HOA Economy? - read this

                                                                  10/25/2021 10:30AM

Recently the HOA had brick work done to repair a wall at the entrance to Barony Place II. That's at the corner of Barony Place Drive and Barony Place Circle.

Here's how the HOA works.

They paid a bricklayer to repair the wall. It was probably the only crack that has been repaired since the wall was built way back in, maybe 1999-2000? Maybe before?

What the did brickwork cost? $500?

The crack was caused by a root of an old, mature, beautiful tree. 

So what happened today? A crew of three cut down the tree! What did that cost? $2,000? More? To save $500 maybe in another 10-15 years? Why destroy a beautiful tree because of a crack in a brick wall?

Nobody bothered to ask the residents of Barony Place II for an opinion about "their" tree. Somebody on some committee somewhere made the decision. Did the Board approve it? I don't remember ever hearing it discussed at a board meeting.

There is an election on November 9th by the Voting Members to elect board members. They will re-elected the old stalwarts already on the board. And nothing will change. Get some new people on the board!!!

I guess it's about time to file a complaint with the S.C.Attorney General that most of the Voting Members are not even legitimate Voting Members. Why is this? Because the By-Laws have not been followed. Most of the VMs were hand-picked by you-know-whom, who told the board it was okay to "get signatures".

The By-Laws don't allow that kind of voting. Every one of the 28 Neighborhoods is, according to the By-Laws, to hold a Neighborhood Meeting every year (in case the board doesn't understand "annual"). At each Neighborhood's Meeting, a Neighborhood Committee of three is to be elected. From the Committee come the Voting Member and two Alternates.

Barony Place Neighborhood (Barony Place I and Barony Place II) did not have a Neighborhood Meeting in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. So it has no Voting Member. Seventy-eight homes are unrepresented. But the board will allow Billie Jones to vote as if she is a legitimate Voting Member.

Isn't this Voter Fraud, about which we heard so much during the last national election?

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