chronic delinquent board members

Our BOD has 9 members, 3 are chronic delinquents and remain 3 and 4 months behind in payments. My question is should these people be allowed to remain on the board and make financial decisions on behalf the HOA, when they are incaple of managing their personla finances? The assessment is $100.00 a month, not big money..

Also, if your association is registered as a Not For Profit these are the statutes which may apply:

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2280&ChapterID=65

Unfortunately, like many HOA's, the HO's here are apathetic and don't care who is elected to the board. Out of the 34 HO's our annual meeting was attended by 7 HO's and 7 BOD's. So its like beating a dead horse complaining about anything here. The BOD does as they please, does not comply with by-laws and the few of who are unhappy can't do anything about it.The law is on their side, not the HO's.
Thank you for your response.

Marie

Some HOA documents do have rules/regulations about deliquent members serving on a BOD. Some say if more the 30 days deliquesnt they can be removed by the BOD.

While not advocating removal, check your docs and maybe politely/privately refer to them to see if you can chide them into catching up.

That is a good point Carol … they would probably be best served with only three.

Marie … that might be something for you to pursue and try to get owners tuned to an idea to amend the documents. You have too many chiefs vs. members.

LOL, we are 450 and have 3 to 7. It used to be up to 11. The By-Laws were changed.

Thank you David.
I checked our CC&R's and they say the Association has the right to suspend the voting rights of homeowners who are delinquent and suspend use of recreational facilities,until they are paid to date.,We don't have recreational facilities, only a park like common area and this is not applicable to us. Does this mean the delinquent board members should be removed from the board until paid to date, or just not allowed to vote until the assessments are paod to date?

I know our board is much too large for 34 units. How many do you suggest we should have. We have 4 officers and 5 directors now.

Thank you for your sound advice.

Marie

Our docs (my summary):

Any director more the 30 days late on dues, assements, fines (any money owed the HOA), maybe removed by the majority of the BOD when a BOD Quorum is present.

Example: 9 BOD members, 5 present (a quorum), 3 can vote to remove the deliquent director.

Or course those are our docs, they might well not be yours but reread yours especially under BOD Numbers Powers Meetings, etc.

Now to carry ours to an extreme. Members of the BOD could find reasons to fine a fellow BODer (the pain in the butt type one) and if he fought it and refused to pay, we could vote him off. Heck we can even do it at a special meeting....which we will call when he is out of town.

More then one way to skin a cat if you know what you are doing....LOL