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Since taking over our HOA in september our board has not acomplished anything. I am the vice president and was asked to aquire quotes for common area lawn care and maintenance.find a community sign. I did get the web site paid for" It was like extracting a wisdom tooth" Ha, Ha. and I found new recycled park benches. The president put aside all my work and announced her husband and family will take care of the grounds, she also took it upon herself to fire the landscape service that was in place. I feel she thinks this is HER Hoa and she is only in it to make her family money. Is this legal? Plus we are all temporary until our first meeting january 10th. I feel like I was given "busy" work while she is trying to make a play for herself. Thanks for any input on this. Everyone has always been very helpfull at this forum Thank you all bobg

It's a board decision on who gets the contract not one persons decision.

It will most likely be up to you to bring this fact up and call for a vote. Additionally, because the President obviously has a conflict of interest, they should not cast a vote on who is awarded the contract.

Expecting that your Association is registered as a nonprofit, there are some FL corporate laws that apply which should help you:

617.0830 General standards for directors.

617.0832 Director conflicts of interest.

Hope this helps,

Tim

BobG4, : You have to ask yourself just when it is time to consult an attorney.
Judging by your comments it looks to me that a variety of 720 laws are being violated.
The Napoleonic actions of a HOA president must be confronted in public at all meetings and with the law.
Read your HOA Docs. They are not permitted to violate the 720 law.
Good luck.

I am not sure about Florida law, but here in Texas the members can only vote you onto the Board of Directors and not into a specific seat. Once you are elected to the Board, then the new board members have to appoint each other to their seats accordingly. We have had a member like you are talking about that was attempting to run things herself and she ended up being removed from her position. It only takes a majority of the board to remove anybody from office. This should be fairly easy to do.

Hello again everyone BobG here, First Thank You everyone for your response and assistance it is greatly appreciated. We held our first annual meeting and it went ugly fast. Very unprofessional and childish unfortunately. Our one board member who will be my parlimentarian was not permitted to speak at all by the president her drunk husband became beligerant, the entire room went against the gentleman who wished to speak so it became extremely unruly. when the dust settled and everyone calmed down we finished the meeting and had our vote amongst the board for president, vice and secretary and thanks to the help and guidence from everyone on this forum I prevailed as level haeded and fair and was unamously voted president ant the old one in gone. Noe I can do my job of serving at the pleasure of the people of my community. Thank You all again.
Sincerely BobG