Our Objectives
Fiscal Responsibility
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Ensure owners are getting the most value for their monthly investment. ​
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Work to reduce monthly dues.
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Responsibly manage the budget.
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Understand and remedy the annual overpayment of taxes.
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Ensure that our deposited funds are always insured by FDIC.
Fairness
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Making sure all areas of the community are represented and receiving the services and attention they need, not just where the Board members live.
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Listen to the complaints and concerns of all owners, providing kind responses.
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Making a genuine effort to help everyone, not just people that are friends with the Board.
Transparency
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Ensuring all business is conducted correctly and in a way that is complaint with Civil Codes.
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Maintain accurate and transparent meeting minutes to keep owners informed.
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Implement a monthly newsletter that highlights all actions of the Board featuring a summary of the last HOA meeting.
Professionalism
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Exercising ethical and respectful conduct at all times.
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Ensuring all contracts are reviewed annually, going out to bid as needed.
Fiscal Responsibility
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Although the WCWH HOA has been represented as a non-profit, we paid $54,456.00 in income taxes, plus penalties (document here) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021,
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As of March 31, 2020, $872,207.00 of our HOA funds were exposed to risk (document here) due to maintaining a cumulative balance over $250,000 (the amount protected by FDIC insurance limits) at one institution.
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There was also a concentration of risk in 2017 for $1,121,302.00 (document here) and in 2019 of $1,006,285.00 (document here).​
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A recent email from the board complained of high legal expenditures,. This is actually because the Election Committee chose to defend the Inspector of Election in a small claims lawsuit. Our HOA was NOT part of the lawsuit, and lawyers are not allowed in Small Claims cases, per the DCA.ca.gov website, but the Election Committee proceeded to use our money to defend the actions of the Inspector of Election, even after the Board President cited the Inspector’s mistakes during the 2020 election in a letter (document here) to homeowners dated April 2020.
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Our new Election rules mailed out June 2020, even indicates that if the Inspector of Election is negligent in their duties, they should have insurance that indemnifies the Association from their actions (document here).
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WCWH deserves a more competent Board that is accountable to its members and will work hard to protect our assets and save us money.
Fairness
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The sitting Board created an Executive Election Committee to make a decision about the outcome of the 2020 election, which they were running in, ultimately deciding to keep themselves seated rather than count the valid ballots.
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The election did not fail because we didn't have enough valid ballots, it failed because the Board did not want to recognize valid ballot.​
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West Hills Landscape Committee has spent over half a million in the past 15 months on trees for only a select portion of West Hills.​
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​​ex: They claim the sumac trees are damaging the streets, but are ignoring the same sumac trees at The Retreat pool (West Hills Area B) that could damage the pool plumbing and pool deck. All the while, the arbutus trees on Iron Village, Farrier and Blacksmith were first replaced. ​
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- ​After spending over one million dollars annually, one of the Landscape Committee members now works for the Landscape vendor.​, refer to meeting minutes for September 2019.
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The West Hills Landscape committee spends most freely in the areas closest to their homes (West Hills Area A).
- All members of the West Hills Landscape Committee live on the same street, that street has received the most landscape enhancements in the entire community. Their small Street has received over $81,932.50 in enhancements so far (document here).​​​
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All the areas of West Creek and West Hills should have equitable spending allocated and be looked after with the same thoughtfulness and care.
Transparency
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Moving money requires disclosure. The 2020 financial review (document here) shows that the Board moved $100,000 into the reserve account from the operating budget but this does not show up in any minutes.
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Conflicts of interest. 2 out of 4 members of the Executive Election Committee, responsible for voiding our 2020 election, were candidates in said election. Civil Code regarding conflicts of interest for Board directors can be found here. Members up for re-election should not have had a say in this decision. Invalidating legal votes and seating themselves for another year was unethical at best. The valid election should have gone forward, no matter what the outcome was.
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This was discussed in the June 2020 and July 2020 Zoom HOA meetings, although the Committee was formed in March 2020, when the Board was not holding HOA Member meetings. So members were unaware of what happened until months later.
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​To this day, most residents do not have a full understanding of why the 2020 election was voided. Official communications with the community were one-sided and lacked both scope and detail. Board Members' responses to valid inquiries from residents during meetings were unspecific and dismissive.
- ​The Board should not have been involved in making decisions about the election, per SB 323 (link here), but according to our Inspector of Election, he turned over the Election decision to the Board, when asked for transparency and information about the Election. (document here and here).
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​No matter who we vote for, our votes as residents should matter and be counted.​
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An increase in property taxes for the 2021-2022 year was not disclosed to residents, because of the possibility that it could reflect poorly on the Board. Documents from the City regarding this can be found (here). You can also verify this information by calling the City directly at (661) 259-2489 and ask to speak to the Land Management Division (LMD) Department.
Professionalism
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All homeowners deserve to be treated respectfully, regardless of whether or not Board Members like or agree with them. Board members and the President are regularly dismissive, hostile to HOA members during meetings and won't allow people to voice their valid questions or concerns. Let's bring civility back to our HOA meetings so that we can openly discuss ALL the issues pertinent to residents.
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Any Attorney General complaints filed against our HOA are confidential; however, it has become clear due to posts on social media and flyers circulating around the neighborhood that certain members of the community have detailed information about the complaints that they are not privy to. The Attorney General investigations are still pending and have yet to be resolved. Any information circulating that is stating the complaints are closed, is false and misleading. Leaking confidential AG complaints is not just unprofessional, it is illegal. ​