Barony Place I/Barony Place II

About three months ago I emailed the HOA's office and suggested correcting the spelling of the last name of the RCSD deputy who is the CAT officer for The Summit. Her last name is spelled Gillespie, not Gillepsie. It hasn't been corrected yet, and I'm sending them another suggestion. The description of "CAT Team Officer" is incorrect. CAT is the abbreviation for Community Action Team, so "CAT Team" is redundant. Maybe it's only at the HOA office that they'd say "Community Action Team Team Officer". The April 2026 Scoop still carries Robert Williamson's name as "On-Site Community Manager". Wasn't his last day at the Summit HOA March 4, 2026, the day after the March Board Meeting? The HOA should have an editor of the Scoop who is a homeowner with fine close-reading and editing skills. Is The Summit's HOA getting its money's worth for the $185,000/year being paid to Town & Country for staff? The office hasn...

The April edition of The Summit Scoop was published today. What a joke! Why not just kill it and save time and money? The first joke was the "Manager's Report" (Page 1), which wasn't a "report" at all.  Why didn't the Manager report why the Minutes of the March 3, 2026 Board Meeting have never been published? Why didn't the Manager report why the Financial Operating Results have not been published for September 2025, October 2025, November 2025, December 2025, January 2026, February 2026? Why didn't the Manager provide details on the 85 violations issued by the Covenants Committee? Were any of these for parking on the streets of The Summit? The second joke was the "President's Report", which also wasn't a "report". Why didn't the President report what actions have been taken by the Board after the last Board Meeting on March 3, 2026? Why didn't she report that the Board removed Jeff Lummel as Vice-President and...

The lists of Voting Members on the HOA's website and in The Summit Scoop are false and deceptive. If the lists are to be correct (and they should be), only Barony Place would be listed. The rules for becoming a Voting Member are spelled out in the By-Laws. Each of the 28 neighborhoods is to hold an Annual Neighborhood Meeting. For the Meeting to convene, there must be a quorum of homeowners present in-person or by proxy. A quorum is 1/3 of the homeowners.  Those homeowners elect a three-member (local) Neighborhood Committee. That Committee then elects one of the three as its chairman, who is referred to as the Voting Member. This is the one and only way to become a Voting Member. "Getting signatures" is not a way to become a bonafide Voting Member; yet Boards of Directors have allowed that for years. Those who got signatures are "recognized" as Voting Members, but they are not. The (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee is charged with assisting the neighborhoods to...

Three of the biggest problems for The Summit's HOA are: no legitimate officers no legitimate directors Far too few legitimate Voting Members Problems (1) and (2) cannot be fixed until Problem (3) is fixed. Problem (3) can be fixed in 60 days, without legal help. The solution? Each neighborhood needs to hold a Neighborhood Meeting. The Meeting needs to be attended by a quorum of homeowners, in-person or by proxy. A quorum is one-third.  At that Meeting the homeowners elect three to a (local) Neighborhood Committee. (Not to be confused with the HOA's Neighborhood Committee.) The Committee serves for one year, until the next year's neighborhood election. Then the three-person (local) Neighborhood Committee elects a chairman. That chairman is the Voting Member. Duly-elected and legitimate. (It's not a lifetime appointment, if the neighborhood never has another Meeting.) The other two members of the (local) Neighborhood Committee are Alternates.  The next step is for the le...

Here are additional tasks that the Board President could assign to the Board V-P. Determine and report to the Board and to Members why Financial Operating Results have not been posted to the HOA's website for September 2025, October, 2025, November 2025, December 2025, January 2026, and February 2026. Determine and report to the Board and to Members why the Minutes of the March 3, 2026 Board Meeting were not published promptly on the website. The Minutes should have been typed up on March 4 and distributed to Board Members that day. If three days were allowed for Board Members to review them and provide corrections, then the Minutes could have been published on Tuesday, March 10. They are not posted as of April 8. Prepare a spreadsheet of legitimate, duly-elected Voting Members, listing Name of each Neighborhood Date of last Neighborhood Meeting Number of properties in the Neighborhood Number of Members required for quorum Number of Members attending in-person and by proxy; Whethe...

Here's another task that the Board President could assign to the Board Vice-President. Investigate the litigation that was filed against resident Gus Philpott in December 2024. Ascertain  by what authority then-Board President Danny Trapp initiated the legal action;  why the Board did not vote to approve it;  whether Trapp knew that the CC&Rs prohibited the litigation;  whether Trapp informed the full Board of the likelihood of success with the litigation;  whether Trapp informed the full Board of the estimated cost of the litigation;  whether Trapp directed that only he (and possibly one other director) were permitted to contact the HOA's lawyer; what source of funds would be used to prosecute the litigation; Whether the full Board was informed of its failure to obtain three of the six restrictions against Philpott that were sought in the February 11, 2025 court hearing; Whether the full Board was informed when Philpott prevailed against the Associatio...