At the November 3, 2021 Board Discussion Session, Interim General Manager, John Paul, discussed the upcoming Board Director Election and other items with the Directors.
The proposed dates for the Election Calendar are listed below.
- December 1, 2021 – Applications are available for the Board Director election.
- January 7, 2022 – Deadline for submitting Board Director applications to the General Manager’s office by 4:00 p.m.
- February 25, 2022 – The ballots are mailed to Property Owners in good standing.
- March 31, 2022 – Deadline for the ballots to be returned.
- April 1, 2022 – Board Director Election Day.
- April 20, 2022 – Newly elected Board Members are seated at the conclusion of the Regular Board Meeting.
Hybrid or in-house voting on upcoming Board Director election to be determined
Paul said, “We’ve got to determine if we are going to have a hybrid [Board Director] election or an in-house election on election day. In the past, we have had the hybrid, before.”
Board Director Avila asked, “can you explain what a hybrid is, please?”
Paul explained, “a hybrid would be a mail-in ballot plus electronic [voting].”
How many Property Owner signatures are needed on the application to run for the Board?
Paul said that they have discussed the number of Property Owner signatures needed by a candidate in order to run in the Board Director election. Recently the number was reduced to 10 members in good standing.
Avila said, “the signatures used to be more. We went to 10 last year because of COVID.”
Paul stated, “it used to be 50.” The Board determines the number of signatures required.
Corry said she thought the previous number was 25. “It used to be 50 and then it moved to 25.”
Paul agreed.
Omohundro said the required signature amount should be 10 for another year and then raised post-COVID.
A decision was made to keep the signature requirement at 10.
Are HSVPOA Board Members paid?
A short discussion clarified that Board Members DO NOT receive remuneration for the Board Director positions.
Key dates on 2022 Board meeting calendar
John Paul said the key meeting dates next year are April 20, 2022 – the regular and annual meetings are combined and New Board Members are Sworn in.
Also, the October 19, 2022 Board meeting is where the 2023 budget tentatively will be approved.
The official POA holidays are New Years Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. This calendar will most likely be voted on at the next regular Board meeting on November 17, 2021.
By Cheryl Dowden, November 5, 2021
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Lloyd Sherman
11/05/2021 — 7:47 pm
Why is the GM addressing the issue of elections for the Board. This is Board business; not staff business! We have reverted right back to staff running the board instead of the other way around. I have absolutely nothing against staff, but what I do have an issue with is staff doing board business. We are told that staff doesn’t have enough staff to do their own jobs. No wonder! They are also doing the board’s business. Tail wagging the dog once again. This needs to STOP!
Susan Posner
11/07/2021 — 11:08 am
Violating Bylaw Article 12 section 6 (b) & (c)
(b) added 2015… “interfering directly”…guess taking GM time to address BOD matter. BOD should know since they do make changes to the governing documents,(that covers elections) therefore they should know and abide by those documents, in their entirety.
(c) Violating Bylaw Article 12 Section 6 (b)
Tom Blakeman
11/06/2021 — 7:52 am
Maybe if the board was expanded to 9 members the odds would be better that at least one could think for themselves. As the discussion points out there is another election coming up and it would now be timely for the board to increase their complement. They alone have the power to do that. Or, they could change their rules about “may appoint” to at least force themselves to have a full complement of 7 at all times. It is a known fact that more heads lead to better decisions.
Additionally, they could hire some independent ‘board only’ staff to help “coordinate” board things for them. That would take the dependence on regular staff away from the POA which would free up those staffers to do their real jobs instead of wasting time on things like calendars, and super versus ultra or uber majorities.
So many things could be done rather than spending all their time marketing a “tax” increase which nobody wants.