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The elections for the AAC (Amenity Authority Committee) are not "one person-one vote" as are votes for District Supervisors, congress, governor, etc. They are "one vote per home" no matter how many people live in that home. That is because the AAC decides how to spend the Amenity Fees collected each month and those fees are based on house lots, not numbers of people in the house. Because it is not "one person - one vote" it can't go on the 'normal' ballot but is a special, separate election. Currently, the AAC applies only to Districts north of 466. At some future point, it may involve other districts (i.e. the current POA lawsuit against the developer may determine that to some extent). Today, only districts 1, 2, 3 4, and the Lake County district have members on the AAC.
The landowner elections are for those districts where the developer still owns/controls the common facilities OR is in the process of turning control over to numbered districts (CDDs or Community Development Districts). The developer actually appoints the district supervisors to the seats he controls, they are not elected by the general public. Initially, each district has five supervisors all appointed by the developer as initially there are no homeowners in a district - only the common facilities built by the developer. As residents move into a district, it begins to 'transition' from developer-owned to resident-owned and the District Supervisor positions also transition from appointed to elected - but not all at once. Some districts may now be up to 4 elected and one appointed supervisor while our newest district (District 11 in Fruitland Park) currently has no residents so all five supervisors are appointed. Also the commercial districts (SS, LSL, and Brownwood) are all developer-controlled as they contain no residents. Supervisor terms of office are four years BUT, on the initial election or appointment, votes are cast for the appointed supervisors and then the highest vote getters have a four year term (2 of them) and the others have a two year term. This keeps all five positions from having their term of office expire at the same time and provides a little continuity to the district boards. The elections at the District Offices are just to determine who gets four year terms of appointed office.
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