Having read both accounts of the above meeting, posted by George Lowenstein, and
Howie Silver, I wonder in fact, if I was at the very same meeting!
It seems to me that the 117 delegates, became unruly, due in fact, due to Mr. Silver's
"Stonewalling" and that Mr. Lowenstein, as President, made no effort to put the meeting
"back on track"......None of the assembled, ( delegates & non ) are Unfamiliar with thoese
that are or have served this community, and most likely like I, are appreciative of
ALL of their efforts, however, to re-introduce each individual, at that time was inappropriate.
Should the choice have been made to acknowledge their efforts, the Fall, would have been the
time. Furthermore, Mr. Silver's Travels, although lovely and surely appreciated by both
he and Mrs. Silver too, was NOT part of the Agenda...
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The DELEGATES ASSEMBLY MEETING, IS A BUSINESS MEETING, (My view)
CONDUCTED BY THE EXEC. BOARD OF UCO,
TO INFORM THE COMMUNITY, RECEIVE INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY,
INVESTIGATE THE INPUT, RETURN WITH 'THE FINDINGS, FOR ACCEPTANCE
OR REJECTION......IN A NUTSHELL!
Had the original intent of "Open Meetings" been followed, none of what did take place
would have!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
RE: JULY 11TH, 2008 DELEGATES' ASSEMBLY
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The intent was to bypass the regular meeting agenda and ask to have the agenda waived. It could not be done until the meeting started. There were people there that asked and were invited to make some kind of presentation.Had the meeting officially started these people would not have been heard from. The matter of open meetings could have been brought up under new business but the people presenting the open meeting resolution chose not to do that.
It is interesting that there is now a proposal to modify the open meetings resolution.This entire matter could have been handled in a more business like manner if the rules of bylaw changes had been followed. They were not so we are in the mess were are in now as a result.
BettieL, you and I attended the same meeting--just to refresh my memory I watched the fiasco on channel 63 this morning. It was every bit as I remembered!
Let's get on with the nominations on Friday then the election on August 1, and then the installations. hopefully there will be some caring intelligent folks elected and installed and we can get on with business and put this Village on course again.
There are many questions to be answered and records to be checked. Let's get some qualified and industrious folks elected and get moving forward again.
Anonymous 4:01,
"If the rules of Bylaw changes were followed?" The Resolution is not a Bylaw change. If I had convened a meeting of the Advisory Committee for the Original Resolution it never would have made it as far as the Executive Board because it probably would have effectively been "killed" by the Officers' Committee. I excercised my right as the Delegate of my Association to make a motion from the floor of the DA and restore open meetings to the Village. I'm proud of this accomplishment and I'm sorry that I cannot satisfy everyone.I informed the Assembly at the last DA meeting that the Resolution would be tweaked to allow mundane meetings of the Officers' Committee to occur without notice, so this proposed amendment should come as no surprise. We are not in a mess now, we are simply cleaning up the one which had been created.
Succinctly and accurately put as usual, BIG THANK YOU RANDALL
Their dictatorial process was cut short and a sound defeat was handed to Mr. Loewenstein, and rightly so. He wanted to close the meetings and used that silly pretense of the Officers meeting issue to claim the impossible conditions of the resolution on such conversations. The resolution was validating the clear intent of the Sunshine amendment, that incidentally was a motion made by the now opponent Mr. Phil Shapkin.
Did you know that there was an offered accommodation to “tweek” the resolution ….in a private discussion with Mr. Loewenstein, in an effort to avert just what became the response of Mr. Loewenstein?
Just watch the video record of the meeting. The problem was a UCO VP yelling at the Delegates, and telling them “there is the door”.
Ed
After viewing that fiasco on Channel 63, it amazes me why anyone would want to be an officer of UCO. However, mission has been accomplished. I'd say we owe Randall a great deal of credit for that. Without him, I'm not sure what would have happened in that room on that day.
I'm so happy that we have all you mice to keep track of what goes on at the meetings and thereby able to tell the truth of what took place. A vice president out of his ability to lead a filibuster so as to leave no time in the meeting for anyone to make a motion.
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