Homeowners Association Dispute Review Board 02/05/2026

0:00All to order. Good evening. Today is February 6, 2025 in the meeting of the Charles County owners association dispute review board will now come to order. I have. Do we have to take roll call? Yes, I'm going to do roll call. You're on your Rogers. President. Cheryl Walker. Amina. Mary Stokeley. You're muted Mary. Present. Last walk. Present. Veronica Brown Barnes. Present. Present. Present. Present.

1:01Amy Coombs. Clerk of the board. Present. I will move on to the approval of the minutes and the agenda change. That's only agenda is the approval of the minutes. The board has received and read the minutes from our December. I will move on to the first motion. 2025 if there are any corrections to the minutes, I will entertain a motion that the minutes be approved. Is there a second? Yes, I second Veronica Barnes. All in favor. Did you have a motion madam vice chair, who was the first motion madam clerk to approve the minutes? I'm sorry. I make the motion to approve the minutes. That's last walk and it's called talking. Thank you, last. And we need a second.

2:03I second Veronica Barnes. Thank you. All in favor. I. Any opposed. Board administrative actions and chair announcements next on our agenda we will hear from staff regarding any announcements. Madam vice chair, if I may, we have a change to the agenda with respect to new business. It was indicated on the agenda that there would be a work session regarding longest versus Worthington and that is premature because the other party has not yet had an opportunity to respond. So pursuant to our rules and procedures. The work session for that matter will be tabled and occur at a later meeting.

3:09Thank you. Are there any other. Any other announcements from the staff? Do we have any other board members that have joined since the meeting was called order? We have a lot of members of the public. Let's jump jump to listen. Mr. Faisen will discuss changes to the HLA. The RB rules of procedures regarding board elections. Okay. Okay. Carrying out a vocal election today this board will hold elections for the office of chair and vice chair.

4:11The term of each position will be for one year. We will start with the position of the chair. That's pretty much it. I mean, the last we're going to start with nominations. I've got the script here. We're going to work on the annual report first. The annual report, please. Yes. Madam chair. We can you put that up on screen so we can. I don't know if everyone had an opportunity to. Look at the other report. Yeah. That was prepared. Ms. Coombs. Clerk Coombs provided that to all the members. Okay. Thumbs up from Mary Stokely. So I assume all other members had an opportunity. Did anyone have any.

5:12Proposed edits or changes? I have a few changes under. On the second page where it indicates the delegate homes attended our meeting. That was October 2025. As opposed to. October. It is it was October of 2025. This past October. This is February 2026. My my notes said that he spoke in August 2025. Oh. It might be I'll have to go back and check that will change that. And be.

6:13The chair on the second page. She's indicated as chairman. That should be. Yeah, I'll change that. Okay. And I'm sorry. On going goals. Looking into the possibility that first bullet of CSM seminars. I'm going to remove and. And in the paragraph with delegate homes. The last sentence he discussed his efforts to establish a state agency. To manage these communities and the associate challenges of. Just adding of getting the legislation passed. And. That's all I have. Thank you.

7:19Madam chair, there's no other proposed changes. I guess the. I guess you could take a motion for the. Or to for the staff to prepare the. I guess the annual report with the changes. Oh, entertaining emotion to accept the changes that have been spoken about. Yes. And so we can put because this gets will be forwarded to the county commissioners. Next. Early next month. Anyone like to make a motion to accept the. Changes that have been given by attorney dues. Yes. This is Veronica Barnes. I make a motion that the changes being made and accepted. Thank you. All in favor. Hi. Hi. Hi.

8:19Hello. I just have a question whose second. The motion. Thank you. Thank you. Last walk in second and I say I in favor of the motion. Thank you last. Do you want me to go on to the elections? Or do you want me to go on to new business? The elections. Is that right, Mr. Reed? Yes. We can do that. So do you want me to run through the script? I will do it. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Okay. We're going to start the election. We've probably heard a little bit of this. Carrying out a vocal election. Today the board will vote hold elections for the office of chair and vice chair. The term of each position will be for one year. We will start with the position of chair.

9:19Are there any nominations for the position of board chair? Please state your name and the person you are nominating. I would like to read run for vice chair. Okay. That'll be that'll become that'll be next. I will submit my name for chair Veronica Barnes. Okay. A second. Yes. All right. I'm going to get the script hold on. Be sure. Okay. Would anybody else like to submit a nomination?

10:20Okay. All right. Now we're going to move to a position of vice chair. Are there any nominations for position of vice chair? So please state your name and the person you're nominating. Should I nominate myself? Yes, you may. Absolutely. And I nominate myself. You need that second. Yes. Okay. Okay. Is anyone else? Okay. All right. The nominating period is now over. We will proceed to voting. If you are a favor of the candidate, please say aye. If you are not in favor, please say nay. Madam clerk, will you please keep track of the votes?

11:21For the position of chair. Miss or on a Veronica Barnes. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Mary. I last walk in. I love talking to Roger. Okay. Okay. Okay. Very good. That will be no pose then. So congratulations, chairperson Barnes. Thank you. For the position of vice chair, the first time in. The tiny Rogers. All in favor for Miss Rogers. Please say aye. Hi. Hi. Mary. Hi. All those not in favor, please say nay. I somewhere in.

12:23Okay. Congratulations. Nice chair. Miss Rogers. Thank you. So please welcome. Miss Veronica Barnes as a new chair for the next year. Please welcome. Miss the tiny Rogers as your. Vice chair for the next year. Congratulations, ladies. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your attention to business. It will be new business. And which we have. We're not. Well, I asked the question. Do we have any new business that needs to be discussed?

13:24No, we do not. We will have cases where they're upcoming hearing upcoming meeting in April. more business than we need to entertain in motion to adjourn the meeting. I will I will give the motion to adjourn the meeting. Is there a second? A second. Last one. I'll in favor. Hi. Any opposed. Amy can let us know when the next meeting is. Last or the next meeting will be held or April 9th, 2026. Thursday at 6.11 pm. Thanks you everyone and have a good evening. Thank you. Thanks everyone for coming. Good night.