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  1. Or, very likely, in your covenant, conditions & restrictions (AKA declaration; covenant, where Owners' obligations & Board obligations are spelled out. This doesn't seem to be a topic for RONR...
  2. I agree with Guest: the Board should decide and adopt a rule about who may hear the recordings.
  3. Thank you all again. In CA HOAs, homeowners have the right to attend all open meetings as observers. An Open Forum is required by law and often is placed at the beginning of the meeting. We offer one at that time and one at the end. It could be the Board's decision to permit Owners to participate; we just such an item on our agenda a year ago, and it was defeated. We occasionally ask the other directors if we might take audience remarks or questions, but this is rare. (Owners in AZ HOAs may contribute for each agenda item). The Board could decide that we directors could make remarks to Owners to explain what's going on, but we do take care to introduce topics and state motions so that owners understand them and they do have copies of the agenda. We've never practiced (in 12 years of monthly open meetings) directing remarks at the audience after a vote. The president's recent sudden speech was in my opinion, grandstanding, and it was to entice Owners to her (but not the Board's) stance. I'll definitely call for the orders of the day if this conduct continues.
  4. Thank you for the very helpful citations. They are exactly what I need to encourage the president to stay on our agenda. Anyway, in CA HOAs, the agendas publicly posted 4-days ahead of the noticed open meetings must be adhered to except (basically) for emergencies. Concerning the other part (I guess) of my question: shouldn't we directors only address the president at open meetings (not the audience)? Whom does she address? Would this be better as a separate topic? I'm certain someone whoever familiar with RONR told our Board this quite a long time ago. I did not ask him for his exact source as it made complete sense to me.
  5. Thanks to two of you who replied to my previous attempt. I finally have a new password and can continue. To incorporate the two replies, this is a CA HOA and, by statute, all agenda items must be publicly posted 4 days ahead of open meetings of the Board. Our regular listed reports are by the Treasurer, General Manager, and Committees. We are a board of 7 and the president has voting and debate rights. The president did not list a report on our agenda, and her speech was not made during debate. It was after a vote was taken that brought minor grumbling from the 25 or so homeowners in attendance--as observers. She solely addressed them. I've served on this Board for many years and no president, including me, has every addressed the audience except during Open Forum, when Owners may ask questions--and even then, replies by the president, a director or the GM are very brief. There are no speeches. She framed her remarks so that they sounded like board policy. They are not. In addition, she misquoted some financial numbers that led Homeowners to think we are in dire financial shape. We are not. Some new Owners were particularly troubled. I've looked in my Robert's Rules (11th ed.) to some extent, but cannot find any discussion of this. I think I remember that during the business portion of meetings, remarks should be addressed to the meeting chair or members of the assembly, and no director should try to "play" to the audience. I now think I am mistaken. Is there somewhere in RONR where I can find guidance on this topic?
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