How Do You Become a Voting Member?

The Voting Member of a Neighborhood is one of the most important positionS in the HOA and one of the least understood.

How do you become a Voting Member? Put your answer in the Comment box below.

A. "Get signatures" - Pick up a form at the office. Go to your friends in the neighborhood and ask them to sign your form. Turn in your form to the office.

B. "Move up" from Alternate, when the Voting Member of your Neighborhood moves, gets tired, quits, or dies, without a meeting of the Neighborhood Committee (now of two members) to decide which Alternate is to become the Voting Member.

C. Informally "switch hats" with another member of the Neighborhood Committee who no longer wants to be the Voting Member because of illness or loss of interest or any other reason.

D. Survive a Voting Member who died and just claim the office.

E. How you got into the office doesn't matter. Just stick around from year to year, without holding Annual Neighborhood Meetings, and continue to show up at the Annual Meeting of Voting Members, and vote for directors once a year.

F. Be elected by the three-member Neighborhood Committee that was elected by a quorum of the homeowners in your Neighborhood who attended a Neighborhood Meeting, in-person or by proxy, within the past 12 months. (By-Laws, Art. V, §3)

G. Be elected as Voting Member by the surviving members of the Neighborhood Committee at a meeting of that Committee.

Which method(s) is a legitimate method to become a Voting Member?