Board and committee membership

CA corporations code say directors may be on committees. You need to look up SC corp. codes on that topic.

The answer will depend on your governing documents and perhaps on state laws. Here in FL it's solely up to an association's governing documents since the state statutes are silent on the subject. Thank goodness, too, because in my (self-managed) HOA if board members couldn't also serve on committees then we'd have no maintenance committee and no finance committee. Regardless, we have no insurance committee at all and that came very close to costing us $15,000 a couple of months ago. Where apathy reigns supreme and committee volunteers are in short supply you sometimes NEED directors on committees because they're the only ones willing to do any work at all. Your mileage may vary, of course.

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I am not so sure the SC Horizontal Property Act cover townhomes as in side by side units. I think it only covers "stacked" units such as in a condo building.

In my HOA, sometimes the committees are entirely made up of board members. This was the case with the Covenants Revitaliation Committee. Mostly board members with some hand-picked helper-members. Conflict of interest? Not technically. Board members are owners and that is what the law requires of an Organizing Committee to revitalize.

A board member is required by Florida to act in a statutory manager capacity for the Bingo Committee. This has always been a problem of perception; board members see this as a Club and so do the Members. It is not a Club; it is a gambling operation strictly regulated by gambling statute.

The board directors generally do not get involved with ongoing activities of other committees, such as the Welcome Committee, unless there is a kerfluffle.

So, there are many levels of participation by board directors on Committees by necessity or operation of law. Committees are required by law to have Open Meetings whenever they move to present an expenditure to the Board. Such expenditure meetings should be attended by a Director of the board. But, there is no FL law or governing document requirements concerning Committees except that they be appointed by the Board and that Open Meetings shall be noticed to members if expenditures are being requested.

I believe the desired goal is to have a director liaison to working members because generally, members want to be guided by the board and the board wants the committee to do certain defined tasks. It is almost necessary to have a director involved with a committee at some level.

I don't believe a Board member should be the Chairperson of a committee. I want that to be someone else in the community. Someone that might have more expertise in that field.

I do believe that a Board member should be required to serve as the liaison to one of the committees.

If proper charters and guidelines are put forward, committee members are being pre-trained for Board involvement.

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