Barony Place I/Barony Place II

 What is the status of the 2027 Proposed Budget? I've heard a rumor (yes, even all the way to Idaho) that the Town & Country Property Manager, Julie Brickley, not the Board Treasurer Tanisha Holmes, will present the proposed 2027 Budget to the Board. Holmes recently replaced the HOA's more-experienced Treasurer Linda Potter. Why will Brickley present the proposed Budget? The Governing Documents (PRM) state that the Budget sub-committee is to present the proposed Budget to the Board. Is there even a functioning Budget sub-committee? The role of the Property Manager is to provide all the data to the Budget Sub-Committee. That sub-committee then should prepare the Budget and present it to the Finance Committee for approval. Then the sub-committee presents it to the Board. In spite of the written and clear guidance in the PRM, the HOA hasn't done it that way. Homeowners and committee and Board members should be very interested in whether cuts are plans for landscaping at ...

The Governing Documents require an Annual Audit of the HOA's financials. It should be ordered in the late winter or early Spring. It is to be received by the HOA by August 31st. The 2025 Annual Audit should have been received by August 31, 2026. To the best of my knowledge, it had not been ordered by then. No one seems to know whether the Board has found and authorized a CPA to conduct it. The completed Annual Audit helps the Budget Sub-committee and the Finance Committee prepare the 2027 Proposed Budget. How can they complete their work without that Au it? For the Audit to be honest and correct, the Auditor will need to know that $445,000 in Cash & Cash Equivalents needs to be accounted for. Also, the auditor needs to know that the HOA issued payment for legal fees in the lawsuit against me for litigation that was prohibited by the By-Laws, not approved by the Voting Members, and never voted on or approved by the Board of Directors (according to published Board Minutes). Were ...

Is Noel Weatherbee a legitimate HOA Board Member and officer? Two vacancies on the Board occurred in May 2025, when Ciara Bates and LaToya Adams resigned. Both had been elected in November 2024 to two-year terms. Bates had been elected Secretary, and Adams had been elected Treasurer. The vacancies were never announced. The officer positions, required by South Carolina statute, were vacant for approximately 1½ months. At the Board Meeting on July 1, 2025, then Board President Danny Trapp simply announced that new board members were Noel Weatherbee and William Hill and that Weatherbee would be Secretary. Hill would be Treasurer. No mention was made about how or when they had been appointed as directors or elected as officers. The process was never reported or published in Board Minutes. Action should have been taken at a Regular or Special Board Meeting. The Board should have considered candidates or the President's suggestion for those to be appointed, and the Board should have vote...

There may be only ten (10) legitimate Voting Members in the HOA; there should be 28. There will be no public Board Meeting in October or before the Annual Meeting of Voting Members, which will probably be on November 10, 2026. Homeowners (Members) will have to fight for and demand true information about the Nominating Committee, preparation for the election, and conduct of the election of three directors in November. Voting Members must elect only candidates who have the best interests of the Association and who do not have personal agendas that run counter to the best interests of the Association. The terms of three directors (Noel Weatherbee, William Hill, and Tanisha Holmes) expire on November 10, 2026, if there is an Annual Meeting of Voting Members and an election. None should be elected to another term. The Board has taken over the nominating process. The Board has failed to assist 18 neighborhoods to hold their Annual Neighborhood Meeting, at which homeowners would elect a three...

When RealManage takes over The Summit HOA's property management on October 1, 2026, one of the first pieces of business should be to recommend establishment of a HOA-owned server for email and the website. When the contract with CAMS ended on September 30, 2025, most likely all official communications were lost. What happened to email regarding official business? When the contract with Town & Country Management Company ends on September 30, 2026, what will happen to all official HOA correspondence through its email address? Unique email addresses on a HOA server should be created for all directors, including officers, and committees. They should be require to conduct all HOA correspondence on the official server and no longer on their personal emails. Presently, they use their personal email addresses or, perhaps, email addresses that Members do not know about. During their terms-of-office and after, the HOA has no control over messages sent to and from those personal email ad...

The Board should explain why the Amendments failed by answering these questions. What was the procedure for approving Amendments, according to the CC&Rs ant the By/Laws? Why wasn’t that process followed? Who drew up the Proposed Amendments? Who were the Directors who voted to present them? Which directors voted against presenting them? Were those votes taken at Regular or Special Board Meetings? Or at private, closed. “secret”, non-reported board meetings such as workshops or pre-board meetings? Why didn’t the Board explain clearly how many of the Voting Members were needed to approve? Why did the Board mislead the Members when it asked them to approve the Amendments? (Members don’t approve Amendments; Voting Members do.) Why did the Board proceed, when there were never enough legitimate Voting Members to approve the Amendments? Did the Boatd spend any money on legal fees pertaining to those Amendments? How much?

The Board of Directors has announced that ALL the proposed Amendments failed. As they should have. This failure should be considered a Vote of No Confidence in the four who are controlling the Board. Those four are Holmes, Hill, Weatherbee, and Turley/Moore.

There should be an election of three directors in November 2026. The terms of Tanisha Holmes, William Hill, and Noel Weatherbee expire.  There may not even be a legitimate election, unless additional Voting Members are quickly elected by their neighborhoods. The Board has never put the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee to work to assist neighborhoods in holding Annual Neighborhood Meetings. Why is the Board interfering with the election? How is the Board interfering? The Board did not appoint a Chairman of the Nominating Committee when officers were elected following the 2025 election. Only recently was Board Secretary Angelo Turley-Moore placed as Chairman. Was he nominated by then Board President Brenda Bryant and approved by the Board? Was that recorded in published Board Minutes? No members of the Nominating Committee have ever been named or approved. See the September 2026 Summit Scoop. It is the Nominating Committee that is supposed to find good candidates for election, which in...

