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About QMW
Quail Meadows West is a group of 115 homes but a community of neighbors who feel life should be lived within a social framework. Gated and impeccably maintained, this private and gated community offers many activities and amenities not found in your typical association. We enjoy our community clubhouse, swim in the heated swimming pool, bask in the large spa or play billiards in the library.
2025 January Letter from Our Chairperson​
News for 2025
AB 2159/Section 5105 of the Civil Code was signed into law: HOA will be required to set up internet-based voting system for electronic elections. There will be a opt-in or opt-out process for delivery notice for those who prefer paper ballots. This will require a third party company to manage the process online. www.electionbuddy.com is one such company. Due to this new law we will need to investigate the online business options available to the HOA. A new Civil Code Section 5110 (c)(4) provides the technical requirements for electronic voting, regarding the security of the system, authentication of member identity and separation of voter identity from the vote cast.
AB 2460. Under existing law, in any member elections, a quorum is required only where the law requires it—e.g., to approve special assessments under Civil Code section 5605(b)—or the HOA’s governing documents require it. If a required quorum is not reached, an HOA may adjourn the election meeting for at least 20 days, at which time the quorum requirement drops to 20% of the members who are present (in person, by secret ballot, or by proxy). Also under the existing law, HOAs are required to provide notice at least 15 days before the initial meeting, but no notice as to the reconvened meeting. AB 2460 amends Civil Code section 5115 and Corporations Code section 7512 in stating that if a quorum isn’t reached at the initial meeting, the same 20-day prior remains, but then regardless of what the governing documents state, the new quorum requirement is 20% of the members voting in person, by ballot, electronic, or by proxy (unless the governing documents have a lower threshold, in which case the lower threshold will prevail). The new law also requires the HOA to provide at least 15 days’ notice of the reconvened meeting.
§799.10 POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SIGNS AMENDED HOA RULES AND REGULATIONS.
Due to much consternation in the community regarding the conflict between the HOA NO sign policy (Real Estate excluded) we are now forced to amend our Rules and Regulations using the California Civil Code on political campaign signage. This will attempt to resolve the first amendment issues brought up in my discussions with homeowners.
“A resident may not be prohibited from displaying a political campaign sign relating to a candidate for election to public office or to the initiative, referendum, or recall process in the window or on the side of a manufactured home or mobile home, or within the site on which the home is located or installed. The size of the face of all political signs may not exceed six square feet, and the sign(s) may not be displayed in excess of a period of time from 90 days prior to an election to 15 days following the election, unless a local ordinance within the jurisdiction where the manufactured home or mobile home subject to this article is located imposes a more restrictive period of time for the display of such a sign. In the event of a conflict between the provisions of this section and the provisions of Part 5 (commencing with Section 4000) of Division 4, relating to the size and display of political campaign signs, the provisions of this section shall prevail.”
Happy New Year!
M. Anderson
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