Change date of elections

A Board member wants to move the date of elections up by two months so new board members would be installed prior to voting on the next years budget. First of all can that be done? Im assuming all the current board members would have to agree to give up their positions two months early to allow for the election of new members. Can a vote of the majority of the board vote to change the election date? What if i chose not to end my term early.

Honestly, I don't see the point in this. I would rather have people who have been working with the budget all year long to develop next years as opposed to a group of people who have no idea what they are doing.

In our case, we have 2 mandatory events that occur at the Annual meeting. New board members are elected and budget is ratified. If we were to make the change you are talking about, we would have to have 2 sets of votes. Too inconvenient to consider.

Also, our budget process takes much longer than 2 months. Our budgeting calendar looks like this:
Nov: begin budget planning discussions.
Jan: board approves budget.
Feb: distribute budget to HOs.
Mar: annual meeting & budget ratification.
Apr: new fiscal year begins.

Our Annual Meeting is in April. At that meeting we also have BOD Elections and we present the Prior Year Actual Budget (Final) and the present Year Forecasted Budget. We have the Present Year Forecasted prepared well before that but traditionally this is when it has been presented. Thus this Budget was done by the prior BOD, not by any newbies elected in April.

This coming year we will need to do it different. We will be implementing an Annual Assessment (Dues) increase for 2016. Our Covenants call for us to present the dues increase for 2016 along with a copy of the 2016 Forecasted Budget to each owner 30 days prior to implementing the increase. Thus we will be doing so on or before 12/01/2015 so we can implement the dues increase on 01/01/2016.

Our Covenants say the Budget and the assessment increase shall become effective unless disapproved at a meeting by a majority of the Total Association Vote. In our case this would be 57 of 113 disapproving. As there is not a meeting scheduled until the Annual April Meeting, then it would require a Special Meeting. A Special Meeting can be called by 10% of members but they would still need 57 of 113 disapproving.

Never, ever is a dues increase accepted nor liked by all. One can expect some disgruntled members but the question is will there be enough of them willing to take the appropriate action to stop it? In our case, I expect there will not be enough to stop it.