HOA Board Setback

Our HOA has had great difficulty filling board positions in recent years. We've had boards with unfilled positions. Other examples include boards with members who had difficulty performing their board duties and tasks, boards with members who had no assigned duties and board positions which were vacated after a year or two. Some boards had members which wouldn't or couldn't use email, spreadsheets and so on. We've also had boards with members who avoided creating newsletter articles or reports to owners. HOAs simply do their best with the boards which have been elected or appointed.

When owners wonder why some things don't get done, or the newsletter is the way it is, or whatever, it is because of who is on the board, the unfilled positions and the manner in which duties are distributed and performed.

This may simply be the way it is in HOA volunteer organizations.

The most recent setback? At our annual meeting, we fell back to a board with an unfilled position. Our youngest member has moved on to other duties. There will be fewer people to get the job done.

There will be consequences. This may not be of concern to some owners, who expect whoever is on the board to simply get the job done. Not my problem says the owner. Oh, yes it is.  A few years ago we had a group that was convinced this was an effortless, easy job. Just issues orders to Management and voila' the work is done. They learned the hard way that was not the way it is. Soon they were gone, using any excuse possible.

Why such difficulty in a HOA with 336 owners? I'll save that for another post.