GALA Interim Board Moving Quickly On Elections

Formation of an election committee in progress

GLENWOOD, TX, Feb. 17, 2009 -- In the wake a Glenwood Acres Landowner's Association (GALA) board shake-up that resulted in three interim board members being appointed, Acting President Billy Sipes said last night that the board had already selected an Election Committee head, and that he expected the committee seats would be filled soon.

While he declined to name the chairperson, prefering to wait until the entire committee had been constituted, he hinted that some of the members had already been named.

"This Election Committee has their sleeves rolled up, and they're ready to go to work." Sipes said.

He said the committee's work would include taking landowner's input on board candidate nominations, populating and distributing an election ballot, and canvassing results when the nominations were returned.

He promised that all election activities would be open and above board, stating that a letter would go out to landowners shortly with the names of the committee members, and the boards intentions on scheduling the elections.

In a surprise move, he stated that all the board seats would be up for grabs. Even though the terms of Sipes and Member-At-Large A.C. Floyd have not expired, Sipes said it had been agreed, in the interest of fairness, to open the whole board up to balloting.

"We (the interim board) talked about it", he said, "and thought it would be the fair thing to do".