An earlier version of this article, published September 5, 2026, cited Article IV, Section 5 of the Gleneagle Civic Association’s bylaws in describing how directors are seated when their terms end, and pointed to the appointment of Ray Micklewright in 2026 as an example.
Section 5 governs something narrower: the filling of a vacancy arising for any reason other than the removal of a director, which the remaining directors may fill for the balance of that term. Micklewright’s appointment followed the mid-term resignation of Jimmy Owenby and is what that section provides for. Elections at the end of a term are governed by Article IV, Section 4, which requires nomination by a committee and election by secret ballot, and by Article III, which sets the annual meeting in October.
The error was in The Independent’s reading of the bylaws, not in any document supplied to it. It was raised by a reader after publication. The passage has been rewritten to distinguish the two provisions and to set out what the record does and does not show about the 2025 ballot, which carried three questions and no board election.
