----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: Election of a new Commodore?
Gil,
please stop cluttering up the internet with your garbage. Normal process
of election will
elect
another commodore, or not. YOU STARTED the buying of shares to get
votes, by your own
declaration. You and only you. Are we to trust you more than
the Coburns? I think your actions
have
answered that question. Concerning your declaration of
innocence: I had already, for the
Board,
reached an agreement (offer and acceptance) to purchase Miriam
Fox's shares.
When
you heard they were available, you used that information gathered from a
Board member and
purchased the shares instead. You should not throw rocks in your
own glass house!
Your
interest in the affairs of the Club has been either good or bad, depending upon
your
actions. When you have helped facilitate the racing and recruit new
members, everyone has been
thankful. When you foment dissention within the Club and
the Board, you help destroy the Club.
We
have many members who do not even want to go to the the Club because you
will be there with
some
obnoxious issue or criticism and offer no solution. You have affected my
use and enjoyment
of the
Club, and I resent that.
It has
been through your threats to sue the Club, delivered at nearly every Board
meeting, that
the
cause to protect the Club property from you has derived. The issue has
been there for years,
but
you were the first of many to actually buy stock to have more votes than
anyone else.
I
resent you using your wealth to have more votes than I have.
You have no right to more say
in the
Club that I have, or any other member has, by use of your wealth. This
whole issue is
solvable by returning to one vote per family member in the operation of
the Club, but then your
purchased votes will only count the same as my vote, and you would be
against that.
Your
participation on the Board continued only until you got what you wanted, a list
of the
stockholders. As soon as you had that, you quit the Board under the
pretext of the notice posted
on the
stock certificates. So instead of helping to work out solutions, you have
decided to become
the
problem. I take your email campaign and actions are because you have
been out-purchased,
and
hence can now be out-voted. Time will tell who is
protective of the Club and who is the threat.
I
think you and your actions have already proved
that.
I
suggest you forget this personal vendetta for the good of the Club and let the
normal course of
matters proceed. All this "stuff" will have no good result, and
only serve the hurt the Club you
publically profess to want to preserve forever. A little compassion
for others, teamwork to obtain
better
results, and personal restraint when you must accept the will of the majority,
will make
everything we do more successful.
Article V, Section 2 Special Meetings
allows any 2 directors to call a special meeting of the WSC Board of
Directors.
Article VII, Section 2. Removal
allows any officer to be removed by a majority vote of the board.
Removal would require 4 of you. I think the
bylaws would eaisly allow a single issue meeting to be held online with full
discussion taking place online if time or travel became an issue.
It would be a better world if a Commodore the
membership could trust to represent stated WSC interests were in charge of the
election on November 30.
It is not clear to me if the membership can
unelect a board member? How do you read this? Would a "No
Confidence" motion be proper with the 1/10 quorum as this may fall under the
election of directors?
...Gil