Who Tells the Voting Members What To Do?

Who tells the Voting Members what to do? A better question is, What tells the Voting Members what to do?

There are answers  to each question.

Who tells them? Their neighbors - the property owners in their own neighborhoods.

What tells them? The CC&Rs and the By-Laws.

Who does not tell them what to do? The Board of Directors. The Officers of the HOA. The CAMS office employees. The chair of the Neighborhood Committee of the HOA. 

The most important people in the HOA's community are the Voting Members. Because they elect the directors, and they have the power to remove directors.

They are even more important than the homeowners, because the homeowners don't elect the directors and the homeowners can't remove directors.

This is why it is so important that every year the homeowners gather in an Annual Neighborhood Meeting, with a quorum present. At that meeting they are to elect three of their own to the Neighborhood Committee, which serves for 12 months. That Committee elects one of the three as the chairman and Voting Member.

There are supposed to be 28 legitimate Voting Members. How many are there? One.

Four neighborhoods (19.6% of the HOA) don't have any Voting Member at all. The positions are "open".

I believe that 23 neighborhoods don't have "legitimate" Voting Members. The people claiming the title were not duly-elected in compliance with the By-Laws. Some "got signatures". Some just hung around for many years. Legally, aren't they impostors? usurpers? pretenders?

A few of them do a good job of fulfilling some of the duties of a Voting Member, but they aren't "legal". They weren't duly-elected, and they don't have the authority to vote to elect directors of the HOA.

Complying with the By-Laws isn't that hard.  Barony Place did it. Twice. 2024 and 2023. Getting it done in 2024 was easier than in 2023. 

Nobody is "in charge" of the Voting Members. It's an autonomous group. But it would help if they created some structure and perhaps elected one of their own as leader for a year. THEY should appoint their leader, not the President of the Board. He can appoint a chair of the Board's Neighborhood Committee,  and that chair should work closely with the Neighborhoods, but he is not in charge of them.

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