🗣️ YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST November 11th Membership Meeting Report

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🗣️ YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST
November 11th Membership Meeting Report

November 25, 2020

We know that many recipients of this newsletter are no longer active members and will therefore probably not receive official minutes to the Club’s most recent regular membership meeting (held via Zoom conference on Wednesday evening, November 11, 2020). This is unfortunate considering many of you never got your “buy in” back. But the By-Laws provide that, until the Club refunds the membership fee you paid when joining, then you are still a member because you are still deemed to own a share of stock (Article V, Section 1). In any case, if the official minutes are anything like recently-prior minutes (significant omissions and short on key details), we thought even current members would appreciate this comprehensive analysis.

No Meeting Minutes After Two Weeks: As of this newsletter being sent, some two weeks after the November 11, 2020 meeting, no minutes have been sent to the Club membership. This is appalling. [Read More]
Order of Business: Even though the Order of Business in the By-Laws (Article I, Section 5) describes a required format for all membership meetings, including nine specific items, the President once again failed to conduct this meeting in compliance with the By-Laws. [Read More]
Roll Call: The first order of business (after formally convening the meeting) is supposed to be a roll call (and record) of members in attendance. While the Zoom format does allow members to see who is present at any given time, the roll call has a legally important governance function. If the Club omits this required agenda item, they invalidate any votes by the membership since a quorum is required to convene a meeting and conduct business. [Read More]
Discussion Without Direction: As a result of the President’s decision to violate the By-Laws and ignore the required Order of Business, and to conduct the meeting without a quorum, he ended up presiding over a disorganized random discussion of issues without direction. [Read More]
A Very COVID Christmas Party: The President lamented that only six members had signed up for the indoor four-hour sit-down dinner Christmas Party. There was no discussion at all about the “elephant in the room” – the most likely reason for low interest – the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that both the CDC and State of Florida both recommend avoiding congregating in groups larger than 10. [Read More]
Burning Bridges: Just as spontaneously as the Christmas Party discussion was introduced, it was abandoned in favor of a wide-range of opinions regarding the cost of aircraft maintenance. It seems that, after the Club split from Ameer Mohamed (A&P and President of Aviation Specialty Services Corporation, on KPMP airport) under less-than-desirable circumstances, and after the President discharged – with prejudice – Alex Sanchez (a Club member and A&P who subsequently resigned from the Club), their most-recent “go to” mechanic, Augustin “Gus” Maiz, left his job at South Florida Aircraft Management (SFAM) also on the airport. [Read More]
Insurance Related to CFIs: Vice President Tor Holm said he was submitting documents to the insurance company with identification of the club-approved CFIs. This led to discussion of the fact that the Club’s former Chief Pilot, Ron Ziller, had been unable to renew his CFI and the insurance company would not insure him. [Read More]
The Challenge of Maintaining 45-Year-Old Aircraft: After about 30 minutes, members of the Board and others began talking about a wide range of maintenance issues, but did not seem to reach any meaningful conclusions. [Read More]
Virtual Hangar Flying: That discussion led to members expressing their appreciation for broad-ranging discussion of aviation issues, suggesting that such discussion should become a feature of each meeting that would draw more members to attend. [Read More]
Treasurer’s Report: At about 6PM, the meeting recessed for a few minutes. When the meeting resumed, Greg Gilhooly again promoted attendance at the Christmas Party before giving the floor to Treasurer Andrew Bilukha to provide a financial report. Bilukha said the Club ended the month of October with $5,500 more in the bank than it began. [Read More]
Strange Club Financing by Officers: Just after Bilukha excused himself from the meeting, officers began discussing a confusing series of loans and lines of credit extended by officers to the Club. The nature of the deals seemed rather murky and unclear even to the parties involved, [Read More]
The Kennedy Witch Hunt: Discussion of these confusing and odd financial arrangements was apparently too much for Kennedy to watch without commenting on the hypocrisy and failure of the Club to pay him for a promissory note he had supplied over the summer. But these new officers continued fanning the flames, implying that Kennedy had stolen $400,000 from the Club and they were looking forward to a trial. But, less than a week after this meeting, the Judge in the “Club vs. Kennedy” lawsuit directly called out the new officers, telling them they needed to “roll up their sleeves” to resolve their case against Kennedy. [Read More]
Rambling ‘Till The Bitter End: This meeting ultimately devolved into a lengthy counseling session about maintenance discrepancies (“squawks”) and seeking ways to avoid grounding airplanes. The Board members and Chief Pilot talked about subjects including allegedly improper squawks and the effect they had to ground airplanes, but also the operational impact of such no-notice groundings (members arriving and having no airplane to fly because they’d not been told it was grounded). [Read More]
Our Takeaway: From beginning to end, this was a painful meeting. There was no adherence to required Order of Business. There was no pre-planned agenda. There was no quorum. Practically every subject Club officials discussed bordered on the bizarre (promoting a mass gathering of members to dine via buffet at a Christmas Party during COVID-19; trying to figure out how to end-run insurance requirements; trying to recover from self-inflicted maintenance mismanagement; and even pushing to go to trial against Carl Kennedy). [Read More]

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🗣️ YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRSTNovember 11th Membership Meeting Report

🗣️ YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST
November 11th Membership Meeting Report