Community HOA

In September I was elected to the Amber Lakes and Meadows Home Owner Association community board. I really hadn’t considered running until my neighbor discussed the possibility of both of us being on the board at the same time. After a few days of thought I agreed to run. It has been over a month now that I’ve officially taken office and I feel like we’ve accomplished a quite a bit in a short period of time. We have reduced our cost of insurance by over 50%, we have reached a resolution to open the second community pool with the developer, we have figured out a way to save money on the lake chemicals to reduce the algae, and we have put out a new bid package for the commons area maintenance, just to name a few things. We are in the process of setting next year’s budget and moving forward with some long term plans for fixing the tennis courts, adding some sand volleyball courts and maybe a pavilion. We also want to do more to pull people together and give them some free options to have some fun with their neighbors. So far, it has been interesting. I was initially worried about handling the new role and being on a board. I also didn’t want to receive calls at all hours of the night. Fortunately, I’ve been able to balance both and the HOA has a community number so the board doesn’t have to share their own private numbers. It’s been very positive in fact. We will see what I think in 6 months.