The unmatched absurdity of the aimless shambles of this board’s governance of a quarter billion dollar cooperation with millions in assets and millions in annual transactions stands as a monumentally colossal failure to address the fundamental needs of this community. A full retooling of our board training, expectations, and decision making process needs to start now. 

We must change the time of newly elected board members orientation, the time for certifying members-elect, and develop an annual transition process to ensure board members are fully prepared to govern efficiently and effectively BEFORE they take office. 

Every year board members receive their training about two months AFTER they are elected and about a month after knowing their roles on the board. Substantial money has been spent on lawyers and other supposed specialists and yet, the board's ability to function continually falls far below what should be expected as is evidenced by this and past boards’ dysfunction, lack of decorum, and poor choices for this community. As a consequence, every year a great deal goes undone or is delayed for months until the new board becomes fully informed and...ahem...trained. It is absurd for a board member to wait for the first board meeting to even know if they will need to assume an executive position. Many skills and much information need to be transferred to new members and expecting them to "hit the ground running" without any previous knowledge of the State of the Village leaves the entire community ungoverned for more than a month. As leadership is decided with no need for public input, executive positions can be decided the day of or the day after election results are available and start training at that time. Doing so allows time to learn the skill necessary for leading Greentrees Village correctly, allows members to become comfortable with what various committees and staff do and have to offer, and learn more about the people with whom they will work and interact for the next year. 

We must demand a working knowledge of Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised (RONR) with special training sessions to ensure proper procedures are followed. The use of RONR is long proven to provide the best means of governing democratically and professionally. Board executives in particular have entire sections devoted to how the various positions should organize, what they need to learn specific to the position, and even to where they should sit and when they should vote. While it might be a suggestion of the State of Oregon OAR's, it is a demand of our charter that we use RONR and yet virtually none of the meeting guidelines are even remotely apparent at GTV board meetings. Every representative that comes to meetings without a working knowledge of RONR, our bylaws, CCR's and Rules and Regulations so they may speak intelligently and relevantly when presenting motions or debating the merits of a motion is incredibly unprepared and is not representing their district or the community appropriately. It is clear that all representatives are unprepared to serve this community as per the rules clearly stated in Article 12 of our bylaws.