Error in Board Announcement?

During Tuesday night's Board Meeting (5/5/2026) a statement was made about an upcoming Referendum. 

This Referendum will include the issues addressed in a Referendum that the previous Property Management company (CAMS) failed to record with Richland County, thus invalidating that Referendum and wasting the HOA's money and time. The new issues are not yet determined. 

Who was the Board Secretary at that time? Wasn't it his responsibility to see that the Referendum was filed?

The Board President, Brenda Bryant, stated that 75% of the homeowners must approve a Referendum.

Did she mean that a Referendum effects a change in the CC&Rs?

According to the CC&Rs, Amendments to the Governing Documents must be approved by Voting Members representing 75% of the property owners. There are 2,480 property owners.

See the CC&Rs, Art. XIII. §2, ¶2, which reads in part, 

"Thereafter and otherwise, this Declaration may be amended only by the affirmative vote or written consent, or any combination thereof of Voting Members representing seventy-five (75%) percent of the total Class “A” votes in the Association, ..."

Seventy-five percent (75%) of the property owners is 1,860. How many Voting Members are required to represent those 1,860 property owners?

At this time it doesn't matter, because there is only one legitimate, duly-elected Voting Member. That's Tracy Manderino in Barony Place. She represents 3.1% of the property owners in the Association (78). That's a far cry from 75%!

It is the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee that needs to get to work on the Voting Member issue, not the Board. And not the office. The Committee can ask help from the office, such as with mailings to homeowners. 

The Board should keep its sticky hands off, except to get the wheels turning!

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