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Is this a proper use of our Community Resources?

Our Site Manager Scott Craven and his wife Leean, the President of the Board, have a motor-home in the RV Lot immediately adjacent to their property.

On numerous occasions, Scott has covered the light sensor at the electrical box just outside the patio gate of 5618 Cajon, at the end of their alley. This causes the RV Lot Lights along with (4) of the large high power lights along the perimeter fence (from just outside 5606 down to the southwest Corner of the development) as well as (9) of the pathway lights to ALL come on during daylight hours.

What it also does is energize the outlet in the planter area just outside the RV Lot.

This is done in order to provide power to their motor-home in the RV Lot
from the outlet in the planter area!

So… WE MEMBERS get to pay for the cost of NOT ONLY the electricity THEY are using on THEIR motor-home, but for the 15 lights that come on with the covering of the sensor in order for them to do this.

Where is it stated in any of our Rules or Governing Documents
that occupants of the RV Lot are entitled to free electricity
paid for by the Membership?

Here’s the answer… It is NOT. This has **never** been the case. Ever. Not before Directors Craven / Cairns anyway.

This is use of resources which are paid for by our community funds. Community funds which are under the direct control of Director / President Craven. This use is for their personal benefit. It is her fiduciary duty to the Membership to protect these funds. Could this be considered Embezzlement?

Update: In the 2020-02-19 Board Meeting, Director Cairns tried to defend this behavior when it was brought up. It was first attempted to be explained away as being done to charge the Maintenance Cart. This was immediately disputed and the pictures below show this is more often NOT than if so. Even if the cart is charged from this outlet, why is it too much to expect that it be done at night when these lights and this outlet will be energized naturally?

Director Cairns then tried to claim that this is the only way for those in the RV Lot to have power to work on their RV’s. Many questions must be asked…

Why is vehicle maintenance being done in the common area that *is* the RV Lot?
Where is it in our rules or governing documents that using this electricity is permissible?
When did either of these become an acceptable practice?
— A member that previously had a space in the lot for 20+ years states that it has never been acceptable to work on vehicles in the RV Lot (Rules & Regs, section XV) much less cover up a light sensor to access electricity from the Association.
Who on the Board authorized this use of a community paid resource for private use?
If this *is in fact* a policy of the Board, should it not be written in our rules?
How would any other owners in the RV Lot know that this is available to them if it’s not in our Rules?
Should the Membership not have had the opportunity to comment on and challenge this change to our Rules?

Or is it more reasonable that as Site Manager, Scott simply figured out this light sensor and as Director and President of the Board his wife simply gave the green light to do this?

To benefit themselves.
Without making a rule change.
Or telling the membership.
Or notifying everyone in the lot.
Or hoping anyone would notice.

Clearly this Board can’t be trusted to have our backs and protect our fiduciary interests.

Clearly Director Cairns is more interested in having the back of her little buddy… Director Craven!

Have a look at all the times they have done this…

Here is Scott in the act of taping up the sensor…

Here are all the lights that come on when he does this…

Below are all the times they have been documented doing this. There are many!
Be sure to view all the way to the oldest images at the bottom to get a sense of how long this really has been going on.

2020-02-10 and 2020-02-11

2020-02-07

2020-01-22 and 2016-01-23

2020-01-21

2020-01-20

2020-01-14 and 2020-01-15

2020-01-13

2019-12-13

2019-12-12

2019-12-01 and 2019-12-02

2019-10-25 and 2019-10-26

2019-09-27

2019-09-24

2019-08-26

2019-08-22

2019-08-15

2019-08-13 and 2019-08-14

2019-08-12

2019-08-11

2019-08-09

2019-07-30

2019-07-29

2019-07-22

2019-07-08

2019-07-06

2019-07-05

2019-07-04

2019-07-01

2019-06-25

2019-06-24

2019-06-17 and 2019-06-18

2019-06-15

2019-06-12

2019-06-10

2019-06-07

What about no maintenance in Common Area?

2019-06-05 and 2019-06-06

2019-05-31

2019-05-21

2019-04-08

2019-04-01

2019-03-31

2019-01-22 and 2019-03-22

2018-12-28

2018-12-26

2018-12-11

2018-06-12
This image comes from a member encounter with Site Manager Scott Craven in the RV Lot. While that encounter is discussed elsewhere, this image is important to point out that this improper use of electricity that we are all paying for goes back much further than even the images above demonstrate.

