The Delegates are in charge.

A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME IN CENTURY VILLAGE
By Neil J. Moore

David Israel tried to send a message but got a message from the delegates he didn't expect instead.

A recent posting by UCO President David Israel has residents perplexed.

The posting appeared on David Israel's blog imploring delegates to come out and vote against a proposed amendment to the bylaws.

In David's words:

The Malcontents have brought forward an Amendment to the UCO Bylaws. The entire item may be read on Page A6 of the December issue of the UCO Reporter.

The poison pill in this Amendment is contained in the following snippet:

"The Executive Board, after due deliberation, shall either approve or disapprove the amendment proposal as presented. The proposal shall then be published in the next issue of the UCO Reporter, and shall then be read and considered by the Delegate Assembly at the meeting following its publication."

the current Bylaw allows the proposed Amendment to expire, if it is rejected by the Executive Board, thus preventing the bogging down of the Delegate Assembly with endless repetitive, frivolous Amendments.

So, what is the true purpose of this Amendment? Clearly it is to amplify the ability of this small group of disruptive people to continue their disruptive behavior at our Delegate Assembly meetings.

In light of the forgoing, I ask the Delegates to attend in great numbers and reject this Amendment at the meeting on Friday, December 4th. Send the disruptor's a clear message.

Dave Israel

What is perplexing to CV Residents is that David Israel voted in favor of this amendment at the committee meetings before bringing it to the delegates .

It's obvious that Israel wanted this motion to go before the delegates so that they could squash it and send a message to the "malcontents" that he is in charge and the delegates could send the disruptor's a clear message , it was a big mistake on his part. The proposed amendment passed with an overwhelming majority at the delegates assembly, who showed support for the so called malcontents in doing so.

The clear message from the delegates is that; THEY ARE IN CHARGE and they are not ready to hand over their authority to anyone, especially one who has trampled residents rights with regularity. Israels statement that the purpose of the amendment is to amplify the ability of a small group of people to disrupt meetings missed the mark. The obvious intention of the amendment is to maintain the delegates rights to approve or disapprove any changes, taking away the veto power that the administration has abused with amazing predictability and regularity.

Israel resorted to his usual underhanded tactic of poisoning the well. He used the UCO email system to promote his personal point of view which is really unacceptable. He also used it to attack a resident activist whom he despises for her activities which is also not an acceptable or authorized use of the email system.

There was no good reason stated why this amendment should be turned down. Israel attacked the authors of the proposal , which was initiated by Olga Wolkenstein, claiming her efforts are merely to disrupt. In Israels opinion the amendment should be turned down, and all authority over bylaws be handed to him and his cronies. The delegates saw through the fog of deception Israel was producing and sent him a clear message in an overwhelming majority that they were not falling for it.

The next step is to reintroduce the proposed amendments that were recently squashed at the committee level by Israel and his gang. TERM LIMITS ... UNIVERSAL VOTING IN THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS .... If David Israel thinks these proposals are frivolous and without merit perhaps he should wait until the delegates have a chance to examine them and vote on adopting them. If he had brought the proposals to the delegates, as has been the custom for many years, the issues would have been dealt with and the vox populi would have been heard. Now the proposals are back to square one and have to go through all the nonsense at the committee levels again.

In any event all proposals to amend the bylaws will now go before the delegates for a vote. We now see an end to the actions of the crony crew at the committees who followed Israels lead and turned down any proposal that did not suit the administrations intentions to control every part of the process and shut out the objections from concerned residents.

The delegates showed their concern and interest in maintaining their position of authority. Now let's see what the delegates think of the rest of the proposals that were arbitrarily buried by the committees. Despite the unreasonable opposition from the committee members it will be up to the delegates to decide.

Judging from the vote on this one issue, it could very well be that the rest of the proposals will pass .

It was a big step for the delegates to take in turning down David Israels ploy and to vote for what's right. Is this a sign of things to come in the upcoming election ? Many residents, fed up with Israels shenanigans, would like to think so.

Neil J. Moore