Barony Place I/Barony Place II

For the third straight year Barony Place held a legitimate Neighborhood Meeting. There are 78 homes, meaning that a quorum is 26. Thirty-three (33) homes were represented in-person or by proxy. The homeowners elected a three-person Neighborhood Committee: Tracy Manderino, George Ellis, and Della Glynn. Then the Neighborhood Committee elected Tracy as the chairperson and Voting Member. Barony Place continues to be the only neighborhood out of 28 that has a legitimate, duly-elected Voting Member. Tracy, George, and Della will serve for 12 months as your neighborhood representatives.

When the Board of Directors of The Summit's HOA meets, there should be no secrets. The Board should be transparent with the Members about what it's cooking up. It should work within the CC&Rs and the By-Laws. The Board was involved in two off-schedule last week - April 22, 2026 and April 23, 2026. What was discussed? Minutes should be written for ALL Board meetings (pre-board, Special-Called, and Regular Meetings). They should be published within one week of the meeting on the HOA's website. The Board has yet to publish the Minutes of the March 3, 2026 Regular Board Meeting. That's the one where the Board President announced that Board Meetings would thereafter be bi-monthly. When did they decide that? Was there a vote? Why didn't they think to ask the Members (homeowners) what they thought? The HOA has held monthly board meetings for many years. Why change that? Minutes should also be written and promptly published for ALL Committee meetings. Since they aren...

Why would a board member wait nearly 12 months to challenge the legitimacy of the Barony Place Voting Member? If you have been reading this blog, you know that I have written that Barony Place has the ONLY legitimate, duly-elected Voting Member - elected in compliance with the By-Laws of the HOA. Why would a board member claim that some (all?) of the proxies at the 2025 Barony Place Neighborhood Meeting were fraudulent? In 2024 I solicited enough proxies that a quorum of homeowners was present at the Barony Place Neighborhood Meeting. In 2025 others and I solicited enough proxies for a quorum. I was not the named Proxy on many of them; some homeowners named a neighbor who attended the Meeting.  The proxies naming me as Proxy were used only to satisfy the requirement of enough homeowners  present to conduct the Meeting. I did not vote them during the election of the Neighborhood Committee. I believed that those present in person should select the three homeowners they wanted t...

Just how bad could the financial condition of the HOA be? The Board of Directors has failed to publish the monthly Financial Operating Results on the HOA's website since August 2025. The Results have not been posted for September 2025, October 2025, November 2025, December 2025, January 2026, and February 2026.  The March 2026 Results should be available at the May 5, 2026 Board Meeting. You can get a copy there, if you arrive early enough. They should have been posted by then on the website, so you would have time to study them and ask questions. Is the Board hiding adverse financial information by not posting them on the HOA's website in a timely manner? If the Board offers an explanation for its failure to post Results, I shall be happy to publish it here.

Your Board of Directors held two meetings last week, and you should inspect (read) the Minutes of both meetings.  The By-Laws give you the right to inspect and copy those Minutes. (Art. VI, §4(a)) On Wednesday, April 22, 2026, the Board met with the ad hoc committee on Governing Documents. On Thursday, April 23, 2026, the Board met with some of the Voting Members. There should be Minutes of both Meetings. The By-Laws (Art. VI, §4(a)) give you (a homeowner/Member of the Association) the right to inspect Minutes of all meetings of the Board and of committees. Why should you do this? A director on the Board is challenging the legitimacy of the 2025 Barony Place Neighborhood Meeting. Barony Place has the only legitimate, duly-elected Voting Member , because our neighborhood complied with the By-Laws. None of the other 27 neighborhoods in the HOA has a legitimate, duly-elected Voting Member. Why is the Board meeting in private with that committee ( which may not even be a legitimate co...

What is your Board of Directors up to? On Wednesday night. April 22, 2026, the Board met with ad hoc committee that is reviewing the Governing Documents.  First of all, there isn't even a legitimate, duly-appointed " ad hoc committee". It's my recollection that Danny Trapp formed it. It was never voted on or approved by the Board of Directors. I believe there is nothing in the Minutes of any Regular Board Meeting about it. No members or chairman were ever mentioned. Therefore, it is not a legitimate committee. My recollection is that the Covenants Committees spent years reviewing the Governing Documents. They were presented twice to the Board. In November 2023 the new board, in response to a question, said that the previous board had not turned over the recommendations for amendments to the new Board. No one asked why not or apparently made any effort to obtain them! My recollection is that Danny Trapp created the ad hoc Committee and said that, after the Board re...