LaurenM (Texas)
Posts: 20
Posts: 20
Posted:
Thanks to everyone who posted to give advice on this subject, especially JohnM, you were all so helpful and supportive.
We did have our Special Owners meeting yesterday. I attended to chair the meeting and after my review of the proxies, 19 owners assigned their proxy vote to our pm, with 8 owners in attendance, I began the meeting with a qourum. Owners in attendance motioned and seconded to not use Roberts Rules as parliamentary procedure and immediately followed with a motion to replace me as chair. Of course, I stated that the motion was out of order with reason that I was the only BD after two resignations and would chair in the interest of owners present, and NOT present. I also stated that there seemed to be enough interest for a special election to be had and explained the procedure for such (14 days notice to all owners, pursuant to our by-laws, nearest date being 8/27 and that would be sent out immediately) Our pm had orchestrated this turn of events and made a statement that an election must be held at the current meeting and that it was prefectly within rule and that he had obtained legal counsel regarding this matter. The statement was false, but at that point they all could have been holding pitchforks and torches, so I said that what was to occur was against our documents, the matter was pressed again to replace me as chair and a motion made and seconded and I abdicated the chair stating that I have acted according to my fiducairy duty since I was elected, that I had no ulterior motive to serve if I was not representing the majority of owners interests's and left my seat. The acts that followed were to vote a new board. I was disgusted and left the meeting. The conclusion is that I have been removed as a Board director of our community, and so will no longer be posting to this site.
My first thoughts were that everyone has allowed themselves to be led by our pm whose only interest is in continuing to funnel money from our HOA for his own benefit. I thought that all involved were ignorant to allow this to happen. Today I feel that I am the one who is ignorant. I honestly thought that removal of our pm from his position was desired by the majority of our community and I was focused on that task from the day I was elected to serve. I realize now that I was the misguided one - our owners are content with the situation as they know it because our pm controls all interaction with the board. Owners do not know or care and after my letter to owners was received no one contacted me directly.
A sad lesson for me to learn. I am not a politician but had I been more intuitive on the aspects of politics I would have avoided the 6 months I spent in reading and understanding our own documents and Texas law that governs our HOA. It is obviously more important to understand what motivates the community to action rather than in the law itself.
Thank you all so much for reading
We did have our Special Owners meeting yesterday. I attended to chair the meeting and after my review of the proxies, 19 owners assigned their proxy vote to our pm, with 8 owners in attendance, I began the meeting with a qourum. Owners in attendance motioned and seconded to not use Roberts Rules as parliamentary procedure and immediately followed with a motion to replace me as chair. Of course, I stated that the motion was out of order with reason that I was the only BD after two resignations and would chair in the interest of owners present, and NOT present. I also stated that there seemed to be enough interest for a special election to be had and explained the procedure for such (14 days notice to all owners, pursuant to our by-laws, nearest date being 8/27 and that would be sent out immediately) Our pm had orchestrated this turn of events and made a statement that an election must be held at the current meeting and that it was prefectly within rule and that he had obtained legal counsel regarding this matter. The statement was false, but at that point they all could have been holding pitchforks and torches, so I said that what was to occur was against our documents, the matter was pressed again to replace me as chair and a motion made and seconded and I abdicated the chair stating that I have acted according to my fiducairy duty since I was elected, that I had no ulterior motive to serve if I was not representing the majority of owners interests's and left my seat. The acts that followed were to vote a new board. I was disgusted and left the meeting. The conclusion is that I have been removed as a Board director of our community, and so will no longer be posting to this site.
My first thoughts were that everyone has allowed themselves to be led by our pm whose only interest is in continuing to funnel money from our HOA for his own benefit. I thought that all involved were ignorant to allow this to happen. Today I feel that I am the one who is ignorant. I honestly thought that removal of our pm from his position was desired by the majority of our community and I was focused on that task from the day I was elected to serve. I realize now that I was the misguided one - our owners are content with the situation as they know it because our pm controls all interaction with the board. Owners do not know or care and after my letter to owners was received no one contacted me directly.
A sad lesson for me to learn. I am not a politician but had I been more intuitive on the aspects of politics I would have avoided the 6 months I spent in reading and understanding our own documents and Texas law that governs our HOA. It is obviously more important to understand what motivates the community to action rather than in the law itself.
Thank you all so much for reading
