HOA Website - stepchild of the HOA?

On November 18, 2025 a "new" Board (majority) was elected. Rays of hope began to show on the horizon. Would things improve? Are those rays dimming already?

The first meeting was that same night, November 18. Then they held Regular Board Meetings on December 2, January 6, and February 3. Plus the unannounced, unpublicized and unreported (by posted Minutes) Special Meetings and pre-board meetings (workshops).

In all that time why was no attention paid to the HOA's website, where committees and committee members are listed? And where board members are not listed.

The revamped Summit Scoop (February 2026) contains many (but not all) new Committee chairpersons and members. The following list compares the "new" committee chairpersons (from the Summit Scoop) and the "old" (from the website), as of February 15, 2026. 

Committee
                      New / Old
Activities: Lauver / Trapp
Contracts: McCarthy / Bryant (Brenda)
Covenants: Burke / open
Finance: Potter / Hill
Landscape: Lummel / Trapp
Modifications: Danner / Holmes
Neighborhood: OPEN / open
Nominating: OPEN / Holmes
Ponds/Lakes: Weatherbee / open
Projects: OPEN / Holmes
Safety: Rybicki / Hill
Youth (Sponsors): OPEN / Bryant (Mike), Cox

EVERY Committee Chairperson should have been appointed by the Board. How many of them were approved by the Board? I don't remember reading of even one Board vote for committee chairs in Minutes of any board meeting since November (and even farther back).

Two of the most important committees are Open; i.e., no chairperson, no members. Those committees are the Neighborhood Committee and the Nominating Committee.

And the Newsletter Committee isn't even mentioned in the Scoop. On the website, the chair position is Open. Previously, a property manager (CAMS employee) was the chair of that committee.

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