If you’ve read the current UCO Reporter, I’m sure you noticed the offering by the Administration Shill to promote one very bad idea. A shill is someone whose praises are motivated by self-interest.
The UCO by-laws do not need any tampering regarding the very effective term limits issue. They were placed there many years ago, when those proposing it realized no one person should be allowed to occupy any one office indefinitely. Just the fire in the belly of any newly elected to do their very best, is itself one very compelling reason to allow the limits to stand. Another is to make damn certain UCO promotes and encourages the next generation of qualified applicants to become involved in the governance of this Village, which this Administration can still accomplish.
How is it possible that UCO has survived without the proposed tampering? Every year we have elections and while the Nominations Committee was originally developed to go out and beat the bushes for qualified applicants to run for "officers" of UCO, most recently we have had more applicants than seats to fill. That, ladies and gentlemen, is Democracy at work.
Frankly, we should completely update the Articles of incorporation….FIRST! And while entertaining such complexities, propose term limits for the entire elected body, INCLUDING the Executive Board, currently filled with familiar names who no longer propose any NEW ideas or even see the problems at hand…like the failure of the AREAS to pick-up the paper once it is printed.
Changing times call for change, but not going backwards. Isn’t it bad enough that Channel 63 is using our information station to bore us to death with a presentation out of the 1950’s?
Progress in hindsight is to get the residents involved and Term limits do just that. Change would be to include all elected, not revert to elected officers entrenched for the next millennium, especially when they continue to lack vision and computer expertise. And lest we forget the failed rent strike and registry encouraged by all of the Administration, and the Arbitration, even though they fully were aware of NO significant facts to sway the arbitrators, which is precisely the veiled reason for the Mediation and settlement.
Sometimes change is good! And I do hope I've anwsered your question, sir.
That's my view, what's yours?
ED Black
Friday, May 23, 2008
Term Limit WHY?
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7 comments:
Ed:
I agree with all that you
posted. I definitely agree
with you about limited terms for Board of Directors. CVer's should
pull up CV web and scroll
down to Howie Silver's
posting. He wants to do
away with term limits.
That is an absolutely NO.
Term limits, must be extended to
include all ELECTED AND OR APPOINTED positions!
There are many archaic practices
which sorely need change, unfortunately, the only way that will occur is with "New Blood"
which must be encouraged by the
administration, regardless of whom
is at the helm!
Thank you Ed, for posting your
thoughts on this topic, I too took
exception to the "Offer"
Bettie L Bleckman
Why stop terms limits with the executive board? The final authority is with the delegate assembly. Have term limits for them to.
Term Limits are good for new ideas and new people. We would still at all times have experienced people in office because of alternate terms. I think term limits should definitely be carried to the executive Board..
Except for UCO officers who are also members of the Executive Board, ALL Executive Board members only serve for ONE YEAR.It is then up to the delegates to decide if they want any of the Executive Board members to continue. Perhaps the delegates prefer that people who they feel are doing a good job continue in office. In the years I have served on the Executive Board there are ALWAYS new faces each year and new ideas.
The delegates are mainly two people from each association. Large associations like Golf's Edge, their groups do not vote as a group. Most of the units are not concerned with the voting. They leave it up to one or two delegates to figure out what to vote yes or no for. The individual delegates are not voted for, they are generally the president and the vice president, or someone more interested than the officers on their board to go to the meetings and discuss it back with their people at the next board meeting. Few unit owners attend the individual association board meetings. Most of the delegates get their information when they go to the monthly delegates meeting. That's where most of them get their information. Most unit owners are not interested in going to these meetings. This is their retirement years, and they would rather play cards or see a movie or get together with a few friends and have lunch. I don't blame them. As we age, not all of us have the energy and will to try to make a difference. We have done it for many years and are leaving it up to you younger at heart CVers.
PS: There is talk about term limits among we retirees. That was the purpose of my blog in the first place. It seems it must be because I have run into a number of people and the subject comes up. Most are not pleased. Others say let the politicians worry about it. Are you a politician, and are you doing something about it?
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