President and Vice President refuse to go to board meeting

What happens if both the president and the vice president refused to go to a meeting as they know both are going to be asked to step down?

Would the board have to make a "temporary chairman" to act in place of the president?

The president is usually a director, but the vice president usually doesn't have to be. Based on your question, it sounds as if your directors are doubling as officers, with the president being the chairman and the vice president being the vice chairman. Since the two have in effect resigned, then yes, the remaining members elect a new chairman to run the meeting and then proceed with filling the vacancies created by the resignations. Keep in mind that while directors are usually allowed to double as officers (see your articles of incorporation and bylaws), they are not required to, except for the president who is usually elected from among the board members. Note, there is probably no requirement that the president be the chairman of the board, so to avoid this situation in the future, the new board might want to consider making the president and chairman two different board members.

Forgive me. I was assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that such language in Articles of Incorporation (AOI) and Bylaws is pretty boilerplate. From our Bylaws:

"The presiding officer of Director's meetings shall be the Chairman of the Board, who shall be elected by a majority vote of the Directors."
Similar language for the Vice Chairman.

From our AOI:
"The President shall be elected from among the membership of the Board ... but no other officer need be a Director."

The Chairman presides over Board meetings. The President presides over membership meetings. Again, these are usually the same person, but nothing says they have to be.

Your AOI and Bylaws might say something different, so be sure to read them to make sure you are on solid ground.

Sound advice. The business of the HOA must proceed regardless of who shows up. Selection and de-selection of P and VP is the Board's business. Also, there could be a provision in your docs that allows the Board to strip Officer positions from Board members who fail to show up at some number of meetings.

HAving a quorum is the catch. The OP says the Pres and VP will not show up thus the BOD has to be at least 5 members and the remaining 3 show up and they want to hold a new BOD Officers Election. Quite a few ifs.

I see what NPS is saying and I did not clarify. For the meeting to be held there must be a Quorum so 3 of the 5 would have to be there to establish a Quorum.

One of the 3 would have to Make A Motion to have a BOD Officer Election.

Another of the 3 would have to Second it.

If 2 of the 3 vote for an Election it happens among the 3 of them.

I don't think FL permits written consent, by which I think JohnS means "action without a meeting.' In CA and I think VA and other states too, that option only may be used for unexpected emergencies and, indeed the vote must be unanimous, which means it would have to include the P & VP.

Obviously at a board meeting there'd have to be a quorum of directors present.

Oh, wait, it's Noah, I won't look at his past posts, but I think he's been trying to get a change on/of the board for a many months. Can't remember if he's on it.