The Board held seven closed-door meetings claiming to discuss “personnel matters” involving their management and security companies. The arbitrator ruled these were not true personnel matters since the companies were independent contractors, not employees. Under Florida law, only meetings about actual association employees qualify for the closed-door exception — all others must remain open to owners.

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For the past two weeks we discussed how difficult it has now become to prepare the annual budget.  Well suppose you had to prepare two budgets instead of one?  In many condominiums, that’s now the case.