Last week, celebrating Labor Day, we praised the “good” board
members, the ones who work hard to create a “peaceful” community
and are willing to take the time to go to seminars and learn how
things should be done “right!”
This week we are talking about the “bad” guys, the board members
who are not serving the community, but are pursuing their own
private agenda and make up their own “rules” as they go along
without even bothering to get to know the governing documents
and the Florida statutes that regulate their community.
And yes: There are still too many of these “folks” – despite the
fact that free seminars to learn he “right way” are offered
after CCFJ, Inc. helped passing the bills creating these seminar
offering.
The old saying still works with many of these “self-serving”
board members: “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts
absolutely!” It is just amazing how many owners are bitching
about sitting board members, complaining about their actions and
their unwillingness to share important information with the
other owners. Then they recall the sitting board – or get voted
on the board at the next election – only to become worse board
members than the ones they complained about before.
For some of these folks it’s just a “power trip” – allowing them
to tell their neighbors how to run their lives and enjoying some
privileges – also called “kickbacks”. Their names may not be
Adolph, Joseph or Fidel, but these folks can be dangerous
dictators endangering our families’ welfare.
The reason why this can happen: The lack of willingness of our
Florida legislators to finally create a government agency that
actually ENFORCES all the laws they created over
the years. We all know that the best law is useless without
enforcement. And there is nothing in this world that shows that
saying better than community associations.
As long as the Florida Legislature is
unwilling to enact laws that will prevent these communities from
being the breeding ground for dictatorships we will see
dictatorial – and often totally incompetent – board members
running the show!
