Village Grove Community

Village Grove HOA Members Meeting                                                                  July 9^th, 2024

Minutes: Meeting start 7pm- 7:20pm

Discussion: Read into the minutes, directly from attorneys email:

• “at the executive session meeting on 6/20/2024, the board voted to initiate a nonjudicial foreclosure of Assessor’s Parcel Number 7180-035-019”
• This prompted questions:
  • Who was it?
    • we did not answer
  • Why were we telling them this?
    • We were directed by the attorney’s that is it now California Statute to report this to them so we were following the rules of California
  • Why was the lien/ foreclosure initiated?
    • Based on the passed and enacted in 2023 Collection’s Policy, it now has black and white guidelines on how to proceed with owners who owe the HOA money
      • We were asked what the breakdowns were for starting this process, but we referred them back to the policy that was enacted last year

Discussed Election Rules

• Several owners admitted to not having read the policy & asked the board to tell them what it said
  • We stated that it was 22 pages long and complex and that they would need to read it for their understanding
  • We stated that Village Grove has never had a policy on this before and it is now required
  • We highlighted that one of the changes in that we now have to hire an ‘Inspector of Elections’ to collect and count the ballots; it is no longer sent/ counted by Brockman Properties
  • We stated that there is now a significant cost to elections- around $1000 each time
  • We noted that once we mailed out the notice of the Inspector of Elections, we learned that he would be out of the country for 2 months, thus delaying any voting
    • Several asked why we don’t change Inspectors of Elections
      • We stated that we had already started the process with this person
• Owners asked why we were doing this and delaying the Special Assessment vote
  • We reminded them that this was a requirement by the state and the board has no options
• Owner via text who could not attend the meeting stated that comments were sent to Brockman properties prior to the meeting
  • We informed the owner that we were not able to make changes, per our attorneys, per California statute.

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