Board memo regarding Cemetery Lot ~

As a recipient, Rick Noffsinger requested this memo be posted:

From: John Cummings [mailto:johncummings73@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 11:13 AM
To: suzzi combs; Benck, Ken; diane jones; Faye Taylor; Joe Claflin; john cummings; john porter; Larry Hibbs; mary pracht
Cc: jimmie weber; Rick Noffsinger
Subject: ACC Meeting on 18 Dec. 2013

The ACC met this morning and approved a new house permit; setting on 19 acres on Possum Run. That's the good news.

We also had a permit request from Noffsinger's for a privacy fence around the cemetery on their lot. All our regulations and policies, as well as Arkansas cemetery regulations, were carefully reviewed by the ACC during the meeting and the permit was issued.

Sue and Joe Pelt paid for the wrought iron fence around the grave site and I believe the stair steps were done by the Questers. This mess just keeps going on and getting worse and worse due to Director Porter's insistence, and now Rick is determined to push back.

This is a big black-eye for this Board and Diamondhead, and seems to have become a laughing matter to some people in our town meetings because the Board can't get it put to bed. The sticking point is our interpretation of Robert's Rules of Order, of which there are many versions. Some versions, including mine, say quote: "a motion to consider again can only be moved by a member who voted on the prevailing side". It is important for us, as the DPOA Board, to decide which way WE want it. I thought that back in November WE decided that the losing side could not make a motion to reconsider this issue, but they did anyway.

If we allow the losing side to reconsider motions, that could go on forever with sore losers on everything we pass. Therefore, I request the Board decide on which interpretation we want for OUR rule at our January 2014 Board meeting and make it retro-active.

John Cummings

Note of Confirmation:  I, Diane Porterfield, just listened to the tape recording of the Board meeting, again.  Fact:  Ken Benck abstained on the 'Cemetery Lot' issue in the October Board meeting.  Dec. 12th Board meeting Ken Benck made the motion to rescind the approved resolution.  Fact:  John Porter abstained on the 'Cemetery Lot' issue in the October Board meeting.  Dec. 12th Board meeting John Porter seconded the motion to rescind the approved resolution.