Florida HOA Annual Meeting & Election

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NicholasL2 (Florida)
Posts: 5

Posted:

If there is not a quorum met at an annual meeting & election in Florida under Chapter 720 - is the association required to renotice the membership again and have another meeting or does the existing board stand for another term?

JanetB2 (Colorado)
Posts: 4,219

Posted:

Hi Nicholas:

I would imagine from below statute information and your statement, that you did not potentially have a legal meeting … just like board meetings, to have a proper membership meeting requires a quorum to be met for it to be proper.

720.306Meetings of members; voting and election procedures; amendments.—

a)Unless a lower number is provided in the bylaws, the percentage of voting interests required to constitute a quorum at a meeting of the members shall be 30 percent of the total voting interests. Unless otherwise provided in this chapter or in the articles of incorporation or bylaws, decisions that require a vote of the members must be made by the concurrence of at least a majority of the voting interests present, in person or by proxy, at a meeting at which a quorum has been attained.

DonnaS (Tennessee)
Posts: 5,671

Posted:

Nicholas,

The Annual meeting is so important to hold. You will need to get a few members going door to door, asking people to show up at least for a quorum.

Do you know if you have the ability to use proxy votes to obtain the quorum number? As Janet said, without a quorum, there is no meeting. My association when it was new, had more that 1 meeting cancelled because of lack of the quorum number. That got really old for the officers who wanted to be replaced so they did something about it by asking members and friends to inform the community of the importance of showing up at least once a year, for the annual meeting.

And to answer your question, the Board will take the next term unless they resign and appoint new Board members to replace themselves.

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