What Should the HOA Do Now?

The HOA has new leadership on the Board. What should it be doing?

1. Comply with the CC&Rs, the By-Laws, and the PRM and other Guidelines.

2. Be transparent in all operations.

The Board must observe what committee chairpersons are doing and guide them in doing it correctly. The Board has appointed new chairpersons; yet Board Meeting Minutes, the website, and the Scoop do not inform the Members who they are.

At the February 3, 2026 Board Meeting, the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee was described as a committee of the Voting Members. According to the By-Laws, it is not.

Voting Members do not have a committee. They are a separate body with specific rules, requirements, obligations, and duties.

A homeowner who is a Voting Member can certainly be a member of the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee. 

The purpose of the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee is to assist every Neighborhood (28 of them) to have a legitimate, bonafide, duly-elected (local) Neighborhood Committee, which serves for one year and which elects its own chairman, who is the Voting Member for that Neighborhood.

Right now I know of only one Neighborhood that has a Voting Member who was duly-elected in compliance with the By-Laws; that's Barony Place (Barony Place I and Barony Place II).

There may be others of which I'm not aware. Did they have bonafide Neighborhood Meetings with a quorum present? Did they elect three-member Neighborhood Committees within the past year? Did that (local) Neighborhood Committee elect a chairman, who is also called the Voting Member?

A meeting that does not have a quorum (one-third of the property owners) present in-person or by proxy is not a bonafide Neighborhood Meeting.

I hear a lot of "we can't get people to a meeting." That's what proxies are for. 

The HOA will be unable to amend the CC&Rs or the By-Laws without enough duly-elected Voting Members. It can't raise the Assessment more than 10%, no matter how great the financial need might be, without enough duly-elected Voting Members. 

Read the Mission of the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee on the HOA's website. All Committee members should be committed to following the CC&Rs and the By-Laws and to accomplishing the Mission of the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee.

The past two Board Presidents appointed homeowners as chairpersons of the HOA's Neighborhood Committee who did nothing to carry out that Committee's Mission. That's why the mess still exists today.

A question was asked Tuesday night about "term limits" on Voting Members. There IS a Term Limit. That Limit is one year. It's right in the By-Laws (but never enforced).

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