Three Directors to be Elected

The HOA is supposed to hold an election of directors on Tuesday, November 12.

Will you run for the Board?

Terms of three directors expire this year. One term is vacant. Tommy Williams was appointed earlier this year to succeed Vernell Butler, and Tommy is believed to have resigned in May. 

Tommy's resignation has never been formally announced, and the board has made no effort to appoint his successor. This has resulted in an even-numbered board of six, which means a stalemate when three of the directors attempt to move a piece of business forward that the president doesn't like. A tie vote (3-3) on a Motion fails.

The other expiring (2022-2024) terms are those of Tanisha Holmes and Dennis Rybicki.

Nominations of new members of the Board are due at the office by Friday, October 4, 5:30PM. The application can be found in the Procedures Reference Manual, Exhibit A (Page 33).

The Board desperately needs directors who understand business, finances, procedures, and the importance of compliance with the Governing Documents.

The terms of the other four directors are 2023-2025. Those directors are Danny Trapp, Brenda Bryant, Linda Potter, and Patricia Pollen. Pollin was appointed by the board to succeed Greg Thomas, who resigned shortly after being re-elected in November 2023.

The fact is that none of the directors of the HOA is a legitimate director, and the HOA does not have a legitimate Board of Directors, as required by the South Carolina Non-Profit Corporations Act (S.C. Code of Laws 33-31-801(a)). 

This is because the HOA has allowed elections to take place at Annual Meetings of Voting Members that should not have been convened in the absence of a quorum of legitimate Voting Members. 

A legitimate Voting Member is one who was duly-elected by his Neighborhood in compliance with the By-Laws.

Will the 2024 Annual Meeting of Voting Members be able to convene on November 12, 2024? Will a quorum of legitimate Voting Members be present? Right now, less than two months before that election, the answers are No and No.

Will Minutes of that Meeting be kept? No Minutes were kept for the 2023 Annual Meeting and may not have been kept in other past years.

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