Post by chris on Feb 23, 2016 16:30:06 GMT -7
This thread is being created as a place for landowner-members to list as many of the current problems facing the GLA and its board of directors as is practical or possible so that they and everyone can see those problems all in one place.
Perhaps the greatest problem which may be the "mother of all GLA problems" is the control of the GLA board by what has been referred to as the "shadow board," which consists of a few key directors who operate behind the scenes dictating policy and procedures without approval of the entire board, and who control the committee and board meetings to the detriment of full participation by the remaining board members and all landowners. Not surprisingly, these controlling directors have been and are still primarily affiliated with Church Universal and Triumphant. This foundering attempt to continue to maintain complete control of the community and its members, as was and may still be practiced by the church, well after opening the community to non-church people some nineteen years ago, is not only a travesty but a form of discrimination. Dishonesty, favoritism, and lack of integrity and transparency are rampant in the practices of the board(s). Deception is also used as a tool. All these things have culminated in a great lack of trust in the board by landowner members who have the courage to seek the truth of these matters and to expose the untruths.
No where perhaps is this more evident than in the current board's attempt to re-write the governing documents with the objective of consolidating their power at the expense of landowner rights. The term they are using to permit much of the governing to be done is: "at the board's discretion," which if approved by the landowner vote will give the board carte blanche to do whatever they wish with no accountability whatsoever. This was made very clear at the February 20 Special Meeting at Emigrant Hall when it was revealed that the Legal Committee has operated autonomously and in secret from the rest of the board, that they have done business for the association without holding formal meetings and keeping any minutes, and have inappropriately used "attorney-client privilege" to withhold information from members. This is egregious if not illegal.
I ask other landowners to add the problems that they see to this thread.
Perhaps the greatest problem which may be the "mother of all GLA problems" is the control of the GLA board by what has been referred to as the "shadow board," which consists of a few key directors who operate behind the scenes dictating policy and procedures without approval of the entire board, and who control the committee and board meetings to the detriment of full participation by the remaining board members and all landowners. Not surprisingly, these controlling directors have been and are still primarily affiliated with Church Universal and Triumphant. This foundering attempt to continue to maintain complete control of the community and its members, as was and may still be practiced by the church, well after opening the community to non-church people some nineteen years ago, is not only a travesty but a form of discrimination. Dishonesty, favoritism, and lack of integrity and transparency are rampant in the practices of the board(s). Deception is also used as a tool. All these things have culminated in a great lack of trust in the board by landowner members who have the courage to seek the truth of these matters and to expose the untruths.
No where perhaps is this more evident than in the current board's attempt to re-write the governing documents with the objective of consolidating their power at the expense of landowner rights. The term they are using to permit much of the governing to be done is: "at the board's discretion," which if approved by the landowner vote will give the board carte blanche to do whatever they wish with no accountability whatsoever. This was made very clear at the February 20 Special Meeting at Emigrant Hall when it was revealed that the Legal Committee has operated autonomously and in secret from the rest of the board, that they have done business for the association without holding formal meetings and keeping any minutes, and have inappropriately used "attorney-client privilege" to withhold information from members. This is egregious if not illegal.
I ask other landowners to add the problems that they see to this thread.
