Do You Have a Legitimate Voting Member?

Does your neighborhood have a legitimate Voting Member?

Look at the Voting Member listing in The Summit Scoop and on the HOA's website.

First of all, if you live in Autumn Glen, Indigo Springs, Pine Clave, and Waverly Place, you don't even have a Voting Member - at all. That's 487 homes with no representation whatsoever. That's 19.6% of the homes in the HOA. And you haven't had a Voting Member for a long time.

Many other neighborhoods have homeowners who are "recognized" by the Board as "Voting Members", because they "got signatures" on a form from the office. But they were not duly-elected, in compliance with the By-Laws. Shall I name them?

Still other neighborhoods have "Voting Members", even though they haven't had Neighborhood Meetings for years*. Shall I name them?

What is a legitimate Voting Member? 

He or she is one who was elected by your neighborhood's (local) three-member Neighborhood Committee. Your Neighborhood Committee is three homeowners who were elected at a Neighborhood Meeting attended by a quorum (one-third) of your property owners.

The Neighborhood Committee, including the Voting Member, serves for one year after the Neighborhood Meeting.

On what date was your most-recent, valid (quorum present) Neighborhood Meeting? For Barony Place it was May 4, 2024. 

It's my personal belief that no other neighborhood has had a Neighborhood Meeting in the recent past. Barony Place hadn't had one for more than ten years! Yet a "Voting Member" was listed every month in the Summit Scoop and on the website.

Homeowners deserve a legitimate Voting Member. The By-Laws require it. The word "shall" is used in the By-Laws for good reason.

The Board of Directors loves not having legitimate Voting Members, because then they are not accountable to anyone. 

Attention every Neighborhood (all 28 of you): Elect your Neighborhood Committee and Voting Member now, so that amendments to the CC&Rs and By-Laws can be considered and so the HOA can conduct a legitimate election of four directors on November 4, 2025.

* One current board member emailed me last year to tell me that, if a neighborhood had a Neighborhood Meeting 25 years ago, elected a Voting Member, and never had another Neighborhood Meeting, that person would still be the Voting Member. 

That is absolutely not true. It ignores the preceding part of the Section that says every Neighborhood shall have an annual Neighborhood Meeting. Annual means yearly, as in every year.

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