Hawaiian Shores -- Nov Board Mtg

WATCHDOG © 2011

Why is it 4 days before the next regular Board meeting, a meeting that has taken place on the 2nd Saturday of the month for 7 consecutive months, has not been changed on the website? The announcement was made on Oct. 8th the meeting would be changed to Thursday, November 10th @ 6p; the community bulletin board called the 'marquee' has had the notice of the meeting up for a week or so, the calendar was updated to reflect it last week end, but what? The WEBSITE is not updated at the same time? Not to mention no Agenda is posted! This month's meeting time is an anomaly but one that was planned over a month ago and the meeting notice on the website could at any time from Oct 9th to now been changed for as much advance notice as possible! The conspiracy theorists could ask "Why not?'.

WATCHDOG © 2011

In case you haven't driven into the community the past couple of weeks; haven't looked at the calendar this past week or did not attend last month's meeting, this month's meeting was changed -- unilaterally --to this coming Thursday night. At no time at the last Board meeting did the Chair ask any or all of the director if it was convenient for them to meet on Thursday, or even for a consensus agreement. She simply announced the meeting was going to be changed. That old saying, 'there is no 'I' in TEAM' can be changed to 'there is no 'I' in BOARD' either. 

And the Agenda! Talk about timely presentation of matters for discussion so Members might be able to prepare for the part they may have in the section "Comments on Agenda items by Members'. All items due in the packet for the meeting are to be in the office on the last Friday of the month at close of business. That was 9 days ago.

UPDATED: 1212 on Monday, November 7, 2011. It WORKED! A friendly reminder here and POOF it appears on the official website. Now, for those who want a copy of the agenda to begin planning for the meeting it is available. 

The Watchdog commented on this provision to allow Members the opportunity to speak for 3 minutes before the meeting started as a positive step for communications. It is. However, it is only lip service when you do not provide the Agenda early enough the Members who wish to speak to an Agenda item would have sufficient time to research an item and prepare an intelligent comment. Even if it is only to give kudos to the Board it takes time to look over the Agenda, research a topic and speak to it. The Agenda is being posted online later and later each month. It is evidence of both a dilatory and lackadaisical attitude or interest of and towards the Membership! Last month it was posted two days before the meeting. Within a couple of hours after the Watchdog posted noticed the community still had no notice on the website about the meeting --it appeared and was made available! The Board may be feeling a little bogged down with meetings running a lot longer than those 2 hour meetings they thought they were going to wiz through back when they began planning the meetings and they may attribute that to an active Member audience but that is what the Board meetings are all about. The audience is there to watch and interact on those issues that are of most interest to them. If the Agenda was not filled with such aggressive goals it may well be they could keep it to 2 hours. The busier the agenda the more opinions are going to be voiced. 

It would be unwise for Member interaction with the Board to be curtailed. One could most certainly perceive such action as a direct result of a brewing problem involving many on the Board and many Members from the community who may be present to speak to the issue of Speed Humps. Elections are coming up and stifling the Membership in any way does not bode well. 

Please plan to attend; please plan to speak to any of the topics on the Agenda. If you want a copy of the agenda perhaps an email inquiry as to when it will be posted would be in order. 

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