HOA's Neighborhood Committee - What Is It?

The HOA's Neighborhood Committee is distinct from the (local) Neighborhood Committees of the 28 neighborhoods in The Summit. 

The Mission of the Neighborhood Committee is: 

"Responsible for helping each community in the Summit to locate and elect a local neighborhood committee that will represent their community at SCA board meetings and thereby allow their Voting member to vote on vital issues that affect the Summit and their local neighborhood. The Neighborhood Committee will assist and advise local neighborhoods with problems that they encounter." [emphasis added]

In the March 2025 Summit Scoop Board President Danny Trapp wrote, in part,

"I am asking the support of the community for the chair person of the Neighborhood Committee who is trying to ensure that each neighborhood has representation. Someone in each neighborhood cares enough to step out and assume the role as its leader. It does not take a lot of effort to perform these duties. You will have the support and opportunity to make a positive impact in your neighborhood." [emphasis added]

The Committee seems to be a one-man committee, chaired by Reginald Mack, who is the "Voting Member" from Summit Hills IV. No members of the Committee have ever been identified or listed in The Summit Scoop or on the HOA's website.

A Voting Member does not come about because a homeowner "steps out" and assumes the role as leader.

The only way that a homeowner becomes a legitimate Voting Member is to be elected by the homeowners in his neighborhood, in compliance with the By-Laws.

Mack and Trapp are friends. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. But, when Mack doesn't follow the By-Laws, there is a problem. And, when Trapp doesn't direct Mack to follow the By-Laws, there is a bigger problem with that!

Trapp and Mack (and the office) tolerate a scheme of recognizing people who "get signatures". That scheme is not found anywhere in the By-Laws. But they aren't alone. The entire Board tolerates that scheme.

If there are any Board members who know that scheme is wrong, they should be saying so at every Board meeting,  and their statements should be recorded in the Minutes of those board meetings.

Several meetings ago Mack told the Board he is looking into electronic voting for Voting Member. That, of course, is not in the By-Laws. The By-Laws would have to be changed; HOWEVER, there are nowhere near enough legitimate, duly-elected Voting Members to approve amendments to the CC&Rs and By-the Laws.

If the Neighborhood Committee had seven (7) members, then the HOA's neighborhoods could be divided into seven groups, and each committee member would be responsible for four neighborhoods. 

Or maybe one committee member would be assigned to Waverly Place (264 homes; 10.6% of the HOA). Waverly Place has not had a legitimate Voting Member for a long time. The position has been "open" since April 2023. 

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