I didn’t go to last night’s AGM at Mole Hill. Not only did I not run for re-election, but I didn’t even go to vote. Show’s how little faith I have left in whether or not the board is still a functioning part of the Society.
I don’t feel like I’ve given everything I can, but I do feel like I tried to fight the good fight, and that (most of) the folks on the board I was really in direct opposition to are now gone. Initially it was because the Executive Director was really sketchy, and had a really suspicious background that had obviously not been checked.
I went in swinging, and fought for four months straight before the ED left citing health reasons that made it impossible to fulfill his duties. Funny that it didn’t stop him from finding a new job two weeks later somewhere else. The treasurer quit shortly thereafter (or was it just before?) after a heated flamewar in which he told me that “living at Mole Hill, and having cheap rent was a privilege, not a right.” Lovely. Just freakin’ lovely.
Been a long two years. Been a lot of sleepless nights. A lot of pretty atrocious things said in person and in email. Some of them to my face, and some of them said by me. The time approximately half of the board met with BCHousing to discuss the “extraordinary rent increase” (the first of two annual ones they were planning), I was not invited (nor told about the meeting), but found out about it while walking down the lane, and bumped into another board member (one somewhat infamous for lurking around the block. Another tenant noticed that there was a meeting happening, but I wasn’t in it, and so it became public that I wasn’t attending this meeting, due to exclusion by the “Executive” members of the board.
The next time I went to a meeting, and someone had sent in a letter asking why not all members were invited to all meetings, the room was told that we were not doing our duty by keeping the inner machinations of the board secret…
Ugly stuff…
Glad there’s a new board coming, and I wish them well, I really do.
Oddly, I haven’t been able to receive emails from the board list since I told them I was no longer seeking re-election. I guess the Chair took it upon himself to remove me from the list before another “outburst.”
So yeah, I’m done.
This stuff is just too gross to even think about, still, so I’m going to bed.