inappropriate behavior by board member

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EllenF (Iowa)
Posts: 1

Posted:

In our HOA of 500 members and board of 7-10, at least two of the board members are sarcastic, rude and given to screaming or yelling. One resigned (thank god) last night. The other is the president who feels if he talks the loudest, he can have the floor. Last night he went so far as to tell another member to shut up and slammed his fist on the table.
Is it possible to ask him to resign given his poor behavior?
Thanks

SwanB (Washington)
Posts: 199

Posted:

Your Bylaws will dictate how you can deal with removing a Board member. Oftentimes this will take a special meeting and require a quorum of your membership and a vote. This means alot of members are going to have to agree with you as to the inappropriate behavior by the board member and then agree to take action against the Board member.

EdR (Texas)
Posts: 170

Posted:

You can ask him to resign and maybe he will. If so, then you won't have to go the special meeting, quorum of members vote route. We asked our president to resign several times and she wouldn't. She was a protege of the one before her who yelled, screamed, cursed, etc. and took up hours of meeting time trying to impress everyone with her legalese, all the while not having told our assn. that her specialty in ours and surrounding counties was FORECLOSING on homes just for her fees, and the fees it cost to take it to court, not for the dues that were not paid or for the violation. When I filed a grievance (to the state bar) about this, she and the president-to-be continued with a retaliation campaign you wouldn't believe. So be careful. If several on the board would like him to resign, get them together and speak to the guy as a group. Tell him that it would be easier on everyone if he just resigns, but if he doesn't, then you will have to expose the reasons. These angry outbursters have got to understand that they don't have to be tolerated.

JulieS (Georgia)
Posts: 412

Posted:

I would try talking to this person and letting him know how everyone feels, etc. If this doesn't work, I would encourage others to run for the board when this person's term is up. Get him replaced by not getting re-elected. If you pursue the removal by involving the entire neighborhood, it is very expensive and divides the community.

We had a similar situation with a board member making everything personal and being non-productive. I enlisted the help of at least four other people to run for the board when his term was up. They ran and all four got elected. Two years later, this person's wife tried the same thing and failed. Then she decided to petition the neighborhood to have us removed, and then proceeded to collect proxies from homeowners to get the majority vote needed to remove us. Two of us were removed and the process cost the association over $3,000. Two of her friends were 'elected' to the board...one quit and the other moved away. Remaining board members selected me to replace one of them. The entire process really divided the neighborhood and created an unhappy community environment. It is not worth it.

MarieR (Iowa)
Posts: 4

Posted:

I agree that trying to remove the board president is not likely to be an easy fix, and can cause more probelms than it solves. It too bad, but it sometimes seems the folks who should resign often hang in there longer than the good folks who get tired of their behavior and quit first.

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