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What is the HOA's New Collection Policy?

At the May 5, 2026 monthly Board Meeting, there was a very brief mention of a new Collection Policy of the Association. No details were provided, and none has been distributed to Members. Where can Members read the new Collection Policy? The Board had stopped publishing monthly Financial Operating Results, so it was impossible to know how much the Accounts Receivable (unpaid Assessments and unpaid fines and fees) totaled. Until this week the last Results published were for August 2025. The May 2026 monthly Financial Operating Results report that Line 1205, Accounts Receivable, totals $447,622.09. Has an ageing report been delivered to the Board? The Allowance for Bad Debts (Line 1210) totals $274,895.19. Is that total any better than a guess? Should all of that be written off? Has a Bad Debt analysis been conducted to determine the likelihood of collecting any of it? The HOA (Board) has any obligation to Members to collect past-due Assessments, fines, and fees. Why should Members-in-go...
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Now Available! Financial Results Through May 2026

Imagine my surprise just now (6/30/26 10:40AM) when I found that the Financial Operating Results (FOR) for September, October, November, December 2025 and January, February, March, April, and May 2026 have been published on the HOA's website! Members should be sure to examine some of these. There will a story told there. You'll miss the story, of course, because the FORs do not include one of the most-valuable columns of a financial report. That column is the Percent-of-Change. Be sure to print the May 2026 FOR or save it as a .pdf  Save the other months' FORs, too. There are questions to be asked: Why is there so little money in "Bank Accounts"? Under Investment Accounts, is all of this Reserves? What is the Actual Net Cash Value of the Annuity? What does "unreconciled" mean? Are the Investment Accounts titled "BOD"? Why aren't these in the name of the HOA? What is the interest rate on the CDs? Why is Accounts Receivable (Line 1205) stil...
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Kiss June Good-bye - - - No Summit Scoop

The Board of Directors missed a real opportunity to explain the proposed amendments to the CC&Rs and the By-Laws to Members of the Association. They could have used the June Summit Scoop to explain the changes that they would like to see made. However, I wonder whether they would have pointed out that a number of the proposed changes are NOT in the best interest of the Members, starting with the very first amendment. Not enough information is provided to Members. Do you want The Summit to look like a trailer park? Increasing storage shed size to 16x16x12 feet and allowing plastic or resin siding and metal roofing could cause housing values to plummet. Imagine such a monstrosity in the yard next door. Allowing vinyl fencing and fence heights of 8 feet is another disaster in the making. And paving over a front yard to increase driveway width to three cars? Crazy! The sleeper in the group is Amendment 10 - Capital Contribution Assessment. Why would you ever allow the Board of Director...
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Should Amendments Project Be Halted?

In response to the HOA's email today about Item 1 in the proposed amendments, I have emailed the following Open Letter to the Association's office for the attention of the seven board members. TO: HOA Board Members (Summit Community Association, Inc. (29229)) How is the incompetence associated with this process even possible? Board members, committees, and staff who created this nightmare should be identified to all Members, so that homeowners know exactly who is responsible. You fail to inform Members that a quorum for a VM meeting (51%) cannot amend the CC&Rs or the By-Laws or take many other actions.  You fail to inform Members that they do not vote on amendments to the CC&Rs and By-Laws. Your shed size of 16'x16'x12' is absurd! The Summit will resemble a trailer park, if larger or  plastic/resin sheds are allowed. Property values will plummet. Same with metal roofs, vinyl and 8-foot fences, expanded driveways, artificial turf. The plug should be pulled ...
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What is the Board's Job?

The job of the Board of Directors is to govern The Summit's HOA in compliance with the CC&Rs, the By-Laws, and the established Guidelines, such as the Procedures Reference Manual. An important part of that job is to represent and protect the interests of the Members (homeowners) of the Association. Sometimes, it might be necessary to step on someone's toes; e.g., the toes of current or past board  members. If that is necessary to protect the interests of the Members, then the Board must do it. When Association funds have been mishandled, somebody must be held accountable. Money can be moved out of Reserves only for specific, authorized purposes. Too much money has been moved around without the required paper trail (Minutes and Resolutions) for withdrawals and purpose!!! Where did $445,000 go from Reserves between 1/31/25 and 1/31/26? Why haven't Financial Operating Results been posted on the HOA's website since August 2025 ? The HOA spent $25,-$30,000 from December ...
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"Official" Proposed Amendments?

On June 19, 2026 the office sent out proposed amendments to the CC&Rs and the By-Laws by email. The email indicated that the proposed amendments were also being sent out by U.S. Mail. Those sent by U.S.Mail have not been delivered to at least one long-time HOA member. Have you received your copy by mail? Did the Board of Directors approve those proposed amendments? Did the Board authorize the office to send out that email over its name? Presumably, it did. Who gave the direction to distribute the proposed amendments? The email doesn't say. When did the Board approve those proposed amendments? On what date? Did they do so on June  2, 2026 at the Regular Monthly Board Meeting, which was held in private ? The June Meeting, if it was held, was in the new cycle of bi-monthly meetings.   No Minutes of that meeting have been distributed. What's the secret? How many Board members were at that meeting? Who voted for approving those proposed amendments? Who voted against? What...
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Wrong Advice from BOD and the Office

In its June 19th email to all Members (at least, all who have registered email addresses), the Board and the office gave erroneous advice for the return of the "ballots" on proposed amendments to the CC&Rs and the By-Laws. The Board and the Office direct Members to return the "ballots" to the office. This is WRONG . The Governing Documents instruct that such ballots should be returned to the Voting Members. Why should they go to the Voting Members and not to the office? Because it is the Voting Member who votes on amendments to the CC&Rs and the By-Laws, not the Members. Another and more important reason is that the Governing Documents say that is where they should go. The authors of the Governing Documents recognized the power of their words. Were they worried about how a management office or a Board might handle such "ballots"?  The ballots should not go through the office on the way to the Voting Members. The office cannot even publish The Summi...
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