Bylaw changes FL

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BetteO (Florida)
Posts: 1

Posted:

Our management company suggested at our last board meeting that we change our bylaws concerning election of our executive officers. Presently our bylaws states they are elected by the members. Our management would like them to be changed to the board elects its own executive officers. This would certainly be more limiting to members than the current bylaws. What are your thoughts?

JenniferM10 (Illinois)
Posts: 97

Posted:

My HOA is setup this way. The members elect the board, but then board defines the roles of each member, including executive officers, on its own.

I think the benefit of this is that the board members can discuss among themselves who is suited to a particular role and then act accordingly. Also, in a larger community like mine (600 condo's) it would be hard to get a quorum to vote for executive officers. We barely get enough people to vote for the board members each year.

I'm interested to see what others say, but to me this seems like a natural arm of the board managing itself.

DonnaS (Tennessee)
Posts: 5,671

Posted:

Bette,

What your M.C has suggested is very normal in HOA documents. I have 4 associations that I am part of and all 4 have their officer/Board members follow that procedure as well. Allowing the Board members to select or to elect amoung themselves, the jobs that they may be most interested in, works for a smoother operation of the Board. Someone who hates numbers but is elected by the membership to be treasurer is not productive to the Board or the association. Same with Secretary or other positions.

Each of the positions have equal vote on the Board so what position they carry does not affect how the Board will vote. Good for your M.C. to suggest this change.

MC4 (Florida)
Posts: 29

Posted:

We just went through a similar situation. We just recently voted in a new board and we had board members that were not productive at their title. Actually the person that was doing all the work was just the VP. The President was really not active. Therefore at a board meeting, the owners decided that this had to be stopped and requested that the President, stepped down to VP and the VP to President. Management Co. was not happy.

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