Wrong Advice from BOD and the Office

In its June 19th email to all Members (at least, all who have registered email addresses), the Board and the office gave erroneous advice for the return of the "ballots" on proposed amendments to the CC&Rs and the By-Laws.

The Board and the Office direct Members to return the "ballots" to the office. This is WRONG. The Governing Documents instruct that such ballots should be returned to the Voting Members.

Why should they go to the Voting Members and not to the office? Because it is the Voting Member who votes on amendments to the CC&Rs and the By-Laws, not the Members. Another and more important reason is that the Governing Documents say that is where they should go.

The authors of the Governing Documents recognized the power of their words. Were they worried about how a management office or a Board might handle such "ballots"? 

The ballots should not go through the office on the way to the Voting Members. The office cannot even publish The Summit Scoop on time at the beginning of a month or publish Minutes of Board Meetings on a timely basis or publish Financial Operating Results every month.

What happened to all the drafts of previous proposed amendments? They seemed to have disappeared after officer elections. (That one cannot be blamed on Town & Country.)

[Edited 6/24/26]