By Maria Polletta | The Arizona Republic
Tensions between disgruntled Superstition Lakes condo owners and their homeowners association board came to a head Monday in a six-hour hearing to decide whether residents’ allegations of financial misconduct justified placing the HOA into receivership.
After the attorneys for several hours questioned and cross-examined experts, board members and residents, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Gordon ruled there was insufficient evidence to warrant putting the association into receivership, agreeing with HOA attorney Daniel King’s assessment that such a move would be an unnecessary and “very expensive and very extreme measure.”
Some residents of the 134-condo east Mesa complex for months had been questioning the validity of thousands of dollars in board expenditures and reimbursements to HOA President Michael Cassady, including several meals and alcoholic drinks consumed on the association’s dime.
Charging they have been repeatedly blocked from seeing a full set of financial records and generally participating in the board’s decisions, more than 40 owners had signed a petition to remove Cassady, Vice President Eric Branstrom and Treasurer Wayne Erting.
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