Neighborhood Meetngs, per the Board - Part 3

The Board of Directors sent out Annual Meeting Instructions. They are for conducting Neighborhood Meetings that, hopefully, will comply with the By-Laws.

The Instructions were faulty right from the top, where they led off with, "Requirements for electing Neighborhood Committees to appoint Voting Members and Alternates..."

Neighborhood Committees do not "appoint" Voting Members and Alternates." They elect a chairman, who becomes the Voting Member. The other two members of the Neighborhood Committee are Alternates.

For the first time in many years, the Board of Directors is using the word "must", as in "There must be an annual meeting..." Imagine that. Where did they get that idea?

That's exactly what I have been harping on for years!

The Board errs in a grievous manner by ordering, "notices must include names of homeowners interested in serving on the Neighborhood Committee..."

This is an intrusion into the Neighborhood's authority. The Board or the office should not "stack" the candidates for the (local) Neighborhood Committee. At the Neighborhood Meeting, those present should nominate eligible homeowners, and then a vote is held. Three are elected to the Neighborhood Committee.

The Instructions are wrong in Item 6 "Minutes of the (Neighborhood) meeting must be recorded (Refer to Article III, Section 14 of the By-Laws)." That Section applies to Board meetings!

I first read that Section several years ago and noticed that the wording was incomplete. It is still incomplete. Why is that Section included in the Instructions, if it doesn't apply to Neighborhood Meetings?