HOA Meeting Documents

We attended our annual meeting on Tuesday evening 24 Aug 2010 at the Global Water building. We endured the "sweatbox" with several of our community members. With almost 180 homes we were disappointed that so few of our neighbors showed up. I think there were about 40 persons were in attendance.

Good Points:

• Meeting Mr. Garcia of Shea Homes - thanks for making us feel heard.
• Updates by Maricopa building inspector - thanks for your work related to keeping our streets junk car clean, walls graffiti clean as well as the other volunteer work you are involved in within the community.

Bad Points:

• Sweatbox - the room AC was inoperable.
• Defensiveness of AAM - we felt that in whole those running the meeting were very defensive and made "excuses" regarding our concerns... All in all we felt that we were just being "endured" instead of listened to.
• Non-professional behavior of AAM and their subcontractors - we were unimpressed by the angry and abrasive responses to simple questions especially by Mr. 4Peaks (name unknown)...and the incorrect information spread especially by Ms. AAM (name unknown).
  
• Budget items - we would appreciate being able to see the budget prior to the meeting...instead of being given 10 minutes to review then moving on. At some point we used to get this quarterly or semi-annually by mail.

Attached are the documents handed out by AAM. See below:

Hoa Meeting Handout

As you can see a couple of my comments, questions and concerns are discussed (most likely since others asked the same thing) however a majority of my questions were unanswered or discussed at the meeting.

When we were discussing water use / misuse I mentioned how scalping the grass creates issues with overwatering. He also told me that they do not scalp the grass and cut it 1/3 of the height every time. I will discuss more on this in a few minutes.

A bit later Mr. 4Peaks (owner...unknown name) mentioned that he would like us to provide a list of drippers without plants and other items that were being discussed (by the other homeowners)...suggesting that we send a list to Dave and he would obtain and work to resolve. I then commented that I sent Dave a list of my concerns and please contact him. He got visibly angry and animated and told me that he saw the list and my concerns were incorrect.