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 The HOA's Finance Committee met last night (June 16, 2026). You wouldn't know it, though. The HOA's online calendar is completely blank, and the Summit Scoop with the June calendar has not yet been published. The Finance Committee should immediately distribute the Minutes of its June 16, 2026 meeting by email to all Members (homeowners).It won't; but it should. You have the right to inspect the Minutes of that Meeting. Make your request to the office in writing; send it to summithelpdesk@tcgrd.com Because of the importance of the Finance Committee to the fiscal solvency of the HOA, should meetings be streamed, so that Members could know what is going on? Likewise, should HOA Board Meetings be streamed? Then hundreds of Members could know what it going on, not just the 30-40 who show up at Board meetings. Meetings should be recorded and archived, which would allow Members (and residents) to watch them when it is convenient for them .

Every year The Summit's HOA is required to conduct an audit of the previous year's finances. That's why it is called an Annual Audit.      The Annual Audit is to be completed and delivered to the Board by August 31 (PRM, Art. III, §C, ¶2c). It should be posted on the HOA's website. One of the reasons for the August 31st deadline is to have it available to the Budget sub-committee for development of the following year's Proposed Budget. The process fell apart in 2025. The 2024 Annual Audit wasn't even ordered until October 2025; the Board President was Danny Trapp,  and the Board Treasurer was William Hill. It wasn't delivered to the Board until about February 4, 2026 . The 2025 Annual Audit should be underway by now. The auditor should have been selected earlier this year (preferably, in February or March).  The Procedures Reference Manual (PRM) does not spell out how the auditor is selected; it should. The PRM doesn't say by what date the auditor shoul...

If you wish to email one or more directors of The Summit's HOA, you will find email addresses on the HOA's website. Until recently, email addresses were posted for all seven directors.  Go to https://summithomeowners.com   Click on BOARD MEMBERS. Hover over the underlined name of a director. The email address will pop up in the lower-left corner of your screen. Tanisha Holmes' name is no longer underlined. Why isn't her email address shown? Who determines whether a director's email address is published? Isn't that a Board decision? Are all of the other six directors willing to receive email communications from residents of The Summit? What happens when a resident emails a director (board member)? Does the director read that email? Does the director reply? The HOA office suggests that emails be sent to the office at summithelpdesk@tcgrd.com   What happens to emails sent to that address? Are they read? Does some unnamed Town & Country employee reply? Are they...

Click to Enlarge   Here is the top portion of the 2026 budget, as posted on the HOA's website. Want to see it for yourself? Go to https://summithomeowners.com   Hover over RESIDENTS. Click on  DOCUMENTS. Click on Annual Budgets. Click on 2026. The first thing you'll notice is the heading above the right column, where it reads Finance Proposed 2026 Budget . The second thing you'll notice is the date on the page of the "Finance Proposed 2026 Budget". That date is June 30, 2025. Had the Finance Committee even started work on the 2026 Budget by June 30th? My guess is that it certainly wasn't done with the budget! Today is June 16, 2026. You would expect to find the "2026 Approved Budget" on the HOA's website. Instead, you see the "2026 Proposed Budget". WHY? There are some possible reasons. 1. Carelessness. No one discerned the importance of publishing the Approved Budget, not the Proposed Budget. 2. Inattention. Didn't anyone (Board Me...

One of the best HOA newsletters I receive is The Governance Ledger , from Common Interest Advisors, LLC.  The latest edition leads off with, It is supposed to be a financial plan. Yet every year, thousands of condominium and homeowners associations approve budgets that bear little resemblance to what actually happens. Twelve months later, expenses exceed the budget, reserves are underfunded, assessments increase, and owners are told that nobody could have seen it coming. In many cases, somebody should have. The problem is not that boards fail to approve budgets. The problem is that many associations treat budgeting as a compliance exercise rather than a financial management tool. A budget should help directors answer a simple question: Where will we likely end the year, and what should we do about it today? Doesn't this accurately describe how The Summit's HOA operates? Every month the Board approves thousands of dollars in expenses, without informing Members whether those are ...

A Voting Member is the legal representative of the homeowners in his/her neighborhood. How many (few) of them really care about those homeowners? If they did care, they would be demanding answers from the Board of Directors and informing the homeowners in their neighborhoods of answers to the following questions: Q. Why haven't  Minutes been posted for Board Meetings on March 3, April 7, May 5, and when they will be posted for the June 2 Board Meeting? Q. Why haven't Financial Operating Results been posted for September, October, November, December 2025 and for January, February, March, April, and May 2026? Q. What is a realistic estimate for repairs to the Indigo Lake dam? Is the money available? Q. Why hasn't the Board provided details of the $126,352 Annuity purchased in 2024 as an "investment" of Reserve funds and how a CD got cashed in without a recorded Board vote? Q. Why hasn't the Board revealed how much money was wasted suing Gus Philpott (me) illegal...