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The primary purpose of this website is to help you stay informed about the community through a series of Blog Posts.  These posts provide factual information about the Meadows Community Association (MCA).  The Blog covers financial information, MCA Board election information, the MCA’s relationship with The Meadows Country Club (TMCC), and a series of related issues.

  • The Renaissance Card, Benefit or Waste of Money?

    NOTE: This post was created by Joe Moore during his 2023 MCA Board member campaign. The Renaissance Card got it’s beginning in June, 2019 when Jan Lazar (MCA Board Treasurer) wrote a proposal entitled, “Community Membership Plan”. which mentioned a “Community Membership Card that would allow all owners and residents of the community to access…

  • Do Our Governing Documents Limit Assessment Increases?

    NOTE: This post was created by Joe Moore during his 2023 MCA Board member campaign. Question: Is there a limit on how much our assessments can increase? When the Meadows was originally developed, the developers put a limit on assessments in our “Declaration of Maintenance Covenants and Restrictions on the Commons for the Meadows”. On…

  • Lets learn from the experience of others

    NOTE: This post was created by Joe Moore during his 2023 MCA Board member campaign. I received this letter from a friend and I thought it was worth sharing: Greetings: We have sold our home and we are moving back home to be closer to our kids. We’ll miss the weather and our Friends but…

  • Using a 5-Year Financial Plan to Manage Spending

    NOTE: This post was created by Joe Moore during his 2023 MCA Board member campaign. Under our current governing documents the MCA has total control over the budgeting and spending process. During the past 5 years we spent more than $10 million managing the day to day operations. Another $13 million was spent to buy…

  • History of the “Renaissance Plan”

    NOTE: This post was created by Joe Moore during his 2023 MCA Board member campaign. Recently I decided to read nearly all of the Meadoword issues during the past several years in an effort to understand how the Renaissance Plan evolved. In addition to the Meadoword, I used the original “Renaissance Plan” developed and published…

  • Understanding Financial Statements

    NOTE: This post was created by Joe Moore during his 2023 MCA Board member campaign. Unless you have experience in financial accounting, it can be difficult to understand how to read financial statements. The best place to start is to learn some of the basics of such statements. To begin, it is helpful to establish…

  • MCA Spending has outpaced Revenue Over the past five years!

    NOTE: This post was created by Joe Moore during his 2023 MCA Board member campaign. Most homeowners don’t pay attention to the assessments (taxes) that are charged or how those assessments are spent. We can normally trust the records because they are reviewed by an independent accounting firm and we follow rules called Generally Accepted…

  • Community Survey Yields Disturbing Results

    NOTE: This post was created by Joe Moore during his 2023 MCA Board member campaign. Results of our resident initiated community wide survey are now finalized and they show that the MCA board has very little support for their current Tax and Spend policies. On April 15, 2021 we mailed nearly 600 surveys to randomly…

  • An Investigative Report into the Financial Relationship between TMCC and MCA

    NOTE: This post was created by Joe Moore during his 2023 MCA Board member campaign. In 2018 the Meadows Community Association (MCA) decided to buy most of the land and building assets and the liabilities of The Meadows Country Club. Since then there has been a close working relationship between the two organizations which is…