board member distributes non-approved minutes prior to board meeting

Our office manager prepares and delivers the packets for each board member the day before the board meeting. These packets include the agenda, the minutes from the last board meeting, financial reports and any other pertinent items such as notes or recommendations from the ARC committee. Some of this information is intended only for the board..e.g. a member complaint about another member, etc. Our board meeting was today.

Three of our board members had their own meeting with a select group of members last night before the board meeting - to plan their strategies for the next day (their goal is to recall the remaining 4 board members and run the show).

At the board meeting today, the 3 board members had either made copies of their packets themselves or allowed a member at their meeting last night to make copies and distribute them (including the non-approved minutes from the last board meeting) to all the members present at the board meeting.

Is this legitimate??

Where would I find the rules on something like this?

Thanks for your advice!

Be careful what you call a "meeting".

3 out of 7 is not a quorum, anyway. It was a gathering.

Their only power will be revealed during a Board meeting. but it sounds like there are 4 other votes to counter any motion made by the rouge 3.

Giving confidential documents to unauthorized people is a breach of fiduciary responsibility. The Board would have grounds to sue the errant Board Members and insurance might not protect them.

I would tell the errant Board Members this.

If this is the Timberline Rim HOA, it won't do much good because the coup planners are a bunch of idiots, anyway.