DELEGATE ASSEMBLY MEETING - FRIDAY JULY 11, 2008

DELEGATE ASSEMBLY MEETING, JULY 11, 2008

The Delegate Assembly meeting of July 11, 2008 was a highly orchestrated political absurdity. The orchestration was designed to prevent bringing a Sunshine Law Open Meeting Motion to the Delegates for a vote. A brief description of the process follows:

1) The Executive Board was directed to sit in rows 1 and 2
2) The Delegates were placed in rows 3 through 12.

3) All hard core Loewenstein supporters were ordered to wear red; Dot Loewenstein was passing out red strands of yarn in the Auditorium.

Howie Silver was designated as Chair of this meeting, he made no effort to follow the Agenda;

instead, he commenced to “introduce” everybody and their brother.

He introduced Dorothy Tetro, asking her to stand.

He introduced George Lowenstein and asked him to stand.

He introduced the Ushers.

He introduced the Executive Board and asked them to stand, but they refused.

Shouts arose from the Delegates for Howie to follow the Agenda and to stop trying to run out the clock.

Howie shouted at the Delegates that he had bypass surgery, and hip joint surgery, and “no one could tell him anything.

He shouted that the Delegates will do as their told until they are ready to volunteer and that he, Howie, would run the meeting, he told us of his transcendent experience of touching the “Wailing Wall” in Jerusalem .

Finally, the actual Agenda was commenced and the call was made to accept the Minutes;

Phyllis Richland rose to reject the Minutes as incomplete, since they had no mention of her comments on Open Meetings which she had made at the June Delegate Meeting.

Phyllis then moved to “Suspend the order of business in order to consider the Open Meeting Sunshine Law Resolution.”

Long drawn out discussion followed as Howie continued to run out the clock hoping for some Delegates to leave and thus lose the Quorum. Myron Solomon reprised his standard rant about the $10 million dollars.

King George raised a number of absurd objections, but in due course the Question was called and the motion passed with overwhelming support.

Shortly thereafter it is reported that George and Howie both resigned.

This meeting resulted in positive action for Democracy in Century Village and the potential for real benefits to all Unit Owners.

Dave Israel