An Open Letter to the Community: Leadership...Communication...Commitment

The following letter was submitted by a concerned TAJ resident.

Neighbors -

Recently we all got notice that we are going to have an election to fill 4 positions on the Board….again (didn’t we just go through this in March?). Like you I hope this time we get some people who are LEADERS, who can COMMUNICATE with the owners and contractors, and who can make a COMMITMENT for positive change in our community. There is no need for the Board to work as hard as they do – they need the right office staff, the right property manager, and the right contractors. There are many of you who come to meetings and have great suggestions for change – please volunteer and put your name in to run for the Board. We need fresh faces, new ideas, people who are motivated by their sense of duty to the community to lead us.

Our Board should have people who dissent and do not agree with everyone else – we need debate. We need free thinkers. We keep putting the same people on the Board over and over, expecting different results.

You manage “things”, you lead people – we need leaders.

If you won’t run, convince a neighbor to run. If there are bad people on the Board, let’s recall them and start from scratch.

Let’s put in term limits, so no one can be on the board for more than 4 years in any 10 consecutive year period.

Instead of building captains let’s vote in one person from every building (47 board members) who would then elect the 7 directors and officers – one building/one vote and equal representation – isn’t that what our country was founded on?

If not you – then who?

Thanks for listening.

Bryan Sklar