by Richard Schwinger, Hamilton
Recently the Bobcat Lane H.O.A. had one of two necessary annual meetings. In H.O.A’s, the first meeting deals with past and present issues – budget, legal issues, covenants (added or removed) – nominations for the board, and ballot preparations to be sent to each homeowner AS REQUIRED BY LAW. The second meeting deals with the new board and how they intend to deal with possible future issues.
Once again, the leader wasted a large amount of money on a road change that was deemed as another failure. The expense was so great that it required our dues to be raised. Again, the board members haven’t any knowledge of blue-collar issues regarding our road, or similar problems.
Our board attorney wrote a two-page response ($400.00) for a legal issue, of which each member should have received a copy, but did not!
Attendance was great enough to propose covenant CHANGES regarding renting a portion of a home, options to divide in half large lots of 10 acres or more to allow for an additional home, enforceable restrictions on timber cutting and future building plans, etc…
To make a ballot LEGAL the proposed changes must be made fairly, and this has not been done. Instead the leader in one run-on sentence nominated herself for president, then accepted her own nomination (illegally and dictator-like), then nominated her current running mates while also accepting these nominations. Any voting would be deemed IGNORANT and illegal. Therefore, we did not have an election and are now without a board.
Volunteers could arrange for another meeting at a different location. A hold on dues should occur until these problems are resolved. Many of our eldest and dearest residents have been treated unfairly, due to this continued intolerable ignorance.