Open position, no nominations

I am the President of a 33 Home HOA and we are 1 month from our annual meeting to elect new members to the Board. We have an opening coming up for our Treasurer position and have absolutely zero candidates for the spot. My predecessor basically let the HOA get very stagnet, meetings were called all the time and nothing was accomplished, to the point where people just stopped going. I am attempting to get people more involved by going door to door to re-meet people into the Association. My question is what can we do if nobody does step up for the open position?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Yes, we need another Board Memeber. Our governing document says 3 to 9, at the most we had 7. However for a while now, we have never been able to get more than 3 people to volunteer/get voted in. There are only 3 Board members in our HOA currently and all three are used to fill the Pres, Treas and Sec. One is up this May and has stated he will not run/volunteer again. As stated before the previous President ran the HOA into the ground and I volunteered... probably should have thought that one through a little more : )

As to putting the cart before the horse you are probably correct. However I wouldn't mind have an idea what to do if the cart remains there alone : )

Bryan,

Research your docs carefully to see if they contain a provision which allows the BOD to appoint someone to fill a vacancy. Oftentimes some people just don't want to run for a position (perhaps they're afraid they won't get many votes) but will agree to being appointed. Otherwise the 2 remaining directors will have no choice but to run the assn. as best they can.

Mary

We do not have a Nominating Committee. We are a relatively new HOA (4 years) and the builder did a extremely lousy job of strarting up the HOA to begin with followed by a president who failed to read the CC&R's to help get the HOA rolling like it should. The current BOD and I are attempting to fix all this but I sometimes feel like the we are plugging leaks in the dam without enough fingers. The former President did everything he should have however he did a lot of things by the seat of his pants instead of actually following the CC&R's and I have spent most of this year getting what he accomplished finished off correctly. I was not a member of the Board at that time, it began with 7 members and then quickly faded to 3. With only 33 homes we do not have a huge member base to begin with and then (like in a lot of HOA's) most of the homeowners really don't care about anything that they think does not directly effect them and since the previous board never bothered to talk to the neighborhood outside of the HOA meetings, which were extremely stagnant... same topics, same three neighbors complaining about the same problems that nobody else cared about, the member base just stopped coming to any meetings.

Anyway, I was just wanting to see if anyone else has gone through a time when they ran out of Board Members.