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RV Lot Wall | $𝟏𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭

In 2016, a portion of the RV Lot wall fell. Specifically it was the portion of the wall that the only motor-homes in the lot at the time backed up to.

It fell *AWAY* from the vehicles. (Hmm, wonder what happened, right?)

It was the position of the Board that it had fallen due to improper construction, as it had no rebar in the blocks. However, there was no investigation done at the time. A member with a motor-home in the lot at the time states that they were not contacted by the Board for any purpose of determining the cause of the wall having fallen.

Here is the problem though… This wall had stood for over 40 years, regardless of any construction deficiencies. It withstood numerous earthquakes including…

1987 5.9 Whittier Narrows
1994 6.7 Northridge
2008 5.5 Chino Hills
2014 5.1 La Habra/Brea

The 2014 quake is most significant in that numerous block walls in the surrounding area fell. Nearly all of these were similarly situated running north-south as is this section of our wall that fell in 2016. Several along Santa Gertrudes. Perhaps some of you remember the section of wall along the east side of Beach Blvd. just north of Argyle Dr. in the Highland Greens community. Debris from that wall was in the small drainage ditch there for weeks after that quake.

Fortunately none of our walls fell in that earthquake. But on a clear, sunny day in 2016 one portion of our RV Lot wall just up and… WHOOP… falls over… All by itself. Due to poor construction. After having stood for over 40 years!!!

Anybody believe this?

Because no proper investigation was done at the time, WE WILL NEVER KNOW THE WHO, HOW OR WHY. Were the vehicles along that wall inspected? A Member that had a motor-home in the lot at the time states that he was not contacted for any investigative effort. One of those vehicles belonged to the President of the Board and her husband and is still in the lot to this day.

The WHAT that we do know is that the rebuilding of the entire RV Lot wall was a $100,000 hit to our budget!

This can be seen in the Independent Auditors Report for the Year Ending December 31, 2016.

Finally, our CC&R’s require the board to maintain insurance on all improvements in the common area for 100% replacement. Why then was no insurance claim made? Even if it did just fall over on its own, it should have been a covered casualty.

Perhaps an insurance claim would have brought with it a legitimate investigation
and too many questions.

Questions to which some may not have wanted the answers to come to light.

— Here is what should be of concern to the membership —

From our CC&R’s:

𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 𝐈𝐗 – 𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐀

Section 1. If all or any portion of the Common Area is damaged or destroyed by fire or other casualty, then neither the Board, the Association or any agent or employee thereof, shall be required or permitted to take any action to repair or rebuild the damaged portions, or to cause the damaged portions to be rebuild without the written consent of at lease fifty-one percent (51%) of the members of each class as to the manner of the repair or reconstruction and the payment therefor.

Section 2 states that if insurance proceeds meet or exceed the cost of reconstruction, then no such consent is required.

An image from an original scan of our CC&R’s is at the bottom of this post.

In summary… If damage to the Common Area happens and insurance is not covering the incident, then 51% of the owners MUST APPROVE not only the repair itself, but the expense of the repair and how to pay for it.

THIS REQUIRED MEMBERSHIP APPROVAL DID NOT HAPPEN FOR THIS INCIDENT
INSURANCE DID NOT COVER THIS.
THE COST FOR THIS REBUILD CAME FROM OUR BUDGET.

WE PAID FOR THIS REBUILD.
WE DID NOT GIVE CONSENT FOR THE COST THIS REBUILD.
WE WERE NOT EVEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE CONSENT OR NOT.

The bottom line here is that the Board spent $100,000 of our money without our approval as required by our CC&R’s.

It was OUR RIGHT by CONTRACT per our CC&R’s to vote on what to do in this matter.

The Board deprived us of that right, and took $100,000 from us in the process.

Don’t forget about that Dues increase!

NOW, after rebuilding this wall, replacing all of the roofs and painting the entire complex, WE have to pony up an additional $5.00 per month in a Dues increase. FOREVER!

IF THE BOARD HAD NOT SPENT THIS MONEY WITHOUT OUR CONSENT, THIS $100,000 WOULD COVER 11 YEARS OF THIS DUES INCREASE!

Could this have had anything to do with why that wall fell in the first place?

