Names of association employees

On March 3, 2009 in a meeting I had with the PM, 2 Board Members and 1 Home Owner representative, I asked for the last names of the association employees as we only have the PMs. The PM asked me why I wanted that information and I told her that hers was the only one that anyone seems to know and we are entitled to at least know their last names. The PM told me that they were doing Bio.s' for the upcoming newsletter and their last names would be in that. Well we have not had the newsletter as the person that does it, lost track of time. As of yesterday, we have a web site that is up and running with the association employees Bio.s' with no last name except for the PM.

In reading the VA Condominium Act it does mention being entitled to "addresses and aggregate salary information of the unit owners association employees", however I do not see anything on last names.

Is it possible that we are entitled to their address but not their last name?

Michele ,
Thank you for responding.
These are association employees. The PM is an individual, She has been there 18 years, the Assistant PM, is her daughter who has been there 12 years the Office Manager no relation has been there 7 and the Maintenance man whom has been there 6 years is the Asst. PMs boyfriend.

I know, especially that the maintenance man occasionally needs to enter homes.

Just another example of this BOD allowing the PM to run the show. Why would she object to telling the names of the employees anyhow? Is she afraid someone might find out something she is trying to hide? When people are secretive it sends the message that something is fishy in Denmark, if you know what I mean!

I think the BOD should check around with mgmt company's and find out what the monthly fee would be to manage the assn. They might find they're spending way too much money by having their own employees. Having their own employees, the HOA is obligated to pay FICA, unemployment, and perhaps health insurance on top of the salary. IMO, it's certainly worth checking out.

Mary,
You are right. We have been saying that we need to look at options however, until the Board sees any of this, we will just keep chugging along.

The PM does not want to give the last names because it is me asking. If I would have asked 2 years ago, there would have been no problems. I do not know why I did not ask, but I did not.

We do pay for their health insurance completely. Government jobs don't even do that.
We pay these employees over $265,000.00 and that is not including the extras such as the $2,500.00 bonus for maintenance, the compensations that are hidden in the job description, sick time, vacation, all Holidays, comp. time. To me it just seems excessive as the property has deteriorated over the past several years.

Brian,
Thank you for responding.
All of the items you mentioned, the PM does. Next month we are to have a copy of the audit however from looking at what the PM said was the last completed audit done in 2003 no names or company names are in it. just an Auditors Report. And I am sure that this new CPA will not have their companies name or contact info on it since I had called the old one. The PM will not give me names of companies she said because "You call around". Yes my requests were ignored, I called around.

Susan,
Thank you for your response.
We are working on the Board having the info however as of yet the PM is the only one that knows anything.