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A THANK-YOU TO HARD-WORKING BOARD MEMBERS!
By
Jan Bergemann
Published
September 7, 2012
We all
celebrated Labor Day this week – mostly with parties and BBQs.
Too many of us have plainly forgotten that this day is supposed
to be a national holiday created to celebrate the economic and social
contributions of workers.
And
even if you remembered the original meaning of this holiday, did
you remember to thank the many hard-working volunteers trying to
do what’s good for your community – the community you live
in?
We
all know that these board members are not the ones grabbing the
headlines in the media. In the media we read daily about the
“other” board members, the ones that think that Adolph or
Joseph is their middle name.
But
that is even more reason why we should thank the “good”
board members, the ones who are trying to do the best for the
community and are following rules and laws.
In
a society where lying, cheating, scams and kickbacks seem to be
considered part of daily life, it’s actually not easy to be a
“good” board member. Temptations to become a bad board
member are huge; bribes and kickbacks are only all too common.
From expensive cruises to free lawn care – we have seen it
all. People from up North, at first disgusted by these methods
of doing business here in
Florida
, seem to get accustomed to these Southern “habits” after a
while – “it’s just the way they are
doing business down here!”
It
is not – and it shouldn’t be! It just shows that we should
thank the “honest” volunteers even more. It’s pretty
difficult to do things right in our community associations,
considering the vague statutes and the many rules supposed to
regulate our community associations. Don’t forget, there is no
course named “101 Community Association Management” in
schools and/or colleges. Good interpretations of existing rules
and laws are hard to come by, because the interpretations of the
rules by the so-called professionals vary widely – it often
depends on who you are asking.
No
matter what, some of these volunteers should be sentenced to
HARD LABOR, while the majority of our community association
board members should be praised and thanked -- for all the hard
labor they are investing on a daily basis in our communities!
Thank
you!
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