Friday, November 15, 2013

Is the Board circumventing the open meeting requirements of Virginia law?

A homeowner complaint which was scheduled to be discussed on November 14, 2013 was neither on the Agenda nor in the Management Report.

Does the Board intend to rule on this complaint in secret? Has it learned nothing from past complaints?

That is a willful violation of § 55-79.75.B:
The executive organ shall not use work sessions or other informal gatherings of the executive organ to circumvent the open meeting requirements of this section.
It is also a violation of § 55-79.75.C:
No contract, motion or other action adopted, passed or agreed to in executive session shall become effective unless the executive organ or subcommittee or other committee thereof, following the executive session, reconvenes in open meeting and takes a vote on such contract, motion or other action which shall have its substance reasonably identified in the open meeting.