There are two signs at the concierge’s desk in our Market Street at Town Center Condominium lobby which conflict with the recently-amended leasing bylaw regarding which unit owners are "grandfathered." For further explanation, please see my post at http://msa-towncenter.blogspot.com/2014/06/signs-conflict-with-leasing-bylaw.html
Section 2 of Article III of our Bylaws includes this
sentence: "The Board of Directors
shall have the power from time to time to adopt any Rules and Regulations
deemed necessary for the benefit and enjoyment of the Condominium; provided,
however, that such Rules and Regulations shall not be in conflict with the
Condominium Act, the Declaration or these Bylaws." I construe those signs in the lobby to be
Rules and Regulations which, as such, must NOT be in conflict with our Bylaws. You can view our Bylaws (including the UNamended
leasing bylaw) at http://www.marketstreetattowncenter.com/docs/BylawsV4.PDF
To view the AMENDED leasing bylaw, go to http://www.marketstreetattowncenter.com/docs/Bylaws_Amendment_Leasing.pdf Ironically, it appears that those signs in
the lobby, by conflicting with the amended leasing bylaw, violate this sentence
of that very bylaw: "(ix) The Board of
Directors shall have the right to adopt rules and regulations to carry out and
enforce the requirements of these subsections, provided such rules and
regulations do not conflict with these provisions."
I fear that anyone who knows what the amended
bylaw says and sees those conflicting signs may question the competence--or
willingness to comply with applicable requirements--of our Market Street at
Town Center Condominium management and Board of Directors.
I have been trying
since early May 2014 to get those conflicting signs corrected, first by talking three times
with our Property Manager, Sue Carr--even providing her a proposed corrected
version of the longer of the two conflicting signs at the time of our third
conversation on the issue, in mid-May.
Seeing that the uncorrected conflicting signs had remained in place in
the lobby, I pleaded for the corrections directly to our Board of Directors at
its 29 May 2014 meeting. Discussion with
Ms. Carr the morning after that Board meeting continued to indicate no
intention to correct those conflicting signs, so, on 1 June 2014, I sent a
follow-up email to the Board, again making the case for correction of those
conflicting signs. Those conflicting
signs are still in the lobby today, which is why I feel it is now appropriate
to put up this post. I am saddened, embarrassed
and surprised that getting those conflicting signs corrected has proven so
difficult.
1 comment:
Glad that I found your blog. There are things that we didn't understand about condominiums. There are many laws about it. Thanks for sharing this!
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