Barony Place I/Barony Place II

The following email has been sent to the board members of the HOA. Members of the Board, Where did you get that crazy idea of prohibiting homeowners from attending monthly board meetings, except by invitation? I suggest you are on very thin ice with that one. I urge you to contact the HOA attorney and ask him about the wisdom and legality of such a decision. Are you prohibiting all Committee chairmen, Alternate Voting Members, and committee members? Did you consider the workload on the office, if 2,400 homeowners request invitations to each board meeting? Why wasn't your decision published in the March Scoop (online about March 30)? When you read Section 15 of ART. III B of the By-Laws, you'll see that it is incomplete. There is an important word missing, making it vague, not understandable, and unenforceable. You can't just pick out any word and pretend it's there. You are elected by Voting Members who are elected by the homeowner-Members of the SCA. There is no valid ...

Here is why you should attend board meetings and know what is going on. The Minutes for the March 1, 2022 board meeting carry this entry at the very end of the Minutes, just before the financials. "New Business" "It was questioned whether homeowners are allowed at board meetings. It was stated that board meetings are for board and voting members and it was decided that meetings will remain closed to homeowners unless invited. It was suggested that this should be correct in The Scoop." First, since when have meetings been closed to homeowners. For at least four years, they haven't been. In fact, for a long time they were open to ALL residents. Then Justin and George decided that they didn't want me there. But all other residents (including homeowners) could attend.  Then they decided they'd better clean up the language in The Summit Scoop, and they changed the message last summer that had read "Board meetings are open to ALL Summit residents" ...

Today is March 30, and The Summit Scoop is now posted online. Go to www.summithomeowners.com and log in. Then hover over RESIDENTS, and click on DOCUMENTS. Then click on The Summit Scoop. You may have missed the Senior Luncheon on March 16 (two weeks ago), but you'll see the calendar for Senior Luncheons for April-July.  Not sure why the pool openings in May are announced in March or why the pools open three weeks apart. Ask your Neighborhood Representative (who won't know) or call the office. You'll be delighted to know that the March board meeting will be March 1. Oh, wait; this is already March 30. The next board meeting will be April 5, 6:30PM. Be sure to request the Zoom link from the office. The March Scoop contains the Committee Reports from February and could have included the Reports given at the March 1st board meeting. After all, this IS March 30th. April and May board meetings are announced as Zoom meetings. If you, as a homeowner, are ready for board meetings...

Has anyone received the March Scoop yet? Today is March 28. The February Scoop was delivered in Barony Place II on February 23. For a year the Board has said the Scoop should be delivered early in the month. I agree. But where is it? Why is the Board so ineffective in getting the Summit Scoop produced and delivered early in the month? And why doesn't the Board inform homeowners and residents that, if they don't have a newspaper box under their mailbox, they won't get any Scoop at all?

The following email is being sent today to the Board of Directors of the HOA. Do you have an opinion about news and publicity in The Summit? A different issue is why most of the Neighborhood Representatives (Voting Members) do not attend board meetings or inform their residents of what is going on. Email the board (if you are lucky enough to have their email addresses) or use the CONTACT US link on the webform at www.summithomeowners.com Members of the Board, May I offer the following suggestions? On the HOA website the Newsletter Committee is listed, and it has no Mission. May I suggest establishing a Mission at your next board meeting? May I suggest that it would be appropriate to have a board member or Homeowner/Member as the Chair of that Committee? Add homeowners and residents to the Committee. Teresa is a CAMS employee. No CAMS employee should chair a HOA committee. Consider re-naming the Committee to Publicity or News, and include the website. Revamp...

In The Summit there are 28 Neighborhoods in the HOA. Barony Place II is in one of them. The "Barony Place" Neighborhood consists of Barony Place I and Barony Place II. Each Neighborhood is supposed to have a Voting Member and two Alternates. The Voting Member is your representative to the Board of Directors. There is a specific way that one becomes the Voting Member. Every year each Neighborhood is to hold a Neighborhood Meeting. At that Meeting there is to be a Neighborhood Election. Three homeowners are to be elected to the Neighborhood Committee, and the chairman of the Committee becomes the Voting Member for the next year. Voting Member is not a perpetual position. It is for one year, until the next Meeting and Election. I have lived in Barony Place II since January 2018 and do not remember ever hearing anything about a Neighborhood Meeting or Election. So, does Barony Place really have a legitimate Voting Member? Are you, the Homeowner, without representation before the ...

