AUGUST 2024 www.diamondheadms.org
By Nancy Sislow AUGUST 2024
Y our POA Board has spent the last month getting oriented and or-
ganized. We met to get started on June 18th. The out-going Directors briefly shared their insight about their roles and activities with the new members. Introductions were made all around and included key administrative staff members, Andrea Jones, POA legal counsel, Darrion McInnis, POA controller, and Greg Abadie, POA General Manager. Ex-Officio Gary Becker shared the history of Diamondhead and the POA. After a review of the role and responsibilities of the Board, we planned meeting dates and format. Setting up Committees of the Board was next. As you may know, the Board uses committees aligned with key departments of the POA organization to provide member input to the department managers as well as assure communication to all Board members of the needs of the organization for its important functions. A call for POA members in good standing to serve on these committees has been sent and invitations to serve have been sent to those who expressed interest as well as a big “Thank You” to those whose volunteerism cannot be used at present. Working together we
can serve the best interests of the majority. I mentioned last month that I hope to share with you the history of the Diamondhead POA, trying to capture all that has transpired to make it the resort community it is today. The first action to incorporate the Diamondhead Country Club and Property Owners Association was taken on June 2, 1970 with a meeting that included members P. Holcomb Hector, William C. Brent, Jr., Mrs. Lloyd Breland (women’s first names were not used in 1970), and Ralph M. Prince. They formally “Resolved that P. Holcomb Hector, William C. Brent, Jr., Mrs. Lloyd Breland, and Ralph M. Prince, be and are hereby authorized to make application to the Secretary of State of the State of Mississippi for a Charter of Incorporation of the Diamondhead Country Club and Property Owners Association, as a non-profit and non-share corporation.” The Charter of Incorporation specified that the membership be composed of those that sought the incorporation and owners and purchasers of lots in the Diamondhead development. The Charter also includes that the Corporation is a civic improvement organization devoted to the improvement of the Diamondhead development. After being filed in Hancock County and
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reviewed by the State of Mississippi ness, Charter, Bylaws & Regulations Attorney General, the organization - https://diamondheadms.org/charreceived its formal approval on June ter-bylaws-regulations/. 5, 1970. You can review the Charter on the Diamondhead Property • See PRESIDENT Owners website, under Board BusiPage 2