How do we communicate with others on our garden?

How do we communicate with others on our garden?

How do we communicate with each other to see if anyone is interested or canvas support.

On my garden the current President had a way of achieving the above before last year’s AGM as I and others on my garden received personal emails from him asking for our vote (How did he get these email addresses)?

 As far as I know the current president of my garden has been completely inactive, I have never received any updates or communication from this person since his election.

Phil

This is a very good question.

How do you vote for someone that you have never met nor had any contact with, regarding your Jardin or issues to do with the resort?

Is there a list of alternative choices for each Jardin President?

Who is in the running for each Jardin, other than the current Presidents?

On the list of nominee's there may be a contact email address. There was for us last year and I contacted our President that way-  use 'bablefish' or similar if you want to send the message in Spanish. Our President did reply and the next time we were in our Jardin the President came and introduced himself to us.

Possibly ML would forward any similar emails if nominee's haven't wanted to make public their contact email address.

 PGM very good point if your President has been inactive then he does not deserve a vote, unfortunately there are a few of these why do they do it? some i must say were nominated by default as there was no volunteers and if none they take the lowest number house and they are President and can do nothing about it, Nothing is the usaul response, what you need is a willing volunteer and one who is prepared to work at it, its not easy, and is time consuming. Your e-mail was not given to your President the letter was sent out on his behalf by the administrator, he should have agreed it prior to it being sent, so in your case whatever Jardin you are in your Inactive President wants to run again? why??? he does not get paid?? perhaps he just likes the title???

You can use the letter and the attached proxy to give any owner your proxy after all why give an inactive  President your proxy so he can vote for himself??  

Who else is running?? unless another person makes themselves know then you will never know, you can check Ptan's list to see if someone has volunteered?

Other than word of mouth it may be difficult to talk to others in your Jardin as e-mails can not be shared?

Its a pity that someof the critics on this forum don't volunteer they seem to have a lot to say. 

Hi

I agree with Mick in 100%. we are lucky enough to have him as our president. we will be always informed about mettings and everything what affects us and the our garden. after the meeting we will always get minutes etc (i know that Mick will also provide them in spanish for our spanish residents).

We hope that everyone could have president like we have

Thanks Mick and Lesley (I hope I spelled your name right :-))))

Best regards

Gregory

Sonatigh you make a good point and as soon as PW start to build again I hope they actually go ahead with the golf suites because I'm top of the list for a neat 1 bed apartment for me and my best beloved and I'll be first out of the blocks as a nominee. Until then I'm in a triangle of owners and as a President might be under some pressure from other domestic viewpoints. I'm happy to fire my own bullets but not other peoples.

Thought Jann made a good point about just using the email contact  and a translater programme.

PGM,

This year the letters were sent out by Mileniun.   Personally I was against them being sent as I believed that should of just said that it was important that the owners will their proxy to the person that wished to be president or any other person who could attend the meeting NOT simply the current president.  In my view this is undemocratic and would prejudice the ability for new presidents to be elected.  Any president who wished to be reelected should do what I and other presidents did and contact they owners directly using the contact list that they had compiled through personal contact.  As Mick points out why give your proxy to an inactive presidents so they can simply vote for themselves?

Don't know how they got the email addresses last year.

If your president is inactive and has never communicated with the owners in the garden, then they should not be reelected.  

Chops 14.

Indeed, why vote for someone that has never asked the opinion of those in their garden?  The role of the president it to keep the owners in their level 3 community informed and solicit their opinion on any matter that concern them.

The list of those running this year can be seen on the previous thread http://www.eyeonspain.com/community-forum/25212/2011-presidents.aspx or on the community website http://cdagr.wordpress.com/contacts/2011-president-nominations

Any owner can be a president all that is needed is the commitment to spare the time to get involved, all the information to the presidents from Mileniun should be in both Spanish and English.  Their is a private forum for the presidents to discuss issues and as Jann say there are many tools to help you translate the emails that are only sent in Spanish.

If anyone wants to be president for their garden/block let me know, as Mick says I cannot give out email addresses but I can forward any emails from those standing to the other owners in their garden,  Mileniun should aslo do this if requested.

The AGM is on Saturday May 28th, the venue has not yet been confirmed, all owners should be informed of the venue and the full agenda in the call to the AGM which should be sent out at least 10Days prior to the meeting.

We hadn't realised the President might be inactive when receiving the ML email- as ptan had said " It is not a requirement that nominations are registered prior to the AGM, on the day anyone can stand for election" and thought it was simply that the name hadn't yet gone forward.