Since our blogger passed away we haven’t had anyone to take over this column but I ran across an archived post that I believe is fitting for today. We now have a group of people working on reenacting the City’s “official” Lents Neighborhood Association. This is a warning for them. Though I know they will never see it! (dated 8/2018)
ELECTION or REJECTION!
Last night the board held it's annual election. We will not go through all the games, deception and manipulating that seem to just be part of this process.
Last night 24 residents out of 22,000 elected a new board. Yes 5 members were seated with a max each that could be obtained of 24 votes.
We were told come vote for me or vote against me. But there were literally only a few days before most knew what was going on.
I was told...folks know there is an election so we do not have to put it off. Remember that point.
5 of the 24 there were vying for seats on the board. There are I believe 11 openings. None had any opposition. What that mean LITERALLY is that 1 member of the community could have elected all 5 members. I do not think that is an election
We asked for this process to be slowed down. I saw no argument from anyone except those running. There was no reason to hurry, at least any legitimate one.
So they had the election. For every board member elected there was an average of 4.8 members at that meeting ...counting them.
A mandate.
Now we get back to the statement that folks knew there was an election and no reason to delay.
If that is true.. then what you had was a NO CONFIDENCE showing by the community for this board and those that ran.
After all by their own words.. People needed no more time... they were aware.
I know from our admin records over 200 folks at least were reading the posts about the elections even given the short notice on the circumstances that were not known yet, until just days before.
We have already began to see the nonsense.
Soon the very voices that cried out because dissent was banned will try and now claim that somehow it is different.
They will say that now these folks are negative, They will use the victim card. They will in fact do everything and perhaps more then their predecessors while now defending it.
That now we cannot disagree, because it's them. They will band together and again decide that they know what is best for the neighborhood of 22.000 folks because 24 people said so.
We had a By Laws committee that had some very good by laws in place. I hope those rules are not changed in that draft to protect board members from being accountable.
I urge the board to ratify them quickly so that we might start implementing some of them immediately..
THE NEW CHAIR (assuming that is the position she takes) has announced that there will be NO FACEBOOK page. So how can the voices and dissent of the public be heard? Your guess is as good as mine!!