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Should Members Sue the HOA?

Should Members (homeowners) sue the HOA and the Board of Directors? Why would they do that? The current Board and past Boards have allowed homeowners to be recognized as "Voting Members" who have not been duly-elected by their neighborhoods. If a neighborhood doesn't have a duly-elected Voting Member, that neighborhood is not represented in the HOA. More than ninety-six percent (96.9%) of homeowners (Members) are NOT represented by duly-elected Voting Members. Four neighborhoods (20.9% (518/2480) of the HOA) have no Voting Member at all, legitimate or "recognized". The current Board has never staffed the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee, the Mission of which is to assist neighborhoods in holding Neighborhood Meeting and elected Neighborhood Committees, which then elect their Voting Member. HOA committees have spent months (over the past four years) talking about amending the CC&Rs and the By-Laws. Without duly-elected Voting Members, neither can be amen...
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For whom does Town & Country work?

Here is an important question for the Members (homeowners) of The Summit's HOA. For whom does the management company, Town & Country, work? A. the Members (homeowners)? B. the Board of Directors? Town & Country was "hired" by the HOA. It is contracted by the HOA. Its contract started October 1, 2025. It is paid by the HOA. It works for the HOA; i.e., for the Members of the HOA. But it takes directions from the Board of Directors, or maybe just from the Board President (which is the way it should be). The Board, as a whole, should decide what it wants Town & Country to do (or not to do), but it should be the Board President that directs the Property Manager. With that mind,  When will the Minutes of the March 3, 2026 Regular Board Meeting be posted? When will the Minutes of the April 6, 2026 Special Board Meeting be posted? When will the Financial Operating Results be posted for September 2025, October 2025, November 2025, December 2025, January 2026, February ...
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HOA Online Calendar - April, blank!

Do you know that there is an online Calendar of HOA meetings and events? Go the the HOA's website at www.summithomeowners.com Hover over RESIDENTS. Click on CALENDAR. Select April. You might contact the Property Manager for the HOA or the Board President to ask why the April Calendar is still blank on April 16. I recall hearing 2½ years ago that the communications with the Members was going to get a badly-needed make-over. Will the HOA survive long enough for that to happen?
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HOA Yard Sale

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Got an opinion about yesterday's email regarding the Spring Yard Sale? The office sent out this email "from the Board of Directors" yesterday. Why would it embarrass itself with this type of message? Dear Homeowners, On behalf of the Board of Directors, we would like to inform you that there will not be a Spring yard sale this year. A decision regarding a Fall yard sale will be considered and communicated at a later date. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. Sincerely, Board of Directors How many homeowners really care about a yard sale? If homeowners want it, shouldn't the homeowners be active on a sub-committee and not place any work burden on the office or board? What was the stupid registration requirement in the past? Why should they "register" it? Last year's yard sale was April 5. Did they really need to announce that there wouldn't be a yard sale? Couldn't they just have remained silent? The wording doesn't make any sense...
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Three Weeks to Next BOD Meeting

The next Board of Directors monthly meeting is currently scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, 2026. Will it be held as scheduled? Questions for Members to ask: Why did the Board remove Jeff Lummel as Vice-President? Why did the Board replace him with Noel Weatherbee? Did anyone on the Board bother to read Art. IV of the By-Law? Section 3. Removal. Any officer may be removed by the Board of Directors whenever in its judgment the best interests of the Association will be served thereby .   How were the interests of the Association served by that action? Was there a personal agenda at play? Will Minutes of the April 6, 2026 Special-Called Board Meeting be published? Will the Vote on any Motion be recorded by name, to show who voted for and who voted against? How much, in total, did the HOA spend on its illegal litigation against Gus Philpott (me) between December 2024 and January 2026? Why haven't six months of Financial Operating Results been published? What happened to $445,336.86 Ca...
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Scoop Carelessness

About three months ago I emailed the HOA's office and suggested correcting the spelling of the last name of the RCSD deputy who is the CAT officer for The Summit. Her last name is spelled Gillespie, not Gillepsie. It hasn't been corrected yet, and I'm sending them another suggestion. The description of "CAT Team Officer" is incorrect. CAT is the abbreviation for Community Action Team, so "CAT Team" is redundant. Maybe it's only at the HOA office that they'd say "Community Action Team Team Officer". The April 2026 Scoop still carries Robert Williamson's name as "On-Site Community Manager". Wasn't his last day at the Summit HOA March 4, 2026, the day after the March Board Meeting? The HOA should have an editor of the Scoop who is a homeowner with fine close-reading and editing skills. Is The Summit's HOA getting its money's worth for the $185,000/year being paid to Town & Country for staff? The office hasn...
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Summit Scoop - April 2026

The April edition of The Summit Scoop was published today. What a joke! Why not just kill it and save time and money? The first joke was the "Manager's Report" (Page 1), which wasn't a "report" at all.  Why didn't the Manager report why the Minutes of the March 3, 2026 Board Meeting have never been published? Why didn't the Manager report why the Financial Operating Results have not been published for September 2025, October 2025, November 2025, December 2025, January 2026, February 2026? Why didn't the Manager provide details on the 85 violations issued by the Covenants Committee? Were any of these for parking on the streets of The Summit? The second joke was the "President's Report", which also wasn't a "report". Why didn't the President report what actions have been taken by the Board after the last Board Meeting on March 3, 2026? Why didn't she report that the Board removed Jeff Lummel as Vice-President and...
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