Neighborhood Meetings, per the Board

Did you read the May 27, 2026 email from the office about Neighborhood Meetings? Did you open all three attachments? They are worth printing and reading carefully.

Unfortunately, parts of that communication are wrong, starting with the first sentence in the email. "Your Neighborhood Representative will be holding an annual meeting to conduct an election for the Neighborhood Representative and Alternate."

Why is this wrong? Because 27 Neighborhoods (out of 28) do not have legitimate, duly-elected Neighborhood Representatives! There is no one to hold that meeting!

It's the Neighborhood that holds the annual (neighborhood) meeting, not the Neighborhood Representative. 

And the election is not for the "Neighborhood Representative and Alternate." The election is of the (local) Neighborhood Committee, which consists of three homeowners from that neighborhood.

One neighborhood has already held its Annual Neighborhood Meeting. Barony Place held its Meeting on May 2, 2026. It also held Neighborhood Meetings in May 2025 and May 2024, making it the only neighborhood to comply with the By-Laws. Barony Place has had the only legitimate, duly-elected Voting Member in the entire HOA.

As soon as the Neighborhood Committee (of three) is elected, then they (the Neighborhood Committee) elect a chairman from those three. The chairman becomes the Voting Member. The other two members of the Neighborhood Committee are the two Alternates. The Neighborhood Committee, including the Voting Member, serves for one year.

Every Neighborhood should have three names listed in The Summit Scoop and on the HOA's website, with contact information.

This is enough analysis of the first paragraph of the email from the office. More to follow.

The reason this election of the Voting Member is so important is that the Voting Member has the legal authority to bind you, the homeowner, to certain obligations, including amending the CC&Rs and By-Laws, increased Assessments, Special Assessments, election of Directors, removal of Directors, appointment of removed Directors.

The "Voting Members" listed by the HOA for the past many years have not been legitimately and duly-elected by their neighborhoods. Their acting as "Voting Members" has been fraught with legal danger (personal liability) that few of them understand.

The Board's role is to assist Neighborhoods, not direct them. That's what the (HOA's)  Neighborhood Committee is for. This Board and the property manager do not understand that. Yet.