HOA Committees and the Online Calendar

There are numerous committees of the HOA. The most active ones are:

Activities
Contracts
Covenants
Finance *
Landscape
Modifications *
Neighborhood
Newsletter
Nominating
Ponds & Lakes
Projects
Safety
Youth

* Only these committees are shown on the HOA's online calendar for meetings in November 2024.

Are the rest just not having meetings or is it the case that no one is keeping the Calendar up-to-date?

The Neighbor Committee (of the HOA) is a vital committee. Its job is to help the neighborhoods hold their Annual Neighborhood Meetings. Instead, it seems to be supporting the scheme of allowing homeowners to "get signatures" to become Voting Members. The result is that they become illegitimate "Voting Members"!

The Procedures Reference Manual (PRM) lists the following committees as Standing Committees. There should be a chair and members.

New Construction
Asset Evaluation
Neighbors Helping Neighbors

The PRM lists these as "Other Committees":
Budget
Energy
Ad-hoc

The Budget Committee has a very important function, which was disregarded this year.

Likewise, the Ad-hoc Committee was struck down unilaterally by Danny Trapp. He doesn't have that authority, but the board did not resist.

Same with the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Committee. As a Standing Committee, the President cannot abolish or disband it. The Board can; the President cannot. Why did the Board let him do that?

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