The February board meeting is less about events and more about how our association functions. Several agenda items affect how information flows, how participation works, and how we structure long-term governance.

The January Board of Directors meeting covered a wide range of operational, governance, and committee matters. Several decisions made during the meeting affect how compliance actions begin, how and when members can participate during meetings, and how committee work will be scheduled and noticed going forward.

The membership section is actually very personal. It answers basic questions like: Who gets to vote?  Who can run for the board?  Who is officially a member of the association? That’s why we’re taking our time with it.

An overview of major topics surfaced at the planning meeting.

At the same time, community organizations are shaped not only by what they manage, but by how people interact within them. Events play a central role in that process. They create repeated, visible opportunities for neighbors to gather, observe norms, and learn what kinds of participation are possible.

Our purpose is to protect members, the Board, and the Association’s shared assets by ensuring our governing documents support predictable, fair, and workable processes in a volunteer-run community.

When members are told to step back and be quiet, the board doesn’t get to “do its work” more effectively — it just does it with less information, less trust, and less legitimacy.

When we demand how the work, it’s a signal that the issue isn’t procedural. It’s cultural. It’s distinction between support and compliance.

This site includes different kinds of writing, each with a specific purpose. Being clear about those purposes helps readers understand what they’re reading, how to use it, and where opinion and analysis fit. We don’t aim to sound neutral. We aim to be transparent.

At its core, HB 2118 limits an HOA’s ability to retroactively tighten use restrictions on homeowners without their consent. For Ken Lake, that touches several real and recurring areas of friction.

This meeting revisits how the board governs, not just what it decides.

This article prepares residents for the January Board meeting by explaining what the agenda items mean in practice, what authority exists, and what precedent or process has been used before.

The governance committee is recruiting members to work on it's subcommittees, making recommendations in direction as well as in the language that we will use to support each other for the next decade.

Sunshine laws are rules that make decision-making easy for the public to see. In Washington, two sets of rules often get mixed together: The Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA, RCW 42.30) The Homeowners’ Association Act (RCW 64.38) Only the second one applies to HOAs, but both help us understand how meetings should work and how to keep things open and clear for everyone. This article explains what each law does and what it means for our meetings, hybrid formats, a

We attended the Nov 25th Executive Session so you don't have to! We'll cover the issues and include a little background for each, as well as questions we have as we move forward.

This post explains how we communicate, how we correct misinformation, and what residents can expect from us going forward.

No matter how this election turns out, we’ll still see each other around the lake, and we’ll still wave as we pass by. That’s what makes this community special — and worth taking care of, together.

The goal isn’t to replace compliance — it’s to add a layer of care that ensures we respond to challenges humanely and consistently.

At its core, Robert’s Rules of Order is a framework for fair, orderly, and democratic decision-making. It’s been used for over a century by organizations of all kinds — city councils, nonprofits, and neighborhood associations — to make sure that meetings are both efficient and fair.

This month, as the board struggled with decisions concerning legal action, I find myself referring back to Section 7B of our covenants, which outlines exactly how the approval process must work. It’s not a trivial point. It’s about fairness, documentation, and trust. This section protects your homeowner’s rights.