sidewalk hosing frequency

Our HOA has hosing at the entrances of our buildings only, twice a week but NO regular hosings of the rest of the sidewalk around the buildings. (we have 3 buildings in a row, so 3 entrances) But most of the sidewalk around the building is not in front of an entrance so it doesn't get regularly hosed. They only time they do hosing is if they see a problem. Is this normal?
our previous hoa manager used to have pressure hosing with warm water all around the building once a week in the summer.
He left and this summer they didn't do it.
Yet some poeple complain of dog urine smell. I don't smell it but the doggies do and it encourages them to pee more.
They want us to take our doggies away from the building across the street to pee on someone else's sidewalk.
Since i have a small doggie i can carry her across the street. (no, there are no parks in our neighborhood)
But sometimes even when she has peed many times on other people's sidewalks, when i bring her back home, she smells something and tries to make a tiny little drop of a pee onto the sidewalk and i am afraid someone will see her do it and think it is more than a drop.
I think it would be easier to obey the rules if they would have some regular hosing.
What is normal in HOA maintanence for hosing sidewalks.
Is it normal to only have regular hosing at the part of the sidewalk that is in front of the entrance and to leave the rest of the sidewalk without regular hosing even in the summer?
We have over a million dollars in reserves.

Sounds like regular maintenance, to me.

Make it a health concern, now. Complain about the smell to the board.

(Your situation points up the conflict when the HOA approves pets, then does not have either a doggie park or walk/park area where owners can take their dogs. So they must do their "thing" on the main property - or on other's property.

I'd say that sidewalk cleaning would come out of your operating budget. Our downtown 2 high rise towers are surrounded by 4 city-block length sidewalks. Two get a lot of pedestrian traffic. Our custodians maintain them every morning--sweep leaves (this time of year), mop up spills (& sometimes worse), do general sweeping. This is built into our contract with our custodial vendor. A city service power washes them once a week.

You might want to look at your annual budget, see what the annual line item $ is for custodial is in '11 and compare that with the '10 budget. (Or perhaps such maintenance is in your landscaping budget.) If you see a reduction in price from '10 to '11, it's possible that your board has tried to reduce expenses.

I like Tim's advice, though, go to a board meeting and ask them! See if you can get interested neighbors to go with you. If directors hem & haw, then look at the budget. If you do have an onsite property mgr., s/he might easily be able to answer your questions, though.

Barbara makes a good point. the city service that power washes our sidewalks once a week recycles the water they use via a hose apparatus & truck that accompanies the workers. No residential or commercial buildings in our area are permitted to power wash unless they recycle the water, or hose off their sidewalks.