Voting rights

Voting

• BTMA Articles of Incorporation state that a director need not be a member of the corporation---
• BTMA was to send out the agenda with annual meeting to know what was to be voted on (BTMA BYLAWS STATES MEETINGS OF MEMBERS 3. Written notice of each meeting of the members shall be given by or at the direction of the secretary or person authorized to call the meeting by mailing a copy of such notice, postage prepaid, at least ten (10) days before the meeting to each member entitled to vote addressed to the member’s last address appearing on the books of the Association or supplied by such member to the Association for the purpose of notice. The notice shall specify the place, day, hour and agenda of the meeting and in case of a special meeting, the purpose of the meeting.
• Voting rights   
• Who can vote? The BTMA Must allow all MEMBERS to vote. They MUST send out letters to all of owners....  duplex and apartment owners ARE lot owners.(Look at the covenants and check those lots against the Tulsa County Assessors site and you will see they are in Burning Tree. The duplexes and apartments were not removed by a vote of the people in the subdivision  because the covenants  could only be changed AFTER 1993, not in 1977 as some claim a vote was taken to exclude the apartments and duplexes!!! And it could not be done by a vote but by a written instrument, with signatures from a majority of lot owners and then filed at the Tulsa county. It was never done!   The BTMA  cannot exclude some lot owners just because they decide to! Read: Not assessing all when the covenants spell out whi...

NO AMENDMENT SHOULD BE VOTED ON UNLESS EVERY LOT OWNER HAS THE CHANCE TO STUDY IT

Although the annual meeting notice for 2012 said there would be a vote on amendments,there were no details given so homeowners really have no idea what they’revoting on or what they are handing off their proxy to be voted on.  The actual language of the amendment is critical.

  
WHY ARE THEY TRYING TO PASS ANYTHING WITHOUT LETTING THE APARTMENTS AND DUPLEXES HAVE A CHANCE TO VOTE? 

Even if the BTMA board hands out the actual language of the proposed amendments, lot owners need time to study them. If they just say we're going to vote on a amendment to do thus and so  a motion need to be made to "move that any action to amend the By-Laws of the BTMA be postponed to a future special meeting to consider the question, such meeting to be scheduled not less than ten (10) working days after the full legal text of each proposed amendment has been sent to each homeowner, to give themsufficient time to inform themselves and decide on their course of action.”