Board Election
SLE HOA Board Members volunteer—for free—for three-year terms. Three seats come available in May 2025. Each lot has one ballot and may select three candidates to fill the three seats. Here are your voting choices:
Vote online - Use the below Google Form to vote from now until NOON on May 13, 2025, so online ballots may be printed + delivered by proxy to the voting table for counting. ONE VOTE PER LOT.
Vote in-person - The semi-annual meeting will be held at Cup of Grace in Spirit Lake, Tues, May 13, 2025, 7:00-8:30pm. Voting tables will be clearly marked as will donation table to support our Road Fund.
Proxy Voting - If you want to vote from home, included in your meeting invite is a hardcopy proxy with a ballot on the back. Fill-out both sides, then mail it using the envelope inside (must arrive BEFORE May 13). If you mail it in, you can designate Election Chair, Leora Price-Abell, as your proxy or you may designate a Board Member who will also be at the meeting, if the committee needs to verify anything with them. Running late in mailing your proxy/ballot? Email it to elections@spiritlakeeast.org by NOON, May 13, 2025. If you simply want to designate someone else to vote on your behalf at the meeting, you can just fill-out the proxy side of the form leaving the ballot side blank or (click here) to print only the proxy form.
The Committee requests that all proxies be delivered to the voting table at the time you wish to vote for the person whose proxy you hold. If you’re voting online for an owner and want that vote to count, email their signed proxy to elections@spiritlakeeast.org by 12pm on May 13, 2025, so the signed and emailed proxies may be printed + attached to the corresponding online vote submitted, then delivered to the voting table.
Also, we have combined the old proxy mailing with the meeting mailing because it saves our community hundreds of dollars in paper, ink + postage, which are far more expensive now than they used to be. Most homeowners don’t use the hardcopy proxies anymore, and instead, opt for submitting an online vote that’s printed + delivered to the meeting for counting by the Election Committee. It is the modern proxy, meets the requirements, and is more secure being only accessible through password-protected personal email that can then be cross-referenced with our directory for further confirmation.
Elections are not for a specific position with the SLE Board. Instead, those with the most votes will be elected to fill the three seats in general. The Board then determines what position will be most suitable for each person elected depending on skills, availability and access to the necessary equipment (if any).
If you submit more than one vote for the same lot (for example, if both spouses vote online w/o realizing), the earliest ballot/timestamp will stand. So, coordinate with your lot co-owner who will submit the vote.
AGAIN, ONE VOTE PER LOT. Questions? Contact elections@spiritlakeeast.org.