Members of the Safety Committee (please forward to Members Heimlich and Kranz) and Board of Directors, Almost every night in The Summit, vehicles are being broken into, doors are being tried, and trespassing and vandalism are occurring.  Region 7 deputies can't be everywhere. Even our own CAT officer has limited duties. The Scoop could be used more effectively to alert homeowners and residents about the problems and to enlist their powers of observation to slow or eliminate these problems. Homeowners/residents should be constantly reminded not to leave firearms or valuable in vehicles.  Four years ago I suggested a roving team of willing volunteers to ride through neighborhoods between 1:00-5:00AM, looking for kids on foot. Their only function would be to observe and notify RCSD. Contact with the miscreants should be avoided. The Safety Committee was worried about liability. That's an easy one to solve. Should the HOA hire more CAT-deputy hours? Evaluate private security? Are ...

Should The Summit enroll in the Neighborhood Watch Program ? Could crime in The Summit be reduced? Let the Safety Committee of the HOA know what you think. But it's not something "they" do. It's something "you" do; like, keep your eyes open around your neighborhood. Just this week a nearby homeowner's exterior security camera recorded a kid in his backyard at 1:24AM, at his back door. Keep all your doors locked, all the time. Lock your vehicles. Don't leave firearms and other valuables in your vehicles. Clean out the garage and put your vehicles inside.  Kids will break a $300 window for a dollar's worth of change. 

Every month the Summit HOA board of directors gathers one week before the following month's board meeting in what is called a "pre-board" meeting; sometimes called a workshop, and sometimes it is  referred to as an executive session. What happens at those meetings? Well, since they are not open to the public, it's hard to say. But what I think happens is that the board discusses various items of business and makes decisions. All of that being out of the public view of the 2,500 homeowners of the Summit Community Associatioation (HOA). It's obvious they are making decisions, because there is little discussion at board meetings and no voting by "the board". Justin just announces what will happen. Take the 2022 Annual Budget, for example. Was there any discussion in the pre-board meeting at the end of February? Was there any discussion about the Budget on February 22? Did the Board actually take a roll call vote to approve the 2022 Annual Budget on March 1?...

Discarded hot water heater HOA Board Treasurer Vernell Butler sent me this message on March 2, 2022. " who are you? Get a grip, get a clue. We owe you nothing. Stop calling the office stop emailing the staff and board. Get your DBA like me then talk numbers " Nice, eh? So today (3/6/2022), when I spotted a discarded hot water heater on Barony Place Drive, just west of Timber Crest Drive, I realized I had several choices. 1. Just drive on by and ignore it. 2. Call Vernell and ask him to do something about it. Impossible to do, because Vernell doesn't list his phone number (or even that he is a board member) on the website. 3. Call my Neighborhood Representative, Billie Jones, and ask her to do something about it. Not a good option, because she doesn't reply.) 4. Stuff it in the back of my Kia Soul and haul it over to Vernell's neighborhood. 5. Let the office know and ask them to remove it. 6. Let the office know and don't ask them to do anything. I decided on #...

Monthly board meetings are supposed to be recorded. Can a Member of the HOA get a copy of the recording? Did you miss the March 1st meeting? Want to know what happened? Request a copy of the Zoom meeting recording. Send your request to AAdleman@camsmgt.com  Angela Adleman is the manager of the HOA. Will she provide it to you? There is only one way to find out. Request it. Good luck.

3/1/2022  6:30PM Should a Homeowner in Good Standing (dues paid; nothing owed) be blocked from a monthly board meeting of the HOA? Blocked only on the order of the HOA president, Justin Martin, who is not even attending the meeting? This is the message that the Homeowner received from the HOA manager today, after she requested the Zoom link for the meeting. The link had been distributed to all other expected attendees yesterday. " Justin has requested that you contact him prior to you getting the board meeting invite. Justin is out currently due to personal health issues. Please give him a few weeks before you contact him. His email is  jdmartinscx@gmail.com " The president of the HOA has no authority to keep a Homeowner in Good Standing out of a monthly board meeting. There is no such thing as a "board meeting invite". Every Homeowner is entitled to attend board meetings and to know how the HOA is being run and how it is spending the money collected from the homeow...

Should the manager of the HOA do what's right or what she is told? CAMS probably thinks it is secure in its position as management for the HOA (Summit Community Assn.), but is it? Last month, on Justin Martin's direction, the office withheld the Zoom meeting link from a homeowner. Then it refused to admit that homeowner to the Zoom meeting, after the homeowner was able to obtain the link to the meeting. This month (March) the office failed to respond to a request from the homeowner for the link.  So the question is, who ordered the office not to provide the meeting link to the Homeowner? There's one person on the board who seems to call the shots. That's the board president, Justin Martin. He's the one who blocked the Homeowner last month. Is he the cause again this month? What should the Manager of the HOA do? She is in a Catch-22 dilemma. Should she do what is right - which is to provide the link to the Homeowner and admit the Homeowner when she attempts to log in...