The Governance Committee Begins Work

A few members gathered to begin initial organization of the governance committee.

Governance Committee Charter

The committee reviewed the proposed committee charter, and approved one change to seciton 3.3 of the draft, which will be presented to the board in the next meeting. The purpose of the governance committee remains unchanged, and will inform the direction and recommendations of the committee.

1. Purpose

The Governance Committee (“Committee”) is established by the Board of Directors (“Board”) of the Lakemoor Community Club (“LCC”) to assist the Board in ensuring effective governance and compliance practices, reviewing and recommending governing and compliance documents, and promoting compliance with the HOA’s bylaws, rules, and applicable laws.

The Committee serves as an advisory body and has no independent authority to act on behalf of the Association unless expressly delegated by the Board.

Draft Governance Committee Charter:

LCC Governance.docx (1).pdf

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Subcommittees

The committee will commence work with 3 initial subcommittees:

• Covenants committee, organized by Chris Meserve

• Bylaws committee, organized by Elle Burger

• Policy committee, organized by Fred Yancey

The first assignment for the committees will be to develop a purpose and vision for their documents, which will guide decisions and direction of recommendations for each specific document or set of documents.

Governance Is Not Just Rules — It’s Direction A purpose answers why the document exists.

A vision answers what kind of community it is meant to support.

Without those anchors, even well-intended revisions can drift toward enforcement for its own sake, power consolidation, or reactive rulemaking driven by recent conflict rather than long-term stewardship. When committees begin with vision, bylaws become tools for:

• fairness rather than punishment

• consistency rather than discretion

• clarity rather than interpretation battles Before drafting language, committees should agree on:

  • what kind of community the documents are meant to protect

  • what role governance plays in supporting, not managing, neighbors

  • how enforcement fits into community health rather than replacing it

  • what transparency and accountability look like in practice

  Once that foundation exists, the technical work becomes clearer, calmer, and more defensible. Good governance doesn’t start with redlines and revisions. It starts with intention.

  A community that knows why it governs itself a certain way is far more likely to govern fairly — even when it disagrees.

  That is why purpose and vision are not optional preliminaries. They are the work.

Recruiting!

The governance committee is recruiting members to work on it's subcommittees, making recommendations in direction as well as in the language that we will use to support each other for the next decade.

Email FriendsOfKenLake@gmail.com with your interests, and we will make sure to get you to the right place. The Governance Committee will reconvene in late January where we hope to have a conversation to approve or amend subcommittee purpose and vision statements.