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The Florida Co-Op Board Annual Governance Cycle
One operating year for a Florida co-op board, laid out month by month so elections, records, transfers and the budget stop surprising anyone.
Presidents, secretaries, and the full board
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The resource desk
Free, source-linked working references from LRI Press. Nothing here costs anything or needs an account.
Some of these tools are for the people running an association — directors, officers, and managers. Others are for the people living in one. They ask different questions and produce different things, so they are kept apart below. If you are a director who also lives in the building, both halves are yours.
Path 01
I serve on the board
A director, officer, or the manager. You need to run a meeting properly, answer a records request, get the budget adopted on time, or find out where the board is exposed.
See board tools and guides →Path 02
I live here
A shareholder, unit owner, or homeowner. You need records you have been refused, a repair nobody has made, or a written answer to a question the board has been talking around.
See resident tools →For boards
Start with the checkup if you want to know where the board stands, or go straight to the guide for whatever is on the next agenda. Both are free, and neither asks for anything before it is useful.
Five-minute checkup
Five questions about meetings, records, budgets, elections, and enforcement. You get a score out of 15 and, more usefully, the two places where one checklist or calendar would save the board the most trouble. The full report comes by email.
Check our readiness →6 operating guides
Working references for the recurring jobs: the annual governance cycle, board meetings, records requests, director certification, new-director onboarding, and budget season. Each separates what the law requires from what we recommend, and links back to the statute so you can check us.
Browse the guides →The field guides
Each guide distinguishes the legal rule from the operating recommendation and returns you to the primary authority.
Written for boards, but not closed to residents. If you live here and want to know what your board is actually required to do, these are the pages that say so.
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One operating year for a Florida co-op board, laid out month by month so elections, records, transfers and the budget stop surprising anyone.
Presidents, secretaries, and the full board
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Ninety days to certify under § 719.106(1)(d), by approved course or by written certification, with the paperwork kept on file afterward. The condominium rule is different, and this guide says how.
New directors, presidents, and secretaries
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A shareholder asks for the records. This is what the board must keep, how fast it must answer, what it may charge, and what it may withhold.
Secretaries, managers, and records custodians
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You were elected on Tuesday. One statutory filing attaches on day one, and the rest of the first ninety days is a handoff nobody will run for you unless you ask.
New directors, presidents, and secretaries
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Classify the meeting first, because the notice it needs, who may speak, and what goes in the minutes all follow from that one call. This is the sequence that holds up when someone challenges it.
Presidents, secretaries, managers, and directors
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Build the calendar backward from the adoption meeting and the rest of budget season falls into place, reserves and notice included. The record you keep is what a challenge will be judged on.
Treasurers, presidents, managers, and the full board
For residents
You do not need to know any law to use these. Answer plain questions about what happened, and the Resident Action Center writes the letter — properly worded, correctly dated, and citing the rule that applies. It arrives by private email link and you edit and send it yourself.
Ask to see association records
Tick the records you want and we write the request, with the law cited.
Start this letter →Follow up when nothing arrived
A dated, specific follow-up that asks for one firm next step.
Start this letter →Report something broken
Puts the condition, the date, and your request on the record.
Start this letter →Raise a concern with the board
The facts in order, and a clear request the board has to answer.
Start this letter →The four letters above currently cover Florida cooperatives.
Go deeper
There is a handbook for each side of this page. The Board Handbook is the complete working reference for directors and officers. The Resident Handbook is the resident edition: what you are owed, how to ask for it, and what to do when an answer never comes.
The Living Handbook is the board edition kept current online, with full-book search, source-linked answers, bookmarks, and a private record of every revision.