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Last spring, Judy Kontos won election to the Shelter Bay Community’s board of directors on a platform of increasing transparency and ushering in reform as part of the nine-member governing panel.

This time around, Kontos didn’t fare well when Shelter Bay residents marked their ballots.

Kontos was recalled on a 343-149 vote last Wednesday when in-person and mail-in ballots were tallied.

Kontos, whose career background is in finance with extensive experience as a mortgage broker, was sanctioned and suspended from the board in February pending the April 12 community membership recall vo...