In the aftermath of the struggle to post announcements about the City Walk Talk newsletter to the bulletin boards, I heard* that one board member suggested that they vote on removing the bulletin boards entirely! Thankfully, nothing seems to have come of this, but it underscored the need for channels… Read more »
In the February 23 board meeting, board president Ray Aguirre made an attack on Social Committee chair Ruth Markovitz that I believe was unjustified on every possible level. You can listen to the first five minutes of the incident here: And you can consult the audio recording and AI-generated transcript… Read more »
Our HOA’s governing documents are poor scans of typewritten pages, which makes it impossible to search them and hard even to read them. I’d like to convert them all to real text using an automated service, but need volunteers to help proofread the results, comparing them to the original PDFs… Read more »
I’ve been having lots of trouble posting this card to the bulletin boards. For over a week, somebody was removing them as quickly as I could put them back up, I assume because they wanted to prevent more people from subscribing to my newsletter and reading the content on this… Read more »
We’ve received our packets for the 2026 Annual Meeting, and I have an issue with this year’s proxy form. You can read more about how they generally work here, but the problem with this year’s form is that, if an owner doesn’t name the person they want to receive the… Read more »
Last week I received a disturbing email from a board member attempting to suppress my speech about problems I see in the governance of the HOA. It refers to posts or comments I’ve made in the City Walk Facebook group, but doesn’t specify what they were. At no time did… Read more »
At this year’s annual meeting, I plan to vote for Laura Park for the board. I believe she can improve the transparency, accessibility, responsiveness, and civility of our HOA leadership You can view a recording of the Candidate Forum at which she spoke here, and you can read more about… Read more »
At the last board meeting, the board voted to accept the 2025 Reserve Study. In the 2026 budget we all just received by mail, we’ll be increasing our payments into the Reserve Fund by the exact amount recommended by the Study. This is great news, an important step toward regaining… Read more »
At the Nov 17 board meeting, the board voted to accept the final revision of the 2025 Reserve Study. I’m thrilled about this, and I’m grateful to the board for finally accepting it, as well as for their words of support for its importance, but I’ve also been very frustrated… Read more »
We have significant financial challenges ahead of us, and there are some who believe it’s better to pay for them as they come, via special assessments, rather than increasing our transfers to the Reserve Fund, which would raise our HOA fees. I’m strongly in favor of adequately funding the Reserve… Read more »