Yesterday I received this comment through the Message function on my blog: " I see you don't mind posting misinformation. I wonder where you get your facts from."  An email address was shown, but no Sender's name was included. Today I sent this reply: " Thank you for your message about a post on my blog, baronyplace.blogspot.com "I appreciate your writing. Will you please let me know what you consider "misinformation"? Upon information and belief, everything I post is true. Are you addressing any particular post? If so, which one? "Please let me know what needs correction and what the correct information is, along with your source. I will be happy to re-check my post. If it was in error, I shall correct it.  "It will also be helpful to me if you will identify yourself. I do not post information on my blog from anonymous sources, nor do I reveal sources of information without their permission. "Thanks again for your comment." By...

I've been told that a RCSD deputy attended the September Board of Directors meeting. Normally, at least one is there to give a report to the Board and answer questions from the audience. Then that deputy (the CAT office) leaves.  It's my understanding that a deputy was hired, perhaps at $65/hour, to attend the meeting. Why? Did Noel Weatherbee, the new "president of the board" (who may have usurped the office through an improper procedure that is not allowed in the Governing Documents) might have ordered the service from RCSD. To my knowledge, the Board never entered into a new Special-Duty Agreement with RCSD. That would have required a contract and Board approval. None has been reported in published Minutes of any recent Board Meeting. Why would she do that? It is common knowledge that she doesn't like Mike Bryant. Is she "afraid" of Mike? Why? Because he doesn't agree with her? Has he ever threatened her? I suspect not. Popular language of the Far...

The Board just removed a long-time HOA resident and Member from all committees of the HOA. An email from the Board Secretary, Angelo Turley-Moore informed the Member that he has been removed from all committees. No reason was given. Recently the Board majority (Tanisha Holmes, William Hill, Noel Weatherbee, and Angelo Turley-Moore (all black)) reportedly voted to remove Brenda Bryant (white) as Board President. Weatherbee succeeded Brenda as Board President. It also removed Linda Potter (white) as Board Treasurer and replaced her with Tanisha Holmes. Earlier in the year the Board majority removed Jeff Lummel (white) as Board Vice-President and replaced him with Weatherbee. On Thursday the letter from the Board Secretary informed the Member, Mike Bryant (white), that the Board had removed him from all committees.  Why would the black majority on the Board be making these changes? How are those changes in the best interests of the Association? Boards have the authority to make such c...

The HOA will try to hold an election of three directions in less that 60 days. Why is there no Nominating Committee? One director, Angelo Turley-Moore, is apparently the chairman of the Nominating Committee? There are no members of this Committee. Was he even properly appointed? Did the Board vote to approve him as Chairman? Angelo seems to have aligned himself with William Hill, Tanisha Holmes, and Noel Weatherbee. These four are responsible for removing Jeff Lummel as Vice-President of the Board and for removing Brenda Bryant as Board President. And they did so at a "secret" workshop/pre-board meeting, not at a Regular or Special Board Meeting open to Members.  Hill, Holmes, and Weatherbee should not be elected by Voting Members in November. The Nominating Committee, chaired by Tanisha Holmes for the 2025 election, did a lousy job. They put forward several nominees who were soundly rejected by the Voting Members. They failed to nominate three solid homeowners, whom the Voti...

Homeowners, do you know who represents you in the HOA? It is not the Board of Directors. The Voting Member of your neighborhood is your legal representative, according to the Governing Documents of the HOA. For Barony Place (I and II), this is Tracy Manderino. Too many of the 28 neighborhoods are not represented, at all. The September 2026 Summit Scoop names the Voting Members of only ten (10) neighborhoods. This means that 18 neighborhoods have no representation. This is an injustice that has existed for many years. It was not until earlier this year that the current board began an effort to increase the number of legitimate Voting Member above one (Barony Place), about which I have been complaining for 4-5 years. If you live in one of the 10 neighborhoods with a Voting Member, urge your representative to correct this situation. The Board wants to take power away from the Voting Members. Do not allow this. The Board wants to change the Governing Documents. Do not allow this. The Votin...

Who ran last night's Board Meeting? Brenda Bryant, the legitimate Board President? Or Noel Weatherbee, the wannabe Board President? Did the Board explain what happened at last week's pre-board meeting ("workshop")? Did the Board explain that it is not supposed to take any actions (votes) at pre-board meetings?  Did the Board announce which four directors voted to oust Brenda? See Page 1 in the September 2026 Summit Scoop. Did the Board announce the name of the CPA who was retained to conduct the 2025 Annual Audit (which was due on 8/31/26)? Has one been retained? Why hasn't the Board ever commented on the cause of the $445,000 drop in Cash & Cash Equivalents in 2025, when Danny Trapp was Board President and William Hill was Treasurer? Why isn't anyone demanding an answer? Why hasn't the Board ever announced the total cost of suing Gus Philpott (me) in Circuit Court? The lawsuit was prohibited by the CC&Rs, because the Voting Members never approved ...

You are seeing Flock cameras all over Richland County, including in The Summit. Read this about use of Flock cameras in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. This was posted on Facebook. Authenticity has not been verified. If this story is true, someone should call Sheriff Lott and ask him the same question about a heat map. "A police chief in Oshkosh, Wisconsin caught Flock lying to his city council, and killed the $8 billion surveillance company's contract less than a day after the council had approved it. Here's how it happened. The night before, Oshkosh's council was set to renew its deal with Flock Safety, the license plate camera company backed by a16z and Tiger Global. One council member asked the Flock rep a plain yes-or-no question. Does this system build a heat map of everywhere a specific car travels over time? Flock's rep said no. The council believed him and voted 5 to 2 to renew. By the next morning, Chief Dean Smith's own officers had told him that answer was fals...