Barony Place I/Barony Place II

Be sure to read (and save) today's email from the office about Voting Members. It appears over the name of the Board President. You should have it in your inbox. On the one hand, it appears that the Board is finally waking up the the fact that there aren't any legitimate Voting Members (except the one from Barony Place). However, it is NOT the Board's role to drum up Voting Members. The second sentence in the email reads, " The Summit Community Association is looking for volunteers to serve as Neighborhood Voting Members.   " This is wrong! For too long the Board has solicited interest in becoming a Voting Member and has directed those to contact the office. What were they told when they did? Were they told to "get signatures" to become a Voting Members? Many did. The problem is they did not become legitimate, duly-elected Voting Members, in compliance with the By-Laws. Yet the Boards "recognized" them as Voting Members. Past Boards and this B...

According to the Public Index of court cases, the separate cases of Vernell Butler and Michele Rattray against four individuals, who also happen to be  directors of the HOA, have been re-scheduled. The cases were to be heard tomorrow, May 5th, at 9:00AM in the Blythewood Magistrate Court. That's off. Now they will be heard on May 28th at 9:00AM. The Public Index does not provide a reason for the change. It should be a fun day in court, if that day ever arrives. The four defendants have a skilled, high-powered attorney. The plaintiffs (Butler and Rattray) are going into court pro se . Each case was filed against individuals, not against officers or directors of the HOA. The HOA is not a defendant. Yet the case is about a HOA matter. I wonder if the Magistrate will be scratching her head, trying to figure out exactly what is going on.

The Board of Directors of The Summit's HOA is supposed to be acting in the best interests of the Association; i.e., 2, 480 Members of the Association. Town & Country, the Property Management Company, works for the Association , not for the Board of Directors or for any of the directors. Is it telling the Board about the Association's problems and what they need to do to correct the problems? The directors are supposed to set aside personal agendas and petty differences. Instead, they are acting like Members of Congress - taking stands that are not supported by the CC&Rs, the By-Laws, and the published Guides of the Association. What does this cost the HOA? They aren't taking care of business. Example: $445,336 "vanished" between 1/31/25 and 1/13/26. To verify this, compare the Cash & Cash Equivalents on those two dates. What happened to almost half-a-million Dollars??? The HOA does not have a legitimate, duly-elected Board of Directors or any legitima...

The Board of Directors is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, May 5th, at 6:30PM at the North Springs Park Community Center. You wouldn't know it, though, as the HOA's May 2026 online Calendar is entirely blank, there has been no emailed announcement of the meeting, the Board went to bi-monthly meetings effective March 3rd, and the only mention of May 5th meeting is in the March and April Summit Scoops. (Who reads those?) At the May 5th Board Meeting will the Board explain how it was in the best interests of the Association to remove Jeff Lummel as Vice-President and replace him with Noel Weatherbee? whether there is a plot to remove Brenda Bryant as President and Linda Potter as Treasurer? what the status is of the court litigation against four directors that was started in the separate cases filed by Vernell Butler and Michele Rattray? what the Board is doing to reduce or eliminate the friction between Board members that is disrupting the business affairs of the Association? why th...

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...