“What day it is, Mike, Mike Mike.”  Its Hump day!

As stakeholders in this subdivision, we should get involved in the HOA.  Committees are not active because of low participation, me included.   There once was an active Pool/Clubhouse Committee, with regularly held meetings.  The Landscape Committee at one time had a number of members.  Today, Ben Morton is the Landscape committee.  The ACC Committee at one time also had a number of members.  Today, I’m not sure how many members are active, but I presume only Chad Becnel, who happens to chair the ACC, and is the president of the HOA.

Getting homeowners to participate in HOA activity could bring a substantial overall improvement to the HOA.  With an active ACC Committee, there would be no need to outsource the monitoring of covenants and restriction.  But it takes an organization of homeowners willing to do a little work, and not fearful of confronting neighbors with issues.

Also, election of board members happens in April/May timeframe.  If you have leadership and communication skills, and have a couple of hours a week to spare, then by all means please offer yourself for nomination.  The HOA by-laws call for a max of seven board members.  Today, we have three.  To assure representation, ideally, we should have board members from each filing (4) plus two members at large, and the president. That is not likely to happen anytime soon, but it should be an objective.

In sports, if you can’t play your position, the coach moves you aside and puts another player in your position.   It’s probably not that the player is incapable; it’s just a matter of whether he wants to work hard enough to earn that position.  That same example applies to our HOA.  I want to think that each officer is abundantly capable of carry out his/her responsibility, but I do question whether they want to work hard enough to do the right thing and get the job done. If we had more homeowners helping, assuming the officers want our help, then perhaps the officers would be motivated to try harder, and eventually be successful.

Dan