We found a question and answer (by Algrif), (DATED 31st Aug 2007) which stated clearly that the President MUST rotate around all the community, unless the constittion limits this in some way. Even so residents can insist that a person who has been President once, cannot stand again while there are others who would like to occupy that post. Alson, that if the husband has already been President, the wife is considered to have also held that position. The President and Vice President cannot at the same time be in the pay of the community - ie, a ‘portero’ cannot be at the same time President/Vice President, because he holds a position where he receives a wage from the community (the article is unclear whether this means being employed by individual community members or collectively being employed). The article says that it is FORBIDDEN BY LAW (but which law ?) for the spouse of the President or Vice to be in the pay of the Community.
In a nutshell we have a community whereby the President is a keyholder, collects proxy votes from all his clients, holds the AGM in mid July when many of us find it too hot to attend, does not have committee meetings - refuses to hand over details of expenses (we have only had the accounts for the last year and many expenses are listed but not detailed), - his wife has now been elected as vice president, and the new president is his friend who herself is a keyholder and campaigned heavily to collect proxy votes. We do not feel this is democratic - there was another candidate for President who is now on the committee and has found that there is no record in the minute book of the agm HAVING to be held in July each year, which is what we have been led to believe. We are also concerned that the outgoing president has been contracting work out to his builder friend and not obtaining two or threee comparative quotes for work. Our own proxy vote was emailed to the Administrator, and also handed in at the AGM by one of our neighbours but is not listed/recorded in this years minutes alongside other proxy voters names. They have also refused to pass on contact details of all residents (saying this breaches data protection law), this has not enabled residents to communicate with each other. Unless attending the agm, there is no notification/information about nominees. We are also given very short notice of the agm - our letter arrived in the uk to give us the date barely 4 weeks before (this does not allow for planning even should we be prepared to pay high air flight prices/cope with the heat in mid summer). Hope this puts you in picture, and we are sure that this is not the first situation of this type that has arisen. The community is only 4 years old and we consider the organisation of the officers and committee very poor indeed, but would seem helpless to change this ???
