The 2025 Annual Meeting Notice includes a proposal that would raise assessments by $35 per month for 2026 and 2027. This is being presented inside the “budget” paragraph — but […]
Category: HOA Budget
BAD ACCOUNTING: Who’s Getting Paid With Our Dues — and Why?
Key Facts: No competitive process. No written contract. No records made available.Just a small circle of Board members appointing each other and controlling the money. Meanwhile, in 2024, a homeowner […]
INTO THE DITCH: How POHOA’s Reserve Planning May Be Sliding Off the Road
By Andy Mowery, Contributor | www.poudreoverlook.com At Poudre Overlook, we’ve grown to expect a little turbulence now and then—errant sprinklers, cranky fences, the occasional HOA meeting turned improv night. But […]
VETO THE BUDGET: It’s Time To Live Within Our Means
The POHOA Board has not allowed a vote at the Annual Homeowner’s Meeting since at least 2021, when a huge expense for legal fees was proposed (after over over $11k […]
REPORT CARD: A Candid Review of the POHOA Board in 2024 Before Elections
Well, it’s been a little over 6 months since my last post. Shortly after the post, which was actually positive about actually addressing the stormwater drainage maintenance, the POHOA Board […]
SWEETHEART DEAL: QB Bookkeeper Gets 60% Raise While Board Ignores Quotes for Less Than Half The Cost!
It’s truly hard to believe the turn of events in the past 6 weeks at Poudre Overlook HOA: To people outside of Poudre Overlook, this sounds like impossible fiction. Extremely […]
FULL RECAP: For Those Who Have Lost The Plot
For those who are relatively new to this blog, or those who haven’t checked in for a while, it seems like there’s a good reason to briefly recap the events […]
DON’T QUOTE ME: POHOA Board Approves No-Bid Verbal Contract With Hutchinson After Gloria Jones Lies About Past Bids
The 4/9/24 POHOA Regular Board Meeting reached peak fiduciary hypocrisy when the third agenda item, coyly noted as only “COI” (which nobody would have a clue was Conflict of Interest) […]
STONEWALL CRUMBLES: POHOA Board Says Hutchinson Hired Without Written Contract
As speculated in my most recent article about why the POHOA Board was avoiding answering simple questions for more than a year about the hiring of Jennifer Hutchinson, the POHOA […]
BREACH OF DUTY: The Risks Of The POHOA Board Officially Engaging In Political Lobbying
On 1/2/24, POHOA President Lora Ballweber was called as the first speaker at the HOA Homeowners Rights Task Force meeting. I was signed up to speak as well, which has […]