The Century Park Villas Board of Directors (BOD) mission statement is quite simple:
Strategic Vision:
To be an owner driven community that can be equally enjoyed by all owners, tenants and invited guests;
To work with due diligence to enhance the common elements with the goal of escalating the property values of Century Park Villas;
Conduct:
To respect all individuals and value their contributions;
To act with honesty and integrity, not compromising the truth or our designated Board positions - EVER.
Accountability:
To faithfully accept our responsibilities, and meet our commitments;
To take responsibility for our performance in all our decisions and actions;
To be financially viable with an emphasis on preserving, protecting and enhancing the common property and facility values within an established budget;
To fulfill our fiduciary responsibilities in the thoughtful development, monitoring and executing the annual budget consistent with the Century Park Villas Inc. By-Laws (as amended), and to maintain all operations within the constraints of this annual budget;
To provide full transparency in all BOD functions.
Teamwork: We work together to achieve our common goals.
CREDO
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE: BOD members
should undertake only those responsibilities and assignments that s/he can
reasonably expect to perform with professional competence. As professional
competence is directly proportional to knowledge, BOD members must have a sound
working knowledge of §718
as well as the Declaration of Condominium, Articles
of Incorporation, By-Laws
and the Rules and Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the Covenants.
DUE DILIGENCE:
BOD members should exercise due professional diligence in the performance of
his/her duties. A BOD member ought not knowingly circumvent any
requirement as prescribed in the Covenants as long as these Covenants are
in accordance with (IAW) and consistent Florida Statutes and/or local
ordinances.
PLANNING AND
SUPERVISION: BOD members should adequately plan, prepare, and perform all of his
or her assigned duties in a timely manner.
BOARD MEETING
CONDUCT: All board members should conduct themselves IAW Robert’s Rules
of Order at all open and closed meetings, and to participate in those convened
meetings in an officerly and business-like manner.
PROFESSIONAL
COURTESY: In the conduct of Association business, all BOD members should
exhibit the highest degree of professional courtesy. Such professional
courtesy must include, but not limited to BOD membership interpersonal
relations, BOD membership and employee(s) interpersonal relations, and during
the conduct of contractual relationships between contractors, vendors, and
suppliers, and employees.
INTEGRITY AND
OBJECTIVITY: A board member shall not knowingly make an untrue statement
of any material fact or knowingly fail to state a material fact in order to
achieve any measure of personal gain for him or herself, or any affiliated
vendor from which s/he may benefit. All decisions and
representations shall be made with the best interests of the association in
mind.
GRATUITIES:
Recognized that vendors and/or suppliers often consider reasonable gifts and
entertainment as an accepted business practice without any intent to influence
the judgment of a BOD member. However, it should be the policy of the BOD
to prohibit the acceptance by its members of gifts, entertainment, or other
favors from existing or prospective contractors, vendors, or suppliers.
Cash gifts of any amount are unacceptable. Gifts of a normal value and are
personal nature given as a token of friendship or special occasions such as
Christmas, a job promotion, or length-of-service award are acceptable. If
this gift, entertainment, or other favor received suggests to a disinterested
third party the BOD member may be influenced in the conduct of the Association's
business with the donor, such a practice does not meet this standards.
USE OF ASSOCIATION
FUNDS: No board member may use any funds being held for Association business for
personal use. All Association funds shall be completely segregated, and
not commingled with any BOD member's funds.
RELATED ENTITIES:
Any obligation to a company or an individual that is related, married, or
cohabitating with a BOD member must be disclosed to the association. This
disclosure must be made in writing and approved by the Association for the BOD
member to remain active.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: No board member,
or employee of a board member, shall use his/her position to enhance his/her own
financial status through recommendation of vendors, suppliers, or contractors
that may compensate a gratuity to the member or employee. Additionally,
any situation that may appear as a conflict of interest must be disclosed in
writing to the BOD at the earliest opportunity. Any transactions with
related parties must be fully disclosed to the Association, and the appropriate
abstention must be noted in the minutes on all discussion and voting relating to
the perceived conflict of interest. Further, §617.0832):
1. No contract or other transaction between a corporation and one or more of its directors or any other corporation, firm, association, or entity in which one or more of its directors are directors or officers or are financially interested shall be either void or voidable because of such relationship or interest, because such director or directors are present at the meeting of the board of directors or a committee thereof which authorizes, approves, or ratifies such contract or transaction, or because his or her or their votes are counted for such purpose, if:
a. The fact of such relationship or interest is disclosed or known to the board of directors or committee which authorizes, approves, or ratifies the contract or transaction by a vote or consent sufficient for the purpose without counting the votes or consents of such interested directors;
b. The fact of such relationship or interest is disclosed or known to the members entitled to vote on such contract or transaction, if any, and they authorize, approve, or ratify it by vote or written consent; or
c. The contract or transaction is fair and reasonable as to the corporation at the time it is authorized by the board, a committee, or the members.
2. For purposes of paragraph (1) (a) only, a conflict-of-interest transaction is authorized, approved, or ratified if it receives the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors on the board of directors, or on the committee, who have no relationship or interest in the transaction described in subsection (1), but a transaction may not be authorized, approved, or ratified under this section by a single director. If a majority of the directors who have no relationship or interest in the transaction vote to authorize, approve, or ratify the transaction, a quorum is present for the purpose of taking action under this section. The presence of, or a vote cast by, a director having a relationship or interest in the transaction does not affect the validity of any action taken under paragraph (1) (a) if the transaction is otherwise authorized, approved, or ratified as provided in subsection (1), but such presence or vote of such a director may be counted for purposes of determining whether the transaction is approved under other sections of this chapter.
3. For purposes of paragraph (1) (b), a conflict-of-interest transaction is authorized, approved, or ratified if it receives the vote of a majority in interest of the members entitled to vote under this subsection. A director who has a relationship or interest in the transaction described in subsection (1) may not vote to determine whether to authorize, approve, or ratify a conflict-of-interest transaction under paragraph (1) (b). However, the vote of that director is counted in determining whether the transaction is approved under other sections of this chapter. A majority in interest of the members entitled to vote on the transaction under this subsection constitutes a quorum for the purpose of taking action under this section. As used in this subsection, the term “majority in interest” refers to a majority of the voting shares or other voting units allotted to the members.