Here’s an interesting article from the N&O published in January 2006. A group of homeowners, unhappy with the performance of their Board, collected signatures and removed all the Board members at their annual meeting.
Cary homeowners rebel, oust board
More recently, a Raleigh HOA made the newspaper with a very public dispute within the Association.
In January of this year, the Brookstone HOA Board announced through its website that all of its quarterly meetings would be open to homeowners. In practice, the Board’s idea of an open meeting is laughable.
Homeowners are given 15 minutes at the beginning of each meeting to talk about any issues they may have. Homeowners are then asked to leave the premises before any actual Board business is discussed! Why is it that the Board finds it necessary to conduct ALL of its business behind closed doors? How does it justify excluding its members from the decision making process?
The following article from Reality Times explains the necessity of requiring HOA Boards to operate in the sunshine.
After being absent from the last two HOA Board meetings, Scott Rockafellow, the Brookstone HOA Treasurer, resigned from his position last week. His departure comes less than thirty days from the end of a three year term, which was to end at the Brookstone HOA Yearly Meeting on April 24. This marks the second resignation from the Board in less than a year.
