BOD Elections means Inflammatory Rhetoric, and Sensitive Information

The Board of Directors is comprised of a group of unit owners that have been chosen by a community election to represent the interests of the community. They make decisions for the common property of the community, and common / shared property. In other words, the BOD members make decisions about how to spend the money of unit owners. That means that being a member of the BOD is a very important duty.

It also means that it is a very stressful duty. Many people are angry about decisions that the BOD makes. Even if those decisions were the best that could be made, it can still be painful for unit owners and they often direct their anger at the BOD.  Sometimes the BOD under-performs, makes mistakes, etc, and deserves an amount of anger directed at them. Whatever the case, it is likely inevitable that BOD and angry unit owners will always go together, than peanut butter and jelly on a sandwich.

Over the past several months there has been a group of unit owners, some of them apparently angry, that have been including me in group emails expressing their desires to change the BOD membership. I have been asked, by some, to post the information from those emails on this website. I have resisted doing so because I have wanted to maintain a higher level of discourse than seems to be expressed in the emails that I was getting. By higher level of discourse, I mean higher level of respect for the parties involved.

However, in spite of the insults and personal attacks contained in the emails, they are not without value. For that reason I have decided to share them. I am placing a link on this website to another website that contains those emails. That other website will serve as an appendix to this one. That appendix is not open to search engines. The only way to get to it will be through the link, TAJ Watch Appendix A in the left column, in the section of USEFUL LINKS.

The New Format

The TAJwatch blog has a new format.  Google's Blogger calls it "Dynamic Views" because the viewers are easily able to change how the posts are displayed by clicking on a selection from the drop-down menu that is found in the upper left hand corner of this page, just under the Blog Title.  The different looks have functional value, as some make it easier to glance through past posts, while others show pictures better, etc.

Also, don't forget that there is a search field in the upper right hand corner of the page.  Enter a search term there and watch the blog respond -- especially when it is in "flipcard" format.

Across the top of the page, underneath the Blog Title, there are words that represent different pages.  The pages are HOME, WELCOME, MANAGEMENT OFFICE INFORMATION, MAPS OF TAJ, and  USEFUL LINKS.  Select a page and you will see different information provided to you.  Click on HOME to return to the posts.

One draw-back of the new format is that "widgets" and "gadgets" no longer work.  All the links that used to be on the sidebar of the previously formatted blog are no longer there.  However, you can find some of those same links (the most useful ones, in my opinion) through the USEFUL LINKS page.

I am interested in feedback.  Feel free to email me or to comment.

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