Proxy and a few other questions

Lori,

As others have said, you are likely seen as a pain in the behind to the Board.

Is there a blank space for the member to designate someone other then the typed name?

This is simply a tactic used to confuse those who don't know and have them assign their proxy to someone who supports the current handling of the issues at hand. Translation - this is politics.

Lori

As Tim said, welcome to politics. It is common for a BOD to send out Proxies naming a person on the BOD as the designated Proxy holder meaning they will be the one voting the Proxies. They are hoping most people will just sign and return the Proxy thus the BOD can vote them as they wish. This is a very common tactic to keep the existing BOD in place and/or control who gets elected.

The fact that yours has named candidates is common. As you describe it, there is a space for the name of a write in candidate. Typically candidates can also be nominated at the meeting, prior to the election.

For the umpteenth time, typically:

Owners elect BOD Members.
A BOD can appoint someone to fill a vacancy(s) that exists.
Officers are elected by BOD Members from among their members. Thus all Officers are BOD Members but not all BOD Members are Officers.

I guess I was worried because the one date says on it 11/29 and the meeting is on 11/30 which I guess confused me .

I also cannot for the life of me why some of those on the association are desperate to stand up for them when they do not do anything .( cause if they did why aren't things changing ?

I was still wondering if I go knock doors this coming week ,and bring them to the meeting and not mail ,they will still count ? I am thinking of doing it at least on my block

I still don't know how an intern president goes to auto filling the position ? Like a head coach gets fired they bring in a intern coach but that person may or may not become the permanent coach .
I guess that is how I kind of though this would be .

Also in BOLD letters says it does NOT need a quorum to approve a raise in what we pay the pmc .All letters before never mentioned this ,just wondering why he is mentioning it now .

The secretary keeps saying any more questions ask the pmc ,I have tried before he ignores me and acts like he does not hear me ,and goes over to someone else .

I do wish to know as to these prices he has listed how do we know its truthful ( considering all I know about the owner of the company ) ? The secretary has asked for things like contracts and owners list and did not get them .

As to the deceleration amendment on a rental cap I am not sure it is good thing ,currently the most of the problems we have had are from the owners who live here .

Also thinking the only reason 2 of the people wanted to be on the hoa was so they could get their pet projects okay-ed

like boats in driveways for so many months and above ground pools for so many months .

Oh yeah the intern president finally wrote me back saying how great a job both her and the pmc were doing .

They have this thing called "lawn of the month" . I have asked people if they know about it and if they know who wins no one knew anything and no one knew anyone that won .

I keep asking where is the list of who won but have gotten no reply .

She just kept going on how she has to go to meetings every month ( I looked in the by laws and cc&r they are not required to hold a meeting every month only required on occasion or for an emergency )
How she had to call around to find a meeting place ( hmmm I did this also as did the secretary ) She did not have to do that .I am guessing she only wanted to do it because she wanted the meeting when she wanted it and not when the majority did .

She wrote and said oh the pmc does this and this and on and on and they only want a little raise .
I told her that he has not done a good enough job to even be rehired for the job .

I told her that the company is not good with answering messages or returning messages and ( they were the ones who I mailed a certified letter to and they did not respond )

I want to try and make my voice heard but I am not sure what else to do

The number of meetings required vs. the number of meetings a Board holds because they believe the meetings are needed are two different things.

One is a requirement.
The other is reality.

Well I know mail would not work as I would have to give it like 3 business days and , even then I am not sure it would get there in time .Don't have access to a fax machine ,which leaves me with scanning the documents and sending to the email .Which I could try and do .I noticed they conveniently used the week after Thanksgiving to hold it .

Personally how do you feel about rental caps ? I am on the fence I can see how they "might " help but I also think it might be hard to hold up in the long run .Like say a owner gets a job offer or something else major comes up where they have to leave the area on short notice ,and they try to sell but nothing happens and they have to move then I see where them renting it out till they get settled is an option .

Hmm no I did not they mailed out the papers from a law firm and are wanting us to sign a paper that included says yes or no to it .( this is on the rental cap law paperwork )

Write your own proxy that ALSO provides for the election of directors if allowed by your governing documents and state laws. If you lived in Florida I could provide you with a lot more information but I know nothing about North Carolina statutes.