Barony Place I/Barony Place II

When will the Minutes of the April 6, 2026 Special Board of Directors Meeting be available? Will the Minutes include the required Notice of the Meeting? Who was present? Who was absent? Was Jeff Lummel present during the entire discussion or was he excluded? If he was excluded, how was that decided? By Motion and vote? What was the Motion by which Noel Weatherbee was elected to be Vice-President, replacing Jeff? Will the Minutes include details of the discussion?  Who voted in favor? Who vote against? By-Laws, Art. VI, §4(a).  (a)  Inspection by Members and Mortgagees.  The Declaration, By-Laws and Articles of Incorporation, any amendments to the foregoing, the rules and regulations of the Association, the membership register, books of account, and  the minutes of meetings of  the Members,  the Board , and committees  shall be made available for inspection and copying by any  holder, insurer or guarantor of a first Mortgage on a Unit,  M...

Generally, a Vice-President of a HOA doesn't have anything to do. The VP just sits around, waiting for the President not to be available. That won't happen in The Summit's HOA. Board President Brenda Bryant is working hard to be on top of everything. Here's a job that Brenda could assign to Noel Weatherbee, the Board's new VP as of 4/6/26. Give her something to do - to keep her busy - to find out whether she can do something right... Assign this task to her. Find out what happened to $445,336.86 of the HOA's Cash & Cash Equivalents between 1/31/25 and 1/31/26.  Task her with examining and recording every transaction from each of the various cash accounts, including the dates of the transactions, who made them, who authorized them, and on what dates (before the transactions) the Board of Directors approved them. Then trace where the money went. Require her to approach the transactions as if there was a problem with each one and not to just gloss over details ...

The Association suffered a real loss yesterday, when the Board of Directors met in a Special-Called Board Meeting. The purpose for which the Special Board Meeting was called was to consider removing Jeff Lummel as Vice-President.  I don't know yet who was there, but there must have been a quorum of four directors. That's the minimum needed for a Board Meeting. Jeff wasn't voted out as Vice-President; that is not an action that the Board takes. What must have taken place was a vote to elect Noel Weatherbee as Vice-President. The new Vice-President of the Board of Directors is Noel Weatherbee. She was the Board Secretary from July 1, 2025 to December 1, 2025. She was not elected as an officer at the officer-election meeting on December 1, 2025. Jeff is the one Board Member with a solid business background and the right attitude about how the HOA should be run. He is calm, thoughtful, inquisitive, polite, and respectful of the Governing Documents as written, and of people. I...

I get 25-50 political text messages (spam) every day. I report them as Spam. Then the senders just use a different calling number for the same text. I emailed Joe Wilson a couple of weeks ago. A female staffer sent me a form letter that they can't do anything. This morning I called Joe Wilson's West Columbia office. The male staffer couldn't get my address correct in four tries. I asked for a specific reply from Joe Wilson, not a form letter saying they can't do anything. Of course, Joe Wilson can do something. He and Congress can direct the FCC to formulate new rules that protect us. I asked for a reply that informs me what he will do. And, if he won't do anything, then he can tell me that.

Today is the 7th of April. Where is The April Summit Scoop? Why haven't the Minutes of the March 3, 2026 Board Meeting been posted? Who is responsible for publication of the Minutes?  The Town & Country Property Manager?  The Board Secretary?  The Board President?  Will the purpose and outcome of the April 6th, 4:00PM, Special-Called Board Meeting be disclosed promptly to Members (homeowners)? The Board held a Special Board Meeting yesterday at 4:00PM. Why did it meet in a Special-Called Meeting yesterday, if a Regular Meeting will be held tonight? Didn't the Board hold a pre-board meeting just a week ago, on March 31? Will it hold a Regular Board Meeting tonight? Where? Open to Members?  The Board of Directors should create three ad hoc Committees: Investigate the 2024 purchase of a $126,352 annuity as an "investment"; Investigate the shrinkage of $445,000+ in Cash & Cash Equivalents between 1/31/25 and 1/31/26; Investigate the total cost to the Associ...

Listed in Important Numbers in the March 2026 Summit Scoop is Schroeder's Towing and its phone number. Why is a towing company listed in the HOA's Important Numbers list? How many times has the HOA called Schroeder's Towing? How many cars have been towed? Why have any cars been towing? What's the deal?  Can Schroeder's Towing just prowl the HOA and snag cars whenever it chooses? Or must the Property Manager or an authorized official of the HOA call them? Is there any financial benefit to the HOA, when a car is towed? Any incentive? Kickback? Bonus? Payment of any type? Is such a payment prohibited in the deal? Are any cars being towed from streets in The Summit? Or only from Common Properties of the Association? Birch Park? The office parking lot? Should the Board be more transparent about the deal with Schroeder Towing? Should the deal be posted on The Summit's website?