Your WPA do what we want, ignore what we want to, board has a sign out again announcing another closed meeting. Again, I've checked the official WPA website, and there is no announcement of who called the meeting, or what the subject of the meeting is. Last time, just a few weeks ago, same scenario - I published the requirements of our governing documents for such meetings, a board attorney of record letter to president Walton telling him not to hold such meetings, and a email from Garrison to board members reminding them of the legal opinion, and the posting requirements. They just don't feel that they need to follow anything, and it is a good part of the reason that Wedgefield is deteriorating quickly.
HERE ARE SOME KEY POINTS FROM A RECENT LOCAL ARTICLE ABOUT HOA BOARDS WHO FAIL TO OPERATE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE ASSOCIATION (Copyright 2016 WMBF News. All rights reserved.):
*"A homeowners association can be a make or break the issue between a good community and a community that has a high turnover in its population."
*"And what’s sad is hearing their stories about how they were so excited to be down in Myrtle Beach, that they’ve had to deal with the horror of their HOA, that they, personally, do not want to be in Myrtle Beach.”
*"On a rainy weekday afternoon, several homeowners huddled in the backseat of the minivan of a disabled resident. They were outside in the rain because they were not allowed inside a homeowners association meeting.
*"All of these frustrations are not solitary. The Coastal Carolina Association of Realtors receives hundreds of complaints regarding HOAs. Some of them were about the same HOA, but many are different.
*"And what’s sad is hearing their stories about how they were so excited to be down in Myrtle Beach, that they’ve had to deal with the horror of their HOA, that they, personally, do not want to be in Myrtle Beach.”
*"On a rainy weekday afternoon, several homeowners huddled in the backseat of the minivan of a disabled resident. They were outside in the rain because they were not allowed inside a homeowners association meeting.
“They said the meeting was closed. And it’s like, the meetings are open,” Harrington said. “And they said ‘No, these meetings are closed. You can only enter if you have received an invitation.’”
According to a bill introduced by Sen. Darrell Jackson on Jan. 11, 2011, “A meeting of the board of directors, including a subcommittee or other committee of, must be open to all members of record.”
*"Perhaps what is most frustrating for these members of the community, though, isn’t how they are being treated by their homeowners association; it’s that they don’t feel they have any course of action to take other than hiring an attorney."
*"Perhaps what is most frustrating for these members of the community, though, isn’t how they are being treated by their homeowners association; it’s that they don’t feel they have any course of action to take other than hiring an attorney."
*"All of these frustrations are not solitary. The Coastal Carolina Association of Realtors receives hundreds of complaints regarding HOAs. Some of them were about the same HOA, but many are different.
For Johnson, the problem is that there is no enforcement. "
