In this week's tip, we help out a reader who wants to know how to add seats to their HOA board.
Our reader says their governing documents allow a three to five member board. They also say that members elect directors at or in conjunction with the annual members' meeting.
Our reader's question? Can we just hold our election and then seat more board members than we currently have? If not, what steps does this HOA need to take to expand the size of their board?
Click on the arrow below to hear a short clip in which two of HOAleader.com's experts—Jonathan James Damonte, founder of Jonathan James Damonte, Chartered, who's been representing community associations for 40 years mostly in the greater Tampa Bay area and is a Florida Bar board certified specialist in condo and planned development law, and Magdalena Myers, a partner and the Cincinnati office chair at Kaman & Cusimano LLC who represents condos and HOAs in Ohio and
Kentucky—discuss whether using election results is the way to a bigger board.
