Barony Place I/Barony Place II

In just over two months the HOA must elect three directors. Usually, the following Board Meeting dates are announced in the Summit Scoop. However, the August Scoop announces only the September 1st Board Meeting.  The terms of Directors Tanisha Holmes, William Hill and Noel Weatherbee expire in November 2026. The Voting Members, if there are enough of them in November to meet the quorum requirement (15), should look closely at all three to determine whether they merit consideration for re-election.  As of the August Scoop, there does not appear to be a Nominating Committee. Angelo Turley-Moore is listed as the Chair of the Nominating Committee, but no members are named.  The Board is negligent in its duty to populate the Nominating Committee, which is to invite and choose candidates for the three open positions. The Board is also negligent in populating the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee which, according to its website, is responsible for assisting all the neighborhoods to...

Has the Board ordered the 2025 Annual Audit yet? It is due August 31, 2026 and usually takes 2-3 months to produce. It is needed for the proper preparation of the 2027 Budget, which the Finance Committee and the Budget Sub-Committee should already be working on. If not, why not? On what date was it ordered? Why isn't the selection of the Auditor and the estimated cost reported in Board Minutes? ALL members of the Board are responsible for seeing that this extremely important document is ordered and delivered on time. Last year, the 2024 Annual Audit wasn't even ordered until October 2025. It should have been delivered to the HOA by August 31, 2025. It was delivered to the Association in February 2026 . Why didn't Danny Trapp, then-Board President, see that it was ordered and delivered on time? Who is responsible this year for the failure to order it on time? Linda Potter, Treasurer? Noel Weatherbee, Vice President? Brenda Bryant, President? ALL seven directors, collectively...

The August 2026 Summit Scoop has the name of the new RCSD CAT (Community Action Team) deputy. If you need service from RCSD, you should call the general information number or the dispatcher or 911.  I recommend NOT calling the CAT deputy. He is not the HOA's exclusive law-enforcement officer. If you call the CAT deputy and he is off-duty or not available, any service to you will be delayed. I have urged the HOA not to publish the phone number for the CAT deputy. Only one or two HOA-authorized persons should be contacting the CAT deputy.

The 2025 Annual Audit should be delivered to the Board of Directors by August 31, 2026 (only 22 days from now). It should be discussed at the September 1, 2026 public Board Meeting and posted on the website on September 2. The Audit is needed by the Budget sub-committee and the Finance Committee to prepare the Proposed 2027 Annual Budget correctly. Has an Auditor even been identified yet and contracted to conduct it? The Auditor needs information about the illegal disbursement of Association funds throughout 2025 for payment of legal fees and costs associated with the HOA's litigation against me.  The Auditor should also report on the $445,000 drop in Cash and Cash Equivalents and why the Board of Directors (under then-Board President Danny Trapp) never disclosed expenditures or voted on spending that money.

First, let me say that I like Brenda Bryant, current President of the Board of Directors. She is a nice person. Her job as President has been made very difficult by a certain element on the Board. Secondly, the President's Report in the August 2026 Summit Scoop was a waste of what could be valuable communication space in the community. I dispute that there is growing crime and violence in The Summit. The HOA discontinued publishing the monthly RCSD Crime Report several years ago. (Vernell Butler can probably be thanked for that. He  argued that publishing addresses of crime incidents constituted an invasion of privacy. It does not).  Any problem can be reduced by rigid enforcement of laws and cracking down on parents of minor children who commit criminal acts. More cameras will not solve the problem! Brenda is totally wrong about the "active framework" of Neighborhood Representatives. For many years there were no legitimate Neighborhood Representatives (including Voting M...

I've thought more about the response by the HOA to the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) in regard to my complaint to the DCA. My complaint was about the HOA's failure to provide me with its authority (specific section(s), if any, in the CC&Rs and/or By-Laws) to enforce no parking on the public streets in The Summit. The response was signed by Julie Brickley, property manager for Town & Country until September 30, 2026. However, the Board must have approved it before it was sent to the DCA and probably got a legal opinion for the wording to do the tango around my complaint and avoid a truthful answer. Even though I no longer live in The Summit and have moved out-of-state,  the Board of Directors owes me an apology and an honest answer. I don't expect to get either.  The Board of Directors never apologized for the unlawful lawsuit filed against me, either. Not only was it prohibited by the CC&Rs, it was filed illegally in the name of the Associa...