Without cause still continues.........

During the recent election of the Quad Representatives, all four participants agreed in essence to Ms. Floyd's question about the "without cause" issue that applies where fellow Board Members can remove an elected and/or appointed member on the board without cause wasn't fair.  One Quad Representative stated to the audience that Ms. Floyd misrepresented herself when asking the question, as there was no such stipulation in the by-laws of the CVCBD.  However, when this provision was pointed out, he admitted in front of those who gathered at this meeting, that it was unfair and that he would check it out. 

Three of the quad members returned to their position as "Quad Representative" and one new one was added who will not be sworn in until January of 2013, so now that the three of the four are already on the board when will they take up the argument against this amendment?  As we do not have access to any of the board minutes since May 29, 2012 we cannot know for certain that the three of the four Quad Representatives asked and/or discussed the issue with the remainder of the board.  We have heard that there are problems with the web site, and problems still seem to exist with the Reading Garden and it appears to this writer that there are always problems on issues important to this neighborhood, however there are no problems writing up by-laws which contain the words "without cause".  Strange that the Board has to get rid of anyone they don't like on the Board by applying to the Board of Estimates year after year to approve this condition, but they cannot fix the computer system that they rely upon every day or get a Reading Garden built after they took credit for it.  I passed over there the other day and noted that it wouldn't take that much "sweat equity" to get it looking complete and clean and with the placement of the seating David Hill has in his office, it could still be a Reading Garden.  If you want to see what a neighborhood can do when they want to, go to North and Greenmount Avenues and see what a neighborhood did with a lot there.  Couldn't Charles Village do just as well?

With respect to the "without cause" issue think of it this way, you elect your representative because you believe that he/she will represent your interest and then the Board gets rid of this person "without cause", no reason given, just "without cause".  Is this fair?  Is this right?  No, it isn't because it takes your rights away as though you had not voted.  Let's put this issue in the background, just change the stupid by-laws so it doesn't make us look like pigs.