Who Represents the Homeowners in the HOA?

Earlier this week I sent an email to the "Voting Members" for whom I had email addresses. I urged them to actually represent their homeowners and stand up to the Board about the unauthorized lawsuit it started in December (which is prohibited by the CC&Rs) and the illegal disbursement of HOA funds for legal fees associated with that lawsuit. The Board had never approved the lawsuit by vote in an open Board Meeting (and couldn't do so, even if they tried).

I didn't ask them to stand up for me. I want them to stand up for their homeowners - for the people they represent!

One of the recipients, a "Voting Member", replied, in part, "... (the HOA's Neighborhood Committee) represents the homeowners within The Summit." That is absolutely UNTRUE. 

It is the local Neighborhood Committee for each of the 28 neighborhoods (communities) in The Summit that represents its neighborhood! And the chairman of that local neighborhood committee, who is called its Voting Member, is the one who speaks for the homeowners and votes.

About the only way the Voting Members can stand up to the Board is to call a Special Meeting, get a quorum there, and then remove Danny Trapp from the Board. Removing him would end his term as Board President.

What should happen to the Voting Members who refuse to show up at a Special Meeting and thereby prevent business from being conducted, because no quorum is present? 

Another recipient of my email replied that he had become a duly-elected Voting Member "by my standards". He wrote that he had gone out and gotten signatures and had a meeting, and that made him duly-elected.

"My standards" are not what counts. The "standards" are the By-Laws. He named another Voting Member who, he wrote, had become a duly-elected Voting Member the same way. 

I wondered whether he had gone out and gotten signatures on the form furnished by the office which, as I understand it, is not a proxy.

I wrote to both of them and asked 

  • Did you hold a Neighborhood Meeting with a quorum present, in-person or by proxy?
  • Did those present elect three to the Neighborhood Committee?
  • Did the Committee elect a chairman, who is the Voting Member? 

Neither has replied yet. Will they confirm compliance with the By-Laws?

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