Trash receptacles.

Hello everyone.

Some of our HOA board members want our entire community to use the exact same trash cans- same Colors, sizes, etc.

The HOA would buy the trash cans, and bill the residents.

Any opinions on this?.. I believe it is against our HOA By-laws, which only state that "Trash must be placed in enclosed containers the night before pickup".
Nothing about size, colors, styles.

Thanks!

If you are billing the members, it sounds like a special assessment. As it's not being taken out of the operating fund.

Make sure procedures are properly followed to approve a special assessment.

If the special assessment is approved, then so be it. If it disapproved, then keep doing what your doing.

Do your bylaws also reference any additional rules and regulations that the board may adopt from time to time? This could be classified as a rule/regulation which wouldn't need the CCRs to be amended. It sounds like it is not in conflict with the CCRs although it seeks to impose greater restrictions than what's spelled out in them. You may have a valid point.

If it goes forward it does sound like it should be a special assessment, which the board will have to have a duly noticed meeting about before imposing. They'll have to listen to members input at that meeting, but are free to ultimately do what they want.

Finally, if this was my HOA, we would first try to assess whether new trash cans for everyone fell under any of our yearly approved budget categories, and if they did we would probably allocate some of that budgeted money for the cans as long as there was money available that wouldn't bust the budget. Pretty sure nobody here would squawk about it. It would depend on the total cost and what was available.

Fred,

I understand what the Board wants to do.
Having a separate billing of the residents/members is akin to a special assessment.

If a special assessment in your Association requires membership approval and the majority are against it, the assessment will likely be disapproved.

If a special assessment in your Association only requires board approval, then it appears that this may occur unless there are a lot of complaints to the Board before it happens.

Almost everywhere in AZ the street-side containers are furnished by either the city or private contractor and they are mechanically dumped into the truck. There are few, if any, places where cans are manually dumped into a truck. BTW, I have timed it and the trucks average dumping one house every six seconds.

Fred, maybe your association should be looking into a different trash collection service.

In my county we were told by the county who we had to use for garbage and recyclable collection. One of the few things that reminded me of New York, e.g. "You get it from us... or you don't get it." Being reminded of NY things here is rare. The pizza sure doesn't do it.

In our county trash collection is private. Owner contract for such and the trash company provides the containers thus in our HOA the containers are all alike.

I saying requesting trash containers all be alike is a bit Stepford Wife like.