HOAleader.com - Tip of the Week - November 4, 2016
Published: Fri, 11/04/16
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Your HOA Annual Meeting Coming Up? Have a Plan, Stan
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In this week’s tip, we get you started on planning for your 2017 annual meeting.
Too soon, you say?
It’s never too soon to begin planning for your next annual meeting, says Michael Kim who, through his Chicago law firm, Michael C. Kim & Associates, represents about 500 associations.
“My view is that it’s never too early to be prepared,” he says. “The worst that can happen is that you’ll be ready early as opposed to scrambling at the last minute.”
If your HOA is in California or another state that mandates your election process, you probably don’t need much advice on how to plan for the meeting, says David C. Swedelson, the principal at Swedelson & Gottlieb, a law firm that represents associations in the Los Angeles area.
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“In California, the answer to how you prepare for your election at an annual meeting would be easy,” he says. “As of 2006, every association is required to have election rules, and they should spell out the steps and procedures for your HOA’s election process. If your HOA doesn’t have the required election rules, it’s not in compliance with the civil code.”
Be sure you’ve actually got election rules, adds Swedelson. “A lot of associations say they have election rules. They say, ‘We have our bylaws.’ And I say to them: ‘Those aren’t election rules.’”
But annual meetings involve more than elections. That’s why Nathaniel Abbate Jr., a partner at Makower Abbate & Associates PLLC in Farmington Hills, Mich., who represents associations, recommends you start by taking a big-picture view of the meeting.
“The best-run associations usually have a strategic plan that incorporates each annual meeting as a golden opportunity to encourage more involvement on the part of its members to further that plan,” says Abbate. “Keeping that big picture in mind makes planning for an annual meeting relatively easy.”
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