HOA Safety Committee - Chair needed

On May 30, 2024 the HOA office emailed homeowners (and at least one resident) the following message:

The Safety Committee chair volunteer position is currently open and needs to be filled as soon as possible. If you or you know of someone that is interested, please contact the Summit Association office at 803-865-0609 or email trigon@camsmgt.com or keyonaw@camsmgt.com . 

I responded that I would be interested, if residents will be considered.

After I sent it, I realized I didn't need to ask the qualifying question. The board allows a CAMS employee to chair the Newsletter Committee, and surely a resident is a step above that.

Then I read the Mission of the Safety Committee again. Here it is, from the HOA website:

Mission: (The Safety Committee) Is responsible for identifying unsafe conditions that exist in the amenity areas and reporting these findings to the Association Board of Directors along with recommendations for rectifying the problems.

For years the Safety Committee has delved into areas outside its narrow Mission. The Committee sponsored Heroes Day and National Night Out, received and wasted hours on complaints about speeders on Summit Parkway, considered paying for and installing signs on the Parkway that "might" induce drivers to slow down, weighed in on trespassers from the Food Lion and Family Dollar property line, supported organizing Neighborhood Watch throughout the Summit, etc.

None of those has anything to do with the "amenity areas" of the HOA.

The pool key-fob idea may have been run through the Safety Committee. The $42,000 locked-gate system was supposed to eliminate the $40,000 annual expense of pool monitors. The Board totally missed the point that a kid with a fob could open the gate and let al his friends in. So the HOA spent $42,000 AND still has pool monitors! That's what happens when you have too many followers on a board of directors. 

Most recently, the now-former Chair of the Committee voiced support for signing certain portions of the Common Properties as gun-free zones. I emailed my opinion of that idea to him and other members of the board and did not receive the courtesy of even one reply.

The Chair of a HOA committee is appointed by the President of the HOA. 

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