How is CAMS doing in assisting the Board?

The current CAMS contract with the HOA provides (Art. IV, Section B, Paragraph 10): 

"Assisting the Board, appointed Committees, and the ASSOCIATION personnel in the enforcement of the Association Documents.

Presumably, "Documents" means the CC&Rs, By-Laws, and the Procedures Reference Manual.

This would require that the CAMS employees (on-site Property Manager (a/k/a Community Manager (if you read The Summit Scoop) and Assistant Community Manager) be familiar with the Documents.

How are the "Association Documents" enforced? Ex., the provision in the By-Laws (Art. V, §3) that requires every Neighborhood to hold an Annual Neighborhood Meeting, which ends with the election of a Voting Member for the following 12 months?

(There is no provision for becoming a Voting Member by "getting signatures" or by inheriting the office or moving up if the Voting Member moves or quits or just hanging onto the position for many years without ever holding a Neighborhood Meeting.)

What would happen if the on-site Property Manager told the President and the Board that the chairman of the HOA's Neighborhood Committee must assist the Neighborhoods in holding those annual meetings? First, she would have to explain to some of the board members that "annual" means yearly, as in every year.

(It is necessary to distinguish between the HOA's Neighborhood Committee and the [local] Neighborhood Committees of the 28 communities (Neighborhoods) in The Summit.

The language in the By-Laws (Art. V, §3, ¶3) uses the word "shall" quite liberally; e.g., 

"In the conduct of its duties and responsibilities, each [local] Neighborhood Committee shall abide by the procedures and requirements applicable to the Board of Directors set forth in Article III, Sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, of these By-Laws; provided, however, the term “Voting Member” shall refer to the Owners of Units within the Neighborhood and any reference to Voting Groups shall not be applicable. Each [local] Neighborhood Committee shall elect a chairman from among its members [of the three-member [local] Neighborhood Committee] who shall at its meetings [sic] and who shall be responsible for transmitting any and all communications to the Board of Directors and shall be the Voting Member from that Neighborhood." [emphasis added]

In that paragraph the person who wrote it carelessly used the term "Voting Member" to refer to Owners of Units within the Neighborhood.

What if the CAMS on-site Property Manager told the Board that they have to follow the By-Laws? 

I wonder where she'd enjoy working next.

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