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NUISANCE SMOKE
Follow-Up
 In
response to my newsletter about incense,
Skip Daum, Administrator-Advocate
for
CAI's California Legislative Action Committee was kind enough to send me an
e-mail pointing out that a bill was introduced in the last legislative session
that would have provided that "the drifting, wafting, or blowing of tobacco smoke
into the interest of any other person in a common interest development was a
nuisance."
AB 210 also prohibited the
smoking of any tobacco-related product within any common area in a common
interest development. The bill allowed entities to assess additional fines or
penalties for a violations of the proposed statute. Skip reported that the bill
was "extinguished."
California Legislative Action
Committee. If you want to keep track of bills
affecting community associations, go to Skip Daum's website and sign up for his
e-mail alert. You can find it at
http://www.clac.org/7-1-1.htm.
QUESTION:
Our association has no HOPE (Home Owner Participation and Education). What can
we do?
 ANSWER: Very clever acronym! Like Jesse
Jackson's 1988 "Keep Hope Alive!" presidential campaign,
your association needs to take affirmative action to keep HOPE alive.
Sometimes the lack of participation is because members
are generally
satisfied with the board's handling of the association. Sometimes it is because
they don't want the responsibility. For some, it is the intimidation and
uncertainty of being on the board for the first time.
There is a wealth of printed information and
training available through professional organizations such as the
Community Associations
Institute, the California
Association of Community Managers, and the
Executive Council of Home Owners.
I encourage you to check them out.
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Sincerely
yours,
Adrian
J. Adams, Esq.
ADAMS & KESSLER LLP |
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