Scarcely forty-eight hours into his term of office, newly-elected Seven Lakes Landowners Association [SLLA] President Bob Darr finds himself in the hunt for two replacement Board members.
Veteran Directors Melinda Scott and Chuck Mims both resigned from the Board Wednesday afternoon, March 30, Darr told The Times.
Scott -- who was elected Vice President in the Board's organizational meeting on Monday -- said in her resignation letter that her decision was prompted by "differences between myself and the new Board in terms of Board philosophy and protocol." The Board had reappointed Scott to chair the Architectural Review Board.
Mims -- a career law enforcement officer who now operates a private investigations firm -- said in his resignation letter that his business keeps him away from the community for as much as ninety percent of the time, making Board service difficult. Darr had asked Mims to continue his role as Security Director in the coming year.
Darr told The Times that he had informed his fellow Directors of the resignations and asked them give thought to potential replacements for Scott and Mims.
"But I don't want to rush into naming replacements," Darr said.
The Association's By Laws grant the remaining Directors the power fill vacancies on the Board and recommend that "The Board, in filling the vacancy, will give first consideration to the Seven Lakes resident receiving the next largest number of votes in the previous election."
In the case of the election just concluded, the next-highest vote getters would be former Directors Bruce Keyser, Jr. and Randy Zielsdorf, who lost their bids for re-election after attracting fewer than twenty-five percent of the votes cast.
Previous vacancies on the SLLA Board have sometimes been filled from the ranks of election candidates, as when Denny Galford was selected to fill the seat of director Laura Douglass, who resigned in 2008. But when Donna Stephan resigned a month later, the Board passed over all six candidates who finished after Galford in the Annual Meeting elections, instead asking Don Welch to fill the seat.
When interviewed by The Times Wednesday evening, Darr had not set a date for a meeting of the Board to consider replacements. The next Board Work Session is scheduled for Monday, April 11.
