A Series about Minutes, Meetings & Effective Decisions

Keeping an engaged board can be crucial to making significant decisions in community associations.  This article series by Pat Crosscombe emphasizes the importance of managing your board so it can make the best decisions for your organization.  At Continental Bank, we have seen how difficult running a community association can be.  Each of these articles helps illustrate how crucial a well organized board and can help make your board effective against whatever issues may come your way.

Part 1: How to make Minutes SMART: Five Key Things

This article shares how when it comes to taking minutes, there really aren’t many boards that are excited about taking them.  In many cases, once they are recorded primarily for legal purposes, they are locked away in an old binder never to be looked at again. Pat shares how getting recording software can help you get the most of your board meetings by actually being able to easily access minutes from previous meetings.

Part 2: SMART meetings: get the most out of your board meetings

Most people aren’t usually excited about going to their board meetings. This article helps boards look at board meetings as an opportunity to be efficient as compared to being an unwanted chore.

Part 3: How to be the Best Homeowner Association Property Manager

Property Managers can make or break a community association’s efficiency.  Today, there are many tools property managers can use to be effective and efficient.  Establishing clear criteria in relationships between property managers and community associations can help both parties have a healthy relationship and allow the organization to operate efficiently.

Part 4: Effective decision making for board of directors: Three easy steps

Planning ahead can make problems much easier to deal with when they arise.  This article shares how scoping issues and properly looking them over can help tackle whatever issues your organization is taking on.