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MicheleD
(Kentucky)
Posts:1711
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| 07/07/2008 4:54 PM |
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Ellen, you were exactly within your rights as an individual homeowner to do that (send the letter) as long as you made it clear in your communication that you were not operating in your capacity as a board member in sending the communication.
Yes, board members DO wear 2 hats, but they have to be kept separate and one has to be very careful when wearing either.
(Yes, I know that as a board member, you pretty much always have your individual homeowner hat on, too. It's the other way around that you have to be careful, so that you are not using your board member position unfairly or inappropriately.) |
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RobertR1
(South Carolina)
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| 07/07/2008 5:54 PM |
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Michele and Ellen,
You ladies sure got a way of complicating issues, and Michele is correct (in my opinion) but I am afraid not in the eyes of some. If I am recalling this right Ellen was on a fact finding mission (that is pure governmentease) to find support, under the direction of the board, and the mission was to convince the field workers that those big old trees should be taken out and they all will be required to chip in. That was the mandate of the mission. Ellen stumbles on a little old fashioned shakedown and blows the whistle. There will be some here that will condeem her actions as renegade or worse and believe Ellen should have told the Fox what was going on in the chicken house. I don't. And again, Ellens action was not done to usurp the Boards power or to make them change the organizational structure and her intent was simply to right a wrong, not by the association but by members of the association. Good for you both Ellen and Michele for juggling the fragile "right" of each owner. |
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EllenS1
(Florida)
Posts:353
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| 07/08/2008 3:12 PM |
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Robert,
Thanks. My action was prompted not only because of the special assessment but removing old oak trees since our docs clearly state that no oak trees over a certain size are to be removed unless they are diseased or dead which wasn't the case. We all know how few owners read their covenants. |
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JohnK3
(Pennsylvania)
Posts:463
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| 07/09/2008 8:16 AM |
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Ellen,
Out of curiousity, why would someone want to remove mature, healthy oaks when many others often spend $1000s to have runts installed? |
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EllenS1
(Florida)
Posts:353
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| 07/10/2008 5:28 PM |
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John,
A few owners who purchased lots with beautiful old oak trees after living here decided they couldn't get grass to grow under their shade. There are ground covers that will do well in that area but a couple of board members who had the trees on their lots decided to get rid of them. Many people bought here specifically because these trees gave our community some character and my thinking was these folks who had the trees knew what they were getting before they bought and then decided the entire membership should pay to have them cut down. |
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