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Who Is Responsible?

 Who is responsible for publishing the Minutes of the November 18, 2025 Annual Meeting of Voting Members*? the Minutes of the November 18, 2025 Board Meeting? the Minutes of the 2025 Organizational Meeting** of the Board? (Should have been held on November 18, but was held on December 1.) the Minutes of the December 2, 2025 Board Meeting? the Financial Operating Results for September and October 2025. (The November 2025 Results should be available at the January 6, 2026 Board Meeting.) the 2024 Annual Report? the 2023 Forensic Internal Audit? the 2023 Forensic External Audit? the names of the Directors and their terms-of-office on the HOA's website? the names of the Officers of the HOA on its website? If any of these are still outstanding when the Board Meeting starts on January 6, will they be listed under Old Business? * This may be the most-important meeting of the Association, because 3-4 Directors are elected at this meeting. ** This is the board meeting at which officers a...
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"Christmas Lawyer" beats HOA

A story on FoxNews today illustrates how a HOA should NOT operate. The "Christmas Lawyer", Jeremy Morris of near Hayden, Idaho, likes Christmas. The HOA into which he moved? Not so much. Read the story. The HOA and Morris ended up in court. A jury awarded him $75,000 in 2019. A judge overturned the award. The case eventually reached the SCOTUS. Then the case went to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the 9th Circuit.  Enter a moderator. According to the article,  "They (HOA) ended up paying us significantly more, ironically, than the jury awarded us many years ago. The jury previously awarded us $75,000 (in 2019), and I will tell you that we actually settled for significantly more than $75,000," Morris said. M orris estimated that the HOA spent over a million dollars fighting the $75,000 award. Remember, Board members of a HOA are not spending their own money. They are spending OPM - Other Peoples' Money. They spend the money of their Members. If it's your HOA, i...
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Good News about the HOA

The good news for homeowners about the HOA is that the Board of Directors now has a strong leadership team in place for 2026. The HOA has a difficult financial year in front of it, because of the circumstances it inherited on November 18. The leadership team (the four officers) will meet it head-on, rather than burying problems out-of-sight. The officers now are Brenda Bryant, President; Jeff Lummel, Vice-President; Angelo Turley-Moore, Secretary; and Linda Potter, Treasurer. Homeowners (Members) should remember that the Board members are homeowners and unpaid volunteers. Well, not quite "volunteers", because they were elected. Board members should be able to rely on strong support from a professional HOA management company with the experience and knowledge to lead them through murky waters. One of the first things the new Board will want to do is extricate the HOA from the illegal lawsuit that was filed in its name in December 2024. That lawsuit was filed in the name of the ...
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Bad News Coming?

Will the "new" Board of Directors have some bad news for Members (homeowners) of the HOA? By "new", I mean the majority of the Board, the four directors (Bryant, Lummel, Turley-Moore, Potter) who are now the majority of the Board? Members can expect the Board to be honest about the financial affairs of the HOA. "Bad news" should be revealed. The "new" Board will work hard to re-establish a solid financial footing for the HOA. Reserves have been destroyed. Money was moved out of Reserves in 2025 without vote of the Board. Who okay'ed that? The HOA did not have a legitimate Treasurer after LaToya Adams resigned in May 2025. There was no Treasurer between her date of resignation (May ?) and July 1, when William Hill was illegitimately appointed to the Board in a private, closed, secret, pre-board meeting presided over by Danny Trapp and improperly referred to as an "executive session". Because Hill was not properly appointed, he could ...
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Accounts Receivable $498,000+

As of October 31, 2025, the Accounts Receivables of the HOA (Line 1205) totaled $498,673.65. Why did Danny Trapp and his friends in the majority on the Board (Holmes, Pollin, Hill, Weatherbee) allow A/R to reach almost one-half million dollars? The financial statement for October 2025 was available at the November 18, 2025 BOD Meeting, but it has not yet been posted to the HOA's website.  Will the HOA's Finance Committee prepare and the Treasurer of the Board present a report to the Board (and the Members) of the calculations in the Accounts Receivables? For example, how many homeowners are indebted to the HOA for unpaid dues? what is the ageing of unpaid dues? what amount is owed by each property?* how many debts are about to be written off? how much was written off in 2025? 2024? (Did any Boards ever discuss write-offs at monthly BOD Meetings?) The PRM covers write-offs at Art. III, §C, ¶3 (Page 17). the allowance for uncollectible debt (Line 1210) is $29...
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Next Board Meeting in 17 Days

The next Board of Directors Meeting will be Tuesday, January 6, 2026. This meeting will begin at 6:30PM and will be held at the North Springs Park Community Center, 1320 Clemson Road. Week-ends and holidays will reduce the number of working days between now and then, and the volunteer board members will, hopefully, reduce the time they spend on the affairs of the HOA. Will the management company have time to catch up on unfinished business? Have the dues notices been mailed for the January 1st  Assessment? See the December 2025 Summit Scoop (Page 1) for abbreviated payment information. Dues are late after January 31st. Will the Minutes for November 18th Board Meeting be published? Will the Minutes for December 2nd Board Meeting be published? Will the 2024 Annual Audit be published on the HOA's website? Will the monthly financial statements for September 2025 and October 2025 be published on the HOA's website? These are all Town & Country Management Company duties. Are thes...
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Volunteer Opportunities

If you read today's email from Brenda Bryant, President of The Summit's HOA, you learned of many opportunities to become involved in your HOA. Brenda's message was clear and inviting. There are many ways to pitch in and help.  Getting involved strengthens this community.  If you missed her message, email the office at SummitHelpDesk@tcgrd.com and request a copy of it. The next Board of Directors meeting will be Tuesday, January 6, 2026, at the North Springs Park Community Center, 1320 Clemson Road. The meeting will start at 6:30PM. Be sure to meet the officers and the other directors. Your HOA is back in good hands.
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