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Section 5: OPA Board Subject: Stevens Shatters His Board Majority Msg# 913039
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Having seven members who are independent thinkers is, in my opinion, the best way for our BOD to conduct the business of OPA.
Has never existed and never will. As for the majority and who are members of it -- you may be one of the few people in OP who don't think Stevens, Clarke, Renaud, and Collins were representing themselves as the new board majority. Not to mention even GM Bob Thompson has publicly recognized this new board majority, and you can bet he did not include Cordwell, Terry or O'Hare as among its members. There are only four left. Thompson calls the majority the board's "senior leadership." An interesting description and one can only wonder how he came up with that nonsense. Then we have O'Hare calling Stevens a bully in a newspaper account; we have Cordwell saying he was "appalled" at how Stevens treated O'Hare. We have O'Hare or Cordwell apparently releasing internal board emails to the press. You know ... the kind of thing the old majority under Terry would have Joe Moore investigating. We have Terry trying to be Mr. Nice but obviously siding with O'Hare and Cordwell, two board members on the Terry majority until the election last August. The underlying tension between these two groups (Stevens/Clarke/Collins/Renaud and Terry/Cordwell/O'Hare) is palpable. That is why what happened last Saturday was a political bombshell. You, or anyone, is free to think otherwise. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they are all off someplace having drinks and singing Kumbaya. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: The newly elected President of the Ocean Pines Board of Directors, supposedly with a four - person majority, makes what is more or less his first motion of any importance on an issue very important to him, and two of his majority vote against him. Two of his majority? How did they become two of his majority? I will agree that when Mr. Stevens and Renaud were campaigning for election to the OPA BOD I thought Mr. Renaud was only going to be a puppet for Stevens and Clarke. Mr. Renaud has pleasantly surprised me with his votes as he seems to be an independent who votes his beliefs as to what is in the best interest of OPA property owners. During the over hour-long discussion Tom Terry suggests tabling the motion. Jack Collins, a member of the Stevens majority, suggests tabling the motion. Who made Jack Collins a member of the Stevens majority? Did Mr. Collins announce somewhere along the way that he was a member of the Stevens majority? Look, anyone really interested can view the video and make up their own minds as to whether or not the so-called majority blew it on one of their first forays into the world of motions and board politics. In my opinion the majority blew it. I would agree with your opinion if the best way to govern OPA was to have a coalition of four of the seven member BOD always vote the same way regardless of the issue before them. I don't agree that having a four member coalition on the board to always vote the same way is the best way to govern OPA. Having seven members who are independent thinkers is, in my opinion, the best way for our BOD to conduct the business of OPA. |
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