Insights & News

A:     We’re not prepared for our annual meeting which is in August. We’d like to reschedule for September. Can we do that or should we just have an unprepared annual meeting in August to just say we had one? B:     While we would normally not advise a board […]

Q:     We want to clean up the property next door to our association. The association does not own the property. It’s less money to just have it cleaned up compared to getting the current owner to clean it up. We would have permission from the owner. As a board […]

David Ramsey, Community Association shareholder in our New York and Morristown, NJ, offices, spoke with The Cooperator in its June edition about very specific ways he helped Rossmoor Community Association stay on top of risk to lower its liability. As seen in David Ramsey in The NY & NJ Cooperator Reducing Liabilities […]

Hearty congratulations go out to J. David Ramsey, shareholder in Becker & Poliakoff’s community association practice group. David was recently honored with the Distinguished Service Award at the Community Associations Institute’s (CAI) Annual Conference Awards dinner in Las Vegas. The Distinguished Service Award is CAI’s most prestigious award and is periodically presented […]

Despite the fact that we live in a transparent age, there are legitimate concerns and reasons for board members to keep certain information confidential. Disclosure of confidential information by a board member could compromise the association or present an unwarranted invasion of privacy upon another. For example, liability on the […]