Voting Members Have Rare Opportunity

Recognized Voting Members will have a rare opportunity on Tuesday, November 18, to put The Summit's HOA back on a solid leadership footing.

Four seats are open for election.

Terms expire for Board seats held by Danny Trapp, Brenda Bryant, Patricia Pollin*, and Linda Potter.

The Nominating Committee has prepared a slate of five candidates: Vernell Butler, Linda Potter, Greg Thomas, Danny Trapp, and Stephen Van Camp.

Three other qualified applicants for the Board were not nominated: Brenda Bryant (incumbent), Jeff Lummel, and Angelo Turley-Moore. All three are qualified and should have presented by the Nominating Committee as candidates. An ad hoc Committee should be formed to investigate the Nominating Committee and its decision to exclude three qualified applicants.

When Voting Members meet in their Annual Meeting of Voting Members (AMVM) to elect four directors before the Board Meeting starts at 6:30PM, it is expected that they will nominate Bryant, Lummel, and Turley-Moore from the floor. If their efforts to nominate from the floor are stymied, then they should write in their votes for these three.

Detailed Minutes of this most-important of Association meetings should be written and published. In past years no Minutes of AMVMs have been kept.

The terms of the three other directors expire in November, 2026; Tanisha Holmes, William Hill**, and Noel Weatherbee**.

If the Voting Members elect the very best candidates and put the Association above friendship, the new Board will have strong leadership that will comply with the CC&Rs, By-Laws, and Guides such as the PRM. 

If Hill resigns before or after the November 18th Board Meeting, the Board should appoint a highly-qualified successor to serve the remainder of the term (2024-2026). It should be someone without a personal agenda and who puts the interests of the HOA first and foremost.

The Board should then address Hill (if he doesn't resign) and Weatherbee. The Board can remove them as officers, and the Board should be able to remove them from Directors because they shouldn't be there in the first place. If the Board feels it cannot, then the Voting Members should remove them and appoint two successors who will comply with the governing documents.

Voting Members and the Board should allow no screamers and no one who refuses to answer a legitimate question, such as "What Section, if any,  of the governing documents prohibits parking in the streets of The Summit?" (Hint: the correct answer is "None".)

* Pollin was never an eligible candidate for the Board and should not have been nominated for appointment in November 2023 or approved. That didn't stop the Board from appointing her to the Board in November 2023 or prevent her from being recognized as a Board Member for two years!

** Hill and Weatherbee are not legitimate Board Members. Their appointments were invalid, because they were done in a private, closed, pre-board meeting that Board President Danny Trapp improperly called an "executive session". Because they are not legitimate directors, they cannot be officers (Treasurer and Secretary, respectively). 

The Association has not had a legitimate Treasurer or Secretary since May 2025, when LaToya Adams and Ciara Bates resigned (six months after being elected).

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