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Why haven't the Minutes of the November 18th Board of Directors Meeting been published? There were many errors in the Minutes for the October 7th Board of Directors Meeting. Those Minutes were the responsibility of Noel Weatherbee, presumptive Board Secretary at the time. Were they corrected, before the Board voted to approve the Minutes at the November 18th BOD Meeting? Were Minutes prepared for the November 18th Annual Meeting of Voting Members, and will they be published? Those would have been the responsibility of Noel Weatherbee, presumptive Secretary of the Board, because the new Board members had not been seated and announced. Why haven't the Financial Operating Results been published for September 2025? Why haven't the Financial Operating Results been published for October 2025? When will the 2024 Annual Audit be posted on the HOA's website? When will the 2023 forensic internal audit be released to Members? When will the 2023 forensic external audit be released ...

Every November the Voting Members elect four (or three) directors, who serve two-year terms. Four directors are elected in odd-numbered years; three directors are elected in even-numbered years. Four directors were elected on November 18, 2025. They will serve two-year terms until November 2027. They are: Brenda Bryant (2025-2027) Jeff Lummel (2025-2027) Linda Potter (2025-2027) Angelo Turley-Moore (2025-2027) Three directors were elected on November 12, 2024. Their two-year terms run until November, 2026. They were: Tanisha Holmes LaToya Adams (Resigned in May 2025) Ciara Bates (Resigned in May 2025) The successors of LaToya and Ciara were improperly appointed on July 1, 2025, in what then-Board President, Danny Trapp, called an "executive session"; it wasn't.  But their successors were allowed to sit on the Board, even though they were not duly-appointed. The three with two-year terms ending in November 2026 are: William Hill* (2024-2026) Tanisha Hol...

 In an email from the office on December 2, the HOA announced the officers of the Association for the following year (until November 2026). They are: President, Brenda Bryant Vice-President, Jeff Lummel Secretary, Angelo Turley-Moore Treasurer, Linda Potter Brenda and Linda were re-elected to the Board of Directors on November 18, 2026. Jeff and Angelo were elected to the Board on that date.  Brenda, Jeff, and Angelo were write-in candidates, after the Nominating Committee failed to place them on the ballot. Each was a fully-qualified applicant for the Board who should have been a candidate on the ballot.  In addition to the officers, three other directors are on the Board: Tanisha Holmes, who is serving the second year of a two-year term (2024-2026); William Hill, who was appointed (improperly) on July 1, 2025, to succeed one of the two directors who resigned in May 2025. His term-of-office is 2024-2026. Noel Weatherbee, who also was appointed (improperly) on July 1, 202...

The December Board Meeting will be held tonight at 6:30PM in the HOA's office at 305 Ridge Trail Drive. Due to very limited space, tonight's meeting attendance will be limited to Board members and Voting Members. The Minutes of the November 18th Board Meeting have not been published yet, but apparently there was an attempt by some of the directors to change the Board Meeting frequency from monthly to not-less-than-quarterly. This is yet another reason why officers should have been elected at the first board meeting following the Annual Meeting of Voting Members, which was the Board Meeting on November 18th. This meeting-night mess would not have happened. It's hard enough to Members (homeowners) to know what is really going on with their HOA. The four elected directors (Brenda Bryant, Jeff Lummel, Linda Potter, and Angelo Turley-Moore) want monthly meetings to continue. They welcome the homeowner participation at monthly meetings. The other three directors (Tanisha Holmes, ...

The December 2nd Board of Directors Meeting starts at 6:30PM, only 7 hours from now. But where will the meeting be held? Why hasn't Town & Country, the HOA's property manager since October 1st, announced the location? As of the Summit Scoop's publication in early November, the location was "TBA". It likely will not be at Brookland Baptist Church Northeast. Will it be at the North Springs Park Community Center? It was not possible to learn at 11:15AM, because The Center's voice mailbox (803.736.6070) is full. Why isn't the location shown on the online December Calendar on the HOA's website? Better yet, why isn't the BOD Meeting shown on the December Calendar on the HOA's website?

In the Minutes of the October 7, 2025 Board Meeting are approved expenditures totaling $139,349.66 . See the Finance Committee Report in those Minutes. Every month the Board approves requests for spending, and no one ever asks where the money is coming from. Some of the spending is for Operations; other spending is for or on capital projects. But no one asks; no one tells. Also, every month the Minutes do not show the total for all the spending approved. A popular quote is, "We can't be out of money. We still have some checks left." Was this the financial policy of the previous Board of Directors (before the November 18, 2025 election)? Reserves have been dwindling fast, because of insufficient contributions to Reserves that should have been in the Budgets. In 2024 ZERO was budgeted for Reserves. In 2025 only $3,000 was budgeted for Reserves. The Proposed 2026 Budget, to be voted on tonight, shows $91,081 for Reserves. (In 2020 the budgeted contribution to Reserves was $1...