Barony Place I/Barony Place II

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...

Did you like the "Everybody Be Nice" message from the Board of Directors on April 22? Why didn't somebody from the "Board of Directors" sign her name to it? The email from the office led off with, " After several incidents that have recently occurred,  ..." No examples of "several incidents" were given. That would have been informative. What were they? Who participated? Where did they happen? When did they happen? Did they happen? How many of them involved board members?  Is there a grievance system when the problem is caused by a member of the Board? How do you get a hearing with the Board? The last board meeting was mostly calm and polite. So what did the Board do? It announced that meetings would be bi-monthly. What does a homeowner or resident do, when the office does not response to emails? Emails are great for a paper-trail. My experience is that the trail leads into the office and never comes back out. Did you notice that "Residen...

Who can contact the HOA's lawyer, ask questions, complain, get answers - at HOA expense? Only one board member should be permitted to contact the HOA's lawyer at HOA expense , and that person is the Board President! If anyone else contacts the HOA's lawyer, it should be at that person's personal expense. For example, if the Board Vice-President, Secretary, or Treasurer, or any of the other three directors, contacts the lawyer, they pay for it. They should not run up the HOA's legal bill with their questions. What they should do is ask the Board President to get a legal opinion on a specified topic. Then the President might either do that or ask the full Board if they want her to get a legal opinion - at the HOA's expense. An organization, any organization, cannot afford to have all its directors calling the organization's lawyer and asking questions. A small town in Illinois ran up a huge legal bill with the contracted Town Attorney, after many members of ...