HOA Board will meet in private today

It is expected that the HOA Board will hold a private, closed, secret, Special Board Meeting today to elect officers. This meeting should be in public, but it's not.

Whom will they choose as President?
 
If they choose Danny Trapp again, the Board will be in for another year of dysfunction, chaos, and disorder. 

Is there anyone else on the board (Bryant, Holmes, Potter, Pollin, or one of the new directors, Bates or Adams) who has the skill and expertise to lead a board of a non-profit corporation and get things done right?

The very first order of business should be to establish bonafide Voting Members for 27 Neighborhoods, so that the homeowners are properly represented. Barony Place has the only legitimate Voting Member, and that's as of May 4, 2024.

They must do away with the charade of "getting signatures" to become a Voting Member. That is not allowed in the By-Laws.

They must do away with allowing homeowners to claim to role of Voting Member without holding Annual Neighborhood Meetings. These are required by the By-Laws. The HOA doesn't have a choice!

They must not allow 19.6% of the homeowners to be unrepresented; four Neighborhoods are OPEN (without any, even an illegitimate) Voting Member. Actually a fifth Neighborhood (Maywood) is now Open, because its (illegimate) Voting Member was elected to the Board.

The Board should acknowledge that the election of directors just held (November 12, 2024) was fraudulent. The HOA allowed ineligible homeowners to vote for directors.

All of this needs to be fixed. I'm not an attorney, but I can tell them how to fix it. Read. The. By-Laws.

Who will the officers be for 2024-2025? Did the Board appoint a chair for the Nominating Committee at their Organizational Meeting today? Will Minutes of this meeting be published and available for inspection by any Member?

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