Hawaiian Shores -- Topics for Discussion

WATCHDOG © 2011

Aloha All,

Time to plan for the upcoming regular Board Board meeting Saturday, December 10 @ 10A.

The graphic on the side has a few of the topics Watchdog is keeping forefront for consideration. The following topics are of interest:

1. Election Committee: 'Finalize ballot as approved by LWV' Major question: Will the approved ballot reflect the ALL nominees or only 5? 
2. Old Business: 'Finalize Annual Year end packet materials' What materials will be included? Have the various materials been final drafted so the approval will immediately result in the production of some ~1280+ copies? Has each of the Board Members fully read and understood what they are approving for dissemination to the Membership because once out they will be fully responsible for the ramifications/consequences of anything that may land the Board in their respective 'hot' seats? 
3. New Business: 'Dog Park'. If this is just for discussion; if there is some presentation; or, if this is to get a feel from the members their thoughts this is fine. But until and unless the Water System is no longer at peril NO MONIES should be spent on ANYTHING not essential until the life saving water system is finished!
4. Executive Session: "Status  of PER and ER"; "Status of Solar Farm". Again, this is in Executive Session, why? Clearly it is not listed as 'contract' it is merely an update. This is not covered by Executive Session. If there is a reason it should be then the Executive Session should correctly reflect why. The Chair needs only state they will be considering personnel issues, contract issues, client/attorney issues. To suggest there is a 'status' update on an item, in Watchdog's opinion, does not correctly correlate to Executive Session nor does it situate the Board in a favorable light with the appearance of 'secret meetings' and stuff being done deliberately outside of the members influence. This is a huge problem: Communication. They may be doing nothing wrong but by not doing it right they bring undo consternation. Or, they are doing wrong and the appearance of wrong doing is rightly raising concern. Why isn't the member who troubles themselves to attend a week end Board Meeting unable to determine the status of two topics of great concern to members as a whole, like the progress in upgrading our Water System? 

Please exercise your member rights and prepare for the meeting, attend the meeting and participate in the meeting.