HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week - February 6, 2009
Published: Fri, 02/06/09
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Need a Quorum of Homeowners for a Vote? Push Proxies
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In a recent Tip of the Week (which you can read here:
http://www.hoaleader.com/public/226.cfm) I wrote about the
problem HOAs face when they can't recruit enough volunteers to
serve on the board, and as a result they can't convene a quorum
to conduct HOA business.
Today's tip is about a similar problem many homeowners
associations encounter: They struggle to get enough homeowners to
attend a meeting for a vote. We discussed this problem with
several experts, who gave us 5 practical techniques you can try
in your HOA.
Two of the experts we spoke with gave advice on how to most
effectively use proxies to solve the problem.
"Apathy is rampant among my clients," said Michael Hunter, a
partner at Horack Talley in Charlotte, N.C. "So I recommend that
my clients send out proxies along with the notice of meeting.
Then I suggest that directors get on the phone and start calling
owners in the weeks before the meeting. They tell owners that if
they're not planning to attend to please send in their proxy so
that the association has a quorum. I've seen associations get
well over a quorum by soliciting proxies."
You can also ask owners to send in a proxy even if they plan to
be at the meeting. Jaime J. Raskulinecz, a certified property
manager and CEO of Rainbow Property Management in Verona, N.J.,
told us "If people are planning to come to the meeting, we ask
them to send in a proxy anyway in case anything happens and they
can't attend. We tell them that if they show up, we're happy to
give the proxy back. Then, if we don't get enough proxies in the
mail before the meeting, board members start to knock on doors
to get proxies because we don't want to cancel the meeting."
You can read the other 4 techniques in our just posted article:
http://www.hoaleader.com/members/225.cfm
Best regards,
Matt Humphrey
President
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