How Many Directors is right?

John,

I believe that your CC&R’s should state precisely how many directors an association should have.

In my community, we don’t have any directors. We only have the three elected positions (president, vp and treasurer). I’ll continue looking, because I believe someone had posted what was a general recommendation depending upon the size of the association.
Chuck W.

your by laws are your bible.

thou shall follow them to the letter.

I just copied this from an earlier post:

There are no hard and fast rules. Most associations run from 3-9 board members. Looking back at the associations I've dealt with, they generally broke down something like this:

50 units or less - 3
51-250 5
250-750 7
750+ 9

Variations depended on whether they were condos or HOA's (condos demanded more attention and tended to have more board members); whether there was professional management (reduced the work load so association could get by with fewer board members); interest - I tend to like larger boards because they represent a wider cross section of owners and meant that more people were involved and informed; apathy - there's no point having 9 board members if you can only get 5 to run every election.

You can always adjust the number by amending your documents, or you can add by appointing people who aren't board members as officers (Treasurer and Secretary are usually officer positions that a lot of documents don't require to be board members).

For you probably 5-7 would work. You amend the section that sets the number of board members, using the amendment procedures that should be in the documents.

Joe