Jan. 4th Meeting may be canceled

If you are planning to attend the January 4th HOA board meeting, be sure to check with the office to learn if it has been canceled. The phones at the office should be working by now. If not, email the office. If it will be held, be sure to get the Zoom meeting link.

I have emailed the Board to urge them not to cancel the meeting, especially on short notice and for no good business purpose. 

What should be addressed at the January 4th board meeting?

The most urgent item is the approval of the 2022 Budget. That should have been finished by the November 2021 meeting, but it wasn't. Cancellation of the September board meeting might have delayed the budget. 

Management of the HOA by the board is lacking, or the budget would have been finished. The finance committee had work to do, and then the full board needed to approve it. Neither has happened.

Several Neighborhoods do not have Voting Members and/or two Alternates. The Board needed a report from Jesse McClinton on his plans to hold a meeting of Voting Members.

The Annual Meeting of Voting Members was never held in November. And a Nominating Committee was never appointed.

The Board never declared a director's seat vacant after George Reynolds died in April, and the Board never appointed his successor.

The Board prepared a ballot in November with voting for five directors, when only four were to be elected, according to the By-Laws.

Justin Martin announced that Paul Hill would be co-Treasurer. But the By-Laws do not allow for a co-Treasurer.

The Board has plenty of business to conduct tomorrow night.

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