Ruth.L

Hmmmmm, I was afraid that would be the answer!! Thank you!!

Thanks for your prompt and complete response. Yes, this is a Florida homeowners association and the board meetings are monthly. State statutes require that the agenda be posted 48 hours in advance of the meeting and that owners who wish to speak can only do so on agenda items and must sign-up in advance of the meeting. How can they do this when agenda items are added after the meetings begin? (This was a technique used by a prior board to prevent participation by owners on controversial topics.)

A member of the board of our housing co-op would like a motion put on the agenda of the next board meeting, but the president won't put it on. (Actually nobody on the board except this one person would support the motion.) So my questions are: 1) Must all items be placed on the agenda if requested by other board members? 2) If the president refuses, and the posted agenda doesn't contain the requested item - does the requester have any options to have his motion considered? Thank you for your consideration.

At a recent meeting of my co-op's board, a motion was made and passed that we realized afterwords was not correctly stated and needs to be amended at next month's meeting. We would NOT be amending something previously approved, because those minutes haven't been approved yet. What would be the correct procedure for doing this? Do we approve last month's minutes, and THEN make a new motion to amend the previous month's motion?

Thank you for your reply - it certainly makes sense and seems to be the logical thing to do. I'm just anticipating that it will be awkward for me, as the NEW secretary, to be making all these corrections to someone else's work when she's right there. How would the minutes be signed..."written by HER, corrected by ME"???

At the last membership meeting of my Florida co-op there were several new board members elected and also a new secretary. The old secretary is still a member of the board. At the next board meeting, the board will be approving minutes written by the OLD secretary, and these minutes contain a number of mistakes. Who should be making the corrections - the old or the new secretary?