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A PLACE TO BE

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Wrong!

When Board President allowed newly elected Director Vasquez to tell an owner that this Coffee Meeting is yours and the Workshop Meeting is ours, I thought that this was within the Board’s jurisdiction. I even thought that they could have closed Regular Meetings if they so desired. I was wrong and so is the Board. Though it is not required by the Texas Nonprofit Corporation law, both the Texas Uniform Condominium Act (Sec. 82.108. MEETINGS) and Chapter 209 of the Texas Property Code require Texas Homeowners Associations’ meetings to open to homeowners subject to the right of the Board to meet in closed “Executive Sessions” when needed on issues of personnel, pending litigation, contract negotiations, enforcement actions, and matters involving invasion of a unit owner’s privacy or if affected parties along with the Board wish confidentiality.
I believe all on the Board who allowed the close Workshop meeting to occur should apologize to the owners at Wednesday’s upcoming Regular Meeting.
Comments

Posted by Joey at 9:25 AM

2 comments:

Vita Sherry said...

I believe you are correct, Joey. Anytime the Board meets and the meeting is legally posted it must conform to the Open Meetings Laws. The coffee and the workshop fall into this category. The Board can certainly meet in Executive Session, but such a session must also conform to open meetings laws and you have accurately noted the reasons for which a session may be closed to the public. I guess I am surprised that Director Vasques is not aware of this, since he is a retired school superintendent and his school board would have fallen under than same requirements.

March 23, 2013 at 12:30 PM
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April 2, 2013 at 11:32 PM

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