Petitioner: DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, REGULATORY COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MANAGERS
Respondent: LEROY CLARK DUNN
Judges: SUSAN BELYEU KIRKLAND
Agency: Department of Business and Professional Regulation
Locations: Punta Gorda, Florida
Filed: Oct. 19, 2007
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Tuesday, November 6, 2007.
Latest Update: Feb. 01, 2025
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STATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
REGULATORY COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MANAGERS
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND
PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,
Petitioner,
v.
Case No. 2005-012387
LEROY CLARK DUNN,
Respondent.
ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT
Petitioner, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,
("Petitioner"), files this Administrative Complaint against LEROY CLARK DUNN,
("Respondent"), and alleges:
1. Petitioner is the State agency charged with regulating the practice of community
association management pursuant to Section 20.165 and Chapters 455 and 468, Part VII, Florida
Statutes.
2. At all times material hereto, Respondent was licensed in the State of Florida as a
Community Association Manager, having been issued license number CAM 26091.
3. Respondent’s address of record with Petitioner is 329 Mendoza Street, Punta
Gorda, Florida 33983.
4. On January 4, 2005, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation
received a complaint from Kim Jakubaitis (“Jakubaitis”) alleging Leroy Clark Dunn
(“Respondent”), while acting as the community association manager (“CAM”) for Section 20
Property Owner’s Association, Inc., (“Association”), had committed election fraud and failed to
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allow access to Association records upon request, relating to the 2004 election of the
Association’s Board of Directors.
5. Qn, or about December 29", 2004, Brian M. Beason, attorney for Jakubaitis,
submitted a written request to Respondent for production of documents, including the bylaws of
the Association, Articles of Incorporation of the Association, Declaration of Covenants of the
Association, documents relating to the election at the annual meeting on December 28, 2004,
including all proxies filed with or otherwise delivered to the Association, all written ballots
collected by the Association, all documents used or created by the Association to count or certify
proxies and all documents indicating the total amount of votes that each of the candidates
received. Respondent failed to provide the documents within ten (10) business days, as required.
6. Stephen and Kim Jakubaitis filed an election dispute with the Department of
Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Land Sales, Condominiums, and Mobile
Homes. The petition alleges that Respondent improperly and in bad faith conducted the 2004
annual election of the Association by: failing to timely hold the annual election in October,
2004; failing to certify proxies provided by Petitioners prior to the noticed election meeting of
December 6, 2004, as prescribed by the governing documents and as set forth in the meeting
agenda; failing to conduct élections at the noticed election meeting of December 6, 2004, and
therefore, postponing the elections; failing to certify or otherwise provide specific reasons for the
failure to certify over 600 of the more than 900 proxies submitted on behalf of Petitioners prior
to the annual election meeting; failing to specifically identify which proxies were rejected and
which were certified by the board; providing different, inconsistent ballots, and no ballots to
some members at the election meeting; failing to amend ballots to reflect the Tesignation of
candidate, Robert T. Evans; and, altering and announcing a different election outcome after the
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adjournment of the December 28, 2004, election meeting where the election results were initially
announced by Respondent. Arbitrator Susan Wilkinson Harnden’s opinion dated July 6, 2005,
stated that Respondent’s postponement of the December 6, 2004, election meeting was improper;
based on the evidence it appears that Respondent acted as the nominating committee, rather than
fulfilling its obligation as set forth in its governing documents, and purposefully or not,
Respondent misled its members prior to the election to believe that Respondent had fulfilled its
obligation of appointing a nominating committee, when no such action had been taken by the
Respondent; Respondent improperly failed to conduct a significant and vital portion of the
election by failing to certify the proxies as required in its governing documents and by “re-
announcing”, changing and reversing the election results two (2) weeks after the adjournment of
the election meeting. Arbitrator Harden held the election had been conducted in bad faith and
voided the election results.
7. Section 468.436(1)(b)(5), Florida Statutes, provides in pertinent part:
Committing acts of gross misconduct or gross negligence in connection
with the profession shall constitute grounds for which disciplinary action
may be taken.
8. Section 61-20.503(4)(b), Florida Administrative Code, states:
A licensee or registrant shall not knowingly fail to comply with the
requirements of the documents by which the association is created
or operated so long.as such documents comply with the
_ tequirements of law.
9, Section 61-20.503(6)(a), Florida Administrative Code, states:
A licensee or registrant shall not withhold possession of any original
books, records, accounts, funds, ot other property of a community
association when requested by the community association to deliver the
same to the association upon reasonable notice. Reasonable notice shall
extend no later then 20 business days after receipt of a written request
from the association.
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COUNT I
10. ‘Petitioner re-alleges and incorporates the allegations set forth in paragraph one
through thirteen as though fully set forth herein.
11. Based on the foregoing, Respondent violated Section 468.436(1)(b)(5), Florida
Statutes, through a violation of Section 61-20,503(6)(b), Florida Statutes, by withholding
possession of original books, records, accounts, finds, or other property of a community
association after it had been requested by the community association.
COUNT TI
12. Petitioner re-alleges and incorporates the allegations set forth in paragraph one
through thirteen as though fully set forth herein,
13. Based on the foregoing, Respondent violated Section 468,436(1)(b)(5), Florida
Statutes, through a violation of Section 61-20.503(4)(b), Florida Statutes, by knowingly failing to
comply with the requirements of the documents by which the association was ercated or
operated.
WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully requests the Board to enter an Order imposing one
or more of the penalties authorized by Sections 468.436(3) and 455.227(2), Florida Statutes,
which includes, but not is not limited to: revocation or suspension of Respondents license,
imposition of an administrative fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for each
count or separate offense, issuance of a reprimand, placement of Respondent on probation for a
period of time and subject to such conditions as the Board specifies, and/or the restriction of the
authorized scope of practice by Respondent.
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SIGNED this (Z>_ day of May 2006.
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Counsel for the Department:
Jessica Leigh
Assistant General Counsel ' os
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