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How Many Voting Members Are There?

With this question, I am asking, "How Many Legitimate Voting Members Are There?" I know of only one (1). Barony Place held Neighborhood Meetings (with a quorum present) in May 2024 and May 2025. A Neighborhood Meeting can be official only if a quorum is present in-person or by proxy. Absolutely no one has challenged me on the point of legitimate Voting Members; i.e., one who was elected by a neighborhood's (local) Neighborhood Committee. The HOA "recognizes" others as "Voting Members", but they have not been duly-elected . Many of them have "gotten signatures", which is a method not approved in the By-Laws. Some have just stuck around for years; one inherited the position when a spouse died. It is critical that a Voting Member be elected in compliance with the Governing Documents. A Voting Member is your legal representative and can jack up your assessment and can do other things, such as elect directors, that affect your ownership of your ho...

Who Is Running the HOA?

On February 12 the Board President emailed me, writing in part, " I am requesting you not contact me with suggestions or comments on how to run the Association." That was after I had requested a meeting with the board, and she responded by saying that they were unanimous that "no settlement will be offered". I hadn't asked for a settlement; I had requested a meeting ! She was polite in her message (which some other board members have not been), and so I have not contacted her again. But who is helping her run the Association? Any of the other Board Members? The hired Property Manager? Any of the Voting Members? Anybody? The Board of Directors has seven directors. It is the Board that is responsible for running the Association, not one person. If there are failures, they are of the Board , not of one person. The Association (HOA) has big issues. If you have read recent articles here, you know what they are. Failure to publish the 2024 Annual Audit; Recovering t...