Nathan’s Company Meetings
This is a very expensive book so I can't recommend that most condo
owners should buy it but a copy should be bought by all condo boards
and all directors should become familiar with the basic rules for
running a board meeting and an Annual General Meeting.
Can't play the
game
You can't play a sport if you don't know the rules of the game and it
is the same when you become a director. If you don't know the meeting
rules and how an election is run, then how can you be an effective
director? (Doing whatever the manager tells you to do is not
being an effective director.)
You can't
understand the game
If they don't know the basic rules, how can the owners participate in
the owner meetings in a meaningfully way? Is is not possible.
Unlike the Little Red Book, I am not suggesting that owners should take
Nathan's book to the management office or to the owners' meetings and
use it to
beat upon the directors but it should be read so that the directors
know their responsibilities and so the owners will understand how the
condo corporation's meetings and elections should be run.
If most directors and owners understood their mutual responsibilities
then there may be far less condo disputes and legal issues.
I have highlighted some of the key areas that this book covers with the
hope that you encourage your board to buy a copy.
top
contents chapter previous next