Is Violation Notice Required?

At the August 8th board meeting a homeowner inquired how to get assistance from the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Committee.

The response was one of the dumbest I have heard in a long time.

In order to get help (e.g., with lawn-mowing or painting of a mailbox or removal of a tree limb), the homeowner must first have received a Violation Notice.

Seriously?

Wouldn't the requested assistance be so that a Violation Notice could be avoided?

Is this a case of "the inmates are running the asylum"?

Have all the previous requests for assistance been granted only after a Violation Notice had been generated?

Such a requirement is absolutely unnecessary. I looked for that requirement in the Committee description on the website. No such requirement is there. 

There is no description of services on the website listing of Committees.

What does it say in the  PRM?

Article II, Section B, ¶12 reads, "Neighbors helping [sic] Neighbors Committee: To render temporary assistance to residents of The Summit who are in need of assistance due to age, disability and temporary physical limitations due to accidents or illness."

That section obviously needs editing. Does the board really mean "residents", instead of homeowners? Definitely not residents, based on the board's attempts to keep residents off the website, away from committees and board meetings, invisible in terms of correspondence, and from receiving emailed copies of The Summit Scoop.

Would the person-in-need have to meet the requirements of age, disability AND temporary physical limitations? If the person-in-need is not ill, would their need have to be the result of accidents (plural), not just one?

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