Vote NO on the Recall!
AND
Vote FOR the Current Board!
We must not allow opportunists to threaten Cabrini’s financial health!
Why it’s important to
Vote NO on the recall.
Most of the pro-recall candidates lack any form of HOA Board experience. All of them have actively refused to join the current Board to gain that experience.
Most of the pro-recall candidates have expressed a desire to allow friends and family to work at Cabrini as vendors, and possibly employees. This is precisely how millions of dollars were stolen from our community in the past, and allowing this guarantees that it may happen again.
Most of the pro-recall candidates have expressed a clear intent to remove many of the safeguards and protection features that have been put in place to protect Cabrini’s finances.
None of the pro-recall candidates have presented a vision for the future of Cabrini past the roofing project, and the 2024 elections.
Recall Candidates
Have little to zero HOA Board experience.
Some candidates were all but REMOVED from previous Boards!
Want to allow friends, family and neighbors to work at Cabrini, putting our money at risk again.
Want to give Board-Level powers to un-elected Committee members.
Will open HOA to legal liability by publishing sensitive documents online.
Want to remove current management, and replace with their own people.
Want to remove extensively vetted vendors, and replace with their own people.
Have no professional experience in Finance, Accounting, etc.
Why you should
Vote FOR the Current Board.
The Current Board has professional experience working with Fortunate 500 companies, while occupying leadership positions. This experience has allowed the Current Board to keep Cabrini afloat, and slowly turn our massive community into a more stable position.
The Current Board has laid out a 6-year roadmap how to deal with all the needed capital projects while keeping the reserves steady and avoiding future loans. This roadmap has been shared with the community and is the most sensible approach to move beyond 2024.
The Current Board has fought aggressively to reign in cost increases, go after delinquent accounts, mitigate potentially disastrous litigation costs, and implement policies to save our money wherever possible.
The Current Board are long-term thinkers, planning for a Cabrini that can last beyond 2024, and into the future.
Current Board
Has increased the reserve account by $4,599,442 since joining.
Has collected over $400,000 in unpaid dues by aggressively pursuing delinquent accounts.
Overseen completion of the Soft-Story Retrofit project, saving over $22,000,00 in potential costs.
Has been rebuilding critical infrastructure such as; electrical, retaining walls, fencing, and water drainage.
Has streamlined the Office back-end by migrating to digital systems, improving efficiency and communications.
Developed and implemented long-term maintenance plans for critical infrastructure upkeep.
Has implemented a multi-year plan for gradual landscape transition to address California Bill AB 1572.
Has developed and implemented strict vendor vetting guidelines, leading to almost ZERO callbacks.
Long-term thinkers, planning 20 to 30 years out, not just year to year or project to project.
Has collectively spent over 2880 hours working for the good of Cabrini.
8,271
Completed Service Requests
$400,000+
Delinquent Cash Recovered
$4,599,442
Added to Reserves
$23,230,450
saved due to board policies
Committees
The Current Board is more than open to the formation of committees. In fact, requests for committee members have been a common theme during open meetings, written about in the newsletter, and e-blasted to the entire community.
To avoid potential legal liabilities, Committees must always be formed in an advisory-only role, and NEVER given decision making powers.
Expecting committees to handle the duties of Board members is an unacceptable attitude, and demonstrates a lack of desire to fully commit to the level of responsibility and accountability being on an HOA Board requires.
Finances
The Current Board has already implemented multiple forms of detailed financial reports.
The Board receives detailed financial reports every month, for all books. Includes GL, AP/AR, Balance Sheet, etc. Additional trends and forecast modelling has been implemented to help guide long-term financial decision making.
The Community is provided with a full financial breakdown every year, which can be found with on the HOA website.
Every year, an external financial auditor combs through the HOA’s books, and provides recommendations to the Board, as well as compiles a report that is provided to the entire community in the yearly financial packet.
Bylaws and CC&R’s
Expanding the size of the Board from 5 members to 7, is a counter-productive idea, that will make daily operations even more difficult.
Many HOA’s across the country have in fact reduced their Board member counts from 5 members to 3.
To conduct business, HOA Board’s need to meet an internal quorum for every meeting. Raising the member count from 5 to 7, will increase the internal quorum requirement from 3 to 4, making it more difficult to establish quorum.
For many years, Cabrini has been unable to achieve even an reduced quorum for elections. Last year, the only 3 candidates to run for the Board, were the Current Board members.
Increasing the Board member count from 5 to 7 will make it even more difficult to fill seats during an election.
HOA Records
Allowing complete access to sensitive HOA documents is problematic for multiple reasons including; potential legal liability, the potential for vendors to see estimates/contracts/etc which could allow them to undercut competitors just to secure the job, making it very easy for documents to be leaked to the internet, and more.
Cabrini already allows members to inspect ALL records that they were legally entitled to, as long as homeowners individually request them from the Office.
Management
Cabrini has gone through a roller coaster with trying to find managers and get them to stay. The Current Board has been able to successfully establish a system that will work now and in the future.
Throwing money at management is counter-productive, and will not resolve any perceived issues. This has already been tried by multiple Board’s both past and current. Cabrini is a massive community, and no matter how well you pay them, a single person will never be able to manage it all.
On-site HOA Managers MUST be CAI certified, and to work at Cabrini, should at the very least have a PCAM and experience working with a similarly sized community.
Multiple back-end services have been implemented to help support the Office by streamlining workflows, allowing the Office to finally operate more effectively.
Management has already been provided with clear metrics and goals that they must meet on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis. Since our current Manager, Chris Raimey, has come onboard, they have met every single goal set for them.
Vendors and Employees
In-house staff, specifically maintenance and security, were cut many years ago due to the shear amount of insurance claims and litigation they introduced. It eventually got to the point that it was vastly more financially cost-effective to outsource the work than continue keeping them in-house.
The Current Board has already implemented systems to evaluate vendors based on pricing, work quality, availability, and more.
When evaluating who to give a project to, the Current Board operates on a minimum 3 bid system. Management is required to provide comparable and competing bids from 3 different vendors, allowing to the Board to make effective decisions.
An additional 3rd party vendor-evaluation system is used that verifies if vendors have the correct licenses, and will not present legal liability.