Answers for Boards
How do we handle a Board member with a conflict of interest?
Disclose, recuse, document. A Board member whose spouse owns the landscaping company should say so on the record, not participate in the discussion or the vote, and have both facts reflected in the minutes.
Several state acts address association contracts with interested directors and some require disclosure or member notice. Your governing documents may impose more.
The same principle applies to a management search. A director with a prior relationship to a bidder should disclose it, and the Board should decide whether that person participates in scoring.
General information for Board members, not legal advice. State law and your governing documents control, and both vary.
Board briefings, roughly monthly
Statutory deadlines, contract terms worth knowing about, and what we learn from proposals. No sales email, and we do not sell the list.