by Linda Anderson, July 19, 2019
June 17, 2019 was indeed a BLACK DAY IN THE HISTORY OF HSVPOA.
At the Property Owners’ Association Meeting on July 17, 2019, the Board voted to change HSVPOA Bylaws. Four Board Directors voted in favor of this change.
The Board had been operating four committees, whose charters were in violation of the Association’s Bylaws. The most blatant, being the Governance Committee. The Governance Committee is comprised of three Board members and the CEO. The Governance Committee is a committee which holds the sole authority to revise the Governing Documents, and create new Policies, and Rules. These revisions are then presented to the Board Directors for them to pass. All of this is done without input from the rest of the Board.
The conflict comes into play because the Governance Committee also evaluates the performance of the Board Directors. The CEO has a permanent, voting position on the Governance Committee, whereas Board Members have a temporary seat. This puts the CEO in the position of permanent superiority over her employers, the Board Directors. This could potentially affect Board voting decisions because the CEO is in the position of evaluating the performance of her employers, the Board of Directors. It’s all about the CEO (An Employee) overseeing the Board.
The members of the Governance Committee knew they needed their committee to retain power and control over the Board of Directors. The Governance Committee, spearheaded by Board Chair, Cindi Erickson and the CEO, convened to redline and revise the Bylaws to legitimize the Governance Committee. These revisions were then presented to the Board of Directors who voted to change the Bylaws, instead of changing the charters of the noncompliant committees. But wait, how could a noncompliant ( Illegal ) Governing Committee with no authority change the Bylaws?
I believe the Board violated their fiduciary responsibility to the association by not keeping their oath of obedience to the Governing Documents which compromised the Board’s integrity, discredited its professional standards, and black-marked the Boards reputation. All of these incredible infractions were seemingly orchestrated in an attempt to prevent property owners from being on important committees.
Violating the Governing Rules of HSVPOA became the biggest scandal in the history of Hot Springs Village. This was certainly, as I stated above, a black day in the history of the HSVPOA. The future of Hot Springs Village is undoubtedly compromised, but we vow to turn this around.
Two rays of sunshine
Two Board Members, Diana Podawiltz and Dick Garrison stood firm against the proposed Bylaw changes and voted NO. These two, unwaveringly did what was right. We wonder how the Governance Committee will evaluate them. WE THANK THEM and MAY GOD BESS THEM.
by Linda Anderson, July 19, 2019
Edited and formatted by Cheryl Dowden
Voletta Chavis
07/19/2019 — 12:26 pm
Thank you for speaking up for the villagers and thanks to the other speakers who spoke at the July 17 meeting.
Anonymous
07/26/2019 — 11:17 am
‘WeThree” threw the other two under the bus when it came to each getting elected.
Tormey found out its better to work with his fellow board members, and that the solution chosen to correct the Bylaws was the most appropriate.
Anonymous
07/26/2019 — 11:19 am
Heh Linda, ‘WeThree” threw the other two under the bus when it came to each getting elected.
Tormey found out its better to work with his fellow board members, and that the solution chosen to correct the Bylaws was the most appropriate.
Kirk Denger
08/04/2019 — 9:26 pm
It is appropriate to first break the law and then change it, that way everything you did before the law was changed is null and void.
Anonymous
07/19/2019 — 3:32 pm
Great essay Linda! Thank you! However, you failed, or may have purposefully in an act of consideration, left out the name of the one Director who swore to champion the voices of property owners, but, at this meeting, turned his back on us.
Tormey Campagna.
He voted with the old school, power hungry, anti-property owner Directors and demonstrated that his pursuit of a BOD seat was a selfish, personally motivated quest for power. He used his sales skills to dupe property owners into thinking he was actually going to champion our voices. Obviously we made a bad mistake.
It’s unfortunate that Lorri Street and/or Lloyd Sherman did not make the cut as they would have never, EVER, turned their backs on us.
Very black day for HSV for sure!
Anonymous
07/19/2019 — 3:37 pm
Lorri: You and Lloyd need to run again. Lloyd has already announced his intentions to pursue a seat on the Board and you should too.
Run again and this time we WILL get you elected!
Lloyd: you can also count on our support!
We need you both to be champions of property owners’ voices!
Mary Szczepaniak
07/22/2019 — 9:37 pm
True for Lloyd. Lorri is/was on her on power trip.
