Can you ban a homeowner from meetings?

Okay to make a very long....exhausting story short....Two homeowners in our 42 home development went around in May and campiagned for one of them to get the treasurer position on the board. He did get that position, even though in my opinion, not only was he not quailfied but the person really has no integrity. He made it to one meeting before he was kicked off. Last friday this person was hanging out with a number of homeowners...drinking involved as it usually is. By about 10pm, 4 police officers were called into the neighborhood. An arguement had caused him to physically assualted 2 other people, and verbally assualt a number of others, including his wife, and keep in mind that probably about 7 children were there all under the age of 5 watching all of this (2 of his own). During the altercation he was so upset, he ran home (across the street) got the associations computer, and all of the treasury books and records, threw the box of records across the street and threw the computer about 30 feet breaking it (and used a choice of words I can not use on this tread). All parties involved in the physical assualt decided not to press charges, but the president, who witness this, quickly call the BOD and decided he felt like we had to press charges due to the computer breaking. After going back and forth with the police department, we did consider going through with pressing the charges, but we all have children and jobs and did not want to waste anymore time on him so we decided to drop charges if he agreed to pay to replace the computer. His wife did pay to replace the computer in full. Now we are wondering if there is a way that we can ask him not to attend anymore meetings at all. Of course he is no longer on the board. He is and always has been distruptive, difficult to communicate with and just plain not nice to be around. We certainly do not mind his wife coming to represent his home and of course she can vote.

Any thoughts on this?

For a twist on this....the two that physically assualted each other....were the two that went around to have the other vote onto the board. I'm just thankful the rest of the member are really great!

I agree with Glen...I think it is premature to consider banning him from meetings. If this behavior carries over to meetings then it might be appropriate to consider.

Banning a headcase from meetings? That ought to help dump an extra gallon of kerosene on the embers. Go with Glen.

Thanks for your input! We will certainly take your advice.

Actually, you could ask him to not come. The problem is that you can't do much when he does anyway. (Or at least you might end up with bigger problems.)

There should have been 2 motions are the emergency meeting:

To remove him as Treasurer

and

To ban him from meetings for one year, with review at that time.

Unless he is disruptive at any future meeting, you can't ban him, retroactively. How he behaves NOW is the basis for any meeting ban.