Pictured below is Scott and Leean Cravens’ motor-home. President of the Board, Leean Craven. The first question to ask about this image is why is this vehicle being serviced in the RV Lot in the first place? The RV Lot is common area and the rules prohibit vehicle maintenance in the common areas. The next thing to notice is that the ramps this vehicle is up on are CLEARLY too small for the wheels on this vehicle. Finally, notice that there are no chocks behind the front wheels and it is completely unattended.

There is nothing to prevent this vehicle from rolling down those ramps and impacting… you guessed it… That same wall that fell and cost us $100,000.

This picture was taken after the wall was rebuilt. But… If Scott was foolish enough to do something this stupid and irresponsible AFTER that incident, who really believes he wasn’t so foolish as to do it before?

And then no investigation was done. Anyone else agree that this smells like a cover-up?!

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Lack of Board Oversight on nearly $900k Roofing Project

We all are aware that the Board had our main roofs replaced in 2017. This project ran nearly $900,000. This discussion is not to debate the need for the replacements themselves. What is being called into question is this…

Is it not reasonable to expect those that authorized the spending of nearly $900,000 of our money to put at least some effort into overseeing the work that is being done with it?

The contractor himself was rarely on site supervising his crew. If he is not going to supervise them, shouldn’t the Board have at least made an effort to?

Have a look around the community and you will see numerous turbine vents that were reinstalled crooked. They were not crooked before the roof replacements. It just looks sloppy.

One owner paid this contractor to install two new vents on his roof. When done, the one on the garage was visibly crooked. He went up himself to rotate the shafts to straighten the vent. On the flange of the vent, there is the word “BOTTOM” imprinted with an alignment mark. These morons installed the vent with that alignment mark some 45 degrees off to the right of bottom!

Then there were the rain deflectors. These are the pieces of aluminum above the doors to deflect the rain away from the doorways and entry paths so one does not have to walk through a curtain of water to go in and out of their property when it rains. These were not installed on the new roofs originally.

It was not until a member sent the board a picture with these circled on the old roofs that this contractor went back and installed them. And the inside units still didn’t get them over the garage doors to their patio.

Nearly $900,00 of OUR MONEY, and they can’t be troubled to oversee the quality of the work they are buying with it.

Unbelievable.

Garage Door Painting Notices. Was this a Scam?

Many of us recall in 2017 getting these Notice of Compliance demands to paint our garage doors. Here is how that went down…

The President of our HOA Board, Leean Craven and our AMSS Community Manager Aza Ingraham went through the neighborhood and evaluated the color and condition of the garage doors. The results of this evaluation were the scores of Notices of Compliance that were sent out to the “offending” members. One member was told by Aza… “There were a lot!“

Anyone that got one of these notices was entitled to have paint be supplied by the HOA in order to comply with these notices.

Our Site Manager, Scott Craven is Leean’s husband. This is where it gets questionable…

Once these notices went out, Scott then began going through the neighborhood with a list of everyone that received a Notice of Compliance soliciting to paint their garage door for a cost of $200.

Using the paint supplied by the HOA that the homeowner is entitled to.

This certainly looks as if Leean abused her role on the Board in order to generate a demand in the community for a service that she and her husband could financially benefit from in fulfilling.

Could owners have painted their doors themselves? Yes; and some did.

Could another vendor have solicited to fulfill this demand? Sure. But how would any other vendor have knowledge that this demand even existed much less obtain a list of those who received notices? Without the insider information of being on the Board or its President, there was no way of to obtaining either of these.

Look at the image below of the text message exchange and the effort Leean Craven put into trying *not* to supply an owner paint for this Notice of Compliance. She had called this owner directly and had his number. She *knows* he is the owner or could have easily confirmed it.

Others were hounded by Scott AFTER they had already painted their doors on their own or by a helpful neighbor.

One owner had helped several of his neighbors paint their doors. Scott apparently shared with that owner that his wife was demanding to know “Why is HE painting garage doors?” Apparently she seemed to want all of the work for themselves and was incensed by the AUDACITY of someone to be helpful to their neighbors in this way! How DARE he, right?!?

It is also important to note that the Cravens did not paint their garage door for a full year after these notices went out!

Those running our community should avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

If they had any sense of decency, ethics or morality, they would. Unfortunately for us, that is not the case.

By the way… Scott was using the electric cart for these paid “side” jobs. Is that not an Association resource? If so, why was he using it for personal gain? Was he also charging it on our dime for this?

Site Manager compensated more than predecessors. His Wife is the President of the Board!

