Post by Poor Richard on Jan 4, 2021 20:47:02 GMT -7
Petition Filed with GLA to Remove 5 Directors and Cancel the 2020 Election
A Bloodless Coup d'etat is Set in Motion
On January 2nd, 2021 Glastonbury Landowner's Association (GLA) Director Charlotte Mizzi emailed the GLA Board and told them she received five petitions from landowner Clare Parker. Mizzi stated that Parker tried to email them to the GLA info@glamontana.org address on December 31st but they never arrived. Parker's email header showed that she sent an email to several Board members on December 31 but the addresses were incorrectly formatted. The petition header follows:
The Parker petition was submitted three days after another group of landowners submitted a petition calling for the resumption of the 2020 Annual Election. The Bylaws and Montana State Law 35-2-527 requires that Special Meeting requests be automatically granted, no vote is needed, and that the meeting take place within 30 days. The GLA Board has yet to act on either petition.
The Parker petition contained 46 signatures of presumed landowners. Some entries are illegible and others appear twice for the same parcel. One landowner requested that his name be removed. Five GLA Board members as of December 6th, 2020 signed the petition; President Newman Brozovsky, Ed Dobrowski, Gerald Dubiel, Charlotte Mizzi and Aija-Mara Accantino in violation of the Bylaws that require the Board to "act as a whole". When five Directors are advocating for the removal of the other five, the Board is no longer "acting as a whole". Dysfunctional and broken provide a more apt description when half the GLA Board seeks to overturn the votes of landowners. The actions of five Directors seeking to oust the other five is an attempted coup.
The unproven allegations in the Parker petition stem from the October 1st Board Meeting. At that meeting, all motions were based on established Election Procedures and the Restated Bylaws. A few Directors did not agree with following the rules and argued that past practices should be followed. No motion mentioned any candidate by name; the motions only referenced established rules that the GLA Board had approved in September of 2019.
One landowner summed up the October 1st meeting by stating:
The October 1 Board meeting is the first time I can remember where the adults outnumbered the child-like Directors. The children, led by President Newman Brozovsky and Charlotte Mizzi had a temper tantrum that lasted for hours. They came up with all sorts of excuses why established rules should not be adhered too. Their main argument was that we never followed rules before, so why do we have to now.
Many GLA Board observers now believe that the Board is down to just three Directors; Accantino, Brockett and Mizzi. The Bylaws require a minimum of four Directors for the GLA Board to function. Although no action has been taken to dissolve the GLA corporation, it is difficult to see how it will remain in business. With every passing week the GLA Board descends ever further into chaos.
