Barony Place I/Barony Place II

 What is the status of the 2027 Proposed Budget? I've heard a rumor (yes, even all the way to Idaho) that the Town & Country Property Manager, Julie Brickley, not the Board Treasurer Tanisha Holmes, will present the proposed 2027 Budget to the Board. Holmes recently replaced the HOA's more-experienced Treasurer Linda Potter. Why will Brickley present the proposed Budget? The Governing Documents (PRM) state that the Budget sub-committee is to present the proposed Budget to the Board. Is there even a functioning Budget sub-committee? The role of the Property Manager is to provide all the data to the Budget Sub-Committee. That sub-committee then should prepare the Budget and present it to the Finance Committee for approval. Then the sub-committee presents it to the Board. In spite of the written and clear guidance in the PRM, the HOA hasn't done it that way. Homeowners and committee and Board members should be very interested in whether cuts are plans for landscaping at ...

The Governing Documents require an Annual Audit of the HOA's financials. It should be ordered in the late winter or early Spring. It is to be received by the HOA by August 31st. The 2025 Annual Audit should have been received by August 31, 2026. To the best of my knowledge, it had not been ordered by then. No one seems to know whether the Board has found and authorized a CPA to conduct it. The completed Annual Audit helps the Budget Sub-committee and the Finance Committee prepare the 2027 Proposed Budget. How can they complete their work without that Au it? For the Audit to be honest and correct, the Auditor will need to know that $445,000 in Cash & Cash Equivalents needs to be accounted for. Also, the auditor needs to know that the HOA issued payment for legal fees in the lawsuit against me for litigation that was prohibited by the By-Laws, not approved by the Voting Members, and never voted on or approved by the Board of Directors (according to published Board Minutes). Were ...

Is Noel Weatherbee a legitimate HOA Board Member and officer? Two vacancies on the Board occurred in May 2025, when Ciara Bates and LaToya Adams resigned. Both had been elected in November 2024 to two-year terms. Bates had been elected Secretary, and Adams had been elected Treasurer. The vacancies were never announced. The officer positions, required by South Carolina statute, were vacant for approximately 1½ months. At the Board Meeting on July 1, 2025, then Board President Danny Trapp simply announced that new board members were Noel Weatherbee and William Hill and that Weatherbee would be Secretary. Hill would be Treasurer. No mention was made about how or when they had been appointed as directors or elected as officers. The process was never reported or published in Board Minutes. Action should have been taken at a Regular or Special Board Meeting. The Board should have considered candidates or the President's suggestion for those to be appointed, and the Board should have vote...

There may be only ten (10) legitimate Voting Members in the HOA; there should be 28. There will be no public Board Meeting in October or before the Annual Meeting of Voting Members, which will probably be on November 10, 2026. Homeowners (Members) will have to fight for and demand true information about the Nominating Committee, preparation for the election, and conduct of the election of three directors in November. Voting Members must elect only candidates who have the best interests of the Association and who do not have personal agendas that run counter to the best interests of the Association. The terms of three directors (Noel Weatherbee, William Hill, and Tanisha Holmes) expire on November 10, 2026, if there is an Annual Meeting of Voting Members and an election. None should be elected to another term. The Board has taken over the nominating process. The Board has failed to assist 18 neighborhoods to hold their Annual Neighborhood Meeting, at which homeowners would elect a three...

When RealManage takes over The Summit HOA's property management on October 1, 2026, one of the first pieces of business should be to recommend establishment of a HOA-owned server for email and the website. When the contract with CAMS ended on September 30, 2025, most likely all official communications were lost. What happened to email regarding official business? When the contract with Town & Country Management Company ends on September 30, 2026, what will happen to all official HOA correspondence through its email address? Unique email addresses on a HOA server should be created for all directors, including officers, and committees. They should be require to conduct all HOA correspondence on the official server and no longer on their personal emails. Presently, they use their personal email addresses or, perhaps, email addresses that Members do not know about. During their terms-of-office and after, the HOA has no control over messages sent to and from those personal email ad...

The Board should explain why the Amendments failed by answering these questions. What was the procedure for approving Amendments, according to the CC&Rs ant the By/Laws? Why wasn’t that process followed? Who drew up the Proposed Amendments? Who were the Directors who voted to present them? Which directors voted against presenting them? Were those votes taken at Regular or Special Board Meetings? Or at private, closed. “secret”, non-reported board meetings such as workshops or pre-board meetings? Why didn’t the Board explain clearly how many of the Voting Members were needed to approve? Why did the Board mislead the Members when it asked them to approve the Amendments? (Members don’t approve Amendments; Voting Members do.) Why did the Board proceed, when there were never enough legitimate Voting Members to approve the Amendments? Did the Boatd spend any money on legal fees pertaining to those Amendments? How much?