HOA membership

Meetings should be open except for potentially as stated in the following statute. This is to protect certain attorney-client privilege information. Also, certain records are not made available to everyone because they will fall under Federal Laws / State Laws protecting privacy. Keep in mind until a court case is filed, anything prior is privilege information and not public information. Once a court case is filed it then in many states it becomes public.

 720.303 Association powers and duties; meetings of board; official records; budgets; financial reporting; association funds; recalls.—

 (2)BOARD MEETINGS.—

 (a)A meeting of the board of directors of an association occurs whenever a quorum of the board gathers to conduct association business. All meetings of the board must be open to all members except for meetings between the board and its attorney with respect to proposed or pending litigation where the contents of the discussion would otherwise be governed by the attorney-client privilege. The provisions of this subsection shall also apply to the meetings of any committee or other similar body when a final decision will be made regarding the expenditure of association funds and to meetings of anybody vested with the power to approve or disapprove architectural decisions with respect to a specific parcel of residential property owned by a member of the community.

I know it can be frustrating; however, keep in mind if you were in a situation you would want certain items potentially kept confidential.

No - you are not stockholders corporation. (Look at an Articles of Incorporation form; it asks what kind of corporation you are forming)

You are a member corporation, headed by an elected board which serves the non profit corporation, designated by the IRS as such.

Brush up on your non-profit corporation laws and you will see the "structure" of the corporation.

Your state also has some pretty extensive governing documents that deal with HOAs, too.