Circle C Neighbors

I was privileged to be a member of the CCHOA Ad Hoc Bylaws Committee which was formed in the Spring, 2003 and disbanded by the Steering Committee and Board in the Summer, 2003. It was my pleasure to have served on this Committee with three other excellent, professional, and knowledgeable people: Cynthia Harris, Chris Bourgeacq, and Royal Masset.

After submitting a preliminary draft Bylaws document to the Steering Committee and Board of CCHOA, the Bylaws Committee received the following e-mail message from Ken Rigsbee, CCHOA Board of Director.

E-mail dated: Saturday, August 30,2003, 6:22 p.m. It was sent to Steering Committee leadership, the other two Board Members, Susan Hoover, and forwarded to the Bylaws Committee Chairperson, Royal Masset. The following is the entirety of the e-mail.

''Subject: RE: FW: Committee report

Well -Here's how I see this. The committee is a creature of the Board of the CCHoA. They are NOT in a position to call for a public hearing. I want to see the report and answer some of the questions BEFORE anything is brought to the public. This is NOT the PTA. The Board makes the decisions. The Board can solicit input, but we will not have a 'democratic vote' on how we will modify the bylaws.

Regards,
Ken Rigsbee''

After the above statement and several other extremely derogatory, unprofessional comments by Ken Rigsbee regarding the Bylaws Committee report, draft, and activities, I became quite vocal about the leadership of the CCHOA, questionable activities, and statements from them.

I have to this day remained vocal about inappropriate leadership and actions the CCHOA Board takes. Many of their actions are simply inappropriate.

I encourage you, as a member of the CCHOA, to stand up for what is right. Help point the CCHOA in the right direction - moving forward.

1. Vote for 9 Board members. You need a strong voice in the CCHOA to counteract statements and actions as cited above in Rigsbee's e-mail.
2. Write-in vote for Quentin Fennessy.
3. Vote for a code of ethics.
4. Be at the Tuesday meeting or give your proxy to someone you trust to do the right thing for you.
5. Tell your friends and neighbors to vote to move CCHOA forward.

Sincerely,
Pam Voss
Former Ad Hoc Bylaws Committee Member
Current Pool Committee Member

Amendment # 1

Why have you or no other person who routinely post on this website not
supported the ''option of choosing someone who is the best qualified'' to guide the HOA meeting. Please tell me
who is qualified to say who is best
qualified. When I attend the Dell stock
holders meeting I don't expect a qualified stckholder to conduct the meeting, would you?

The issue is free speech

The real issue on this matter is not who is best qualified to run the CCHOA. Rather, this matter simply asks WHO is going to be calling on residents to speak, allowing the agenda to progress, and making sure everyone who wants to gets a fair opportunity to speak.
If you've ever attended some of the more recent HOA meetings, you've probably seen where residents are cut off, ignored, effectively gagged, or basically not allowed to voice their concerns or opinions.
What this proposal calls for is basically to have someone act as the parliamentarian to moderate the flow of the meeting -- something that's definitely been lacking for years.
If you read the proposed By-laws amendments by the committee from last year, you'll see they recommended an official position of parliamentarian for this very reason.
This has nothing at all to do with who's the best or most qualified person to run the HOA or represent your interests. It deals only with avoiding the utter chaos we saw a year ago at the last annual meeting.
Pleaase come to the meeting next week and, hopefully, you and the rest of us will have a fair chance to voice all sides of all the issues.

Because CCHOA has NO rules

Until CCHOA has rules that define how their meetings are to be run, the judge says to use the generally accepted Roberts Rules of Order.

Those rules include the following proceedures:

1) Choosing the meeting leader, with a show of hands, from the assembled membership.

2) That meeting leader then asks for the agenda to be adopted, or offeres one.

3) The first order of business is always to accept the minutes from the previous meeting.

SOUNDS UNFAMILIAR, doesn't it !?


Last year, at the March 26th, 2003 CCHOA annual members meeting, chaos errupted, because Jim O'Reilly and Ken Rigsee didn't have any idea what they were doing.


They may have had the best intentions, but they proved that they cannot run a meeting, especially one where the HOA members have issues, concerns, and want changes that the BOD is not will or prepared to allow. Our CCHOA is rigged so that nobody else can participate.


In the next meeting, we will have the option to elect a CERTIFIED PARLIAMENTARIAN, who is highly experienced and willing to run our meeting in an orderly and precise manner.

This is not a Stock Holders meeting. CCHOA is NOT a public corporation. It is a Texas Non-Profit corporation and YOU, the members, have rights that have never been extended to you.

It's time for a change.

This IS a democratic process and it can be done without harrassment and retribution.

Oh, yeah, jerks who insist on interupting and cat-calling, will be ejected from the meeting this time !