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Purpose of this Forum * The Glastonbury Community Forum(GCF) is designed to be an information resource and community gathering place. This is an independent forum and is NOT affiliated with the Glastonbury Landowners Association Board or any Glastonbury group. Purpose of the GLA Section of the Glastonbury Community Forum * To provide an avenue for anyone to present and share other ideas for the mutual benefit of the Community of Glastonbury. * To create specific topics to be presented to the Glastonbury Landowners Association Board of Directors for action. * Enable discussion of the recommended changes to the governing documents presented to GLA Landowners by the GLA Board of Directors. * To provide an online meeting place to discuss problems and develop and propose additional changes to our governing documents. * Provide an avenue for Landowners to voice their concerns about actions taken, or not taken, by the Board. |
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* Anyone can participate by reading postings, offering comments and developing threads to create conversations. You do not need to be a GLA landowner to participate. Everyone is welcome to read, comment and critique. "None of us is as smart as all of us" |
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* Foul language, personal attacks, pornography, links to dubious or scam sites and posts that have nothing in common with the Category and/or thread are prohibited. * All postings that meet our guidelines will be considered a valid point of view and presentation of an important issue. The determination of a post's relevance or value is generally left up to the reader and they may mark posts as possible violations. * Space is limited as this is a free site. Redundant and/or duplicate posts by the same person will be removed. Duplicate posts can happen by accident and will not be considered a policy violation. * We expect people to behave thoughtfully, civilly, critically and with occasional kindness. * Remember the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” * Readers may mark posts as violating Posting Ethics. Posts marked as in violation will be reviewed by the Administrator and may be deleted. * Posts that are in violation of these ethics shall be removed as quickly as possible. * Violators of these ethics shall receive two warnings and upon a third violation will be blocked from the forum. |
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* The Administrator may relocate posts or threads to other categories in order to facilitate discussion. * Those with relocated posts will be notified, when possible, and if they feel the relocation adversely impacts their intent, the post will be reinstated to its original location. * Guests do not have editing capabilities. They may ask the Administrator to edit their post for them. * ProBoards does not allow photos to be directly uploaded to this site. Photos may be linked from another site. Members may email a photo(s) to the Administrator and ask that they be applied to a their post. |
| Forum GLA Categories |
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* Open Letters is for landowners who have already submitted a letter to the GLA Board and would like to share their original letter with a broader audience. * Annual and Monthly Board Meetings - designed for discussions both before and after the posted meeting. Agendas, comments and meeting summaries will be posted here. Documents from previous meetings may be placed in sub-boards. Members may produce calendar entries and then link them to a post here. * The two roads categories are available to discuss all road issues including but not limited to: road maintenance, snow reports and snow plowing. Glastonbury has two distinct and non-connected road systems thus we offer two boards, NG roads and SG roads, for comments. * The Governing Documents category is intended to facilitate discussions on changes to the governing documents as recommended by the GLA Board of Directors. * The accounting/budget category is available to discuss accounting or bookkeeping issues and assessments, including the collecting of past due assessments. Previous year financial documents will be placed in sub-boards. * The Legal Committee category is intended for members to identify concerns with legal matters, information distributed to the GLA Membership, and when a GLA Membership vote is requested before actions are initiated by the Board, including committing to paying attorney fees. * The Communications Committee is for discussing how the GLA Board communicates with the Glastonbury Landowners. Sub-boards will hold documents mailed to landowners since 2005. * The Community Property category is for discussing how the GLA Board manages and what plans they have for the landowner's common property. * The Building and Subdivision category is for discussing issues regarding new homes, wells, subdivisions, guest houses, etc. * A General Discussion category at the top of the Glastonbury Community Forum is available for comments that do not relate to present categories or to develop new categories. * Subcategories may be established in any category to store documents and/or facilitate ease of commenting on the ideas being expressed. |