Who Is Your Voting Member?

The Summit HOA (Summit Community Association) has 2,480 homes, and these are in 28 separate Neighborhoods. 

Do you realize that you, as a homeowner, do not elect the people on your HOA's Board of Directors? You don't.

They are elected by 28 Voting Members - one from each Neighborhood.

Who are these Voting Members? They are, like you, homeowners. A homeowner is definted in the CC&Rs as a person whose name is on the Deed.

How are they chosen?

Every year each Neighborhood is to have a Neighborhood Meeting. At that Meeting a Neighborhood Committee of three homeowners is elected. One of the three (the senior person, although "senior" is not defined) becomes the Voting Member, and the other two on the Committee are Alternate Voting Members.

A Voting Member is also known as a Neighborhood Representative. 

The person who is the Voting Member holds that office for a year. It is not a lifetime "job".

Voting Members have numerous responsibilites and duties. One of them is to elect directors. In odd-numbered years (ex. 2021), they elect four directors. (They should have elected four; instead, they elected five.) In even-numbered years (ex., 2022), they elect three. They can also remove directors and elect successors to removed directors.

Right now, it is quite likely that there might not even be a quorum of legitimate Voting Members. Few Neighborhoods, if any, have held Neighborhood Meetings and Neighborhood Elections. 

I live in Barony Place (78 homes in Barony Place I and Barony Place II). I've lived here since January 2018, and there has not been even one Neighborhood Meeting. So, I would claim that Barony Place does not have a legitimate Voting Member/Neighborhood Representative. Seventy-eight homes ($42,900 of annual assessments) are not represented.

Why should you care? What if the Board of Directors decides to raise the dues? The current budget does not take inflation into effect. Should it? If expenses are going up (and, because of inflation, they are), where will the money come from to pay them?

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