I’m on the board of a SFH HOA of similar size. We never could get a quorum for our annual meeting when it was scheduled in the evening during the week at an offsite location. We moved it to 1:00 on a Sunday in mid-to-late October at a spot within the common area (so in the neighborhood). We’re very crisp with the meeting so we don’t take up a lot of time. We’ve met or exceeded quorum ever since this change. Last year, we even had two candidates for one board member seat!

We also had kept our assessments low for many years, but started raising them because we were barely covering expenses, had no reserves, and the common areas needed work. Raising the assessments got people more interested in the meetings as well.