Will the Treasurer Report on Feb. 3?

Will the Board Treasurer report at the February 3rd Board Meeting on the following reports that are late being made available to the membership on the HOA's website?

  • the 2024 Annual Audit*
  • the 2023 forensic internal audit**
  • the 2023 forensic external audit**
  • the Financial Operating Results for September 2025
  • the Financial Operating Results for October 2025
  • the Financial Operating Results for November 2025
  • the Financial Operating Results for December 2025
The 2024 Annual Audit should be published with past years' audits on the HOA's website. When did the HOA receive it and why hasn't it been published?

The 2023 forensic internal and external audits should be published there, too. When were they received?

The Minutes of the October 7, 2025 Board Meeting were distributed at the November 18, 2025 Board Meeting. One entry reads,

"Association Audit (L. Douglas Johnson CPA) $7,039 - Approved"

Was that for the 2024 Annual Audit? Where did Mr. Johnson come from? I've read most of the 2025 Minutes and I don't recall his name. When did the Board accept his bid to conduct the Annual Audit, and when did the Board approve retaining him for that job? Or did it? If I remember correctly, previous year's audits had cost about $4,000.

Why didn't Danny Trapp and William Hill direct that the Association Audit be posted promptly (say, on October 8, 2025) on the HOA's website?

Will the CPA for the 2025 Annual Audit be selected at an open meeting?

Will the Board consider whether a forensic audit should be conducted for the two years (2024, 2025) just past?

How will the Auditor view the funds paid out by the HOA in 2025 for legal fees and expenses connected with the lawsuit that Danny Trapp filed against me? 

Were they illegal disbursements, because the Board of Directors had never approved the lawsuit or authorized Danny to file it? Will the Auditor determine that NO funds should have been paid out, since the lawsuit was prohibited by the CC&Rs (Art. XIII, §10)?

Should the Board of Directors have disallowed those payments? Should the HOA recover those funds from Danny Trapp?

The new Board majority are good people. They inherited a mess on November 18th. Unfortunately, they will have to deal with it and clean up the mess. All seven board members should be in favor of operating the HOA in a whistle-clean manner. 

Will the auditor give the 2025 Annual Audit a "qualified" opinion, rather than a clean bill-of-health?

According to the CAMS-prepared financial statements on the HOA's website, $3,000 was paid in accounting fees (Line 6400) in January 2025. The total accounting fees paid as of 8/31/2025 were $3,095.98.

* The 2024 Annual Audit was due by May 1, 2025, per the CC&Rs (Art. III, §19(g)). 

**  Two forensic audits were ordered on 6/18/2024. The fee for the 2023 internal audit was to be $4,800, and the fee for the 2023 external audit was to be $3,500.

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