Barony Place I/Barony Place II

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...

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...

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...

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...

The lists of Voting Members on the HOA's website and in The Summit Scoop are false and deceptive. If the lists are to be correct (and they should be), only Barony Place would be listed. The rules for becoming a Voting Member are spelled out in the By-Laws. Each of the 28 neighborhoods is to hold an Annual Neighborhood Meeting. For the Meeting to convene, there must be a quorum of homeowners present in-person or by proxy. A quorum is 1/3 of the homeowners.  Those homeowners elect a three-member (local) Neighborhood Committee. That Committee then elects one of the three as its chairman, who is referred to as the Voting Member. This is the one and only way to become a Voting Member. "Getting signatures" is not a way to become a bonafide Voting Member; yet Boards of Directors have allowed that for years. Those who got signatures are "recognized" as Voting Members, but they are not. The (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee is charged with assisting the neighborhoods to...

Three of the biggest problems for The Summit's HOA are: no legitimate officers no legitimate directors Far too few legitimate Voting Members Problems (1) and (2) cannot be fixed until Problem (3) is fixed. Problem (3) can be fixed in 60 days, without legal help. The solution? Each neighborhood needs to hold a Neighborhood Meeting. The Meeting needs to be attended by a quorum of homeowners, in-person or by proxy. A quorum is one-third.  At that Meeting the homeowners elect three to a (local) Neighborhood Committee. (Not to be confused with the HOA's Neighborhood Committee.) The Committee serves for one year, until the next year's neighborhood election. Then the three-person (local) Neighborhood Committee elects a chairman. That chairman is the Voting Member. Duly-elected and legitimate. (It's not a lifetime appointment, if the neighborhood never has another Meeting.) The other two members of the (local) Neighborhood Committee are Alternates.  The next step is for the le...