When the Walden Lake Community Association board directors gathered for their monthly meeting Monday, Nov. 17, one member was missing: Jim Chancey, who had served as president of the board since April 2014.
Vice president Rich Glorioso presented a short but formal email he had received from Chancey Nov. 13, which explained the absence to the rest of the board members, who had not been notified earlier.
“Please accept this notification as my formal request to resign as president of the Walden Lake Board of Directors, as well as an elected board member,” Chancey wrote. “This request is due to concerning health issues and the request of my personal physician.”
Chancey did not respond to requests for further comment.
For the next month, Glorioso will be overseeing the board as its acting president.
Any Walden Lake residents who are interested in joining the board can drop off their resumes at the association’s office. They can contact any board member to ask about the process, but Ray Page is overseeing the nomination committee.
At the December meeting, the board will review the list of residents who have applied, and then take a vote.
“Usually there’s not a big list,” Glorioso said. “Most boards, it’s hard to find people for.”
After the new member is instated, the directors will elect a president and vice president from among themselves to finish out Chancey’s term, which would have lasted until April 2015.
Glorioso said he does not expect many problems to result from the board being one director short for the next month, because the community’s property manager is responsible for enforcing the community’s policies. The board only creates the policies.
The one potential issue is that the board needs to select a new property manager for 2015.
The current property manager, Lee Weiss, will be at Walden Lake until the end of November. He will remain an employee of Associa, the current management company, but move to another community. Associa will send a transitional manager to finish out the year, before the association’s contract with new management company Greenacre Properties becomes effective Jan. 1.
Bruce Rodwell, chairman of the committee dedicated to issues related to the Greenacre contract, said he had emailed Greenacre staff with criteria that the board hoped to find in a new manager. Greenacre will offer as many potential managers as the board members request until they are able to select one.
Contact Catherine Sinclair at csinclair@plantcityobserver.com.