Can Town & Country Influence the BOD?

The Summit's HOA has a new management company - Town & Country Management Company. Town & Country replaced CAMS on October 1, 2025.

Town & Country was (presumably) contracted by The Summit Community Association, Inc. It works for the Association. It does not work for the Board of Directors or for the Board President. 

I have copies of the last two contracts with CAMS, but I have not yet seen the contract with Town & Country.

One of the services of a good HOA management company is to guide the Board of Directors. 

Is Town & Country up-to-speed on the CC&Rs, By-Laws, and published Guides of the Association, such as the Procedures Reference Manual, Modifications Committee Guidelines, etc.?

The first crisis it will face is seeing that the Annual Meeting of Voting Members (AMVM) is conducted properly. Will it prevent a fraudulent election of directors next month? Will it advise the BOD and the Nominating Committee how to comply with the By-Laws and the PRM?

Or will it silently observe "the way things are done" and not object, when it sees that compliance with the By-Laws and PRM is failing?

Town & Country works for the Association. Will it speak out, if ineligible persons attempt to vote for directors? Will it speak up, if the Board attempts to hold its Organizational Meeting on some day other than at the Board Meeting immediately following the AMVM?

Will Town & Country advise the BOD that William Hill and Noel Weatherbee were NOT duly-appointed on July 1, 2025? Will Town & Country advise the BOD that Hill and Weatherbee are not duly-elected officers (Treasurer and Secretary, respectively), because they were not duly-appointed?

Will Town & Country advise the BOD, and inform the Voting Members and Members, that State law requires a (legitimate) President, Secretary and Treasurer, and that those offices are vacant?

Will Town & Country strongly recommend that the BOD get legal advice on the importance of complying with the CC&Rs, By-Laws, Guides, and State law?

Town & Country has a fiduciary responsibility to serve the Association. 

If it directed to do something that it shouldn't (or not to do something that it should), what will Town & Country do?

That would be a good question for someone to ask at the November BOD Meeting.

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