[TX] [All] HOA Resident Involvement

I see on a lot of different social media platforms people complaining about HOAs. But how many of these that complain are actually involved in the HOA?

I am the Vice President on our HOA board. When I ran, I listened to what our residents wanted changed. I went into this with ideas and plans to give the residents what they wanted. Less strict enforcement on certain things, a majority wanted a playground, more enforcement at the two swimming pools, etc.

The latest thing is a lot of people have been asking about is keeping chickens. The CCRs that were put into place when the HOA was established prohibited the raising and keeping of chickens. With what is going on with the shortage and subsequent rise in prices of chicken products, especially eggs, people want to keep their own.

Unfortunately in order to change the bylaws to do so, we have to have 67% of households to vote for it. We couldn't even get 15 people to show up for the annual meeting, much less vote to change anything. At the annual meeting we couldn't get enough people to even establish a forum, so we couldn't even open the meeting. We eventually went to an on-line voting system for the elections and barely met the required number to establish a forum for the elections.

It is hard to do anything without the residents being involved in, at the minimum, showing up once a year to the annual meeting. But these are the same people that are bombarding the board members on a constant basis to complain about what they don't like.

EDIT: Looks like auto-correct reared it's ugly head and change quorum to forum. Duly noted.

EDIT #2: I am appreciating everyone's input and suggestions. Glad I can pick your brains. BTW, the neighborhood that I am talking about has about 1094 households. The first phase was built in 2008 with control turning over to the owners in 2023. The annual meetings were usually packed (with everyone usually hating on DR Horton). When it became owner controlled attendance really dropped. Our property manager said that was normal after the builder steps aside.