Is it a secret who is running the HOA?

The Summit's HOA is believed to have held an Organization Meeting last Friday, November 15. That meeting was a closed, private, secret, special board meeting, conducted out-of-view of the Members.

According to the By-Laws, officers of the HOA are elected by the directors at the Organizational Meeting. According to the PRM (Art. III, Section H (1)), the President is to appoint a chair of the Nominating Committee, with the approval of the Board. 

On November 16 I emailed six of the board members and asked who the new officers are and who the Nominating Chair is.

There was no reply.

On Wednesday, November 20th, I emailed the HOA's on-site Property Manager and asked who the officers are.

No reply.

Since the Property Manager doesn't reply to me, I can only assume that she has been directly not to do so. Otherwise, the Property Manager would respond to polite, business-related inquiries from a homeowner or resident.

Will there be Minutes of that important meeting? Will those Minutes be available for inspection by HOA Members (that's you, the homeowner)?

I was informed earlier this year that no Minutes are prepared for Annual Meetings of Voting Members.

The Organizational Meeting should have been part of the November 12th BOD Meeting. According to the By-Laws (Art. III, B, Section 8), it is to be the first BOD meeting after the Annual Meeting of the membership (the Voting Members). That "first meeting" was held at 6:30PM on November 12.

By meeting on November 15, the board met at the second BOD meeting after the Annual Meeting of the Voting Members.

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