Who is on which Committee?

The Summit's HOA has numerous committees. Are you on one? (Or does your name appear as a Committee member, but you aren't on the Committee?)

Committees and their members are listed in The Summit Scoop and on the HOA's website.

In the Scoop, see Page 2. Where can you find the Scoop? Go to the website; then scroll to the bottom of the homepage. Click on Recent News. (I have suggested a change in name to "Summit Scoop". Maybe if you suggest it, they'll change it.). For past issues of the Scoop, go to the website. Click on RESIDENTS. Then click on DOCUMENTS. Then click on The Monthly Scoop.

You can find the Committees and members' name on the HOA's website. Click on RESIDENTS. Then click on COMMITTEES.

Following are the Committees and the number of members (parentheses indicate number of members according to the HOA's website):

Activities (5)
Contracts (2)*
Covenants (5)
Energy (0)
Finance (9)
Modifications (5)
Nominating (7)
Neighbors Helping Neighbors/CERT (9)
Summit Assets** (NONE) (Committee not listed in the Scoop)
Projects (8)
Safety (7) (Nine are listed in the Scoop)
Neighborhood*** (5)
Ponds/Lakes (5)
Youth (5)
Newsletter**** (2)

* The Contracts is an extremely important committee and should have more members. This committee approves the Management contract with CAMS, the landscapers contract, and other contracts. To have only two members, one of which is the HOA President, is very poor planning.

** The Summit Assets Committee. 
Mission: This Sub-committee, is responsible for establishing a balanced annual budget, and presenting it to The Summit Community Association, Inc. Board of Directors for approval. The budgeting process considers input from all levels and includes members from the general community.
This committee is among the most important; yet it has no chairman (appointed by the President) and no members.

*** The Neighborhood Committee is supposed to help the 28 Neighborhoods comply with the By-Laws by holding Annual Neighborhood Meetings and Neighborhood Elections of a Neighborhood Committee. That's the source of each Neighborhood's Voting Member.
Without those Meetings and Elections, no Neighborhood has a legitimate Voting Member.

**** The Newsletter Committee appears on the website, but not in the Scoop. The chair is a CAMS employee who does not live in the Summit. I have suggested in the past that a Homeowner be the chair. The other member of the Committee is a non-resident homeowner who has handled advertising for the Scoop.

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