01-15-2018, 05:57 PM
(01-15-2018, 05:41 PM)chutten Wrote: That jives with my understanding, yes. The HOA has a charter which permits it to collect fees against the domiciles within its remit to do... pretty much whatever they want. Pretty sure they could just shovel it into the Sports Coordinator's pockets under a majority vote.
But ours mostly keeps the greenspaces, staffs the pool with lifeguards, and replaces the lights on the tennis court. It also negotiated the construction of a trail bridge with the City... and (before my time) successfully lobbied against the routing of a local-service bus route through the neighbourhood.
I figure expanding the fees to cover snow removal would make sense. Efficiencies of scale from a single payer, universal quality of service (paths would be cleared equally well throughout the neighbourhood, at more or less the same time), ... the only thing is, I have no idea how expensive this would be, or even where to get started in looking it up.
If I'm to have a proposal to submit at the AGM, I should probably do the legwork.
That’s actually a really cool idea, and I hope you continue to investigate it. It might act as a “pilot project” for City-managed sidewalk clearing.