Update on special meeting

So a while back I had some questions about special meetings. Well we finally had ours and I was a little surprised with what our PM had to say.

For starters I passed around a petition to call a special meeting to discuss the our PM and the managment of our association. I got the required number of signatures and mailed it in to out PM and the board. I am not on the BOD nor do I hold an officer position. I am just a homeowner in the association.

Fast forward 4 months and we finally have a meeting. Our PM rents a room in a church nearby and the pastor was late so the meeting was started outside. We were outside for 10 minutes and the pastor showed up, let us in and continued the meeting for another 5 minutes when another homeowner asked who was taking minutes for the meeting.
Our PM stood up and said "I talked to my lawyer and he said the person who called the meeting is supposed to take the minutes." She then looked at me and said because I am the one who called the meeting I had to take the minutes.

Does anyone know anything about this? I am the one who walked around and collected the signatures for the petition and mailed it in.

Am I responsible for the minutes for that meeting? I also have a problem with the PM waiting until we were 15 minutes into the meeting to tell me this. Any info is appreciated.

Bruce is correct.. It is still the duty of the secretary to take meeting of any meetings whether regular or special. I would hold on to the copies of the meeting minutes that you took, so that you can have record of what transpired.. If none of the board took the minutes, then make them a copy for association records.

Thank you for the responses. I thought it was kind of funny.
PetunkaM - it is in the statutes that they have to have a meeting within 60 days but the PM did exactly what I thought they would do. It does seem like they don't like to follow some statutes and our covenants. Good thing our annual meeting is only 4 months away.

Tehl,
I wish you luck. One of our residents who has lived here longer than I have lived here told me that a person with dementia was once voted on as a Board member. That may be why we need to straighten some things out now.
At least now a lawyer and a man who has worked 30 years in a power plant is on the Board. Also, I am on the Board and other than the lawyer, I think no other Board member is dong any kind of research at all.

SusanW1 - the purpose was to get the bod and the members in one place so we could tell the bod that we have a problem with the pm. The bod only has 2 meetings a year, the annual and the budget, and when members tried to bring up issues at the budget meeting the PM said that was off topic and it will not be discussed and at the annual meeting there was not a quorum so the pm said there was no meeting and they and the bod left.

There were no motions or votes on anything. We were hoping to get the bod to consider changing pm.

I don't know if it is a florida thing because we don't have meetings besides the 2 a year.