Conflict of Interest - President BOD and Committee Chair

My husband and I are both involved in the HOA. I was a committee chairman (beautification of common areas) and he later became the president of the BOD. A board member who was newly elected told my husband that he has a 'conflict of interest' with me serving as a chairman of my committee. We don't see it. Nothing that my committee advises to the BOD can personally benefit he or I. We did have a recent decision put before the board to increase the budget for a project. He had to break a tie vote and his vote was in favor of the increase (which our committee was asking for). Is this a conflict for him to have to vote on an issue that I am advocating for my committee? What were his options? If this is a conflict, what then are our options?
Thanks!

There is no conflict by you being a committee chair. However there is a conflict for your husband. It would have been appropriate him to vacate the chair and leave the room while the committee you chair discussed their budget needs and a vote was taken.

With a tie your proposal would fail. I suggest you consider resubmitting a revised proposal that would find favor with a majority of the other board members to correct this conflict of interest problem.

BarbaraM7: Absolutely!

I am having a very difficult time with understanding where a "conflict of interest" comes into play here. A committee chair presents a study result to the BOD and her husband, who is the President, has to leave the room? Because he is what? President of the Board? Come on folks. Committees have absolutely no power to vote and take actions on any financial decisions. It is not like her committee was asking the Board to give her something personally that would benefit her or her husband. Sometimes we get too far from realistic and nit pick a situation to little pieces and then none of it makes sense. He had every right to vote on this matter.