HOA Is Organizing Neighborhood Meetings

This should worry you.

The HOA, through its Neighborhood Committee (of the HOA), should be assisting Neighborhoods to hold Neighborhood Meetings and to elect Neighborhood Committees, which then elect a chairman who is the Voting Member.

The Neighborhood is in charge, not the HOA!

That isn't what the lengthy email from the Board of Directors said (5/18/26 4:44PM). If you didn't get that email, contact me and I'll forward a copy.

There are errors in the email. The biggest one is that no one signed it. It is from "The Summit Board of Directors." Did they meet and did the majority approve that email? Or did one (or more) Director(s) write it and send it out?

A Neighborhood Committee isn't "up to three" members. The Neighborhood Committee, elected at an official, bonafide Neighborhood Meetings, is three members.

To my knowledge, the HOA had no legitimate Voting Members before May 2024. After the Barony Place Neighborhood Meeting in May 2024, the HOA had one legitimate, duly-elected Voting Member. The HOA still has one legitimate, duly-elected Voting Member. 

If there is more than one, will someone please let me know?

Another error is that the Neighborhood does not elect its Voting Member. The Neighborhood elects its three-member Neighborhood Committee.

The (local) Neighborhood Committee then elects one of its three members as the chairman, who is referred to as the Voting Member.

I think that few of the Directors understand this, although this is exactly how the By-Laws read.

The HOA office staff and/or Board should not be allowed to control the Neighborhood Meeting or the names of those on the ballot. That mindset must not form. The office should not be able to "ensure" that a name will be on the ballot. Those attending the Neighborhood Meeting of each neighborhood will determine who is on the ballot!

This statement in the email from the Board of Directors is wrong. "Several neighborhoods currently do not have a Voting Member in place."

Four (4) Neighborhoods don't have any Voting Member, legitimate or not.

Twenty-three (23) Neighborhoods do not have a legitimate, duly-elected Voting Member. They have a "recognized", but not duly-elected, Voting Member. In other words, no Voting Member.

The correct number of Voting Members? One (1).

I'll be happy to discuss (or debate) this with any or all Board Members and at any Board Meeting. The Reference Material will be the By-Laws.

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