Annual Meeting

March 23, 2026

 

Opening Remarks:

 

Our meeting will be run under Roberts’ Rules of Order. This means that we will hold all questions and comments until the end of the meeting at which time there will be an open discussion.

Today’s meeting will be broken into two parts:

Part 1. This is the annual meeting that will follow the agenda sent to all lot owners. Here we will tally the Proxies to determine if we have the necessary number to conduct the meeting. As there were no new candidates whose term expired. We will announce the continuation of the three Directors for 2026/2028. A Director generally serves a two-year staggered term.

Part 2. This will be an Organizational Meeting where all Directors elect the Association’s Officers for the coming year. Officers serve a 1-year term. The officers are President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer.

President’s Remarks: Our Unit has 120 homes and one vacant lot. The main activities of this board generally revolve around compliance with our Rules & Regulations as well as FL 720. This statute directs how HOA’s need to function. There were no new legislative changes from FL 720 this year. The remainder of our time was spent on managing compliance, rental properties and ARC requests and approvals.

We appointed the following individuals as Directors to fill openings made by resignations.

• Brian Adams

• John Joyce

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I am ably assisted by several volunteers who make their time available to manage the following areas:

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• Phyllis Rendino – Secretary of Association – communications, required paperwork, neighborhood welcome and probably 9 other things that I have missed.

• Jim Erner – manages compliance issue within Unit 3

  • Brian Adams – assists Jim with compliance

• Dottie Janitz – Treasurer of Association – prepares and collects annual assessments and pays the bills. She is assisted by Marcia Van Tassell as the Unit’s bookkeeper

• Joe Jamros – manages the ARC requests from unit residents for changes/additions to their property. He is assisted by Brigitte Stefka.

• Website – Chris Jones stepped up at last year's meeting to improve our website.

• Hurricane Committee – John Joyce assumed this responsibility to canvas the neighborhood to see who is in residence during hurricane season.

• John King – Overall responsibility for Unit 3 as well as leasing requests, monitoring and SWCA representative from Unit 3

 

While we have some new faces on the Board, many of the individuals named above have represented you for 5 to 10 years – the pay is great – but it’s time to get new individuals involved, learning how your HOA works. When there are openings, you are ready to step up.

It’s your HOA and we hope you care about your neighborhood and your neighbors.

Thank you!

John King
President, Unit 3
Spanish Well Community Association