Can the HOA President remove a committee member

As Board President, I believe I do not have the power by myself to have a person removed from a committee. I believe it is a Board decision.

Your bylaws should give you the answer. Generally the board as a whole votes to appoint a committee member and must vote as a whole to remove/replace a committee member.

Thank you very much.

You really need to read your bylaws and become extremely familiar with them - I hate to be harsh but it is pretty inexcusable for you to be asking this question on a forum if you are on the board, let along the board president.

Although our board appoints all committee members as a group, the bylaws specifically give the President authority to create/disband all committees and assign committee members.

No, I sat on my HOA board in NC we didnt have any committees at all.

But 2 of your 3 forum a quorum and can do things the 3rd might not like.

Do your bylaws mention committees at all? If so, could you post the exact language of bylaws that mention them? It may be in more than one section.

If the bylaws and FS 720 don't address this directly, you could look for language similar to this quote from my bylaws:

Section 12: POWERS. The Board shall exercise all powers and authority, under law, and under the provisions of the condominium organizational documents, that are not specifically and exclusively reserved to the Unit Owners by law or by other provisions thereof, and without limiting the generality of the forgoing, the Board shall have the right, power and authority to:
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j. Do all things and take all actions permitted to be taken by the Association by law, or the condominium organizational documents not specifically reserved thereby to others.

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Section 13: DUTIES. It shall be the duty of the Board to:
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b. Supervise all Officers, agents, and employees of the Association and see that their duties are property performed.
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Sometimes boards' powers are explicitly stated and sometimes they're implicit.

Appointing and managing committees who are delegated to perform specific, limited tasks and who do not have the authority to do anything beyond those tasks is a common function of the boards of corporations.

So while committees are not specifically mentioned in the Section quoted above, the board in my community has the authority to establish and disband committees, and to appoint and remove committee members as needed at the board's sole discretion.

I'm not a lawyer, but I believe that if your board was intended to behave in ways that are contrary to those of the large majority of community associations, your governing documents would spell out those differences. Without any evidence that your board is intended to behave differently, you're pretty safe in acting the same way other boards do. You've made a good faith effort to find out what you're supposed to do, and your actions would be reasonable since most others do things the same way. The one thing that would make me keep digging is if the committee member you wish to remove is a troublemaker and you expect them to fight the board's decision - in that case I would want to be able to quote chapter and verse, and it's easier to do that when the language of your governing docs is not vague.

FWIW, I think that the whole point of committees is to assist the board in performing some of their work. An unhelpful committee member can range from not doing any work or not performing as instructed, all the way up to actively undermining the board. All of that wastes board members' time, which is often in short supply, and fits my definition of "for cause".

Our governing documents only discuss committees in the section that outlines the role of the Board President:

"The President shall be the chief executive of the Corporation. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Corporation and of the Executive Board. The President shall have all of the general powers and duties which are incident to the office of the President of a stock corporation organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, including, but not limited to, the power to appoint committees from among the Lot Owners from time to time as the President may in his or her discretion decide is appropriate to assist in the conduct of the affairs of the Planned Community."

This would seem to give the President themselves full control over committees. Our current Board, however, makes decisions together; which I think is more appropriate.

Yes, but is it Florida's Corporations Codes? Most HOAs are incorporated so many times that could appear in an HOA's bylaws are in a state's corporations code. You specifically want to look at non-profit corporations within that legislation.

Thanks, ElleN, for citing what I think are FL corporations codes, which is what those 600 #s are, yes? this should help the OP.

In CA, almost everything about committees on nonprofit corporations, like HOAs, is in the corporations codes.