Potowmac Overlook Condominium
Association
2015 Nominating Committee
Report to the Association
The
POCA Nominating Committee was reactivated by the Association at the 2014
Annual Meeting and formed on March 3, 2015. The membership of the 2015
committee is as follows: Raed Hamdan (chair), Bille Hougart, Jessica
Patterson Long, Helen Kay, and Ed Mulrenin (secretary). The purpose of the committee
is to recruit and nominate qualified and eligible Unit Owners to serve on the
Board of Directors. Nominations may also be made from the floor at the
Annual Meeting.
In
nominating individuals for the Board, the Committee must look to the Bylaws,
Article III, Section (1), for direction on the number of Board seats up for
election. According to the Bylaws, three seats should be up for
election this year, but there are only two according to the current
succession pattern. This discrepancy mistakenly occurred somewhere
along the line without any change to the Bylaws or Association resolutions.
Inasmuch as this discrepancy is inconsistent with the Bylaws, it must be rectified
as the Association cannot waive the Bylaws. The Committee proposes,
therefore, that the Association cure this violation of the Bylaws in the 2016
three-seat election by resolving that the person receiving the third highest
number of votes in the 2016 election will be elected for an initial term of
one year. (See attached Resolution.) However, if at the time of the May 12,
2015, election there exists at least one vacancy among the seats not up for
reelection, the Committee will amend the attached Resolution to restore in
2015 the succession mandated by the Bylaws to elect three persons to
three seats for two-year terms.
Assuming
that there are only two seats up for election at the 2015 meeting, the
Committee nominates the below-named individuals to serve on the Board of
Directors for two-year terms. The committee has confirmed that the
nominees are unit owners or otherwise qualified to serve; are eligible in
that no lien has been perfected against their units for failure to pay the
assessment; and have indicated that it is their intention to serve their full
terms if elected. Statements from these nominees are
hyperlinked from their names below.
If the
Association resolves to solve the succession problem in the 2015 election and
there are THREE seats up for election for two-year terms, the Committee
reserves the right to nominate a third individual at the Annual Meeting.
The
Committee nominates the following individuals:
There
will be a minority report at the Annual Meeting.
This notice and related material can be found at www.POC2015nominations.blogspot.com
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Potowmac
Overlook Condominium Association
DRAFT
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS:
The Association's Bylaws, Article III, Section (1), call for the election to
two-year terms of three (3) members of the Board of Directors in odd years
and two (2) in even years;
WHEREAS:
2015 is an odd year in which three (3) seats should be up for election;
WHEREAS:
Somewhere in the past the succession pattern mandated in the Bylaws got
improperly interrupted without any change in the Bylaws or Association
resolutions and the current succession being followed shows two (2) seats up
for election in 2015;
WHEREAS:
The Association cannot waive or violate the Bylaws;
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT, in order to cure the violation of the Bylaws,
at the time of the 2016 election when three seats shall be up for election,
the person receiving the third highest number of votes shall be elected for
an initial term of one-year.
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