05.09.08
Dear Friends,It is nice to see the revival of communications among the residents of Retreatvia emails. Efforts should be made, specially by the Governing Body member tobring in more people in the net.I agree with Pradyot that communications must go on and that the civility bemaintained at all times and arbitrariness must be eliminated. Personal Ego killsthe cordiality and spoils the whole atmosphere. In the Note attached to his mail, Pradyot has given examples of how thediscordant meetings have caused embarrassment. I was privy to the developmentsin 2006 but do not recollect of any general body meeting in which Mr.Mukherjee was humiliated. In fact, no general meeting of RAOA was held duringhis tenure. He might be referring to a general meeting of the H & Rresidents. In any case, if you look at the history, there is one common factorin the referred to happenings in the years 2006, 2007 and 2008.We have only one alternative and that is to integrate, cooperate and livetogether. I agree with the ‘answers’ given by him and hereby repeat themmutatis mutandis:- Present Management has failed to work together and therefore the GoverningBody be disbanded.- A young team willing to devote time be elected and given time till May 2009by suitably amending the Byelaws temporarily and for one time only.- An advisory body consisting of 5-6 ‘experienced’ persons from among themembers of the 3 buildings be formed by the members.- To start with, frequent meetings between the elected team and the advisorygroup be held and approach of consensus be adopted.- Civility must be maintained at all levels.I was really pained to note in the last meeting that even most of the membersof the Governing Body had no inkling of the Byelaws and were guided by theinterpretations fed to them. For the information of all, I am attaching a noteon the Byelaws quoting clauses clarifying the questions raised in the lastmeeting. As regards Road Map for Integration, it was delineated in the Preamble to theDraft Byelaws circulated by the then President in December 2007. Best wishes,OPBanga1111/Ivory
