Board Vacanies Should be Filled by Membership Vote

It should be mandatory to fill Board vacancies and that any vacancy with more than one year left on the term should be elected by the membership at a meeting of the members with two months of the vacancy.

Current Boards uses flexibilities in the bylaws to prevent new voices from being elected to the Board. Most bylaws say Board vacancies are filled by the Board. Board members uses this flexibility to only bring on their friends or they don't fill them to prevent having a new voice. They don't advertise vacancies. Only appoint their relatives and friends.

At various times in the past 25 years, our Board has had ALL the members appointed by themselves. Other times, they let posts sit vacant for months or years so that there are no dissenting voices or votes.

The levers of power are stacked and there isn't true democracy in an HOA.