Inactive board of directors...what to do?

North Carolina HOA Laws: https://www.ncleg.net/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bychapter/chapter_47f.html

Our HOA is inactive I believe.

Our bylaws require 1 meeting every year in the 3rd quarter. We had 0 meetings in 2018.
The 2019 budget was never done by the board.
Dues are due on January 1st, but invoices were never mailed out. None of the 49 houses received an invoice. (Although our management company charged the HOA $147 for postage/mailing in November 2018 for this.

The bylaws say a petition signed by 10% of lots can call a special meeting.
We submitted the petition to the management company.
Management company contacted board President to ask him to set date/time.
President has not responded in 20 days since petition was submitted.

What do we do now...?

Now y'all find a good contract attorney who is versed in HOA issues.

Anyone else have advice? I doubt the residents want to use their own $ to hire a lawyer

Our President + VP terms expired several months ago. We only have 1 board member now the Treasurer.

Our management company is still reaching out to the President and requesting he give them a date to schedule the community meeting for. But he's not responding to any emails.
He's not even our President anymore since his term expired.... ugh I hate this.

I would call the Secretary of State for North Carolina. Typically the SOS has records of filings for board of directors for HOA's ask the SOS office since the president and VP term expired last year and no election was held, the only remaining BOD is the Treasurer. It is possible that the SOS will recognize the sole BOD as someone that can A.) call a meeting, B) recognize there is no quorum to hold the meeting and C) call for volunteers to be appointed to the board D) conduct business starting with terminating the HOA managing company.

YOU REALLY NEED AN ATTORNEY. Does your HOA have D&O Insurance? Worst case scenario you won't recoup any money in attorneys fees. BEST case scenario, you hire an attorney. Your attorney hits your BOD & Property Management company with some Bluebacks You get a court order to can the 2 absent directors and management company AND your attorney hits the D&O insurance for his fee plus your expenses. You NEED to talk to an attorney FIRST.

You need to hire your own private attorney to go after the Board, but remember; suing the HOA you are suing yourself too. You will be using your own funds up fornt. You may find an attorney that takes your case on a contingency basis or you will have to cough up some cash up front.