This is how you deal with an unruly HOA:
We lived for 27 years in a HOA community of only 40 homes and little common property. Yet we had an annual budget which required $25.00 monthly dues and a Hitlarian board. Within the first 2 years of living there I found that my neighbors also hated the high dues, the forever president, the Architectural Control committee, and all the rules and inspections. So we got 21 of the owners to show up at the next annual meeting. Whereupon we voted the twits out. The next order of business was replace the evil AC committee with like minded rational neighbors. Then we fired the so called management company, who filed our state taxes and hired the lawn "care" contractor. Then we fired the lawn company. We cut dues to $20.00 a year (we owned 1/2 acre of vacant land and had to maintain liability insurance on the land and board). We selected a volunteer with a rider mower to cut the vacant land 8 times a year, or whenever he felt like it. We instituted an annual volunteer block party at Halloween to spend the remainder of the annual budget. We passed a change to the bi-laws so officers had to change each year, then we each year we rotated the offices of president, secretary, treasurer, vice president between a trusted group of long time residents.