Actually, I did not ask about the bylaws. As you are aware, notification of the annual meeting is also in the Charter. However, I asked about the Maryland HOA Act 11B-113.1 after being told that official notification of the Annual Meeting was sent electronically as allowed in the bylaws via the OPA marketing email known as "This Week in the Pines," aka the eBlast.

From your response, I will assume the use of the marketing eBlast emails would not comply with the Act for any required 15-day notice of the Annual Meeting.

I agree there is nothing in the bylaws regarding notification of a "rescheduled" Annual Meeting. The language says there should be a 15-day notice of THE Annual Meeting. THE annual meeting is scheduled for August 26. There is only one annual meeting, rescheduled or not.

Your reference to the notice being sent via postcard this week is interesting. The decision to do that was made yesterday AFTER questions about the 15-day notification were raised. The most interesting aspect is the printing is being done today by Thom Gulyas in Berlin, the same printing contractor who we are told was non-responsive to requests for bids on the ballot package and thus was not used this year.

Yet, here we are giving Gulyas what would most likely be a no-bid contract to print and mail 8,500 postcards for the annual meeting notification that will be mailed at least five days or more late.

With regard to good faith, I believe you remarked on the need for notification at the special board meeting. The Election Committee chair then suggested a postcard could be used.

The Election Committee is not responsible for a rescheduled annual meeting notice and should receive no blame. The board just dropped the ball on getting those postcards out, and I will speculate you were contacted about that as late as yesterday after I and/or others made inquiries.

I do not understand why OPA cannot simply say a mistake was made, apologize, and be done with it.

As an association member, I hope the board keeps you more directly involved in these important matters without over-concern about legal fees. I also believe counsel should be present at all regular board meetings, and that counsel and GM should be fully involved, when appropriate, in all board discussions - and certainly without constant "suspension of the rules" by the board chairman.

OPA counsel always attended and participated in board meetings until around 2010 when a board president decided it was no longer necessary because "we all know this legal stuff is just common sense."