For my ‘internal community’ I have served as treasurer for one year and the president for one year. I was nominated to the board for another two year term, so I was nominated yesterday to be president again. The titles really don’t mean too much…I lead the meetings. But when the everyday things within the community come up, then we all communicate via email and make decisions that way. This was the first year that we had a community garage sale/block party and being the only person on the board that didn’t work, I did do web surfing to find and design a banner for our two monuments to advertise the sale from the City streets which our entrance gates are located. That time I had done a lot despite that my head was killing me with headaches, but our second garage sale/block party a few homeowners volunteered to do all the logistics and most of the planning. There were very few things that I needed to do that time. The new board is Ramona (who has been on the board since May of 2008), a lady whom her and her husband own and run a management company so she is very knowledgeable about the Nevada statutes for HOAs, and myself. I feel that this board will be able to communicate easier. Ramona hasn’t made many board meetings and yesterday I asked her if her work schedule was a problem with the days we had set for board members. She said that Wednesdays are horrible for her, so we changed the board meetings to Thursdays. It is difficult to have a meeting when there are only two board members to vote on something and they disagree. Also, it requires a lot of contact afterwards to update on everything that has taken place etc. I was the chairperson for the ARC Community and that was just sucking the life out of me this past six or eight months but I have three homeowners that have been on my committee. From now on, those three will do the review, the inspections – but when they have done their work they pass it on to me for approval only. That means that I don’t have to check that all the plants are drought tolerant, I don’t have to go and inspect after the work is done, etc. The one gentleman that has been on the committee the longest is also an insurance adjuster so he is very good and does make sure that all the details are there and that everything would be within the ARC guidelines. I don’t even have to do the forms to send back to the mgmt company.
The ‘master’ HOA really only affects the exterior of four ‘interior’ communities. There are sidewalks, plants, and graffiti on the walls. Not much more except for requesting for the mgmt co to get bids for insurance, landscaping, etc. For me…and my internal community…it is a lot easier to have me and Ramona on both boards. The biggest problem was when the builder switched the master community to a different mgmt co. The homeowners in my community would call to report something that was the master HOA and they just didn’t understand the difference. If they call me about something now, I know which HOA needs to respond, and the homeowners get their voices heard no matter which HOA the problem relates to. My volunteer work for the Lewy Body Dementia Assn is sporadic. I reply to people that call the national help line that are in the four states (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado) that have been assigned to me but from time to time I help out with a call from a different area when someone has medical problems…so when I have my surgery then they will route my calls to another Lewy Buddy.. I will be starting to go out and leaving brochures, business cards, etc with the Alzheimer’s Assn; local skilled nursing facilities with memory care units; and geriatricians, GPs, and some other doctors. Then we will have more for a meeting. Those meetings are once a month and as the facilitator, my job is to sit and listen and make sure that everything stays on track…but the discussion should be from the group of caregivers. If there is something that they are asking about and I don’t know the answer, I would tell them that I would do my best to find out…and then I would follow up. These three volunteer positions help to make me feel that I am still a productive individual and it also keeps my mind off my other problems. If I find that I have too much on my plate, then I will have to decide what I need to cut back on. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 6:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] May I ask another question? (car seat) The HOA business must really keep you busy. Good luck on your nomination. Will that mean extra duties? Glloria In a message dated 11/17/2011 11:28:33 P.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: (OT – Today was opening of the ballots for my internal community…two seats were open, and two people ran…me and the homeowner who purchased the very last house from the builder. No surprise that we both won, but the gal that has been on the Board of Directors for three years nominated me to be president again and the new board member seconded it. I have a meeting in December about the Master Community…landscaping along the perimeter of all the ‘Riverwalk Ranch’ communities…we will have to vote for seats. I really want to nominate the gentleman that got the other seat on that one to be Treasurer because he is a CPA…so I am thinking that t he same gal that nominated me as president today will nominate me president for the Master also. It isn’t a power play because we all try to do everything. I have more time on my hands (Hehehe…if you take away sleeping, resting, sleeping, watching TV…LOL) than those that work. We will see what happens.
