Summerplace

Florida Statute Governing Homeowner's Associations

Here is a handy link to Florida Statute 720 that governs Homeowner's Associations in the State of Florida.
Florida Statute 720

Board Meeting, Dec 17th - Please attend

It looks like this new Board is complying with Florida Statutes that require notice of all Board meetings. This is a very promising first step. Here's the notice that was sent by email:

"There will be a meeting of the Summerplace Board of Directors on Sunday, December 17, 2006, at 5:00 PM at the home of David Courage, 1820 Barefoot Place East, in Summerplace. It is open to all members of the Summerplace Improvement Association, Inc."

Board of Directors Ignore ByLaws Regarding Executive Officers

Just received minutes from the Annual Meeting held on Nov 11th. I don't want to annoy myself on a pleasant Saturday evening so I'll address only one point right now. The meeting minutes inform us that "President Glynn will submit his recommendations to the Board of Directors for the position of vice president, secretary and treasurer."

If the elected Board of Directors familiarized themselves with the Summerplace Association ByLaws they would see in ARTICLE III, SECTION 1 that Executive Officers (president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and other officers and assistants) shall be elected by the Board of Directors. They shall take office immediately after election.

The ByLaws clearly state the appointed president reports to the elected five-person Board, not the other way around. There is a reason for this folks!

Glynn Begs to be President Again - and IS!

After telling everyone he will NOT run again, Bill Glynn showed up at Board of Director David Courage's house yesterday and pleaded to be president again. This came as no surprise to anyone except Mr. Courage, it seems.

The Board had a meeting yesterday and stuck the Association with Glynn and his shenanigans for yet another year! I think this makes year fourteen. Unbelievable!

Election Results & Annual Meeting

No surprise -- the 5 names on the ballot, of course, were the 5 people elected to the Board of Directors (Haidee Williams, Chuck Pickard, David Courage, Ernie Thomas and Sheila Grange who doesn't even live in Summerplace).

There were six people who requested their names be on the ballot. The only one of the six that got on the ballot was Ernie Thomas. The others were ignored including Dr. Mary Kirby who Glynn disqualified because he said Mary was not a Summerplace property owner! Mary brought her deed to the Annual Meeting and Glynn just shrugged. When asked to apologize to Mary, Glynn told the gentleman to "sit on it."

Requested Slate for 2006/07 Board of Directors

These 6 names were submitted to Bill Glynn on September 28th for the 2006/07 Summerplace Board of Directors ballot: : Dr. Mary Kirby, Peter McKay, Ernie Thomas, Barbara Hickey, Lil Miller-Fox, Inge Boulos
More info to come.

Glynn/Kenworthy Stepping Down

Bill Glynn said that he and his real estate partner, Janyne Kenworthy, would not be running for the 2006/2007 Summerplace Board of Directors.