Re: [UC] Historic Distrrict materials

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In a message dated 6/30/2004 9:53:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also surprising re Nancy's stated reasons for conducting the poll. She writes that "Rather than ask our members to attend yet another meeting on the process, we have decided to poll the entire membership by mail." She was actually being more disingenuous than this. I handed her a printed copy of the resolution during the SHCA board meeting *in April* along with a cover letter stating that I would introduce it as a motion at the June Annual meeting and asking that it therefore be put on the agenda. I reminded her of this in May, when the Board voted to do the poll -- saying that a poll by mail did not obviate the need for or desirability of a vote taken after an open debate conducted under the Rules of Order. So getting the motion tabled with the excuse that people didn't know about it, when it was Nancy and her crew's decision not to let anybody know, is hardly what you'd call honest.   Something else. The motion was tabled -- at which time Nancy said something to the effect that it would be brought back up in September at the next board meeting. No, no no! This was a motion for a vote by the general membership. because it was tabled (by the general membership), it remains pending until the next general meeting. Which may be a year from now, or may be a special meeting held under the by-laws just to consider this motion. Until then, my parliamentary advisors tell me that the issue is officially in limbo, moot, such that SHCA cannot officially go before the Historical Commission and say that the organization endorses the nomination. They have to wait until the outcome of a vote at a general meeting by the general membership to be able to say one way or another. As Hamlet noted in Act III Scene 4, of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, "For 'tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his owne petar."     Always at your service and ready for a dialog, Al Krigman PS: Before Guildenstern, Jr, accuses me of a "needlessly crude ... comment," be advised that a "petar" or -- now  -- "petard" isn't some kind of kinky unmentionable delived in a brown paper wrapper, or a torture truss attached by a Haliburton employee to an Iraqi prisoner, but a small bomb, traditionally set to go off when a person opens a door.