Unit Owner Comments at Board Meeting?

Paragraph D of Condominium Act section 55-79.75 requires that Board of Director meetings include a designated period of time for unit owner comments. During a special meeting, such as the one scheduled for 7:30 pm Tuesday evening, the Board may limit comments of unit owners to the topics listed on the meeting agenda (which include the leasing proposal and the draft 2008 budget).

Our Board has customarily used the so-called “Open Forum” at the beginning of the “Regular” Board meetings to allow unit owner comments. However, “Special” meetings of the Board normally haven’t provided an opportunity for unit owner comments. But that doesn’t appear to be in compliance with the above-cited requirement.

I hope the Board of Directors will, in the future, comply fully with the above-cited provision.