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Housing chiefs step down
Every single member of a west London housing association board is set to resign under extreme plans to save an embattled organisation.
Over the last year, Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation(TMO) has been under attack from furious residents, who have called crisis meeting after crisis meeting in a bid to depose its top officials, one even leading to an ongoing police investigation over allegations of threats of unlawful violence.
But now the organisation, which controls council housing throughout the borough, has announced radical plans to reshape the face of the company - whose future hangs in the balance due to a council review of how housing stock is run in the Royal Borough.
On October 27, it will ballot its 4,400 members in a bid to change the TMO constitution. If the reforms are agreed, every member of its 21-strong board will stand down and new elections will be held.
"We need these changes to safeguard the future of tenant management in the Royal Borough," said Juliet Rawlings MBE, who chairs the TMO board of directors.If the changes are agreed in the ballot, all of the existing members of the board will stand down so that new elections can be held and a new streamlined board can be put in place.
The new board will consist of just 15 members, the majority of which will be tenants or leaseholders. Any member of the TMO can stand to be part of the new committee.
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This website contains more detailed resident advice for the TMO's tenants and leaseholders in RBKC caught up the the TMO board's crisis.
http://www.ratmo.org.uk/
RE: Housing chiefs step down
http://kensington.londoninformer.co.uk/2008/10/housing-chiefs-step-down.html
To whom it may concern:
Be well advised he TMO Board ceased to exist as of 25 Aug 2008 by failing to call the mandatory annual TMO Board Elections and the RBK&C Council does not have authority to alter the TMO's company constitution (Memorandum And Articles of Association).
Moreover, I ansofar as so-called TMO Board meeting was held on Thursday evening, 11 September 2008, it follows that: expenses, overtime, days-off compensation, etc for the various attendees will have been paid out of the TMO’s accounts – which gives rise a far more serious matter of apparently misappropriating monies from a Public Body to pay for said ‘9/11’meeting’.
Crucially – the announced 'postal ballot' to alter the TMO's constitution MUST:
A. BE APPROVED BY THE MEMBERS at an EGM, MM or AGM and thus will have no force whatsoever, because-
B. The now defunct TMO board’s decree for a postal vote CANNOT change the constitution, but shamelessly exploits the fact that 80-odd percent of the TMO tenants do not speak English as their first language, and-
C. Worse, the TMO Board, CEO and Council have misled the Press and the TMO residents (K&C News 9th Oct 2008) claiming the entire Board is stepping down when, in fact, the remaining 8 (of 11) TMO Resident Members are listed to go… BUT the remaining 5 Council appointees and 5 ‘Independents’ – who regularly out-vote the under-represented resident Board Members, are staying right where they are unscathed, and-
D. The TMO Board, Management and RBK&C council all pretend that is ‘democracy’.
Hence – clearly it must fall to the courts to ORDER; the TMO Board, the TMO Management and RBK&C Council –
to do, or not do, what is lawfully required, or prohibited - respectively.
RH