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Posted By KerryL1 on 09/02/2016 1:51 PM
So....your Board is still a mess. How many of you normal folk are on it? A majority of you?
One thing you can do is form an executive committee of the Board to include everyone except the bad guy/gal. Another is to censor the director for behaving in ways that do not benefit your community (or some such). Read about censoring in Robert's Rules of Order
Does your board have a Code of Ethics?
Does your MC work on the premises, just visit from time to time, or what?
What is the complaint made against the president? Is it something that's against your HOA's rules or covenants? Or against the law?
Please, please make up names for the players--too hard to follow otherwise.
Maybe someone else has ideas, but I'm unable to say if anyone wants to try to sue for libel, defamation or whatever. My understanding is that harm must be shown to have been done to the complainant.
It's be cheaper to hav your Board solve this if they have, uh, the gumption to do it
Yes, this board is a mess... The MC does not live in the subdivision. Ok. Here the story. There are five newly voted board members. All seats were chosen but the President seat was wanted by Ann and Ed. Ann won the seat by a vote from two of the three other board members. Ed was very upset and said that Ann will have to endure 'intense scrutiny from the community' but really meant the folks in a group from their street/circle. Sad part is, Ed lives next door to Ann. On the other side of Ann, is a single female Lynn, who got along with Ann and had no known problems until the day she and Ed's wife showed up on Ann's driveway accusing Ann of sending away a contractor. Ann hadn't even been home all day and said as much. Lynn said 'are you telling me I can have a security system installed?" Ann said "I'm not telling you you can or you can't but suggested that she turn in an ACC before she does it." They then went back to Ed's house. A few minutes later, Lynn screamed profanities at Ann and said that she was filing a complaint and so were five other families as she left Ed's home taking pictures of Ann's house along the way. She then proceeded to remove a box that was built to camouflage a green electrical box as she said it was on her property and she didn't want it there. Ann and Lynn had agreed to the box many months ago as it was better to look at than the green box itself. When Ann asked her where she was going with the box, Lynn screamed more profanities at her and said Ann was trespassing and thus called the police. She then told the police that "Ann was the President of the HOA and was trying to dictate what people can do to their homes without going through the management company". Since it is a civil matter, there is no incident report but what is called a "Call for Service" which is just notes from the officer and completely one sided.. She then sent the CFS report to the MC and that generated a call from them to which Ann was told to just ignore it. Ed has since stopped being friendly to Ann and so have most other people that live on the street and/or circle because of Ed.
Ed's actions are outside of any board meetings so that's the whole delima. And that's just with this member! Another member Thelma, likes social media and is a regular on a gossip show and loves instigating drama. But that's another discussion! At least Ann has two other board members that support her. This board has bigger problems to deal with but this particular member must be dealt with.. What advice do you have for Ann? Crazy I know...