Elected Directors should have been seated tonight

At tonight's HOA board meeting, November 1, 2022, Treasurer Vernell Butler jumped the gun after the corrected election results were announced and stated that the newly-elected directors would take office in January.

First of all, it was not his place to make such an announcement. That announcement should be made by the President (who was absent) or by the Vice-President or by the Secretary. But know-it-all Vernell jumped into it.

Is that correct?

There was a question in my mind about whether he was correct but, at the time, I didn't know the answer.

I found the answer in the By-Laws. Art, III, A, Section 6 (c) ¶2. 
"The directors elected by the Voting Members shall hold office until their respective successors have been elected by the Association."

In the case of Vernell, this doesn't really matter, because he was re-elected.

In  Dennis' case, he was already on the board, having succeeded the late Paul Hill. Justin had told Dennis he had to run in November 2022, and Dennis was elected to a 2022-2024 term of office. Now he'll have to resign his seat on the board.

Vicky McCarthy was elected to a 2022-2024 term. Vicki was seated in the audience and should have been called forward, welcomed to the Board and seated.

Auby should have been thanked for serving and taken a seat in the audience.

Now Dennis has to resign his seat on the board, to which he had been appointed in May to succeed Paul Hill. And that seat becomes vacant, because Dennis will have resigned from it.

Paul's seat was one of five elected in November 2021, when only four directors should have been elected.

Will Dennis' resignation meet the need to remove one of those five. Or should the five draw straws to see who loses his place?

The Board is supposed to have seven members. Counting Justin, who was absent, there would have been eight at the board table. The three elected tonight, and the five who were elected in November 2021. 

And that's a problem that the board is going to HAVE to solve.

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