Reason for Closing Board Meetings?


Source: https://nextdoor.com/p/cFkF75pgB3cs?view=detail&init_source=search&query=summit%20hoa

It's a little hard to read, so here is what it says. Justin Martin, President of the HOA, posted that on about August 27, 2023.

 • Summit ParkwayEdited 1w
"Really neat how the instigator of both the price tag of the copies of the full audit and the reason the board had no choice but to close the Board of Directors meeting to voting members\ neighborhood reps or committee chairs (as it says in the CC&Rs) can come on a social media page open to all and try to get everyone against the duly elected Board for an association that are not even a member of.
"The reason why the Board chose to close the BOD meeting was you.. that’s right. You and your outbursts and disruptions in our meeting. A meeting that you had no rights to be in in the first place. I can’t tell you how many meeting attendees contacted me afterwards and were disgusted with your antics. So, good job in making us close the meeting so we can actually get the business of Board completed.
"You love to misrepresent the facts. There was ALWAYS a price tag to release copies of the Annual full audit. It’s called an administrative fee and it’s covered in the CC&Rs and by the S.C. Non-Profit Code, the Association is entitled to charge its costs incurred in redacting and reproducing the report back to you. It’s not really that important for you is it though, only to spread lies that we’re charging that because we want to.
"You might get a couple homeowners to sympathize with you and believe in your half-truths and outright lies, but there are far more actual homeowners and volunteers in this community that don’t.
(edited)"

There were a couple of comments of note:

"Closing the board because someone asks questions is shady. That’s what the meetings are for. Luckily we have someone like Gus that keeps us in the know."

"Please continue to remind us to attend. Thanks"

And then there were these two from the same woman:

""I"???? YOU ARE OUT OF LINE. please leave the HOA to the homeowner you're leaving with as a guest or whatever."

And

"they are exceedingly kind and diligent at getting information out to US homeowners. If they are being harassed constantly with demands from the same person around frivolous complaints, where and do you think this will end? 

"He has no grounds "

"frivolous complaints"? "no grounds"? See https://baronyplace.blogspot.com/2023/09/email-to-my-neighborhood.html  Especially Numbers 1-9.

I asked that commenter two questions, but she never answered.

"Do you think the Board of Directors should comply with the By-Laws of the HOA?"

"Do you know that there has been a vacant seat on the board since November 2022? Do you wonder why the Board has not filled that seat?"

I have offered to debate Justin in a public forum. He can even have the HOA's lawyer on his side. On my side I'll have a copy of the By-Laws.

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