NancyM2 (California)
Posts: 249
Posts: 249
Posted:
Dear Group...Michele,JonD1,Susan.
Our election was held last night, fortunately we had a quorum right out of the gate, with all the interest. We had enough non-revokable (secret) ballots returned.... My letters to owners paid off.
Election results were..... Out of the three new candidates we presented, two were elected to board seat's.
Unfortunately the current board president was re-elected..Due to a extensive proxy campaign organized by our ombudsman/homeowner whos job depends on board support.
Since this was cumulative voting, all proxy's returned had a box for "vote at proxy's holders discretion" If that was left blank the proxy holder could vote any way he wanted.. or all three votes to one candidate... Which is exactly what happened. Since the proxy's were distributed with the proxy holders name left blank, and returned to the ombudsman/homeowner....I'm not sure if owners knew who was voting for them.
This resulted in the board president being re-elected....Job security for our ombudsman, they are friend's. (our president is also friends with our salaried attorney) he protects both of their jobs.
The election company told us they don't see too many associations using proxy's anymore, as it has caused a lot of challanges, and problems... unless they are used for quorum purposes only.
Another thing, proxy's are not "secret" anyone can see who is voting, and could if they wanted to "trash can" any proxy's they don't agree with. (No records)
Don't get me wrong, we are gratefull for the two candidates that we got elected. It's a start... but will be a long hard road getting any "cost cutting" program's across this board, as we only will have two votes in our corner.
NancyM2
P.S. Our attorney (who is always present at meetings) say's she sees "no conflict" with having a paid vendor collect proxy's, as he is a homeowner as well??
Our election was held last night, fortunately we had a quorum right out of the gate, with all the interest. We had enough non-revokable (secret) ballots returned.... My letters to owners paid off.
Election results were..... Out of the three new candidates we presented, two were elected to board seat's.
Unfortunately the current board president was re-elected..Due to a extensive proxy campaign organized by our ombudsman/homeowner whos job depends on board support.
Since this was cumulative voting, all proxy's returned had a box for "vote at proxy's holders discretion" If that was left blank the proxy holder could vote any way he wanted.. or all three votes to one candidate... Which is exactly what happened. Since the proxy's were distributed with the proxy holders name left blank, and returned to the ombudsman/homeowner....I'm not sure if owners knew who was voting for them.
This resulted in the board president being re-elected....Job security for our ombudsman, they are friend's. (our president is also friends with our salaried attorney) he protects both of their jobs.
The election company told us they don't see too many associations using proxy's anymore, as it has caused a lot of challanges, and problems... unless they are used for quorum purposes only.
Another thing, proxy's are not "secret" anyone can see who is voting, and could if they wanted to "trash can" any proxy's they don't agree with. (No records)
Don't get me wrong, we are gratefull for the two candidates that we got elected. It's a start... but will be a long hard road getting any "cost cutting" program's across this board, as we only will have two votes in our corner.
NancyM2
P.S. Our attorney (who is always present at meetings) say's she sees "no conflict" with having a paid vendor collect proxy's, as he is a homeowner as well??