Too many volunteers

How great that people volunteered--this really is what makes a community a community. We never had volunteers for the board from off the board, but be careful that the board supervise these volunteers or they will start doing chores that you don't want and it will be difficult to take them back. Probably assigning a chairperson or drawing names for a chairperson is best and then let that chairperson choose the number of helpers in that area that they need. I used to do the newsletter and found that after people volunteered to help with it, what I needed most was for someone to take it to the printers, etc. However, on that note, maybe the several volunteers, like for the newsletter could each be a reporter for a certain committee, i.e., one report on ACC, one report on landscaping, etc. for those directors and input their info. The most difficult part of the newsletter was getting the articles in on time to be consistent with having it out the week before a board meeting to notice the meeting, and other events. In other words, let the chairperson decide who to use and then have the chairperson report to the board about their committee, what they are doing, progress made in an area, etc., and check your CCRs; ours required that the Architectural Control Committee be made up of at least three, and two had to be on the board of directors. This is just experience advice.
Good luck!
EdR

EdR makes some good points. Our committees (we call them Teams) are often made up of non board members, but at least one board member heads each Team and is responsible for reporting back to the Board. The Teams make their own budget and the Team Leader submits that budget to the Board. The Finance Team, then implements all the budgets into the HOA budget for the year (assuming, of course, that the board approves the Teams budgets). I know I took tis scenario further than the topic, but thought some here might be interested. We run our HOA like a corporation (which it is). Seems to work quite well.