Today's HOA Email about Voting Members

Be sure to read (and save) today's email from the office about Voting Members. It appears over the name of the Board President. You should have it in your inbox.

On the one hand, it appears that the Board is finally waking up the the fact that there aren't any legitimate Voting Members (except the one from Barony Place).

However, it is NOT the Board's role to drum up Voting Members. The second sentence in the email reads, "The Summit Community Association is looking for volunteers to serve as Neighborhood Voting Members. "

This is wrong!

For too long the Board has solicited interest in becoming a Voting Member and has directed those to contact the office. What were they told when they did?

Were they told to "get signatures" to become a Voting Members? Many did. The problem is they did not become legitimate, duly-elected Voting Members, in compliance with the By-Laws. Yet the Boards "recognized" them as Voting Members.

Past Boards and this Board "recognized" them as "Voting Members", but they weren't. 

The Association's role is, through its Neighborhood Committee (presently having NO chairman and NO members), to assist the neighborhoods in holding Neighborhood Meetings.

When the "Association" leads the way, there is too great a chance that it will control who ends up getting elected. 

Just look at the November 2025 election of directors. The Nominating Committee, chaired by then-Board Vice President Tanisha Holmes, did not put three well-qualified homeowners (Lummel, Bryant, Turley-Moore) on the ballot.

According to the PRM, the job of the Nominating Committee was to rule out those who did not meet the criteria for nomination. All three did meet it. Fortunately, the Voting Members insisted on write-in candidates, and those three were on the ballot and won.

The Neighborhoods are to elect three Members (homeowners) to thewir (local) Neighborhood Committees. Then those three elect one of them to be the chairman of the Neighborhood Committee and Voting Member. They serve for one year.

The Voting Members MUST be independent of the Board of Directors. They elect the directors. They can remove directors and replace them. This incredible power rests in the neighborhoods.

The neighborhoods are you, the homeowner. The Association and the Board cannot dilute your power!

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