The Board is obviously panicking that it won’t achieve a majority of Residents to vote on its new amendments to our Declaration and Bylaws. We were all sent these new amendments with no clear explanation for the reason they’re being foisted upon us. We have been pressured by the pounding of daily emails this past week on how important it is to vote, and that we need to vote now. Curiously, an attorney explanation of these amendments is to be explained at a Meeting this Thursday, April 27. Why the pressure to vote before the attorney explanation, and before May 1, the day where a vote can occur and be tabulated?
Based on the Board’s poor and reckless decisions with our funds, e.g., one being the Brassie Grille expansion, can we really trust it to be doing something to assist or enhance our welfare within the community, when it apparently is forcing an earlier vote from the Residents with these daily emails before an explanation of the amendments is offered?
Oh yes, now we know why a computer voting system was purchased by the Board. A virtual mail-in and earlier voting opportunity situation has been put in place via this computer voting. This alleged convenient manner of voting certainly will provided instant relief to the daily and repetitive browbeating to vote on these so called important amendments.
An urgency to vote, easy computer based voting (which can be subject to hacking), vague Amendments with no reasons explained, all smell suspicious to me. The reasonable approach is to make a preamble case for this surprise and rushed amendments’ move on the Residents, which has caused a concern of uncertainty in the community. Long standing rules and governance are changed with forethought and care; they are not changed with surprise and with no discussion.
The Board’s attorney(s) will make an explanation for these amendments in the middle of the offered voting period at a meeting; that’s strange. This late explanation for the amendments should have been made before the voting period for folks to digest the reasoning and make an informed decision. Remember too, that the attorney(s) work for the Board, and there is history where they have defended the Board to keep the detailed AGI financials from the Residents, where one Resident requested the financials and was rebuked.
What scenario do we have now? Instead of an expected and laid out process for the Residents to be properly informed before a decision to change our long standing and established Declaration and Bylaws is made, we have been hurried with harassing reminders to make us feel obligated to do the Board’s wishes – vote for the amendments. Hmm.