Should Homeowners Be Represented?

If you are a homeowner in The Summit's HOA, are you represented before the Board of Directors (BOD)? The answer is No.

To whom is the BOD accountable? Or is it?

If your Neighborhood doesn't have a legitimate Voting Member (VM), then you are not represented before the BOD. Presently, only one Neighborhood, Barony Place (Barony Place I and II), has a legitimate VM.

The BOD has gotten away with this rotten state of affairs for many years, because the Homeowners (Members of the Association) do not pay attention or know what the By-Laws say.

The HOA President wrote in the May 2024 Scoop, "We have a monumental hurdle to overcome financially." That's the same as saying they must raise the dues. But the BOD cannot raise the dues as much as is needed (more than 10%), because there are not enough VMs to approve a request from the BOD.

The HOA took on a burden (Parcel R23107-10-10), when the developer of The Lakes at Barony Place transferred 1.15 acres of weeds to the HOA in October 2018. This is an undeveloped piece of land between the backs of houses on Barony Place Drive and Lakemont Drive. There is a process that should have been followed. A cursory examination of Minutes of BOD meetings in mid-to-late 2018 shows no mention of accepting that land. In 2021 some of the directors didn't even know that the HOA owned that parcel.

The VMs should have approved it, but there are NO Minutes of any meetings of the VMs, not even of the Annual Meetings when directors are elected.

The BOD has operated without the important oversight of the VMs, because there haven't been any VMs - at least, no legitimate ones (until May 4, 2024). Now there is only one.


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