HOA Officers Should Be Elected 12/2/2025

Officers of the HOA should be elected at Tuesday's Board of Directors Meeting. The old guard is out; the new is in.

Four directors were elected on November 18: Brenda Bryant, Jeff Lummel, Linda Potter, and Angelo Turley-Moore.

Danny Trapp was not re-elected. He is no longer on the Board, and he is no longer President of the HOA.

On this Tuesday, December 2nd, the Board should elect a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and a Treasurer. This happens every year. The election should have been conducted on November 18th, but it wasn't. State law requires a President, (legitimate) Secretary, and (legitimate) Treasurer.

Tanisha Holmes, soon-to-be former Board VP, will move to the minority of the Board. Will she stay, or will she pull "a Vernell" and bail if not re-elected as VP?

Will William Hill resign from the Board, as has been rumored for over a month?

What will Noel Weatherbee do?

Both Hill and Weatherbee were appointed in a closed, private, pre-board meeting on July 1, 2025. Danny Trapp claimed it was an "executive session", but it was not*. And it wasn't a Special Board Meeting. Because their appointments were invalid, they cannot be officers. So the positions of two directors and of Treasurer and Secretary are still vacant, as they have been since May, when Ciara Bates and LaToya Adams resigned from the Board.

If Hill and Weatherbee are to continue to be recognized as Board Members, then they should be legitimized. The Board needs to discuss appointing them, consider other homeowners, and either appoint them in compliance with the By-Laws or appoint two other homeowners to the Board.

Homeowners in The Summit deserve better than a board split 4-3. All seven Directors should be there to serve for the betterment of the Association and the community. 

* A bonafide "executive session" would have been listed on the Agenda. The Board Meeting would have started at 6:30PM, and then there should have been a Motion to move into Executive Session. The specific purpose should have been stated, such as to consider candidates for appointment as board members to replace Ciara Bates and LaToya Adams, both of whom had resigned in May. No decisions or "deals" are to be made in Executive Sessions. Then the Executive Session should have been adjourned, and the board should have reconvened in the public, open, Regular Board Meeting.

During the Regular Board Meeting, there should have been nominations, discussion and voting on the two nominees. After Hill and Weatherbee were appointed to the Board in the open Regular Meeting, there should have been nominations for their election as Treasurer and Secretary, respectfully, and the Board should have voted on them.

That's the way it should have been done. Danny Trapp didn't do it that way. 

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