Do You Suspect Your Homeowners Association Of Rigged Elections?

[Greenman]

So we're back to post #22. It's been a long loop.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

So we're back to post #22. It's been a long loop.

No disagreement there. I'm still considering how I might make a written unsolicited advisory to the existing board. I could purchase five copies of Robert's Rules in paperback, insert my advice briefly written, and drop it in the mailboxes of the board members. Then -- I'll just walk away, let it be, leave it alone.

 

[Greenman]

If they've been running this way for 50 years, I doubt anything you do is going to have an impact.
Just hope you don't end up with a special assessment for something.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

If they've been running this way for 50 years, I doubt anything you do is going to have an impact.
Just hope you don't end up with a special assessment for something.

Two or three years ago, there was an $875 special assessment with the option of paying it in monthly increments over a year. I just wrote the check for the entirety of it.

With this problem of the road project depleting the R&R Reserve so we can't have the buildings painted right away, a former board member suggested a $3,000 special assessment, noting that many (probably all the owners of Tesla and Ioniq vehicles or recent-model hybrid drivers) on the hill might have trouble coming up with the ducats. But I don't have trouble with it.

Just griping, but back in 2003, the city decided it needed to buy some of our hillside land so they could build a covered cement reservoir, and the settlement provided $7,200 per unit or about $432,000. They decided to give it all back to the owners. I would've argued to put half of it in the R&R Reserve and distribute the rest. But -- no -- this was no different than your run-of-the-mill taxpayer sentiment about government having a "rainy-day" fund.

For the 50 year history, I argued that the association's governance had EVOLVED over that time, but you would think it was always a situation of operating in the dark with no attempt to involve more owners in aspects of the governance, as with a budget committee reviewing contract proposals.

If I write proposals and submit them, and if they ignore me, it gives me an excuse to refuse them if they eventually become desperate to use me as some other board member's replacement. "Gee, I'd love to help you out ---- which way did you come in?" That's a volunteer effort -- writing a list of proposals. Whether they like it or not, I would have "done my bit".