meetings are required to be open to the membership at large. It is only responsible on the part of our President to make a reasonable effort to insure the membership is notified of all BOD meetings. Without the mailing of notification postcards many of our members will never know there is a meeting.

Thanks to a member living in Unit 1 who realizes this issue is very important to all of us regardless of which Unit you live. They thought it important enough to finance the mailing of the notification postcards. You should receive yours tomorrow or Thursday.