HOA Business Affairs - Political?

Offensive "Political" Material (click to Enlarge)

Last month's Barony Place neighborhood luncheon at Lizard's Thicket, in a private room, included a robust discussion of HOA business affairs.

This month's luncheon was at San Jose Mexican Restaurant, and I prepared a posterboard display of the $420,450 in Late Dues (90 days or more) and the $140,000 of office salaries.

This month's host, Jim Ewing, quickly approached me and without introduction (we had never met) informed me that it was not a "political" meeting. Apparently, he considers discussion of the HOA as "political". 

When he said it was a social luncheon, I asked him if he had attended last month. He said he hadn't. So he missed the discussion and interest of many attendees in the operation of the HOA.

While San Jose has good food, the setting for a social luncheon was terrible. There was no meeting room, and there was one long table, created by placing smaller square tables to form one long table.

Other diners would certainly be annoyed, should anyone try to make an announcement, such as the date of the next meeting or an invitation to attend the next board meeting or an announcement of the Annual Neighborhood Meeting, which will likely be scheduled for July. Even the general noise level of conversation probably was going to disturb other diners.

Jim didn't even look at what I had taken with me. It was immediately obvious to me that there could not be any discussion of the information I had brought, but those who were interested could have read it as they passed by.

Of course, Jim would not have known of the information I was given by a past Voting Member and Alternate of Barony Place, who no longer lives here. When I asked her about the required Annual Meeting, she told me that business is discussed at card nights and monthly luncheons and, if a homeowner doesn't attend, it is because he doesn't care about the neighborhood.