I’m glad we have some nice folks on the board, neighborly types. That poor family with the husband/father passing was quite new to the neighborhood, so nobody really knew why all the cars were there one weekend. Then the grass grew in his absence. I don’t think that one woman was the least bit ashamed of herself for sending that letter first. That’s how she handled everything. Oh, yes, this happened during the pandemic, too. He may have even been a covid casualty. Nobody really wanted to pry like that, but it could have been that.
I like your idea of condensing things down to one page front and back. Our documents on the website are almost 20 pages long. I know that’s for legal stuff, but condensing it would be great.
Ours, too—a fat pack of paper in legalese.
Someone on our board was a copywriter with desktop publishing experience, who condensed a draft from the by-laws. It was submitted to the HOA's lawyer who reviewed and added a small piece of boilerplate before it could be finalized in an attractive layout and distributed. It many months of back and forth, but for those of us who really needed relief from several issues, it has worked well.