The Lake Forest Caucus leadership captured a big victory Thursday when its general membership easily approved its proposed officer slate in a special election.
“We did a lot of effort to increase engagement to get people to turn out,” he said. “I expected 1,000 people to turn out and vote, so we exceeded that by roughly 40%. Despite the large differential, it was a victory for the whole community.” Last November, the Caucus Committee proposed removing the general membership acceptance vote out of the process, but members voted down that idea.Before voting started, Oriti sent out a community e-mail saying he had heard the anger and frustrations of community members and promised changes were ahead for the organization.
“It needs to happen sooner rather than later so that we can operate and avoid what has happened and eliminate any anger, frustration in the community, and strive the operations continue and they are carried out to fulfill the mission,” he said. “The vast majority like the caucus and want to see it succeed.”