Not able to obtain past meeting minutes.

Recent issue has come across our path.

I have requested by email several times for past meeting minutes on meetings I have not been able to attend.

Our HOA does not post minutes in s communal area, nor do they mail them out as a cost saving measure, they also do NOT post them to their website.

I have emailed our management company 4times in the last month. NO answer, no response.

Last request I cc'd our HOA Pres and the management's office manager.

Any suggestions. Something doesn't feel right here. Not so much from our HOA, but the management company.

Tim's approach makes sense. and I agree with him that emails alone might not be sufficient. Noe that Time directed you, Michelle, to davis-sterling.com, where you can find answers to many questions since you're in CA.

Also ask for a copy of your HOA's contract with the Mgmt. Co. You also need to allow time to receive this and may have to pay for a copy. In this contract, look for a clause that states that the M.C may not obey directives from the board that oppose your governing docs or CA laws. If the clause is there, point it out to to the office manager and ask again for copies of the minutes that you want.

You may only have minutes from open meetings, not from executive session.

Michell

Many minutes are nothing put Motions made and actions on such. They are far from word for word what happened. I have seen minutes from 4 hour meetings that were less then one page long.

Minutes should be made public but they might not be ready until shortly after the next meeting as the prior meetings minutes must be reviewed and approved before being published. If the BOD meets monthly, typiclly the published minutes for that meeting will be available about 5 weeks later.

In one HOA we audio tape recorded our meetings and anybody could have a copy for the nominal cost of $50.00 and we required a 30 day notice. These tapes were the only place you could hear the meeeting word for word.

I am requesting minutes from over 3 months ago... and they were already approved.

Saying this, I will wait to see if we get a response.

Per Davis Sterling is right, I will once again have to include that in my next certified mail to the management company if there is no response to my requests.