Board Moves to Update By-laws
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- Created: 27 September 2013
Homeowner property deeds in Cramer's Crossing require that our community maintain a homeowners association and a Board to manage it. In recent years, we have struggled to find volunteers to fill those Board and Committee positions as required by our existing By-laws (which were adopted in 2007). If we do not fill all the positions, we cannot function and are violating our own By-laws. To deal with this problem, the current CCHOA Board of Directors has revised our By-laws with the goal to reduce the number of required positions and to make service on the Board more attractive.
The most significant changes to the By-laws are:
1) The mandatory "progression" system written into our current By-laws is eliminated and each Board member's term is one year. That is, the Vice President does not automatically become President after one year, and the President and Treasurer are given the option of serving as Trustee after their one year of service is complete.
2) The Secretary/Treasurer position is split into two positions, the Secretary and the Treasurer. Neither position is required to serve as a Trustee after one year.
3) The By-law and Social Committees are now optional. Ideally, we will have sufficient volunteers to serve on both committees. In the event we do not, such committees will be optional to ensure that we are not violating our own By-laws in the absence of volunteers.
4) Eliminates the restriction which prohibits members of the same household serving on the CCHOA Board.
Most importantly, these revisions will not increase your assessment or change any obligations of the homeowners, the CCHOA, or the CCHOA Board.
For these revisions to pass, a yes vote of 75% of all CCHOA members is required. EVERY HOUSEHOLD IN CRAMER'S CROSSING NEEDS TO PARTICIPATE AND VOTE. The vote will take place on Monday, November 4, 2013 at 7 pm at the CCHOA Annual Meeting of Members, held at the Washington Township Administration Building, 6200 Eiterman Road.
We are fortunate to live in a community with a historically strong homeowners association that has enjoyed great social and neighborhood building events over the years. We need to make sure that we can maintain the organization that benefits us all.
