I'd strongly suggest that anyone interesting in running for a board position in our HOA, take a good look at how Quentin Fennessy did it.
1) Orgainize your ideas (and leave some room postions that you haven't considered yet). This is a learning process, too!
2) Get out and talk to ALL your neighbors. Find out what their issues are. Get ready to listen to people who don't think like you do. You need their votes, too!
3) Communicate:
- Write down your ideas
- Consider a web site - it's easy
(you can post a video clip mesg)
- Start an email list
- Print fliers and business cards
- Start small group meetings in homes
- Prepare for candidate debat forums
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4) Get infomation from CCHOA
- Find the office; introduce yourself
- Get a flier at every mailcenter
- Start a calendar; focus on deadlines
- Learn the process
What you shouldn't do:
1) Don't just focus on a small neighborhood, like Park West - you are going to be running ''at large''. That means, you need the votes from thousands of voters, no just your neighbors.
2) Don't wait for CCHOA to make the first move. They are slow and this is new for them, too.
There are 5 positions that will be on the next ballot - which one do you want to run for ? They are staggered terms, so that we are re-electing at least 2 directors every year.
1) Ken Rigsbee's place is for 3 years. It ends in March.
2) One more new place will be for 1 year (it will expire next year, when Jim O'Rielly's term is up)
The terms were setup so that we elect at least 2 members every year. Every three years, we will be electing three directors.
FYI The directors choose from among themselves, their respective duties and titles. One will be President, one VP, one Secretary, one Treasurer, and after that, three directors will not have specific jobs.
The immediate advantage of having more directors, is that there are enough of them to sit on our standing committees (Recreation, Architecture Control, and Communications, for instance, allowing them to act without direct BOD micro management).
We'll have a lot more director meetings and some workshops, as the new directors learn the processes and Texas laws on things like the Open Meetings Act.
Hopefully, one director will be come the media spokes person. While it might seem like a natural for the President, it doesn't have to be that way at all. Media is a two communication channel.
1) Orgainize your ideas (and leave some room postions that you haven't considered yet). This is a learning process, too!
2) Get out and talk to ALL your neighbors. Find out what their issues are. Get ready to listen to people who don't think like you do. You need their votes, too!
3) Communicate:
- Write down your ideas
- Consider a web site - it's easy
(you can post a video clip mesg)
- Start an email list
- Print fliers and business cards
- Start small group meetings in homes
- Prepare for candidate debat forums
-
4) Get infomation from CCHOA
- Find the office; introduce yourself
- Get a flier at every mailcenter
- Start a calendar; focus on deadlines
- Learn the process
What you shouldn't do:
1) Don't just focus on a small neighborhood, like Park West - you are going to be running ''at large''. That means, you need the votes from thousands of voters, no just your neighbors.
2) Don't wait for CCHOA to make the first move. They are slow and this is new for them, too.
There are 5 positions that will be on the next ballot - which one do you want to run for ? They are staggered terms, so that we are re-electing at least 2 directors every year.
1) Ken Rigsbee's place is for 3 years. It ends in March.
2) One more new place will be for 1 year (it will expire next year, when Jim O'Rielly's term is up)
The terms were setup so that we elect at least 2 members every year. Every three years, we will be electing three directors.
FYI The directors choose from among themselves, their respective duties and titles. One will be President, one VP, one Secretary, one Treasurer, and after that, three directors will not have specific jobs.
The immediate advantage of having more directors, is that there are enough of them to sit on our standing committees (Recreation, Architecture Control, and Communications, for instance, allowing them to act without direct BOD micro management).
We'll have a lot more director meetings and some workshops, as the new directors learn the processes and Texas laws on things like the Open Meetings Act.
Hopefully, one director will be come the media spokes person. While it might seem like a natural for the President, it doesn't have to be that way at all. Media is a two communication channel.