Resident notice for HOA board meetings? (condominium, lawyer, home)

[greeneyes6]

WA law RCW 64.34.332 state there must be 10 days notice for any meeting. My HOA is stating board meetings dont qualify under this but look up the law it says 10 days notice for any meeting period. Is a board meeting not a meeting. Do they have to provide 10 days notice for board meetings which owners are entitled to attend?
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view law link RCW 64.34.332: Meetings. again it does not specify what meetings require 10 days notice it says ALL meetings. There is nothing else I can find that exempts board meetings from this law but they refuse to give 10 days notice let alone 3 days notice for the last meeting! They are trying to prevent people from attending by giving short notice, to avoid them from bringing up issues. They continue to say that board meetings dont qualify for 10 days notice even though they are open to residents to observe, but the law says any meeting and a board meeting is a meeting!!!
Please look at law link!!!

[allforcats]

Hi. You've introduced THREE different entities here, each of which is covered by different state regulations and common practices.

RESIDENT is the usual language for non-owner people who reside in the condominium, or tenants. They are rarely invited to HOA -- full Association -- meetings but they ARE invited when matters regarding safety, crime, effects of severe weather, illegal activities, dangerous or impinging conditions, major disruptive activities such as re-roofing or paving, etc. will be announced or discussed. Residents can ask questions but have no vote.

OWNERS are members of the home owners' Association, the HOA, by reason of the facts that they own a unit in the condominium and pay monthly Association dues. As such they are always invited to all regular Association meetings, which are usually held once per month on a specified day (third Tuesday, first Wednesday, etc.). Usually the Board member(s) responsible for sending out any Association information to each owner will distribute a reminder note 2 or 3 weeks ahead of the Association meeting. Theoretically, since all the owners ARE the Association, there's no need to distribute reminders, but people are forgetfor or apathetic so the reminders are distributed.
Announcements of non-regular meetings, such as in emergencies of some sort, can be distributed whenever they can be distributed.

BOARD MEMBERS are owners elected by the entire Association to serve on the Association's Board of Directors, usually for a period of one year. The Board is the equivalent of an executive committe, or a jack-of-all-administrative-trades committee, elected to do the grunt work in all its gruesome details FOR, in the place of, and instead of, all the owners. Board meetings are limited to Board members, because they are Board meetings not Association meetings. Usually Association members (all owners) are not invited to Board meetings, because such meetings are usually more tedious, detailed and boring than most owners can endure, and almost always deals with information or research in its initial, unformed, incomplete, disorganized state -- and nothing is ever decided at Board meetings which requires the vote of Association members. All decisions made at Board meetings are required by state regs to be announced, and available for discussion and vote, at the next Assocciation meeting.

The "meetings" which the state reg language you cite is referring is the Association meeting, the required, regular, scheduled, anticipated meeting of all owners at which the Board of Directors must report to the owners what they have done, decided, discussed, researched, or even thought about regarding the condominium. The state reg language you're referring to is not about Board of Directors meetings. The Board is a separate entity, distinct from the Association and subject to separate regs.

Same idea as a corporation: different grouops of people deal with managing different stages of information. If you want to HAVE TO attend Board meetings, you need to get elected to the Board. If you want to casually attend Board meetings, you need to ask a Board member, who will then convey your request to all the other Board members, who will collectively probably politely decline your request on the ground that you're not a member of the Board, and suggest that you run for a Board position when the next annual election comes around.

Does that help to clarify this? If you wish more detailed, or legal, information, I urge you to consult a lawyer who specializes in condominium law for the state of Washington.