When was your last Annual Neighborhood Meeting?

As the November 7th Annual Meeting of Voting Members nears, it is imperative the the HOA office determine whether a Neighborhood has a legitimate Voting Member.

Why?

Only a legitimate Voting Member should be allowed to vote for directors during the Annual Meeting. Are there 15 legitimate Voting Members? I. Don't. Think. So.

Otherwise, voter fraud exists.

There is one way, and one way only, of choosing a Voting Member. And it's not by "getting signatures".

It's by complying with the By-Laws. Each Neighborhood holds its Annual Neighborhood Meeting. Homeowners (a quorum is 1/3 of the homes' represented) elect a three-member Neighborhood Committee. That Committee meets and chooses one of the three to be the Voting Member; the other two are Alternates.

They serve for one year. It's not a life sentence. It's not perpetual. It's not permanent. They serve for one year, until the next Annual Neighborhood Election. They can't hang onto their titles by failing to call the next Neighborhood Meeting (although many do).

Minutes of the Neighborhood Meeting should be prepared and submitted to the HOA office.

Has that ever been done? Does the office, currently managed by CAMS, have any record of duly-selected Voting Members?

If not, the Annual Meeting of Voting Members  must be adjourned without voting for directors. It should be re-convened in 5-30 days. But each re-convened Annual Meeting will face the same hurdle - too few legitimate Voting Members to make a quorum (15).

And that's because the Board of Directors has been lax in guiding all the neighborhoods to hold their Annual Neighborhood Meetings.

Because nobody speaks up and says, "What you are doing is wrong!" It's time. It's past time for that.