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As always, if there are any errors in this information please let us know and we will correct them. At the recent MCA Board meeting, the Board passed by a 6-3 majority TWO budgets: One without a deal with Benderson Development and one with a deal. The budget was passed without ANY discussion, even though…

Many Meadows Homeowners are looking for a place to discuss governance issues, especially related to the difficult decisions The Meadows is facing. Facebook isn’t perfect but can be useful for such discussions. So we’ve created a new Facebook Group to do just that called “For The Meadows”. You can join by searching for the group…

First a little background. We as MCA Homeowners elect Board members, and then the Board Members elect their Officers: President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. The Board has the power to change the Officers at any time. None of these Officer positions hold much power. The details from our Bylaws are provided in Footnote 1 (below),…

The deadline for submitting an “application” is THIS FRIDAY October 3 at 3:00pm. See our previous post Want to make a DIFFERENCE in The Meadows? for the details on why and how to apply. We need skilled knowledgeable homeowners as Directors during this critical time in our history. You can always drop out after applying, so…

Conservation Easements became of great interest to Meadows residents when they were part of Benderson Development Corporation’s (“BDC”) proposed binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) to The Meadows. The MCA President sent out an information email that covered many aspects of Conservation Easements (“CE”). This post is intended to supplement that information with the economic implications…

The process to become an MCA Board Director has begun! Below is a “reprint” of an article in the September Meadoword. We’re sending the article out via this channel in case you missed the article but would like to make a difference in The Meadows (or know someone who would). MCA BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION…

An agenda for a Special meeting of the MCA Board was posted to the MCA website Tues August 19 about 6:00pm. This meeting was not announced via Constant Contact so we are passing it on via this channel (email notification is not a legal requirement but has been a very welcome recent practice of the…

The following was posted by Richard Sommerfeld on the Meadows Bulletin Board Facebook page (a resident run Facebook group). We know everyone isn’t on that Facebook group so we are sharing it with our subscribers. The PDF below explains the MCA’s assessments and reserves. It attempts to answer the questions raised by Susan Chapmen at…

The following was sent to the MCA board of directors this morning. The intent is to constructively suggest to the board what needs to be done to deal with the vexing situation with our sports complex. Much of what follows was previously recommended to the MCA back in early April (74 days ago) but ignored.…

This note was written by Richard Sommerfeld. He sent it to the entire MCA board this morning and posted it on Facebook. It has a lot of important information to help the MCA Board and MCA Homeowners better understand our situation. Yesterday’s email update from MCA included this paragraph: “Also on the agenda is the…