Governance — Willow Bend HOA

BOARD

Five directors, elected to three-year terms. Three seats are on the December ballot.

DirectorTerm

Priya ShahPresident · since 2024

Dec 2024 – Dec 2027

BIO

Shah is a civil engineer with Jacobs in Boise. She moved to Willow Bend in 2016 and chaired the landscape committee before joining the board. Her 2024 statement emphasized finishing the reserve study cycle and keeping dues predictable.
Candidate statements →

Marcus HaleVice President

Dec 2024 – Dec 2027

BIO

Hale owns a small commercial-property firm in Meridian. A Phase 2 owner since 2011, he served on the ACC from 2019 to 2023. He asked to keep the private roads on a ten-year overlay schedule rather than a single replacement.
Candidate statements →

Ellen MarshTreasurer · on the ballot

Dec 2023 – Dec 2026

BIO

Marsh is a CPA at a Treasure Valley accounting firm. She has lived at Lot 118 since 2014. She is running for a second term and has asked owners to keep the reserve contribution at 18 percent of the operating budget.
2026 candidate statement →

Dan OkaforSecretary · on the ballot

Dec 2023 – Dec 2026

BIO

Okafor teaches at Boise State and has lived in Phase 3 since 2018. He organized the 2025 playground resurfacing and wants the board to publish quarterly financials in plain language.
2026 candidate statement →

Sue LindqvistDirector · on the ballot

Dec 2023 – Dec 2026

BIO

Lindqvist retired from St. Luke’s administration. A Phase 1 owner since 2007, she has served two prior terms. She is running again on pool hours, the landscape contract, and keeping the annual meeting in February.
2026 candidate statement →

NEXT ELECTION

Ballots due December 30

Four candidates · three seats

How to run →

MANAGEMENT

Westgate

Boise, Idaho

Contact →

ACC MEMBERS

Board-appointed committee.
Three to five members.

Lena Ortiz

Tom Bridger

Amira Cole

Wes Park

ACC review process → FAQ: ACC approval process →

Appointed by the board, March 2025. See the annual meeting minutes and the design guidelines.

DOCUMENTS & CONTRACTS

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CC&Rs·First Amendment·Bylaws·Articles·2004 Plat·Design Guidelines·Rules·ACC Notice & Appeal·Landscape RFP 2027

FINANCIAL RECORDS

Balances reported to owners
at the annual meeting.

$890,400

Capital reserve · 62% funded

$186,420

Operating account

$42,150

ACC deposits

$18,600

Landscape escrow

As of 30 November 2025. 2026 budget adopted, dues held at $285 a quarter.

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FINANCES & DUES

Dues$285 / Quarter

How to PayWestgate bills owners directly · due in 30 days

SPENDING & VOTING

Property the Association owns.
Who decides, and when owners vote.

WHAT THIS COVERS

Association Property is defined in Article I as “all real and personal property in which the Association holds any right, title, or interest, including easement rights along the willow corridor.” Section 6.04 names the swimming pool and spa, the pickleball courts, the bowling alley, the playground, the linear park, mail kiosks, and any and all Association roads, streets and rights of way.

Work on your own lot — painting, re-roofing, decks, additions, landscaping, tree removal — follows a separate path through the Architectural Control Committee. Architectural Review →

The Association

EVERY OWNER

A nonprofit Idaho corporation. Every owner is a member of it by virtue of owning a lot, and each lot carries one vote.

SECTIONS 6.01 A · 6.02 A · 6.03 A

The Board

FIVE DIRECTORS

The Board of Directors of the Master Association, elected by the members.

ARTICLE I, DEFINITIONS

Yearly Assessments

THE BOARD DECIDES

SECTION 10.02 YEARLY ESTIMATES OF ASSESSMENTS · SECTION 10.03 PAYMENT OF ASSESSMENTS

At least thirty days before each fiscal year the Board estimates the year’s expenses, including replacement reserves for streets, the pool, courts, bowling alley, playground, irrigation and the willow-corridor park. A sum sufficient to cover it is assessed equally on every lot. Should that sum prove inadequate, the Association may levy a further assessment at any time, equally on every lot. Section 10.03 makes Assessments payable in equal monthly instalments, or in whatever manner the Board designates. Willow Bend bills quarterly.

Construction or demolition on Association property, over $75,000

51% OF VOTES CAST

SECTION 6.05 M · CONSTRUCTION AND ASSOCIATION PROPERTY · PAGE 22

The Association may, with the approval of the Architectural Control Committee, construct new Improvements or additions to the Association Properties or demolish existing Improvements; provided that in the case of any Improvements, additions or demolition (other than maintenance or repairs to existing Improvements) involving a total expenditure in excess of Seventy-Five Thousand and No/100ths Dollars ($75,000.00) the consent of fifty-one percent (51%) of the voting power of the members voting in person or by proxy at a regular or special meeting called for that purpose shall first be obtained. The Association shall levy a special Assessment on all Owners for the cost of such work.

The vote belongs to the owners. The Board cannot approve such work on its own.
Consent comes first, before the work.
Maintenance and repairs to existing improvements sit outside this, at any cost.

Selling, dedicating or borrowing against Association property

66⅔% OF ALL OWNERS, IN WRITING

SECTION 6.05 N · CONVEYANCE OF ASSOCIATION PROPERTY · AS REPLACED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT, 12 MARCH 2011

The Association shall not convey, exchange, dedicate, transfer or encumber Association Property without the prior written consent of not less than sixty-seven percent (67%) of the Owners of Lots in Willow Bend, including without limitation the following: (1) Any Association amenity and right or license to use Association Common Area facilities, including without limitation, the swimming pool, pickleball courts, bowling alley, playground and willow corridor; (2) Any Association real property of any nature, including without limitation, any and all Association roads, streets and rights of way; and (3) Any portion of the Common Areas, including without limitation the irrigation easement described in Section 7.04.

A higher bar than the $75,000 rule: sixty-seven percent of all owners, in writing, rather than a majority of those who turn up to vote.
Four narrow exceptions cover personal property alone: work already in the year’s estimate; items independently appraised at $25,000 or less a year in total; immediate repair of property damaged by an unanticipated event where there is too little time to obtain consent; and the temporary maintenance easements in Sections 7.06 to 7.08.
The amendment states that it supersedes anything in the Master Declaration that conflicts with it, naming Sections 6.05 C, 6.05 M, 8.01 D and 8.01 E.

Changing the assessment rules

75% OF OWNERS

SECTION 10.04 · AMENDMENTS

Amendments to Article X, which governs funds and assessments, take effect only on the written consent of seventy-five percent of the owners in Willow Bend.

Improvement is defined in Article I as “all structures and appurtenances thereto of every type and kind, including but not limited to buildings, outbuildings, garages, carports, roads, road surfaces, driveways, parking areas, fences, screening walls, retaining walls, stairs, decks, landscaping, hedges, windbreaks, plantings, planted trees and shrubs… pools, recreational structures and fencing, water amenities, pipes flood control devices…” The same word covers work on a private lot, which the Architectural Control Committee handles. Quoted from the Master Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Willow Bend. Read them in full under Documents & Contracts above.