The Board of Directors of the Venetia Condominium Association announces the appointment of Loretta Alkalay as Board Vice President. She fills the vacancy resulting from the resignation of Stacey Stokes and will serve out the remainder of her term. The appointment will be ratified at the next Board’s Meeting.
Loretta has been Regional Counsel for a major federal agency in NY for the last 20 years, handling complex litigation, as well as routine real estate, procurement and personnel matters. Most of these years, she’s been forced to manage resources under tight financial constraints; doing much more with much less was a regular challenge. We’re sure she will use these skills to help Venetia move forward while weathering the fiscal crisis that has hit so hard in South Florida.
In the near future, she will be retiring and dividing her time between New York, Miami and Marathon. She looks forward to spending more time with the many Venetia residents she first met fighting the Herald developers.
Please join me in expressing appreciation for Stacey Stoke’s service to date and wishing her well in her endeavors. We know she remains committed to the Venetia and will continue to be involved as a member.
Today, the Venetia Board and I look forward to Loretta’s enthusiasm and leadership experience; we know she will play a vitally important role as we embark on an era of exciting times for the Venetia.
“Welcome on board, Loretta!”
For the Board of Directors
Fabie Verona, C.A.M.
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The Yahoo group as already started their “is this legal as it is not updated in our docs” discussion has already begun.
While I am not an attorney, the Association attorneys detailed the information regarding the replacement appointment of residential directors.
As the construction of the Board moved from 2 Commercial to 2 Residential directors, the correction to update our docs did not pass, however is only a case of dotting the i s and crossing the Ts. If challenged in a court, the Judge would concur that the appointment is in concordance with the State Law regarding the Residential/Commercial Board members and would be dismissed.
While the discussion of such issues is encouraged, the attorneys have addressed it in at least one public forum this year in the building. Having another election costs approx. $5,000 - money we do not have to waste.
Comment by Lonny Paul — July 10, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
I too am convinced our attorney Micheal Gongora is completely correct.
Comment by Sharon Dodge — July 10, 2008 @ 8:05 pm
This is what the Assoc. Attorney had to say:
We dealt with this issue before when Stacey Stokes was appointed after Clayton Cofield resigned. A couple of residents complained that the original governing documents - when there was only one residential board member - required a special election if the residential director resigned. This was because there was no other residential director to appoint. The governing documents provided that if one of the commercial directors resigned the remaining commercial director would appoint a replacement director.
Now that both FL law and the by-laws of the Association have been amended to require two residential directors and one commercial director it only stands to reason that the remaining residential director should be allowed to appoint a replacement until the following election. We tried to amend the by-laws last year to amend this language to confirm this procedure but did not get quorum.
I believe the Association is fine to appoint a replacement director and there is precedent now for them doing this. Of course, if the remaining directors wish to hold a special election to fill the seat they may do so, however, there will be a monetary cost to the Association in doing this.
Comment by Lonny Paul — July 10, 2008 @ 8:34 pm