Without any further information, without a vote or consultation with the residents of the Sunnyland Neighborhood, nor with the membership of the SNA, the board has proclaimed that they will personally make sure that the Non-Profit, Corporate form of the Sunnyland Neighborhood Association which has been in existence since 1998, shall expire.
Previously, a group of neighbors were called together to enact an election cycle required by the corporation’s by-laws in order to seat a new board, none of the existing members wishing to stand for election again.
There were two meetings, one May 18th, 2016, in which interested members put forth the names of persons they wished to see elected to the board in June.
In the subsequent meeting on June 15, 2016, the President of the Sunnyland Neighborhood Association informed all in attendance that the board didn’t support the mandated elections, mistakenly informed all in attendance that the association was in a “suspended” status, and further informed all present that they were planning to kill the association outright.
The President of the Sunnyland Neighborhood Association, Patrick McKee, stated that it would be “no problem” for the interested parties to start a new association.
I registered a strong objection in email, and was returned the single sentence this post is titled with “The SNA Non-Profit Corporation Directors have voted to dissolve the corporation.”
I disagree, and am republishing my objection to the board as I sent to Mr. McKee on the 23rd of June, 2016.
“Dear Patrick, and all:
The Sunnyland Neighborhood Association was started as such in 1998, and continues today. This year, instead of holding elections as the board agreed to do when each member assented to caretake the association, the board has met in secret and decided to cashier the organization, despite there being other neighborhood members who wish to take over, as designed.
I, personally, feel betrayed by the recalcitrance of the board to allow this organization to continue, and feel that the board has taken questionable liberties in their administration of the organization.
All that is required to enlist a new board is to file an annual report with a new agent and new officers. That’s it.
While it would be a major inconvenience to fight about this, I feel it is a matter of principle, which I will first take to the court of public opinion. Perhaps no one will care, though I personally think it would be easier to just do your job, and sign on a new board.
Since the vote to dissolve the organization was taken in secret, and without consultation with those members who wished to participate, I posit that it is meaningless, and without weight.
Your paramount duty to the organization is to build membership and hold elections. Everything else pretty much takes care of itself. In failing to follow through with the elections, after we gathered people together for the task, the board abdicated it’s responsibility to it’s task, and rendered itself irrelevant. To then attempt to kill a neighborhood organization of 18 years in the dark of night is intolerable. It is not your personal decisions to make.
I hope you will reconsider this ill-advised decision. It would be a very small thing to sign on the new crew we were sabotaged out of electing earlier this month.
David Donohue”
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On Jun 26, 2016, at 4:30 PM, Julie Poland <julia...@comcast.net> wrote:
Why are you so bent on disolving the organization? It is not yours. Let it continue.
On Jun 26, 2016, at 4:30 PM, Julie Poland <julia...@comcast.net> wrote:
There is a grace period. It can still be done, but will be difficult if the current group continues its spiteful intransigence.
Thanks Julia. I am going to down the website after the weekend, and will make the domain available to the next group on request.
I will probably continue my mild insubordination until this is resolved.
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