The Board’s Covenants and Restrictions Committee is currently re-writing the Covenants and Restrictions (C&Rs) to include the Capital Initiation Fee (CIF), even before the CIF is voted upon or approved. They are planning to complete and include the final version of CIF verbiage in the C&Rs after the CIF election. And they plan to have the amended Covenants and Restrictions (C&Rs) ready for a membership vote in September, or later.

Today, the C&R Committee was surprised to hear about this CIF double vote possibility. They would like to keep the Covenants and Restrictions (C&Rs) election clean (with no heated issues) and separate from the CIF election. But with a double vote possibility, there may be no other choice than to have one election for both.

I see the POA Board requiring the Covenants and Restrictions Committee to speed up their C&Rs re-write. Therefore, the property owners may be required to vote on the CIF as part of the overall changes to the amended Covenants and Restrictions. Yes, the CIF election process has become a little messy.

The POA Board would not have wanted for the CIF to be included and approved as part of the C&Rs election. The election on the changes to the Covenants and Restrictions is important, and the changes to the C&Rs have never been voted down, and you don’t want the amended C&Rs voted down because of having the CIF included (for its first time vote). But they can’t allow two votes on the CIF.

In closing, you found a flaw in their election process and the POA Board will be in meetings next week looking for a way out.