Scott Craven is our Site Manager. His wife is Leean Craven, President of the Board of our HOA.

Previous Site Managers have been compensated in the form of having the cost of their regular monthly HOA Assessments paid by the Membership. For Scott’s predecessors, this has meant $235 per month. This has been the standard for many years. If you review our budget assessments, you will find that Scott (and Leean by the fact that this is the Craven household benefiting here) is being compensated at a rate of $275 per month.

Here is how that apparently is the case… They ALSO have a motor-home in the RV Lot. The cost for us lowly non-Board-member folk to store a vehicle in that lot is $40 per month. Not Scott and Leean!

The $40 monthly RV Lot storage fee IS NOT REGULAR MONTHLY HOA ASSESSMENT.

Who approved this? Were prior Site Managers paid this $40 per month RV Lot spot entitlement if they did not have an RV? If not, why are they entitled to it?

Why do they not pay like the rest of us for a spot in the RV Lot?
Why should WE have to pay for THEIR privilege of storing THEIR vehicle in OUR RV Lot?

It would sure seem that Leean Craven has abused her role on the Board to reap an additional financial gain for herself here!

OUTRAGEOUS!

Frankly, they should be made to pay back the Association 4 years of these unpaid storage fees.

Don’t forget… Not only are they storing this vehicle for FREE, they feel they are entitled to help themselves to free electricity paid for BY US to use on that vehicle. Be sure to review the post on that subject if you have not already.

Finally, let’s not forget that this person is President of the Board that voted to raise the monthly dues for all of us!!

Here are the budgets from 2014 & 2020 showing that this has been the case for YEARS…

Site Manager lies to a Member re: Garage Door Paint notice. Board pays attorney to defend this behavior!

Not too long after the Garage Door Painting notices went out, a Member (we’ll call Member A) was given the wrong color paint by the Site Manager, Scott Craven. This Member painted the door with this paint and was immediately questioned. Since it was essentially the fault of the HOA that this happened, Scott re-painted this Members’ garage door for free, rather than the $200 he was charging other Members for this service.

A few months later, Member A received a Notice of Compliance to paint his garage door! Since Scott had just painted it a few months prior, this Member asked Scott about it directly. Scott’s response was that another Member, not on the Board, was illicitly sending these notices out. We’ll call that person Member B.

Member A directly asked Member B about this, since Scott had accused that Member of doing this. If it were true, it would have been completely inappropriate and possibly illegal. Member B was completely blindsided and appalled that such false information could be given to any Member by an employee of the Board like this

Member B immediately complained to the Board of this unacceptable behavior and demanded that a correction and clarification of who is authorized to send notices such as this be sent out to the membership in case Scott had been passing this falsehood to others. To put the current matter in context, Member B also mentioned a confrontation the he had with Scott in the RV Lot several months prior. Member B had not intended to bring up that confrontation prior to this chalking that incident up as the rantings of a bitter and angry old man.

When this false information incident took place, that prior confrontation took on more significance as Scott seemed to have a willful intent to publicly smear Member B.

Not only did the Board refuse to address the matter at all,
they consulted HOA counsel to send Member B a letter insinuating that he was the aggressor!

This letter states that the Board would investigate the matters being alleged.
That investigation… Never happened. What a surprise, right?

You can read here the letter from the attorney and the email that prompted it. This Member feels that you, the Membership, have a right to see it.

After all… YOU PAID FOR IT!

In the interest of full disclosure… Had the Board investigated, Member A could have provided confirmation of what he was told by Scott and Member B could have provided images from the confrontation such as below…

But they were clearly not interested in the truth. Merely intimidation.

Director Lemmings | Illicitly Tows a Members Vehicle

Director Lemmings directly authorized the towing and removal of one of her neighbors vehicles. The reason for the tow was documented on the authorization as this vehicle being in a “Tenants Spot.” I think we are all clear on the fact that there are no “Tenants Spots” in our community. Only Common Area Parking spots in the alleys that we all have the right to use. Nevertheless, she put her name on this authorization with this reason for removal.

As you can see, the authorizing individual is blacked out by the tow company, but this Member learned in the Small Claims case against Night Star Towing that it was in fact authorized by Director Lemmings.

When this Member confronted the Board about it, Director Lemmings was also the one presenting pictures of chalk marks insinuating that the vehicle had been there over 72 hours. Most important in this discussion was that Director Lemmings tossed out several PERSONAL reasons that she felt justified entitlement for herself and her household to that spot. A household of 5 or 6 vehicles where NONE of them are parked in the garage.

