I would have to get a copy of HPO Foundation bylaws to answer your question correctly. As I remember, and this may or may not be accurate, the HPOCA board of directors appoint the trustees of the foundation, or something like that, the terms run for a different length of time than HPOCA positions. This was done on the expectation that the members would approve elected board members for HPOCA, and was designed where influence peddling would not be possible, at least that is how I understand it. --quote Andy 


          Mr. Terry Allen, president of both HPOCA and the HPO foundation. I realize Andy is not the proper authority to answer my questions. YOU ARE!!! and so this post is for you!
                
             If Andy is correct, the by-laws for the HPO foundation have been established and approved on the bases that the new HPOCA by-laws will be approved? Isn't this undermining the current HPOCA bylaws? 

              What happens if the new HPOCA by-laws aren't approved? or is this a way to jam the new by-laws down members throats?   The new by-laws have to be approved because the HPO by-laws are based on them!!!  That isn't right...IS IT!?!!??

             Mr. Allen, president of both HPOCA and the HPO foundation, I was told in the beginning that you and your colleagues didn't care if HPOCA was destroyed by your decisions in November.  I didn't believe that to be true but now I have to wonder. 

        Was this HPO foundation just established to give you and your colleagues a shelter to run to and leave HPOCA to crumble?  Why was the HPO Foundation established while HPOCA is in such turmoil? I understand why members voted to approve the foundation.  They wished to show they were interested in the advancement and growth of HPOCA.   However I was told after my previous post. That at the winter meeting members didn't vote on approving the Foundation but they voted to approve the HPOCA board to look further into establishing such a foundation. My memory is short on such details but if this is true....I JUST DON'T KNOW!!!!

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