When does a board become default

You've answered your own question - no one else is willing to step up and apparently are in a coma when it comes to the budget and reserves, so you're left with the current board members who, unfortunately, don't care either (otherwise, they'd be addressing the budget and rules enforcement). Some bylaws state the board can appoint members if no one volunteers or won an election over an incumbent, so check yours (it may be in the same area that dictates the annual meeting).

By the way, this also includes YOU - by saying "it weren't for the fact that we have outstanding budget/reserve issues and non-compliance issues I wouldn't try to resolve," it would appear you're just as bad as your colleagues. If you don't want to do the work, resign, but understand that if there is no board at all, the entire community is at risk for serious problems if the Association is pretty non-existent.

It may be it's time to dissolve the Association, but there are expenses and legal ramifications around that, so I would suggest if you want this fixed, you might start with sending everyone a serious "come to Jesus" letter about the matter and see what happens. If you still don't get a response, you may need to make a heavy decision as to whether you want to stay in this community. If the Association has serious budget and reserve issues, it probably has some serious trouble coming down the road which will catch everyone off guard and ultimately cost lots of money to resolve. Better to let the others sit in the middle of the street and get run over - serves them right if they don't have enough sense to get out of the way!

Good luck!

Does non-responsive mean clinically dead

If association of 15 has few or no common properties and provides no services of value enough to get quorum, why not check for winding up or termination. ( Condo law in my jurisdiction allows a single owner or mortgagee to seek judicial winding down. Check your counterpart ) Your issues look already past solutions.

Wouldn't a quorum only be necessary if you are holding votes of some kind? Does it specifically state that you can not hold a meeting unless you meet a quorum?

Marq,

Actually, you have had the meeting. You simply, due to lack of quorum, could not conduct business at the meeting. If a meeting date is set, notice sent out, people attended, people were in place to run the meeting - the meeting happened and the requirement of an annual meeting was complied with.

Having a quorum is not a requirement of having a meeting. It's a requirement of conducting business at the meeting.

If business could not be conducted, then elections could not be held. Corporate law typically specifies that despite a Directors term of office, they remain in office until their replacement is elected or appointed (unless they resign).

It's sad to believe that your Association is unable to obtain a quorum. A quorum of 15 homes = 6 lots/units (5.25 rounded up). Per a previous post, you had three board members at the last annual meeting. That would have made half the quorum.

I agree with others who have suggested that you start knocking on doors and obtain proxies. Expecting that those same three board members show up, you would only need 2 proxies to make a quorum (3 board members, yourself and the 2 proxies). I suspect that if you could get 3 proxies, you would control the votes.