HOA Legi-Slate

In addition to your personal new year resolutions - consider making resolutions for positive change in the communities you serve!  Here are some ideas: 

1. Take Stock of 2009.  As a board, sit down and discuss what went well and not so well during the past year.  Talk about what your board can do to improve in governing the association and commit to making positive changes.
    
2. Create Goals for 2010.  Instead of flying by the seat of your pants, create goals for your board.  Once your board has agreed upon goals for 2010 -  identify benchmarks in reaching your goals, create timelines for benchmarks and identify who will be responsible for reaching them.  Goals might include:  building a sense of community; changing, adding or improving services to residents; facing tough financial challenges head-on and dealing with them.  
    
3. Dust Off Governing Documents and Use Them.   Locate the most recent version of the governing documents for your association, put them in a binder (or a paper bag if necessary), take them to every board meeting, consult them and comply with them.  As a director - it's your fiduciary duty to comply with your governing documents.  Enough said.