Operations Committee disruption

Hi All,
At the Operations Committee meeting of July 27, 2010 one of our guests rose, unrecognized by the chair, and loudly proclaimed the UCO President and Chair of the Committee to be a Communist, and running a Communist meeting and further stated that his actions made Joe Stalin look like a pussycat! Arguably actionable speech in a public forum; and fully captured in Minutes of the meeting!

I am also advised that this same individual threatened the editor of the UCO
Reporter with unspecified consequences if the Reporter failed to publish her submitted articles! Also, fortunately documented and witnessed!

This outburst, because I attempted to reduce the incessant interruptions by a small group of disruptive persons, by limiting participation to one speaker in support and one speaker opposed to any motion prior to a vote being taken. This is provided for in our Bylaws.

I would suggest that the behaviour noted above be stopped and that the "Loyal Opposition" come with ideas rather than disruption; in which case, the Operations Committee can return to less restrictive guest participation rules

Dave Israel

OPERATIONS COMMITTEE

Why would the operations committee vote to spend an ADDITIONAL $500+ a month to FPL to keep the fountains running during the day? Yes, they look nice but you really don't see the lighting colors until evening. I was at this meeting when Ms. Richland made a motion to spend this additional money(in these hard economical times) and it was seconded by Ms. Avis Blank. The other two votes were Ms. Rhea Cohen and Mr. Bob Marshall.The negative votes were Ms. Dorothy Tetro, Mr. Frank Cornish, Mr. Sal Bummulo & Ms. Jeanette Veglia, I thank you four for thinking of the village and wanting to save money and conserve electric. Mr. Israel voted for this spending and broke the tie.
I am hoping someone will reconsider this at the next meeting. As chair of transportation, we are doing our share by shutting down the busses, to SAVE money and the envirnoment. Shouldn't we all be doing our share.