Electing New President

I am the treasurer on a five-member condo board of directors in Florida. Three of the directors are extremely unhappy with our president. There is a re-call petition circulating among the members. We decided to remove the president from her position and elect another board member to the president position. (We are well aware that we can NOT remove her from the board; we simply wanted to remove an officer.) Our documents are not very clear on this issue. It states: Any officer may be removed by a vote of 2/3 of the Directors present at any duly constituted meeting. We held a properly called special meeting for the specific purpose of removing her from president and electing another director. Our property manager attended, too. We took a vote and the results were 3 to 2 in favor. The president announced that it did not pass and adjourned the meeting. It was then explained that THEIR interpretation of our docs was that 2/3 vote meant we had to have four votes in favor for it to pass. NOT the majority of the board members. It seems ludicrous that the majority of the board of directors has no say in this matter and we'll all be forced to suffer her abuse for several more months. This this correct? Can anyone help?

Anna:

If you could get a meeting where the president or the other board member who voted not to recall were not present then the 3 votes would be enough because you only need 2/3 of the board members present. Obviously you have to be on the up and up, but keep trying.

BradP---I meant "CONDO GURU"

Is there anyone in Florida that can add to this comment? Richard White, the "condo guru" says that a board of diretors can reelect officers at any time. It seems so wrong that the majority of board members can elect officers, yet a majority of board members can not change their minds during the serving year and make others on the board assume other officer positions!