Clearly this… person… abused her role and authority as a Director to exact revenge on a neighbor. To just have their property towed… Out of the blue… No prior notice on the vehicle… Nothing. Just surprise, your vehicle is gone. What a lovely… person.

The member denied that his vehicle had violated a continuous 72 Hour period and stated that it had been driven the Friday before its removal on Sunday.

Both the tow operator Albert Siordia and Director Lemmings alleged that the reason for removal being documented on the authorization as “Tenants Spot” was merely an error in filling out the form.

A mistake? Mistakenly writing out…
T E N A N T S S P O T
versus writing out
7 2 H O U R S

What a load of BS!! If this were the case, why then does the form also document the time first observed as 8 AM instead of some time AND DATE 72 hours prior? Another simple mistake? Not. A. Chance.

When this Member picked up his vehicle and paid the $480 fees, he was less than cordial with those running Night Star. In the back and forth with the individual that retrieved the vehicle, the Member was told he should “learn how to park” and was told he was towed because he was “in someones spot that they paid for.”

Excuse me?!? Someones spot that they paid for?

This Member alleges that these chalk marks were made and photographed after the fact once it was clear that this abuse was not going to take this lying down. These pictures were presented as having been taken prior to the removal. While this is impossible to prove and a case of one individuals word against another, the evidence does point to this.

The Board however, stood behind the authorization. When the Member threatened further legal action, the Board accepted the Members generous offer to settle for “only” the cost of the tow.

So, the Membership as a whole paid the price for this illicit towing of a Members vehicle.

Nice work, Board… Spending OUR MONEY to cover YOUR illicit behavior.

Director Craven | Parking

The Cravens live immediately adjacent to the RV Lot. There is a common area parking space next to their property that they seem to feel entitled to be treated as their personal and private space.

If someone dares to park in their spot, they are immediately slapped with a threatening notice.

Since Scott Craven is also the Site Manager, he has possession of the electric maintenance cart. He will park this cart in a spot to hold it for their later use with their personal vehicles!

Why is this cart being parked in our common area parking spots? It is not a street legal vehicle! What if some lowly non-Board-Members were to stick a bicycle, a couple orange cones or a couple of sawhorses in a spot to reserve it for our later use? This would not be tolerated.

This should not be tolerated either!

He has also put this cart in spots on Tuesday mornings when off-street parking is at a premium for street sweeping day.

How considerate, right?!

Here are just a few of the many, many times he has done this…

Placed on a Members vehicle within hours of being parked in “their” spot!

Director Cairns | Painting Compliance

With the new color scheme in the neighborhood came Notices of Compliance for end unit owners with patio covers to paint them.

Pictured here is Director Cairns property. Why is it that the patio cover on her property appears so visibly different than others that were mandated to and have painted theirs? Was hers painted? If it was, it sure doesn’t look like it! How many believe that if their property looked like this one that they would be receiving a Notice of Compliance?

Decide for yourself… Or just take a walk down to 5520 and see it first hand!

Why does this Member get to go without the same compliance mandated on other owners? Well of course she’s not going to send a Notice of Compliance to herself!! If the Board won’t enforce compliance on its own Directors why should anyone else have to comply?

Rank has its privileges? It’s not supposed to be that way, but it apparently is!

It shouldn’t go without saying that this Director is also the last and final Member property with a wood, lift up garage door! So, this Member with the patio cover that looks visibly different and a 45 year old wood garage door wants to sit in judgement and pass out notices of compliance for architectural uniformity to her neighbors. Those 150 of her neighbors that have brought their garage doors into the current century no less!

Director Lemmings | Window Replacements

Many owners have replaced the windows on their property. Our Rules and Regulations document specifies “Retrofit compatible with community.” Retrofit windows are those that do not require the breaking of the stucco for their installation. They can be identified by the larger white vinyl borders around the window. These can be seen throughout the community as nearly all Members have complied.

NEARLY all Members… Unless you are on the Board apparently! Director Lemmings had her windows replaced in 2018. She was a Director on the Board at the time.

This HOA BOARD DIRECTOR broke her stucco with her upgrade!

There were large gaping holes opened up around her windows and it was patched. The uneven stucco is visible even after the painting.

