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Is Weatherbee the legitimate Board President?

Is Noel Weatherbee a legitimate HOA Board Member and officer? Two vacancies on the Board occurred in May 2025, when Ciara Bates and LaToya Adams resigned. Both had been elected in November 2024 to two-year terms. Bates had been elected Secretary, and Adams had been elected Treasurer. The vacancies were never announced. The officer positions, required by South Carolina statute, were vacant for approximately 1½ months. At the Board Meeting on July 1, 2025, then Board President Danny Trapp simply announced that new board members were Noel Weatherbee and William Hill and that Weatherbee would be Secretary. Hill would be Treasurer. No mention was made about how or when they had been appointed as directors or elected as officers. The process was never reported or published in Board Minutes. Action should have been taken at a Regular or Special Board Meeting. The Board should have considered candidates or the President's suggestion for those to be appointed, and the Board should have vote...

Voting Members, Step Up Now

There may be only ten (10) legitimate Voting Members in the HOA; there should be 28. There will be no public Board Meeting in October or before the Annual Meeting of Voting Members, which will probably be on November 10, 2026. Homeowners (Members) will have to fight for and demand true information about the Nominating Committee, preparation for the election, and conduct of the election of three directors in November. Voting Members must elect only candidates who have the best interests of the Association and who do not have personal agendas that run counter to the best interests of the Association. The terms of three directors (Noel Weatherbee, William Hill, and Tanisha Holmes) expire on November 10, 2026, if there is an Annual Meeting of Voting Members and an election. None should be elected to another term. The Board has taken over the nominating process. The Board has failed to assist 18 neighborhoods to hold their Annual Neighborhood Meeting, at which homeowners would elect a three...

HOA Needs Own Email Service

When RealManage takes over The Summit HOA's property management on October 1, 2026, one of the first pieces of business should be to recommend establishment of a HOA-owned server for email and the website. When the contract with CAMS ended on September 30, 2025, most likely all official communications were lost. What happened to email regarding official business? When the contract with Town & Country Management Company ends on September 30, 2026, what will happen to all official HOA correspondence through its email address? Unique email addresses on a HOA server should be created for all directors, including officers, and committees. They should be require to conduct all HOA correspondence on the official server and no longer on their personal emails. Presently, they use their personal email addresses or, perhaps, email addresses that Members do not know about. During their terms-of-office and after, the HOA has no control over messages sent to and from those personal email ad...

Board should explain Amendments failure

The Board should explain why the Amendments failed by answering these questions. What was the procedure for approving Amendments, according to the CC&Rs ant the By/Laws? Why wasn’t that process followed? Who drew up the Proposed Amendments? Who were the Directors who voted to present them? Which directors voted against presenting them? Were those votes taken at Regular or Special Board Meetings? Or at private, closed. “secret”, non-reported board meetings such as workshops or pre-board meetings? Why didn’t the Board explain clearly how many of the Voting Members were needed to approve? Why did the Board mislead the Members when it asked them to approve the Amendments? (Members don’t approve Amendments; Voting Members do.) Why did the Board proceed, when there were never enough legitimate Voting Members to approve the Amendments? Did the Boatd spend any money on legal fees pertaining to those Amendments? How much?

All Amendments Fail

The Board of Directors has announced that ALL the proposed Amendments failed. As they should have. This failure should be considered a Vote of No Confidence in the four who are controlling the Board. Those four are Holmes, Hill, Weatherbee, and Turley/Moore.

Why Is the BOD Interfering with the 2026 Election?

There should be an election of three directors in November 2026. The terms of Tanisha Holmes, William Hill, and Noel Weatherbee expire.  There may not even be a legitimate election, unless additional Voting Members are quickly elected by their neighborhoods. The Board has never put the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee to work to assist neighborhoods in holding Annual Neighborhood Meetings. Why is the Board interfering with the election? How is the Board interfering? The Board did not appoint a Chairman of the Nominating Committee when officers were elected following the 2025 election. Only recently was Board Secretary Angelo Turley-Moore placed as Chairman. Was he nominated by then Board President Brenda Bryant and approved by the Board? Was that recorded in published Board Minutes? No members of the Nominating Committee have ever been named or approved. See the September 2026 Summit Scoop. It is the Nominating Committee that is supposed to find good candidates for election, which in...

Who Wrote to Me?

Yesterday I received this comment through the Message function on my blog: " I see you don't mind posting misinformation. I wonder where you get your facts from."  An email address was shown, but no Sender's name was included. Today I sent this reply: " Thank you for your message about a post on my blog, baronyplace.blogspot.com "I appreciate your writing. Will you please let me know what you consider "misinformation"? Upon information and belief, everything I post is true. Are you addressing any particular post? If so, which one? "Please let me know what needs correction and what the correct information is, along with your source. I will be happy to re-check my post. If it was in error, I shall correct it.  "It will also be helpful to me if you will identify yourself. I do not post information on my blog from anonymous sources, nor do I reveal sources of information without their permission. "Thanks again for your comment." By...