I didn’t go to last night’s AGM at Mole Hill.\u00a0 Not only did I not run for re-election, but I didn’t even go to vote.\u00a0 Show’s how little faith I have left in whether or not the board is still a functioning part of the Society.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 Initially it was because the Executive Director was really sketchy, and had a really suspicious background that had obviously not been checked.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 Funny that it didn’t stop him from finding a new job two weeks later somewhere else.\u00a0 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.”\u00a0 Lovely.\u00a0 Just freakin’ lovely.<\/p>\n
Been a long two years.\u00a0 Been a lot of sleepless nights.\u00a0 A lot of pretty atrocious things said in person and in email.\u00a0 Some of them to my face, and some of them said by me.\u00a0 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\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n
Ugly stuff…<\/p>\n
Glad there’s a new board coming, and I wish them well, I really do.<\/p>\n
Oddly, I haven’t been able to receive emails from the board list since I told them I was no longer seeking re-election.\u00a0 I guess the Chair took it upon himself to remove me from the list before another “outburst.”<\/p>\n
So yeah, I’m done.<\/p>\n
This stuff is just too gross to even think about, still, so I’m going to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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