Bylaws & Covenants

An email was recently sent to owners from a subgroup of the members summarizing reasons why the proposed amendments to the club articles and bylaws should be rejected.  In addition to those reasons, please be aware that, hidden in the proposed changes is a very material amendment that negatively affects all owners. 

The board’s proposed amendments to Sections 4.4.3 and Section 11 would give the board the authority to change access rights to the common services and facilities of the club without any input or vote from the members.  Regardless whether you are an owner who rents or an owner who does not rent, there is no benefit to giving blanket authority to the board to make changes to, for example, Guest and Resident facilities use rights, rather than this being an issue that the larger membership decides (as was always intended).  This issue is especially important because of the inherent conflict of interest that individual members of the board will always have when balancing the interests of different subgroups of owners, and it is also especially important because, when property rights are at issue, board actions can subject the board (and the community funds that we all contribute to) to potential litigation.  (These are facts that the current board is obviously aware of given the additional changes it is proposing to make to the conflict of interest rules.)  The board has provided no explanation why it is important that power to curtail facilities usage rights in the future needs to be transferred from the membership to the board.  The only possible explanation is the desire of the current board to act on its agenda without having to regularly seek membership approval.  Please reject this unnecessary proposed amendment which will weaken all members’ rights to have input in important decisions in a manner never intended by the community.