Barony Place I/Barony Place II

On November 18, 2025 a "new" Board (majority) was elected. Rays of hope began to show on the horizon. Would things improve? Are those rays dimming already? The first meeting was that same night, November 18. Then they held Regular Board Meetings on December 2, January 6, and February 3. Plus the unannounced, unpublicized and unreported (by posted Minutes) Special Meetings and pre-board meetings (workshops). In all that time why was no attention paid to the HOA's website, where committees and committee members are listed? And where board members are not listed. The revamped Summit Scoop (February 2026) contains many (but not all) new Committee chairpersons and members. The following list compares the "new" committee chairpersons (from the Summit Scoop) and the "old" (from the website), as of February 15, 2026.  Committee                       New / Old Activities: Lauver / Trapp Contracts: McCarthy / Bryant (Brenda) Covenants: B...

How many Air BnB's and other short-term rentals are there in The Summit? Anyone know? Think the HOA office knows? Does the Board know? Does anyone know of any provision in the CC&Rs or By-Laws that prohibits them?

The Richland County Fifth Judicial Circuit Public Index reports a civil case involving Vernell Butler and four residents of The Summit. These four residents are also directors of The Summit's HOA. The  Public Index  lists civil and criminal cases. Vernell's civil case is Nu mber  2025CV4010405381. It was originally filed on December 12, 2025 in the Dentsville Magistrate Court and then transferred to the Blythewood Magistrate Court on January 27, 2026. Online Court records indicate that Vernell Butler is the Plaintiff and that the four Defendants are Brenda Bryant, Thomas Lummel, Linda Potter, and Angelo Turley-Moore. (Thomas Lummel is known as Jeff Lummel.) Court documents are in the public domain, and a request has been made to the Blythewood Magistrate  for the Summons and the Complaint. Further information will be posted after the Summons and Complaint have been received.

Have you recently driven by the damaged brick wall on Summit Parkway, west of the Middle School? It was damaged in December. At the February 3 Board Meeting, a statement was made by the property manager that the insurance proceeds had been received and repair work would be starting. Why did the HOA delay until the money came in? The HOA's responsibility is to repair the wall promptly ("immediately"), regardless of any insurance claim or claim against the party causing the damage. Twenty-one years ago the Board of Directors passed a Resolution. You can read it in the PRM (Art., II, §D, ¶5; Page 11). " Repair Common Area Damage Immediately .      "To ensure that Common Areas are kept in good condition, the Board of Directors adopted an operating policy to initiate repairs to damaged Common Areas immediately, documenting said repairs with itemized costs for submission for repayment of required repairs/replacement (approved 8/3/2004)" Do you think anyone on the...

How does an executive, such as President of an organization, function? How does that person get everything done and keep his sanity? I think of the president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., for whom I handled customer complaints that got through all the filters (and there were many filters) to his desk. The only thing he did with them was send them to me for handling.* He never asked for a report on what I had done to handle them. It was the best part of my five years at Sears! I had no one standing behind me with a stopwatch and a clipboard. When I was VP of Membership Services for an 1,100-member chamber of commerce in the Kansas City area, I called on the General Manager of a commercial laundry. His executive assistant said I could see him between 8AM-5PM, Monday-Friday. "Don't come before 8 or after 5." What was his management style? He told me he worked 40 hours/week, just like his employees. He said that he hired competent people to manage things when he wasn't there...

At the February 3, 2026 Board of Directors meeting, when Public Participation was underway and before it spiraled into chaos, a question was asked about how many lawsuits the HOA was in. Vernell Butler, former director and past Treasurer, asked that question from the Neighborhood Representative seating area.  I don't recall who answered him with "None." His response was, "Really?" Why did he respond that way? (I know the answer.) Vernell shouldn't have been sitting in the Neighborhood Representative section, because he is not a Voting Member or Alternate. (Reference, Summit Scoop and HOA website) Vernell had been an Alternate for Summit Hills V until he was elected to the Board in December 2020. When a Neighborhood Representative (Voting Member or Alternate) is elected to the Board, he must resign as a Neighborhood Rep. Whether he did or not is not known at this time. The HOA has been careless about "details" for years. Vernell was a director and T...