Critique - Proposed Amendment 1

The Summit's HOA Board of Directors is proposing changes to some of the CC&Rs and the By-Laws. I've been reading and studying the Governing Documents for more than six years. I know them better than most of the Board Members.

Amendment 1 -  Voting Structure. 

The Board is offering a suggestion to trash the current "Voting Member" structure and replace it with a structure that would allow the Members (2,480 homeowners) to amend the Governing  Documents and to elect Directors.

This is a terrible idea. 

First, the processes for amending the Governing  Documents and for electing directors are different in major ways.

Allowing homeowners to do either would result in ignorant (know the definition) and uninformed voters to make important decisions.

Not that Voting Members are necessarily not ignorant or informed. Some of them are neither. 

Most of the homeowners wouldn't even bother to vote, so who would make the decisions?

The current method is just fine. The problem has been that the Boards have been sloppy and have allowed the election process to degrade over the years, resulting in complete abandonment of the By-Laws. Unless fairly recently, there were NO bonafide, legitimate, duly-elected Voting Members and election fraud was conducted year after year.

The right choice is Option (b), "Keep the current Voting Member structure in place."