Board Makes Another Decision in Private

When the Board of Directors holds a pre-board meeting or a Workshop, it can discuss plans, review documents, and set an agenda for the next board meetings, but it is not supposed to make decisions. 

If it follows good policy and Robert's Rules of Order, it won't even decide how it will vote at a future open meeting. In other words, there won't be any agreement on how they will vote at an open meeting.

But that isn't how this Board operates. It has a history of making decisions out-of-sight of Members, including Voting Members, who are the homeowners' legal representatives.

The March 2025 Management Report, which is included with the April BOD Minutes, described just one type of decision which you'll miss, of course, if you don't read that Report, which most homeowners will not.

See the entry on Page 4 of the Report for Office Phone and Internet. Teresa was "researching" a new provider for the office phones and the Magnolia Pool internet. She presented quotes from Verizon and AT&T to the board at its Workshop (no date given). 

"The board decided to remain with the current provider, Spectrum, as they agreed to lower the monthly costs."

Was there even a decision to be made? If there was, then it should have been made in public at a monthly board meeting. I've written about other decisions that this board has made other than at monthly board meetings.

The Voting Members should be paying attention and objecting every time the board does that. But do they even know? Or care?