Recall Board Experiences?

Curious. What your experience with recall of entire boards? How laborious is it? I know each state has it’s own regulations. But generally speaking I know this isn’t done every day!

What was your experience? Was it successful? HOw was it prepared by the community? Where there forums? Just curious. It seems from what I know its not eady to do.

Thank you for your time.

May I ask what you mean near impossible? For it to happen of for it not to happen.

There were new rules that were created by the California Legislators that went into effect on January 1, 2020 that have to do with elections. You need to be familiar with them before you start down the road of a recall. Also, you need to know whether or not your association has cumulative voting.

Are you on the Board, Nicole?

To learn about the new Election Rules in CA, go to Davis-stirling.com, "Election Rules Required" ( I think). There' ever been a recall election in our HOA and unless your HOA has a really horrible situation, I'm with MarkW. Wait till the annual election.

I am finding out we are not cumulative voting. Our building is what hey consider a large corporation.

I guess what I’d like to know is how difficult is it to recall? I haven’t seen it done personally and there is alway posts here but I can’t seem to find any specifically. How difficult means quarum is met and the majority removes all the directors. I hears there is management that goes and all vendors set up and contracted with by the board who was removed. Meaning it could be a several month turn around.?? I am not sure if this is true.

Mark - contracts are between the vendor and the corporation, so just because there is turnover in the board, those contracts are not cancelled. That would need a vote of the new board. So management and vendor contracts continue.

Are you proposing to remove the entire board? Before you poke this bear, be sure you have the Membership support to throw out the entire board. A special meeting will have to be called with the Only business Conducted being a vote By the membership. I’d suggest that each Proposed recall member have his/her own motion to remove. There may be one or two that should stay.

Of course, this must be a noticed meeting and a quorum would have to attend to conduct the meeting.

Usually a 2/3 vote is needed to remove board member.

Another alternative is to request resignations of board members. They might make it easier for you.

The #2 thing on the agenda is the election of the new board.

Hope you have the energy and guts to take in this “coup.”

In our case it is 51% of all owners (YES, 51% OF ALL OWNERS) to recall a BOD Member. Close to an impossible task. My experience is recalls generally fail or get hung up in legalities so best to work to get rid of someone on the BOD come election time.

As I understand it, in a recall the replacement(s) must be named such as Ann Jones replaces Ed Smith, etc.

It happens