The Special Board Meeting 4-17-19 (New Board Members take oath of office)
Nalley calls Special Meeting to order with four items on the agenda.
- The oath of office of new Board Members.
- The election of officers.
- The signing of indemnification agreement.
- Conflict of Interest Disclosure.
Nominations for Chair and Vice Chair
Dixon nominated Medica for Chair. Garrison nominated Erickson for Chair.
Nalley did not call for a second.
Podawiltz asked Nalley if she was going to call for a second. Nalley did not seem to understand the request and said, “You will vote by ballot”.
Podawiltz said, “At this point in time, do we have a Parliamentarian in place?”
Nalley, “Yes, Nancy Luehring”.
Podawiltz, “I just wanted to…”
Nalley interrupted, “According to our bylaws, until you are replaced, you continue on.”
Luehring nominated Dixon for Vice-chair.
Podawiltz nominated Campagna for Vice-chair.
Nominations for Secretary and Treasurer
Nalley moved on to nominations for Secretary and Treasurer after giving a bit of history explaining that historically (traditionally) both the Secretary and Treasurer have been employees and that these positions required day-to-day interaction. The bylaws state these two positions may be salaried employees and also they need not be members of the association. Nalley, stating strongly, “Starting with the Secretary, this past year I served as the Secretary and I will take nominations for the position of Secretary.”
Campagna nominated Nalley for Secretary.
Nalley, “Next I will take nominations for Treasurer. Liz has served in that capacity last year and I will take your nomination for Treasurer.”
Dixon nominated Liz Mathis for treasurer.
There were no seconds. Nalley passed out ballots.
Erickson was elected chairman and Campagna was elected vice chairman.
Indemnification and Conflict of Interest Disclosure documents were signed
Indemnification document was signed by all Board Members.
Erickson talked about the new policy of Conflict of Interest Disclosure.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure Document was signed by all Board Members.
Nalley adjourns Special Board Meeting – Podawiltz says Nalley not in charge
Nalley said, “With that I will adjourn the Special Meeting”.
Podawiltz said, “You no longer were in charge of the meeting because we elected a chair. So it would have been up to the Chair to adjourn the meeting.”
Clapping in the audience.
Tormey tried to make a motion(s). (Inaudible)
Chairwoman Erickson says, “Will you help me, Parliamentarian?”
Parliamentarian Luehring says nothing can be added to meeting
Parliamentarian Luehring reads from a pre-prepared document and states no new items may be added to the agenda of the Special Meeting. “This was a Special Meeting, with notice well in advance of the meeting. It is a single agenda type meeting. Nothing can be added to this particular agenda.”
Brian Darst objects
Brian Darst (from the audience) was heard shouting, “point of order, point of order. That is incorrect. Robert’s Rules of Order. Point of Order.”
Erickson says we are going to stand adjourned at this point and deal with this matter separately.
Note: This was written because there seems to be a lot of confusion about this meeting and we wanted to clear things up for the sake of transparency. – Cheryl Dowden
Robert Busse
05/05/2019 — 12:09 pm
This swearing in was the biggest joke and exhibition of incompetence I have ever seen. Tom Weiss should have conducted the action, as he was still the BOD Chair, until the new Directors were sworn in and new Chair elected. Nalley had NO place in this as she is not even a voting member of the BOD. This was a Board event.
Additionally, I have never seen or heard of an official swearing in proceedings take place without the inducted person/s raising their right hand to take the oath of office. At least one oath taker started to raise their hand and Nalley started talking, never asking for the raising of the right hand.
It could be argued that the new Board officials (Pres, VP, Sec, Treas.) are not valid because their nominations were never seconded by another Board member. Also, the nomination for Pres and VP were taken before a vote was taken. This is wrong in that the Pres position should be settled before all else. That allows all to be considered for Pres, not eliminating the nominees for VP.
The whole event was an embarrassment to the inductees and the Village as a whole with the way it was adjourned being a comical fiasco.
Anonymous
05/05/2019 — 12:23 pm
A second is not required for small boards
Steve Rust
05/05/2019 — 2:11 pm
Why was Lesley Nalley allowed to be in charge of the meeting. Tom Weiss should have presided over the meeting until the chair was elected then turned over to the new chairperson. Sounds like Ms. Nalley pretty well told the board to put her and Liz Mathis back in their offices. When is the board going to stand up to Ms. Nalley and let her know she is not in charge of everything. Wish I could have been there. Sounds like Diana at least tried to let Ms, Nalley know she was out of order in some areas. Are any of the other board members going to join in with her.
Linda Anderson
05/05/2019 — 6:24 pm
This Board Meeting was in a shambles at the end. LN tried to take over and it turned out to be a disaster. It was clear that no one knew anything about parliamentary procedure. Brian Darst tried to point out the correct and legal points but the Board was too over whelmed to pay attention. The question becomes : Is the Board serious about learning and using correct Parliamentary Procedure? This is a very serious matter because legal decisions become questionable in the eyes of the law. The Board needs Brian’s knowledge and understanding of the basic rules to get it’s legal affairs in order.
Diana understood the scope of what needed to be done. Her comments were noticed. THANK YOU- DIANA.
Kirk Denger
05/06/2019 — 12:44 am
The CEO should only have a voice at board meetings if requested by an elected board member. The bylaws dictate a 7 elected member board. Remove the CEO from the board. Then remove the CEO. An elected board member should be the secretary and treasure with respective paid assistants including a paid certified parliamentarian assistant. Luering only read the RRO last week according to her own admission.
Lloyd
05/06/2019 — 7:40 am
The CEO is an ex-officio member of the Board and is there to provide input (WHEN ASKED). The CEO had no standing to conduct this portion of the meeting. As previously stated, Mr. Weiss should have conducted this meeting up to and through the vote and then handed the gavel over to the new Chair. This was a joke and just more evidence that procedures are only followed when they meet with the agenda in place. This was nothing more than the CEO exerting her CONTROL over whatever she decides is appropriate. This needs to stop!!!
Sharon Welborn
05/06/2019 — 9:40 am
What a mess. Seems things are coming apart at the seams.
Sharon Welborn