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2022-2023 WVOHOA Board of Directors & Officers
Nance Briscoe, President, Jefferson County
Sam Collins, Vice President, Pocahontas County
Maggie Baker, Secretary, Hampshire County
Jim Campbell, Treasurer, Berkeley County
Gary Stewart^†, Director, Morgan County
Susan Pipes, Director, Jefferson County (appointed to complete Gary Stewart’s term June 2023)
Terry Scholten, Director, Berkeley County
Kathy Knight, Director, Tucker County
Three-year terms are staggered in compliance with WV Code 31E [see definition below]
Contact: directors@wvohoa.org

2022-2023 WVOHOA Legislative Review Committee (LRC):
John Bsharah, Chairman*, Kanawha County
Gary Stewart^†, Director, Morgan County
Sam Collins, Pocahontas County
Maggie Baker, Hampshire County
Kathy Knight, Tucker County
*LRC Chair is nominated & elected by the Committee
Chair is appointed to a three-year term by the WVOHOA Board of Directors.
Contact: laws@WVOHOA.org

WVOHOA Membership Committee:
Contact: Nance Briscoe, Chairman
appointed 2009 – no term requirement

The idea and the need, for this organization grew from conversations with several Homeowners Associations’ officers who regularly attended an every other month breakfast.

From these discussions, it became apparent HOAs in Jefferson County had many of the same problems, concerns and issues. Although many of the concerns were countywide, some of the concerns were more localized to a specific HOA issue. However, they were still the same issues and concerns that affected many communities throughout the Eastern Panhandle of WV.

Several of us believed that working together, in a synergistic effort, we could resolve many of these problems, issues and concerns through discussion, sharing of solutions and communication between HOAs and to our community members. Jefferson County Organization of Homeowners Associations, Inc. (JCOHOA) was formalized in August 2009.

In June of 2011, the Jefferson County Organization of Homeowners Associations, Inc. (JCOHOA) unanimously voted to expand the organization to the Eastern Panhandle of WV (EPOHOA) when several Berkeley County HOAs, who shared our same concerns and a strong desire to work together towards the same goals and objectives, joined our organization.

By 2019 we changed our name for the last time to the West Virginia Organization of Homeowners Associations, Inc., (WVOHOA) to encompass our expansion to all 55 WV counties, our purpose remains the same.

Our combined efforts to share information and increase knowledge includes community associations, individual homeowners and businesses from the counties of West Virginia.

BACKGROUND:

Building of planned communities surged in the Eastern Panhandle during 2000-2008 with thousands of individual homes, condominiums and townhouses available on the open market.

Homeowner associations were deemed responsible for financially supporting their infrastructure, common areas; a servitude borne by the HOA’s individual homeowners. Due to the number of questions by homeowners, the West Virginia Organization of Homeowners Associations, Inc., a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation, first registered as the Jefferson County Organization of Homeowners Associations, Inc., grew from the necessity for answers from and by homeowners.

The sole mission of WVOHOA is sharing information – increasing knowledge which focuses on issues relating to the preservation and promotion of the present and future welfare of homeowners. Names & synonyms for homeowners associations include, but are not limited to:

Homeowners Association (HOA),
Condominium Association,
Planned Community,
Subdivision,
Common Interest Community (CIC),
Common Interest Development (CID),
Property Owners Association (POC),
Planned Unit Development (PUD).

DIRECTORS’ TERMS are staggered in compliance with WV Code 31E

§31E-8-806. Terms of directors generally.
(a) The terms of the initial directors of a corporation expire at the first members’ meeting at which directors are elected or, in the case of a corporation without members entitled to vote for directors, at the first annual meeting of the board of directors, unless their terms are staggered pursuant to section eight hundred seven of this article.

(b) The terms of all other directors expire at the next annual meeting of members or the annual meeting of the directors if the corporation does not have members entitled to vote for directors, as the case may be, following their election unless their terms are staggered under section eight hundred seven of this article.

(d) The term of a director elected to fill a vacancy expires at the next meeting at which directors are elected.

(e) Despite the expiration of a director’s term, he or she continues to serve until his or her successor is elected and qualifies or until there is a decrease in the number of director.

§31E-8-807. Staggered terms for directors.
(a) The articles of incorporation may provide for staggering the terms of directors, other than ex officio directors, by dividing the total number of directors, other than ex officio directors, into up to five groups, with each group containing approximately the same percentage of the total number of directors, as possible. In that event, the terms of directors in the first group expire at the first annual meeting of members or, in the case of a corporation without members entitled to vote for directors, at the first annual meeting of the board of directors, after their election, the terms of the second group expire at the second annual meeting of members or directors after their election, the terms of the third group, if any, expire at the third annual meeting of members or directors after their election, the terms of the fourth group, if any, expire at the fourth annual meeting of members or directors after their election, and the terms of the fifth group, if any, expire at the fifth annual meeting of members or directors after their election. At each annual meeting thereafter, directors are to be chosen for a term of two years, three years, four years or five years, as the case may be, to succeed those whose terms expire.

(b) If a corporation has cumulative voting pursuant to section seven hundred twenty-seven, article seven of this chapter, this section applies only if there are at least three directors in each group.