Time to step down

 Since being elected, before Covid-19 put this Village and the country into a turbulent spin, The vast majority of Officers have gone into the office and did their duties as required.

On Covid struck our state, The Village has managed to stay pretty healthy. Covid cases have be much lower than the state and county averages. We managed to do this with star mandated Closings and Personal Protective Protocols. UCO has kept a skeleton crew on duty without much of disturbance to the services offered by UCO. As Volunteers Self-quarantined as well as some of the officers with underlying conditions, David Israel, David Boas, Ruth Dreiss, Don Foster and myself kept UCO open. A few weeks later we were joined by Gloria at the barcode desk and with hours cut back slightly, UCO was running without hardly ever closing.

March 2020, the last Delegate Assembly meeting, also the day the current officers were elected. Sandy Cooper, the previous Corresponding Secretary was planning of leaving the village and she asked me to help. She trained me over the course a week, and showed me what she had done over the previous two years. Sandy resigned and I took over her duties without becoming an officer. This was, I believe, in October.

I decided to run for office as Recording Secretary come March 2020.

 I ran unopposed taking John Hess' former position. Olga Wolkenstein was running against Mary Patrick for Corresponding Secretary. Mary Patrick won. After the election, I attempted to show Mary what her duties would be. I even went as far as typing out the step by step instructions on how to turn on, sign into the computer and what was exact information that she would need to enter to perform her duties. She seemed uninterested after entry of two of the five steps in one form vital to Delegate Assembly data entry (and only on 2 sheets). Since that time, she refused to come in and learn her position.

I later found out she objected to my Service Dog, Sadie. She claimed to be allergic and gave me quite a bit of attitude about it, especially when she was told that Sadie is a hypoallergenic breed. She was quoted saying that she refused to work in the building as long as the dog was there. Please keep that last line in mind later.

Since the admin assistant was discharged after the election, that position was now also a vacuum. As Recording Secretary, My position requires my presence in only four committee meetings each month. Operations, Executive Board, Officers and Delegate Assembly.

I covered ALL (since Oct 2019)  of the Corresponding Secretary's position, the majority of the Admin position and my duties as Recording Secretary Since March 2020. 

I left on vacation July 6th, returned Aug 27th. The dog nor I were in the office for a little over a month and a half. Yet the Corr. Sec. never once went in to do any of her duties. Not once. Upon return, I caught up on the work she had neglected and did so until the first or second week of October.

After a dispute with the president, He was told I would only be doing my duties, he would have to hire a new admin, and Mary Patrick will have to come in and do her own work that she was elected to do. She has not done anything but laid claim to the admin desk, which she will soon have to vacate. She still has no clue on her duties and needed help to sign on the computer the one day I saw her there.

The whole purpose of this posting is just to ask/demand Mary Patrick's resignation for the good of the village. I know Mary has a lot of followers in the village, but she needs to do the right thing and resign before she embarasses herself any further.