The July board meeting was the best one we’ve had in two years. I joined in the applause for board members, management company representatives, and attending owners at the end (and have praised board members in the past, both publicly in the meetings and here on City Walk Talk, whenever… Read more »
I just received an anonymous letter stuck in my door objecting to this post about our balconies, and since the author didn’t reveal their identity, I’ll respond here in the hopes they see this, too. [Update: At least two others received this note on their doors as well. If you… Read more »
Update: On July 15, the management company sent an email saying that more information about the balcony sealing would be coming soon, and that in the meantime, they were going to ask the board to extend the deadline. At the July board meeting, the deadline was extended to October 31…. Read more »
Monday’s board meeting provided a mix of good news and bad. First, the good: We’ve had two board meetings so far in 2026. (No actual business was done at the January Annual Meeting and the March board meeting was canceled.) These two meetings have been characterized by a much improved… Read more »
Late last year, I got the idea for a series of short weekly videos in which members of the board would speak to the ownership. It would be a way for the board to start being more communicative about the work they were doing, the decisions they were making, and… Read more »
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 »
