Annual and Recall Meetings

I'd like to get an opinion or two on something that happened at our most recent HOA annual meeting. Here's the scenario: I am currently a board member and had intentions of running again but I knew that a conflicting appointment was going to make me ten minutes late for the annual meeting. Our management company told me that it was unlikely we'd have a quorum and we'd likely have to hold a recall meeting anyway. After I got out of my first appointment I texted another board member and asked her if we had a quorum and if I needed to hurry. She told me to hurry, that even though we didn't have a quorum the board was about to adjourn the annual meeting and reconvene immediately in the recall meeting, thus making the members on hand a quorum.

Is this an acceptable procedure? Is it even legal? Even if it is legal, I find it a manipulation of the rules simply for convenience sake so some people don't have to come back out for a second meeting (meaning board members and management rep). Has anyone else run an annual/recall meeting in this manner?

Please explain how an annual meeting got adjourned and morphed into a recall meeting?

These are two separate meetings. How can they be linked together?

Hard to imagine a recall meeting not having a quorum. That's a pretty hot topic.

MikeB,

How are you using the word “recall” as in “recall meeting” - vs. "Annual Meeting"? In other words, what do you mean by a “recall meeting”?

What kind of a meeting is the "Recall Meeting" you referring to? To accomplish what?

I don't think this use of 'recall" is what we usually understand it to be. I don't think it was a meeting to recall the board (remove them from office)

I think he means it was a re-adjourned meeting that came immediately after an inquorate meeting.

Is that correct, Mike?

This is correct. In our area, the meeting that follows an annual meeting that failed to achieve a quorum is referred to as a recall meeting. Sorry for the confusion. I have a friend in Florida who has been an HOA board member for years and they refer to them the same way, so I mistakenly assumed the term was universal.

Must be a regional thing like pop vs. soda but generally a recall meeting here refers to a Special Meeting used to recall or remove either an individual member or the entire Board.