I've watched the videos of the board meetings - If I was in Lakey's position, I would be incredibly frustrated to be dealing with this board. I get that this is how it works, but it's very clear that you have a seasoned professional dealing people who clearly are not...

CEO: "We should review the strategic plan to make sure our priorities are still aligned coming out of COVID"

Board: "Why?"

The board comes off as idiots who are way out of their element.

There are a few different things in action here.

The CA Board could really function well if the people on it understood what their roles are supposed to be.

The CA Board has had ethics problems for years that are still unresolved—this is really quite unfortunate. Most of us would agree that ethics are important for people in leadership.

Demonizing the Rouse Project was clearly white supremacy at work. There are no longer any POC on the board, are there? For a community as diverse as Columbia, it is shocking that there are no POC on the board. There are also mostly older white men. How can they understand the priorities of their constituents without the lived experience of even raising children in this day and age?

Anyway, I watched the meeting the other day on the livestream and I almost posted to encourage others to watch because people should know what shenanigans these folks are up to.

The Merriweather Post guy is very generous. I think these folks are just completely out of touch and need to let Ms. Boyd get the job done. She’s the right person for this job, and it would be a damn shame if these old cranks ran her out of town.

If you watch any of the meetings, it's just a sad mess.

You have a group of old seniors, that are unprepared and seem to just attend the meeting to be confrontational. They give that vibe where they'd yell at you the second your kid's ball landed in their yard and you walked over to pick it up.

Watching Dick Boulton and Alan Klein in action, makes you wish COVID had hit the area a little harder. Brian England sits staring into space on his video feed. I sometimes wonder if he's dead, but then he mutters something incomprehensible and usually doesn't know what's actually going on. Then you have Eric Greenberg who just falls in line with the Old White Guy posse.

How the CEO hasn't quit at this point is beyond me.

I'm getting older and I firmly believe you limit the age of the people involved in some of these elected positions. Yes it's ageism. Leave this in the hands of the younger members in the CA community that are going to be affected by these decisions long after most of these people on the Board are long dead.

Oh hey...lets not even mention the total lack of diversity on the Board.

Mad respect for Janet Evans. If you ever watch the recording of the meeting where they voted her out of the Chairperson seat. It was just sad. She's one of the few knowledgeable and hardworking members of the Board that is always prepared and knows what's going on.

>I remember that The Rouse Project was not really what it presented itself as.

What does that have to do with anything? The TRP conspiracy is basically Columbia QAnon at this point.

The real problem is the gridlock and micromanaged shitshow that causes competent people to bail on CA work and incompetent yes-men to fill the void they leave behind.

The CA is one crisis away from going broke and having the whole shebang auctioned off to the highest bidder.