good PM

In my opinion we have an excellent PM. He is a young man who started his own business a few years ago.

The problem is our Prsident (Who may read this).

One of the jobs of our cleaning company is to clean lint from under our dryes in the wash room. Well I came home one day and found the President cleaning the lint from under the dryers. She told me that she told our PM he was doing a bad job because he had not made certain the cleaning crew had done this. Then she told me we may not keep him.
Our PM was going to meet with the cleaning supervisor, but the cleaning supervisor's wife was having surgery and they couldn't meet for a while. I am wondering how a nurse can have such lack of compassion.

If he goes (which I don't want him to) most of the daily business of the condominium such as making bank deposits, recording accounts receivable and accounts payable, plus all the daily problems of this 43 unit building will fall back on my shoulders.
The President has two full time jobs (three if you count being President)
Now I just realized our bookkeeper will be gone too and I am certainly not a bookkeeping.

Her husband, who is also on the Board, does not live on site. (We are hurting for people able and willing to be on the Board.)

Right now the Board consist of her and her husband and me. Not a good mix I know and I think she knows also. I need guts to stand up to her and her husband. When I first got on the Board, I felt things were too Loosy Goosy and now I think the pendulum has swung the other way.

Thanks for letting me rant.

The problem is we were self managed From our annual meeting month in 2010 to October 1, 2013 when we hired our current PM. Since we were self managed we had to do those tasks. The current Board members were not on the Board in 2010. We just inherited the self management. If our excellent PM quits which he can do per the time frame of the contract, that puts the responsibilty on the Board until we hire someone else. And believe me I do not want to do those tasks.

I concur. and make sure that it is reflected in your meeting minutes, just how it goes down. Good luck!

When we were self managed we did hire people to do the items you mentioned. But it still was more work for us. I made bank deposits and took the information to our bookkeeper. Someone had to be on site when the vendors came to service items such as the HVAC. We had to get the bids and this can be very time consuming.
We have an attached garage with 31 parking spaces, when there was a problem with either garage door, we had to call someone and a Board member had to be on site when they came. Self management is a lot of work no matter how you slice the cake.

Prior to voting to fire the PM. I would strongly suggest that somebody review the contract you have with the PM. There may be specific conditions and/or procedures that have to be met prior to breaching the contract.

Tim offers good advice, Bonnie. Review the PM's contract to see if and how he can be dismissed.

But, the whole Board should vote on his dismissal, if it comes to that, shouldn't it? Or does something in your governing documents give the president the sole authority to hire & fire vendors and not even hire/fire at a meeting??

By the way, I think the Friday AM coffee hour is a very nice idea. Do you suppose that the president does not care for so much interaction between the residents and the PM? Given the president's two jobs, does she attend these Fri. AM meetings?