Anonymous
07/20/2019 — 5:37 pm
Do you realize that the gates open on the way out and if your not happy here in our paradise you are welcome to leave….. Just maybe there are a lot of us happy here with our current and past boards along with the leadership that is in place.
Why do you want to mess with my paradise because your unhappy??? You can leave at anytime and find a place that meets your requirements because after reading many of your posts you seem to be a very unhappy camper here in the best kept secret in America called Hot Springs Village….
Anonymous
07/20/2019 — 7:05 pm
Sounds good to me…
S
07/20/2019 — 9:11 pm
Hmmm, a good and a bad anonymous, sorry day for bitter anonymous villager who says to leave aka “ride out on rail” as if ones private village, just because they don’t want to hear other villagers say. A Best kept secret? No and certainly not paradise, I’d say this is closer to true private and paradise. https://www.velaaprivateisland.com/
Sue
07/20/2019 — 11:02 pm
Seems like there is a positive anonymous and a negative anonymous on these comments. How the negative one tells other villagers to leave as if the village was their private village just because they do not like what other villagers say. How could that possibly be a “paradise”
Kirk Denger
07/20/2019 — 11:30 pm
A 7/20/19 -5:37 pm, Let me assure you that this is not your paradise. Paradise belongs to all and you cannot possess it. By welcoming others to leave only shows your frail insecurity. We are all welcome to stay or leave. You as a minority who are ignorantly happy with our current and recent past boards along with the leadership are welcome to live here. However, the majority will not allow unlawful leadership, and you will be happily sharing this paradise with us. We are not telling you to move, we are only telling the unlawful directors that unlawful behavior will not be tolerated in this paradise.
Sara
07/21/2019 — 3:21 am
Ditto
Mary Szczepaniak
07/22/2019 — 9:39 pm
TY
George Radcliffe
07/23/2019 — 10:56 am
WELL SAID!!!!!!! Why would anyone care about a post left by “Anonymous”.
If your opinion is important enough for you to express it, you should have the courage to own it.
Greg Holiman
07/21/2019 — 8:38 am
Kirk do you ever have anything positive to say? I really feel for you and your neighbors. Hopefully someday you will have a positive happy thought!
Kirk Denger
07/21/2019 — 9:12 am
Holiman, many happy thoughts come to our minds (all of my neighbors) as the court ruling against our unlawful BOD/CEO makes it a fact that unlawful Director behavior will not be tolerated. This is a positive step in the correct direction. As we are all neighbors, I hope you will really be able to feel better too!
Voletta Chavis
07/25/2019 — 3:35 pm
I, too, helped to get Traitor Tormey elected because he ran as “three for the BOD”, not as one stand alone but as three who would vote together. Had he been honest, he would have run on a single ballot like all the rest of the candidates did. I don’t think he would have been elected as a stand alone candidate; he was only elected in a block of three. He stole my vote and those of my friends because he has deceived us with his newfound beliefs of which we who love this village strongly oppose. He has shown his true colors – red- as the devil in disguise.
Anonymous
07/26/2019 — 9:45 am
“We Three “ didn’t run together. They just shared campaign expenses
Kirk Denger
08/04/2019 — 9:30 pm
In that case, Campagna was a traitor all along.
Rick Brown
08/22/2019 — 5:11 pm
The only way to improve our community and keep this the paradise we all want it to be is to hold the people we put in charge of our community accountable. Accountable to the fiscal responsibility to keep our village running properly for the enjoyment of the property owners at the lowest possible cost that keeps this community what it aspires to be, A great place to live and one that we all should be bragging about to friends and family to join us. Unfortunately our community is now being run almost like a communist dictatorship where you so much as dare to disagree with the board or CEO you are silenced and escorted out of the building. These tactics are worthy of only Stalin and other dictators whose ideas and policies can’t win the arguments on their own merit but only through the silencing of criticism can they win the day since they won’t allow any of us to hear there may be a better way to run this Village. Secrecy about the BOD, the CEO, on how we got so top heavy not only in management personnel but in the compensation some of OUR EMPLOYEES are getting despite a lack of performance will only guarantee we don’t make the improvements we need in the Village to be a vibrant growing Oasis where everyone wants to come and join us. The BOD, if they were really doing a good job, shouldn’t be afraid to hear criticism or other points of view because the majority of property owners would agree with them. However we have proved that not to be the case with the last election and the vote we held recently where their ideas were shot down overwhelmingly. Its time for a little disinfectant to be applied to the board with letting a little sunshine in on what they are doing behind closed doors and against the majority of property owners wishes.