BillD16 (Texas)
Posts: 986
Posts: 986
Posted:
Greetings! I’ve come to darken your door once again.
Texas HOA, ~600 SFH, 5 member Board w PMC.
I’ll attempt to leave out extraneous details: the Board doesn’t like to communicate with the residents. They are working on the 2027 budget (due by end of December) and there is speculation about a dues increase.
There’s no good way for residents to communicate with their neighbors. There is a social media group that appears to have many residents on it, but the HOA deems it “unofficial” even though that is largely a fiction. The group moderator is, frankly, corrupt and deletes posts they don’t like, plays favorites, etc. The Board says they have no control over the moderator.
Going door-to-door is prohibited by our Code of Conduct.
In short, I’d like to stimulate some discussion in the neighborhood about the 2027 budget, but I’ll need to set up my own social media thing. I’m okay with that. My question is: am I going to get into any trouble posting budget information, including HOA financial reports, to a public (ie, non-password protected) website? The information is currently available on our PMC’s portal, which requires registration and login.
Extra credit: thoughts on how to get the Board to open up on this budget stuff? I understand the need to collect and occasionally adjust dues. I object to the haphazard manner in which money is allocated and spent. For instance, our Social Committee has $15,000, which tends to get spent in drips and drabs by “special” Social Committee members (‘friends’ of the Board) without much oversight. It galls me that they drop $2,000 on an event and don’t bother to notice that it draws 20 people. Etc.
Bill
HOA Board ex-President
Austin, Texas USA
“You can’t put too much water in a nuclear reactor”
Austin, Texas USA
“You can’t put too much water in a nuclear reactor”