TAKE ACTION! Sacramento Votes to Burden Owners with Emergency Assessments

Try and hang onto your checkbook.

Sacramento lawmakers have voted YES to giving a SINGLE board director the power to levy emergency assessments based on unspecified “health and safety hazards.”

The chief architect of the bill is the Community Association Institute (CAI).

Monday’s vote was 74 “yes” and 5 abstentions by Cervantes, Essayli, Muratsuchi, Ortega, Soria,

So did YOUR Assembly Member vote YES to burden you with emergency assessments (or did your representative abstain)?  Look here to find out: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB900

If YOUR Assembly Member voted YES, then phone him/her to say how deeply disappointed you are that you gave board directors the power to get into your wallet without your say-so.

Can’t remember who your Assembly Member is?  Go here to find out: https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

SB900 is the legislation requiring homeowners to MAINTAIN AND REPAIR ALL UTILITY LINES coming into the subdivision.

Financing can be done through EMERGENCY ASSESSMENTS, which

  • Have no dollar cap
  • Don’t require a vote by homeowners
  • Yes, the HOA can foreclose on the owner who doesn‘t  — or can’t afford to — pay

The bill was just amended on the Assembly floor to let ONE board “start the process” of

  • Declaring an emergency for the entire association
  • Levying an emergency assessment on owners
  • Taking out a loan and using the assessments as collateral

Homeowners are already reporting “emergency assessments” of $4800 to $49,000.  [See “Homeowners Balk at Emergency Assessments” on the CCHAL Facebook page.] 

SB900 goes next to the Governor’s desk. Are there any homeowners who want to stop SB900? mail [email protected]

NOTE the new amendment saying that SB900 prevails no matter WHAT an association’s CC&Rs say about whose job it is to fix utility lines.
 
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