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A Letter
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Colorado Senate Bill 100 vs CAI attorneys
What one CAI lawfirm says about SB05-100
April 22, 2005
By
Jan Jackson
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Copyright Colorado Homeowner Association News
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No rest for the weary homeowners who live in Colorado's homeowners associations (HOAs). The ink has hardly dried on Governor Owens signature on Senate Bill 100, and the Community Associations Institute attorneys are already chomping at the power-and-money bit !!
Colorado Senate Bill 100, a bill that's supposed to help protect HOA homeowners, states that the following Colorado Revised Statute is amended/added to read: "The board may authorize, and account for as a common expense, reimbursement of board members for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in attending educational meetings and seminars on responsible governance of unit owners; associations. The course content of such educational meetings and seminars shall be specific to Colorado, and shall make reference to applicable sections of this article." Senate Bill 100 also states that 38-33.3-209.7 is amended/added to read: "The association shall provide, or cause to be provided, education to owners at no cost on at least an annual basis as to the general operations of the association and the rights and responsibilities of owners, the association, and executive board under Colorado law. The criteria for compliance with this section shall be determined by the executive board."
Orten & Hindman, a law firm in the Denver, Colorado, area whose members are all (except one, last I knew) members of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) appears to be one of those bit chomping winners at the lotsa-money-to-be-had-from-association-homeowners starting gate because one of the things they have always done here in Colorado is "educate" HOA boards of directors, management company personnel, and other vendors about homeowners associations.
Now Orten & Hindman is coming to my area of Colorado to "educate" our local associations' boards of directors with the blessings -- or so it appears -- of our state's government. Orten & Hindman's introduction here is being sponsored by a group called "The Teller County Alliance of Property Owners Association," the reputation of which is well known in my area of Colorado by anyone who has been paying attention to local political and HOA issues here.
So, since it appears that many of the disastrous things that are happening/have happened to HOA homeowners nationally are a result of HOA boards of directors being "educated" and represented by CAI attorneys, we HOA homeowners here in my area of Colorado appear to be headed for a living nightmare -- socially and financially -- the legal shenanigan depths of which many of us have never experienced before. We're tough here in this area of Colorado, though. Therefore, we will not only survive this latest onslaught to our homeowner rights, but we will show this nation how we defeated it.
In the meantime, in plannning for next year's Colorado legislative session, we will probably seek to remove/repeal the two above-mentioned amendments/additions to CCIOA (the Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act) because by that time, we no doubt will have many new homeowner "horror stories" to relate to our legislators about the "education" of our boards of directors by CAI attorneys, and the horrific negative social and financial consequences to homeowners of that "education."
Posted Jun 10 2005 9:11AM CEST
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Jan Jackson
Florissant, Colorado |
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