Barony Place I/Barony Place II

In its June 19th email to all Members (at least, all who have registered email addresses), the Board and the office gave erroneous advice for the return of the "ballots" on proposed amendments to the CC&Rs and the By-Laws. The Board and the Office direct Members to return the "ballots" to the office. This is WRONG . The Governing Documents instruct that such ballots should be returned to the Voting Members. Why should they go to the Voting Members and not to the office? Because it is the Voting Member who votes on amendments to the CC&Rs and the By-Laws, not the Members. Another and more important reason is that the Governing Documents say that is where they should go. The authors of the Governing Documents recognized the power of their words. Were they worried about how a management office or a Board might handle such "ballots"?  The ballots should not go through the office on the way to the Voting Members. The office cannot even publish The Summi...

The Summit's HOA Board of Directors is proposing changes to some of the CC&Rs and the By-Laws. I've been reading and studying the Governing Documents for more than six years. I know them better than most of the Board Members. Amendment 1 -  Voting Structure.  The Board is offering a suggestion to trash the current "Voting Member" structure and replace it with a structure that would allow the Members (2,480 homeowners) to amend the Governing  Documents and to elect Directors. This is a terrible idea.  First, the processes for amending the Governing  Documents and for electing directors are different in major ways. Allowing homeowners to do either would result in ignorant (know the definition) and uninformed voters to make important decisions. Not that Voting Members are necessarily not ignorant or informed. Some of them are neither.  Most of the homeowners wouldn't even bother to vote, so who would make the decisions? The current method is just fine. The...

Which Board Member is responsible for the error in the letter sent out by the HOA with the July 1st dues notice? It's bad enough that the management company made  the error. That never should have happened. But certainly a Board Member should have been responsible for proof-reading the letter/email before it was sent out. The important  part of the email from the office was: Please see the following regarding online payment. The information on your statement is correct, but the cover letter has an incorrect Association ID If you choose to pay through the Association’s bank, Western Alliance Bank, you may use the link below. There is currently no fee for payments made by eCheck; however, there is a fee for debit and credit card payments. https://pay.westernalliancebank.com/home?cmcid=C830BF00 Management Company ID: 7529 Association ID: 174 I recommend that you pay your dues in person at the office. Be sure to get a receipt. Get your Pool fob and HOA ID Card updated.  If yo...

Does The Summit's HOA still have a management  company? The March 2026 Board Minutes have not been posted online. The May 2026 Board Minutes have not been posted online. The June Summit Scoop hasn't been published. No Financial Operating Results have been posted for September, October, November or December 2025 OR for January, February, March, April or May 2026! What doesn't the management company (Town & Country) post these documents? Or the Board of Directors the problem?

The next monthly Board Meeting should be packed with homeowners (Members) who are concerned about last week's email from "SummitHelpDesk" about proposed  Amendments to the CC&Rs and the By-Laws.  Why wasn't the email sent out over the name of the Board President? Who was responsible for creating those proposed amendments? Be sure to print  the attachment with that email. Read it carefully. Study it. Understand it. Underline it. Know what it really means! Take your questions to the July 7th Board Meeting and ASK THEM. Don't just sit there and swallow the pablum that is being force-fed to you. Not one of the proposed Amendments deserves serious consideration. Plus, there aren't enough legitimate Voting Members to approve anything ! You don't really get to "vote" on those amendments. While the attachment is framed as a Ballot, it is not. It is merely your opinion, and it carries no weight with your Voting Member or the HOA. It is the Voting Memb...

You should have received an email from the office today with a series of proposed amendments to the CC&Rs and the By-Laws. Frankly, I'm shocked! Over the past 4-5 years, there has been much talk and many comments. And this is what the Board came up with??? I shall offer specific comments in following blogposts. I suggest that you print the four pages and read them very carefully.  In order to cast an intelligent vote, you need context and much more information. You don't get it in what was sent out today. I have been going to Board Meetings and reading the CC&Rs and the By-Laws for seven years.  Please read my following posts and share them widely throughout The Summit. You can forward this post and others by clicking on the SHARE icon at  the top-right or lower-left of every post. Fill in the email address of the person(s) you'd like to receive the post. FYI, I get no record of who forwards posts or who receives them. I never see an email address or name.