These types of windows are more desirable than retrofit windows. They don’t have the large vinyl borders and there is more window space in them.

But they have never been permitted in our community
because of the stucco patching required!

The bottom line here is that it would appear that this Director abused her role and authority on the Board to complete a more desirable upgrade to her property that NO OTHER MEMBER has ever been permitted to do. If she is in the role of enforcing this, who is going to stop her, right??

These window replacements also did not have permits issued by the City. So… Apparently the rules of our city mean as little to this Board Member as do our own!

Who is going to penalize this Member for doing this… Herself? Clearly a case of the Board favoring itself in failing to enforce our rules on its own Directors.

Director Cairns | AC Condenser in Common Area

Ask the Board and they will tell you that all space outside your front door, garage door and end unit patio fences is considered Common Area and under the exclusive control of the Association.

So why then does Director Cairns have her AC Condenser outside her patio fence and sitting in the Common Area? These units were not built with AC condensers outside the patio fences! But clearly this Director has hers outside the fence and in the Common Area.

Why is this not an Exclusive Use of Common Area?

Does an exclusive use of common area not require the approval of 67% of the Membership?
Does this Director have this approval?

This Director is enjoying the removal of noise and additional square footage inside her patio area that is freed up by this unit being placed in the Common Area. Everybody else is subjected to the noise and unsightly nature of it being outside and visible.

The current unit is also not permitted with the City. Once again, the rules of our City mean as little to a Director as do our own!

We have 31 buildings in our development which means 62 end units. 8 of those units have their AC condensers units in the Common Area and at least 2 of those are longtime owners with a long history of being on the Board. How exactly did these placements in the Common Area get approved?

Smells like favoritism… The Member that provided the note below believes that this Director is part of the ‘we’ mentioned in it complaining of… you guessed it… Favoritism!. This was during a time that she failed to be elected and was furious about it!

Director Cairns | Vehicle Maintenance in Common Area

Attached to this post is a notice that a Member received for one of the most petty things imaginable to be given a notice of violation for. This Member had a boat at the time and was doing some work on it at his garage in preparation to sell. This work took place on a Friday morning and afternoon and impacted a total of ZERO neighbors in their ability to access their property.

The following Monday, the attached notice was received!

The occasional working on vehicles in front of our garages is something that owners have done for years without this kind of petty and vindictive harassment. It happened over the following weekend by another owner in the same alley and that of the President of the Board. Neither of them received a notice such as this!

It is important to note that the recipient of this notice is very aggressive in protecting his rights with the Board and has in the past threatened to sue them all as individuals for what was viewed as a willful and intentional act of misconduct.

This petty notice was clearly an act of a Director abusing their role
to further a personal grudge.

So in the same manner as Director Lemmings illicit towing of a vehicle discusses elsewhere was backed “as an action by the Board”, here we have a Director on the Board willing to issue a Notice of Compliance for a violation to a Member, but it is apparently perfectly acceptable for a member of her household to do the same thing.

This Director has expresses a position multiple times in Board Meetings that she is doing us such a tremendous favor in that she committing this intrusive disruption to her life for no compensation whatsoever that even the giving of proper notice of meetings required under the law is merely “a suggestion” rather than a statutory requirement. She rolls her eyes whenever a Member mentions the Law or anything contrary to her sense of “we can do whatever the hell we want, we are the Board!”

She is so ready to enforce rules on her neighbors,
but they clearly don’t apply to her!

Pictured here is a member of her household. Apparently doing a brake job in a Common Area Parking space. Unbelievable!

Director Cairns | Whines about not being Compensated

Cherilyn Cairns is a Director on our HOA Board. This Director on several occasions in the monthly Board meetings has lamented to Members that they (Directors) do not get compensated for the time they spend serving on the Board. This is generally when she is being challenged in some manner such as keeping up on laws that affect HOA’s or just merely paying attention while driving through the community to and from her property. Paying attention for simple things that shouldn’t be happening, like perhaps pathway and perimeter lights that are on during the daytime.

This Director failed to be re-elected several years back and one Member stated that she was absolutely livid. She went to every Board meeting just to glare at her replacements.

Now back on the Board, she seems to think she is underappreciated. Poor thing! Never mind the fact that she volunteers for this role. To toss it back at members that they aren’t paid for their time is unacceptable and utterly childish.

Perhaps she doesn’t need to have this responsibility if it is such a burden for her.