Up North Lover

Thanks everyone for your responses.

Mr. Unruly did not attend last years' annual meeting due to concerns his for catching COVID, as per him. Yet he as at a committee meeting a few weeks later without a mask. The concern for suspending him or other penalties is that our Bylaws thru the years have not always enforced and other members have disobeyed bylaws without consequence (like ignoring building set backs or exterior finishes). So the thought is that if any enforcement of the rules were to happen to him, he could challenge that enforcement by saying others don't follow the rules so why should he. We did seek legal council and we were told to merely ignore his bullying behaviors, as noted earlier. As for having an intervention with him many Board members thru the years have tried to reason with him when he has broken numerous rules throughout the years but there is no reasoning with him. Many of those conversations have lead to more of his threats of lawsuits and he has even damaged personal property of the person trying to "reason" with him. It appears he wants to come off as unstable, and then no one follows thru on any more interventions because they are too afraid of him. I ordered the RONR, so I can't review the citation noted. My older version refers to a trial. If that is the direction to pursue is a trial I don't think anyone from our organization will be in favor of that.

Thanks for the responses. It doesn't seem like the censure motion will be of any help. I'm pretty certain that blocking his emails will be of no use either as I and the other Board Members have ignored his emails, so then he sends his email via certified mail. When we don't respond to that letter then he emails the entire association saying that we are not cooperative. We are very frustrated with his behavior. We are all volunteers and want wat is best for our community. He has already been so malicious to our VP that he has resigned mid term. I thin that is the motive here, bully us so we resign and no one else will want to take on the roles as they see how we were treated. Is there any other way to help with this problem?

Hello, I am new to this forum and hope I am submitting my questions correctly. Our Lake Association uses Robert's Rules and has done so since its inception over 40 years ago. I am the Secretary for the Association and I am looking into how our association can manage an unruly member. This member has sent several contentious emails to all Lake Association members throughout the year but does not attend the yearly meetings in person, so his behaviors are not experienced live, just via emails. He has threatened lawsuits in more than one occasion and recently threatened to sue any Association Committee Member that worked on a project for a motion that passed unanimously at the last annual meeting. Additionally he has accused several members of collusion (myself included) and also in his emails he has accused members of lying, deceit, and other bullying behaviors. There is evidence that he has lied and been deceitful in the emails he sent to all members. My questions are: 1. Can and/or how could he be censured for his email behavior? 2. Our group has never discussed censuring, can someone be censured if it is not in our bylaws but we adopt Robert's Rules? 3. Is there any other avenue to manage his threatening emails? Thank you