HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week - February 1, 2013
Published: Fri, 02/01/13
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Want to Slap a Fellow HOA Board Member's Wrist? Here's How
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In this week's tip, we discuss discipline, specifically how and
when you can discipline fellow board members.
Though serving as on the homeowners association board of
directors is voluntary, it's a real commitment, and most board
members treat it that way. "Boards do get involved and help
police the activities of their fellow board members both within
board meetings as well as when a rogue board member tries to take
liberties without including the other board members in his
actions," says Lori Burger, CPM, CCAM, CAM, senior vice president
and director of Eugene Burger Management Corp., a Rohnert Park,
Calif.-based company that manages about 20,000 condo and HOA
units. "Boards take their jobs as board members very seriously
and are pretty good overall in the area of self-policing."
Though there are few formal disciplinary actions boards can take
to slap the hands of their fellow members, they do exist. Some
states and governing documents have automatic sanctions for board
members' improper behavior.
"I've seen some association documents that say if board members
fail to attend a certain number of meetings, they're automatically
removed from the board," says Matthew Zifrony, who advises
homeowners and condo associations at Tripp Scott, a Ft. Lauderdale
law firm, and who's also served as the president of a 3,000-home
association. "That's a form of discipline. There are also statutes
in Florida where if board members become delinquent on maintenance
fees, they're automatically removed from the board. Those both
provide a level of discipline. But the real action that can be
taken against board members is being recalled or not being elected
again if they run during the next election."
What about a board member whose behavior doesn't fall within those
automatic penalty areas? Is there any recourse? "Another way to
discipline board members involves the board deciding who the
officers are," says Zifrony. "The board can vote to remove the
president as president, the treasurer as treasurer, and so on.
They can't remove them from the board altogether, but they can
remove them from officer positions. They can also remove them from
committees or reprimand them saying publicly in the minutes that
they don't agree with what the board members are doing."
Find out even more disciplinary options in our new article, HOA
Board Member Behaving Badly? Know How and When to Discipline:
http://www.hoaleader.com/members/811.cfm
Best regards,
Matt Humphrey
President
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