Design of Petition

Our association is looking to put a petition together and would like advice on the proper format. On our 1st page we would like to state the reason, names of the members to be removed,assocations name, and then in numerical order and moving forward the unit owners ability to sign the petition to call for a Special Meeting. Can anyone give further advice? do we have to print on every page the reason for the petition?

Thank you
Gary

Sorry, I didn't clarify this very clearly.. If there are just signed pages attached to the original petition wihtout the reason on each page, the petition is void according to our laws. Read your bylaws very clearly.. to follow what is needed. There was no issues with what I submitted as it was a cut and paste from our local resource.

Gary,

Typically the membership may only petition to call a special meeting for a specific purpose. If the petition doesn't say "to call a special meeting for ..." the Board sees it as a request and not as the membership using it's authority. I would do the following:

On each page of the Petition simply state:

We the undersigned members of [nam of Association] desire to call a special meeting of the membership for the purpose of a recall of (Director x,y,z or All Directors) and election of replacement Directors if recall is successful.

Then print up various flyers with all the other reasons on it to leave with the individual after they sign it.

Make sure that you get more then the minimum number of signatures required in case there is an issue with a specific signature.

Hope this helps,

Tim

Hello Tim:

We already completed two petitions
1) Called for the removal of the President, Secretary, and one Director
2) The call was for - special meeting of the --- Association by the unit owners
3) we used information from chapter 828 -Common Interest Ownership Act----Section 47-250 Connecticut statutes
4) The removal was ---- without cause----because their were numeruos issues in the complex----
5) Our complex has 228 units in it, 10 are in foreclosure-----we needed 20% of the unit owners signatures = 46---- we collected 63
on the first petition.
6) We waited 15 days for the board to send out the special meeting notices ---we were ignored----we sent out/hand delivered-mailed out the special meeting notices--the date of the meeting were locked out of our meeting room and conducted the meeting across in a unit owners garage.

7) we had proxies and ballots and the voting results were 74 to remove, 5 not to remove and 1 abstained

8) we sent the results to the remaining board members and were ignored via a direction from our associations lawyer who is working hand in hand with all these foreclosures.

Our petition stated on the 1st page the call for a Special Meeting of the ----Assocaition by the Unit Owners-----removal of the three listed board members --reason---without cause----

then we went in numerical order and people signed.

the problem now is a few of the unit owners had spouses sign and the voted president is stating that the petition is illegal---well this same president in the past has allowed the same spouses to vote last July 12, 2010.

Please help---we want to create another petition if this does not materialize.

Thanks
Gary

thanks Tim----your responses are very much appreciated.

I was on this other board at one time--treasurer-I have a BS in Accounting and am working on my MBA___so i was going to set-up our accounting system with Quickbooks Premium. The print-outs from the bookkeeper for year-end balancies before mailed were copied and I was in the process of setting the accounts up in Quickbooks with the inforamtion from these print-outs. I left that board because the president was manipulating board members and executive votes.These same print-outs -----myself and other upset unit owners used to familarize ourselves with the complex---some of the names on those unit owners balance notices were incorrect. Well our common interest ownership act also allows representatives to cast votes for the deeded owners.Any advice

thanks
Gary