Posted by
Katy Grimes on Friday, May 01, 2009 6:51:43 PM
Several months ago, I wrote a column
Downtown Neighborhood Doing Battle about the Land Park Community Association and the long time, entrenched, vicious haridans running it. And then it all started to crumble when two brave board members decided to fight for the neighborhood and waged war. Through the democratic process, they successfully organized a group of Land Park Association members who helped lobby against the old, closed style of board, and through a vote of the membership, voted all of the old members out and/or they resigned. We voted on bylaw changes that imposed term limits, created an open election process and expanded the board from 10 to 15 board members.
This past week, the membership held the annual meeting where 19 Land Park residents ran for board positions! The membership elected 14 to the board; three of those running were incumbents.
The Land Park Community Association has completed the final step in democratizing the association, and the two brave board members who led the fight were the two top vote getters and resoundingly reelected. They have a mandate.
While the rest of the state and country are in a dangerous socialistic swing, our little neighborhood voted to bring Democracy back and prove that every vote matters.
And congratualtions to the two brave guys... Craig Powell and Terry Grimes - yes, my husband. He's a fighter too.
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