Since the current Board took office in June 2025, the Executive Board has made major decisions affecting your home and your money — a questionable $112,000 special assessment, the roofing contract, the cable cancellation, and more — without the open meetings, owner participation, and proper votes that Connecticut law requires. And when owners acted to hold the annual election the Bylaws require, the Board's management company told every owner, in writing, to disregard it.
Read the Full AccountThe Association Bylaws require an Annual Meeting every June for the purpose of electing a Director (§3.1). That date can be changed only by formally amending the Bylaws, which itself requires notice to all unit owners (Declaration Article XVI). No amendment was made, no election was held, and owners were never told the June meeting would not take place.
The Bylaws give any single owner the right to call that meeting — the annual meeting to elect a Director — when the Association fails to do so (§2.1). When an owner did exactly that and mailed notice to all 60 owners, the Board's property manager told every owner to disregard it as “invalid.” A board that refuses the lawful remedy for a missed election is not describing an oversight.
Read the full account, with the governing text →Regardless of whether you live at Sherwood Arms or own a unit as an investment, the following documented facts directly affect your financial interest in this property.
Under both the Association's Declaration (§19.6) and Connecticut law (CGS §47-261e), a special assessment exceeding fifteen percent of the annual budget must be put to owners for its own ratification — its own summary and its own vote. At $112,000 — roughly 43% of the budget — this assessment was far over that threshold, yet it was embedded in the annual budget ratification instead of being put to a vote of its own.
Connecticut law requires the Executive Board to meet openly, to make minutes available to owners, and to notify owners of any action it takes (CGS §47-250; Declaration §25.1). Since the current Board took office in June 2025, no minutes of any Board meeting have been provided to owners — including the one meeting the Board did hold, in July 2026 — and no authenticated record of any Board vote or decision has been communicated to them.
Careful management built the Association's reserve account to $278,269 by April 2025 — specifically to fund major projects without special assessments. Per the balance sheet the Board distributed at its July 9, 2026 meeting, the reserve stood at $192,021 as of June 30, 2026, with $144,000 drawn for the roofing project. The fund that took more than a decade to build was reduced by roughly $86,000 in a little over a year — even as owners were separately assessed $112,000.
Because the Association failed to hold its required Annual Meeting, any unit owner can now call one — and elect new Board members to the open seat. A single owner is enough to begin.
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