First I’m a retired Corporate Director from a Fortune 500 Company owning and operating Nuclear Power Plants across the eastern half of the United States. I left that Company in 2008 after 30 years and consulted the Nuclear Industry thru the completion of 2012. Since then I’ve been an advocate for homeowners and reform of HOA’s and Condominiums in the state of Arizona. My advocacy began in 2010 when I was elected to the HOA board and as the Treasurer of my community in North Scottsdale. It was incredible to me what was going on in secret and behind closed doors in my small community of just 86 homes. I took my association to court for violations of open meeting laws via abuses of executive sessions, and e-mail meeting and actions without a meeting, and prevailed. I approached both AACM Arizona Association of Community Managers and CAI Community Associations Institute if they would use my case to help educate community managers and board members on the true meaning and intent of the open meeting laws. They refused, and I made it my life’s work to get better laws and more clarity in laws protecting the rights and the abilities of members in these communities to truly govern themselves. I established our Coalition from a working group of homeowners assembled by Senator Farnsworth (Mesa), in 2016.
We have 5 registered lobbyist that I lead and while a major part of what we do is to both write and support legislation to help homeowners and to provide for these communities to be run the way they were meant to be run, but we are also at the legislature speaking to each and every one of the 90 senators and Representatives and to the Governor’s staff and any state agency heads involved in these common interest communities, to advocate for the homeowner and for the first time give the 3.5 Million homeowners who live in these communities a voice at the state House.
We and I are not attorneys we provide advice to homeowners based on our knowledge of the literal law and our experience in dealing with HOA/Condo issues across the state. We have no membership fees and we have no charges for any support that we provide. (Clearly we are not attorneys) We are a totally voluntary organization and no one receives any compensation for what they do to help others. We have a web site, Arizona Homeowners Coalition to provide homeowners information, and support.
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