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Yo everyone: This is majorly important. This issue will be decided
by a small handful of votes, so if you have an account at Coop
Credit Union, you need to be at this meeting to make your voice
heard and your vote count.<br>
<br>
The issue at stake comes down to this: Old-guard Board members are
upset with Tye, Tim, and Mike, for insisting on accountability to
the Credit Union membership. The old-guard wants to throw out the
"radicals" and get back to business as usual. <br>
<br>
I know Tye, Tim, and Mike. They're ferociously committed to
cooperative values of membership democracy and participation, and
they walk their talk. Tim has been involved in a number of
successful worker coop startups in the Bay Area over the last 15+
years. All three are committed to an agenda that will lead to
starting more worker coops and strengthening those that already
exist. <br>
<br>
This vote is about whether the "radicals" get to keep their Board
seats, or whether the old-guard gets to throw them out. <br>
<br>
This is a critical turning point for the Coop Credit Union. <br>
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The meeting is this Tuesday evening, 03 December, at 6:00PM (get
there early!), at the Ed Roberts Campus, which is located directly
above Ashby BART station. Tell your friends and spread the word:
anyone with an account is a member and has a vote, and every single
vote matters. <br>
<br>
-G.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13-12-01-Sun 1:49 PM, Danny
Spitzberg wrote:<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">For those of you who are members of
the Cooperative Development Center Federal Credit Union and/or
interested in political dimensions of democratic
organizations... Read on</span></div>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">And to all a happy
Sunday!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">:Danny</p>
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<p>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Huet</b> <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:easytospell@sbcglobal.net">easytospell@sbcglobal.net</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:31 AM<br>
Subject: from Tim Huet; URGENT info and help needed<br>
To: "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:tim@arizmendi.coop">tim@arizmendi.coop</a>"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:tim@arizmendi.coop">tim@arizmendi.coop</a>><br>
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<p>{This is a matter of great urgency for what-should-be a
democratic organization that can do great good for its
community. I apologize for the mix of personal and work
email addresses, especially if you got duplicate messages.
I'm trying to get this message out to members of the
Cooperative Development Center Federal Credit Union before
Tuesday's meeting; I'm writing you as people who hopefully
know me as someone who has dedicated myself to building
democratic organizations and would not do the things that
certain people in power are accusing me of. Please feel
encouraged to forward this message on to any friends you
know who might be members of the credit union to assist the
effort to fight this assault on democracy.}<br>
<br>
Hello. I have started to receive enquires from friends and
worried credit union members regarding the action of the
credit union’s Supervisory Committee to suspend Tye Kirk,
Mike Leung, and myself.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Let me begin by saying
that I believe the suspensions reflect a grave governance
crisis for the credit union, but I also believe the credit
union is financially secure.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>My primary interest continues to be to revive the
credit union as a democratic institution and have it serve
its community/members well, even if other parties wish to
engage in factional warfare and divert resources that could
better serve the members.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I will provide a brief response to the
charges here because past experience indicates I might not
be given a fair opportunity to respond to charges in the
meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Though fair
process would involve an unbiased investigation, the
Supervisory Committee did not even interview me before
issuing its charges and suspension.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The allegations are
that Tye, Mike, and I…</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>“Attempted to hold one or more
Board meetings without giving notice to the other directors”</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>“At improper meetings attempted to
remove two legally seated directors…”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We never endeavored to remove other board
directors. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We
endeavored to have timely legal elections as part of the
2013 annual meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I
tried everything I could to inform Board Chair Garrett and
Vice Chair Shabaka the bylaws called for their terms to end
with the next annual meeting unless re-elected at that
meeting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The reason the election could not happen
on the meeting date Mr. Shabaka proposed (11/1/13) was
because Mr. Garrett, as Board Chair, did not fulfill his
legal duty of appointing a Nominating Committee with a
sufficient period to seek out qualified candidates.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It would be
understandable if Mr. Garrett simply forgot that his maximum
three-year term was coming to an end (though two annual
meetings without an election in a row should never happen in
a credit union with three-year terms).<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But his failure to take
appropriate action/responsibility once notified of his lapse
is entirely another matter.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Instead of seeking guidance and approval from the
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) about how we
could carry out an election with the greatest haste and
least waste of member resources, Mr. Garrett and Mr. Shabaka
kept pushing toward an early annual meeting without
elections…and apparently stayed on the board without being
re-elected.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So we
had a 2013 “annual meeting” with no elections or substantial
opportunity for the members to give input, at the cost of
thousands of members’ dollars; and now we will apparently
have an extra annual meeting/election in early 2014 (likely
costing thousands more of the members’ dollars). Yet the
Supervisory Committee (primarily charged with making sure
members’ funds are not wasted) ignored this violation.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We tried to organize a meeting of the
board within seven days of the annual meeting as the bylaws
would appear to require; the bylaws require this meeting
primarily to elect new officers (presumably because an
election would have happened and there might be
occasion/need for a change of officers).<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There was an effort to
reach every board member and the one possible time that Mr.
Shabaka, Mr. Leung, Mr. Kirk and I could make was arrived
at, with the hope that Mr. Garrett would be able to find a
way to fulfill this obligation under the bylaws.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But when Mr. Garrett
was called and asked about time in the remaining day to meet
the bylaw obligation, he would not listen or engage in a
cooperative effort to fulfill our obligation; he instead
hung up on the caller.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Though
I expect Mr. Garrett will have more opportunities to speak
for himself, he apparently objected that only he as the
Chair could call a meeting (not true).<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But the real issue was
that a meeting was required the bylaws; he was responsible
as anyone to understand the bylaw requirements; and
particularly if he was the only one who could call the
meeting he would be the person most responsible for making
sure not to violate that bylaw…but he wouldn’t want to have
a meeting where he wouldn’t be eligible to be elected to a
one-year officer term when he was beyond his election term
and it could not be presumed he would be re-elected.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So another actual bylaw
violation – failure to have the meeting within seven days –
due to Mr. Garrett’s inaction and obstruction. <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yet the Supervisory Committee again
ignored this in favor of suspending directors trying to work
out bylaws that would comply with NCUA regulations, allow
for lawful elections, etc. (the bylaws supposedly adopted by
the previous board, including Ms. Pitrie of the Supervisory
Committee, proved to be a jumble of contradictions that
could not possibly have been approved by the NCUA).<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is despite the Supervisory
Committee’s claim that it “takes seriously your, and each of
our members’ rights, to vote on the composition of your
Board.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
Supervisory Committee is required by law to let the members
decide on approving suspension and reinstatement…and only if
members show up December 3<sup>rd</sup> (Ed Roberts Campus,
above Ashby BART, 3075 Adeline; 6 p.m.) who care about
democracy will a fair process and result be assured. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanking you for your consideration,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tim Huet<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
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