Sunday, April 11, 2010

Agenda mailings

You may have noticed that, for the last two months, you've been receiving the regular meeting agenda in the mail as opposed to having it delivered to your door as part of Tom Crowder's (the board president) newsletter. I was told by Tom after last month's (March) meeting that he was no longer distributing the newsletter (he did not give the reason(s) why) and that that was the reason that the agenda was now being mailed. I explained to him, at that time, that the board was only required to post notice of the meeting and its agenda in the common area and that a mailing was only required to homeowners who had explicitly requested it.

After receiving the agenda in the mail again this month, I sent the following to Tom:
Is there a reason that the agenda was mailed out again this month instead of just placing it on the bulletin board?
After a day of waiting, I received no response, so I sent the following to the entire board (including Tom):
Does anyone know the answer to this? I didn't get a response from Tom.

According to Civil Code 1363.05(f), all that is really required is posting notice at the pool (unless I'm missing something). Considering that this mailing alone probably runs $150-$200, it seems it would be prudent to do that instead.

http://www.davis-stirling.com/MainMenu/Statutes/CivilCode136305/tabid/879/Default.aspx
I have received no response.

[Update: The other directors, at the April meeting, agreed that stopping the mailing was a good idea, and future agendas will be posted at the pool rather than mailed to homeowners.]

1 comment:

  1. So it's okay for the association to spend an unnecessary amount of money to do a mailing every month for something that most homeowners don't care about, and then for the association President to send an email out to some homeowners blaming others who disagree with him for costing the association money, even though these homeowners offered to explore alternatives to the election?

    It doesn't appear that everyone on the board has the best interests in the community at heart.

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