I recently attended a co-op board meeting. Although I won't go into details about what we discussed, I will go into some of my observations in regard to this meeting....
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Knowing what was going to happen at the meeting, I knew to allocate 3 hours of my evening for the board. This got in the way of my finally doing laundry, but this was my laziness' fault and not the board's fault. Around 6 pm, I opened up the meeting, and the president gave us the latest status updates on matters of concern.
Around 6:30, we interviewed an applicant who wants to live here, and we reported the result of our vote to the site manager from the old company. After that, the outgoing site manager gave his report, and we relayed our concerns to him. But this isn't what frustrated me. One board member was trying to slow down our decision making, something which would cost the co-op (and our shareholders) big bucks. I was almost at my breaking point when I told her in no uncertain terms - stop getting in the way. No one is going to come out of the blue and rescue us - we have to deal with our problems ourselves. Both the president of the co-op and I are tired of this lady. She has nothing to offer, and only stands in the way of making any real decisions.
When the meeting ended, I chatted with the board's president about my frustrations, noting that I will take care of a letter that has to be sent out before Xmas. The problem is that our outgoing management firm may either slow walk the letter, or simply not send it out in time for our shareholders to deal with upcoming changes. Hopefully, we will get things done on time....
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