Board Meeting = FIVE (5) Directors elected

Well, they did it. 

The HOA Board of Directors (Martin, Dellinger, Hill, Thomas, Game, Butler) succeeded in disregarding the By-Laws and conducted an election yesterday to elect Directors to the FOUR legitimate positions AND to one 2021-2023 director position that does not exist.

There were seven candidates, and Voting Members were instructed to vote for FIVE, even though only four (4) positions should have been on the ballot.

Four incumbents were re-elected (Martin, Hill, Thomas, Game). One of the challengers was elected. Brenda Bryant was among the top five vote-getters. The number of votes received by each candidate was not disclosed last night but will be reported here in the future, as soon as I can get them.

All directors are at-large, so it's impossible to know which of the five who were elected is the illegitimate one.

Significantly, and rudely, the two candidates who received the least number of votes were not recognized at all. They were Dennis Rybicki, Sr. and Sidney Rubey. They deserved to be thanked. Instead, the Board just ignored them. I bailed out on the meeting at 7:00PM. I guess it's possible somebody had a guilty conscience before 7:30PM and thanked Dennis and Sid. If so, let me know.

For the past year there has been considerable attention given nation-wide to voter fraud. Now we have it right here in The Summit.

The Board was requested many times since April to follow the By-Laws and appoint a successor to the vacancy on the board that was created by George Reynolds' death in April. George's term-of-oath was two years, beginning in December 2020 and ending in December 2022. The Board should have appointed a person to serve the unexpired term.

Since the Board never votes on anything, the Board itself never takes action. Actions are announced by the president, Justin Martin. He never even asks the Board to approve a previous month's Minutes; he just declares that they are approved as mailed. Every month there are errors and omissions in the Minutes, and nobody speaks up. Maybe no one on the board ever reads them.

There were many, many procedural errors with the November 9, 2021 election. 

Should Summit Homeowners petition for redress?

Should a legal action be filed to challenge the election procedures?

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