In the aftermath of the struggle to post announcements about the City Walk Talk newsletter to the bulletin boards, I heard* that one board member suggested that they vote on removing the bulletin boards entirely! Thankfully, nothing seems to have come of this, but it underscored the need for channels of communication among the owners that are not subject to suppression by the board.
So I’d like to ask every reader of City Walk Talk and its newsletter to help me spread the word about this site and especially about the newsletter. Point any fellow owners you know to
www.CityWalkTalk.com/newsletter
and encourage them to sign up. I only send a maximum total of 300 words per month, so it won’t clutter their inboxes or their time.
Thanks!
* The person who leaked this to me gave their permission for me to share it, but I wondered whether it was okay to share it even with permission, given that it was an internal board discussion. I finally decided that yes, it’s important for insiders to have a way to broadcast news about normally confidential discussions when those discussions include suggestions that are beyond the pale. These kinds of revelations tell us about the mindset of the people we voted into leadership that we might not necessarily learn from scrubbed public pronouncements. And what I learned in this case was not just one board member’s random personality quirk or character flaw (i.e. generic “dirt”, which I would consider off-limits) but their attitude toward a subject–free speech and open discussion–that is central to good governance, and that the current board majority does not have a good record on.
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