Desert Mountain is an interesting community. Most residents are club members; however, there are residents who are not club members and club members who are not residents. The Desert Mountain Master Association (the HOA) serves the needs and interests of Desert Mountain residents.

The Desert Mountain Master Association represents the interests of all Desert Mountain property owners through the work of the Board of Directors and its professional staff. The role of the Board of Directors is to guide and formulate policy, to make decisions in the best interests of the community, and to manage strategic planning for Desert Mountain's future. The Board of Directors is comprised of nine Desert Mountain property owners elected to serve three-year terms by their fellow residents; the Association's professional staff implements the decisions the Board makes. Desert Mountain's Board of Directors and staff rely heavily on input and participation of individual members through an extensive network of committees and an advisory group known as the Council of Presidents, which is comprised of the presidents of the thirteen individual incorporated village associations.

As a Desert Mountain property owner, you automatically become a member of both the Master Association and your Village Association. The fees you are assessed help operate both Associations and maintain the appearance of the community. You may be surprised to learn that the several common areas located in Desert Mountain total hundreds of acres and include 68 miles of private roadways, landscaped boulevard medians, and the main access gates to the community. Some of the HOA's specific responsibilities in these areas include: general maintenance of roadside directional signs, accent lighting and access gates; conducting property inspections for safety concerns; and street sweeping, road preservation, painting and much more. DLC Resources, the Association's landscape provider, enhances the appearance of Desert Mountain's common areas by cleaning the community's almost 700 culverts, removing weeds, trimming the shrubs and trees in the roadway areas, maintaining the community's walking paths, and, as needed, planting new trees, bushes and cacti.

The Association's security firm, Anderson Security, plays a pivotal role in making Desert Mountain the safe community it is, which certainly contributes the quality of life all residents enjoy when they are here. In addition to manning the access gates into the community (no easy feat, as 500,000 cars enter and exit the community each year!), Anderson Security performs regular patrols throughout Desert Mountain to ensure parking restrictions and speed limits are being followed. What you may not know is that Anderson patrol officers will check on your home if you are away for an extended period of time, jump-start your car and remove snakes and wildlife from your property. They are also trained in emergency response and CPR, which is a great benefit to Desert Mountain homeowners, as the patrol officers will get to you immediately if you need first aid or assistance, and will stay with you until the ambulance arrives.  

Finally, in order to preserve the aesthetic continuity of the community with new home builds while protecting existing property values within the community's established guidelines, the HOA exerts strong architectural control on all properties in the community and maintains a thorough and active Design Review Process. The work of the Design Review Committee is the primary reason the entire Desert Mountain community is admired by everyone who lives or visits here. The HOA also enforces the Association's Covenants and Restrictions, which are intended to protect the quality of life in Desert Mountain.

The HOA presently functions with a staff of 10 employees who effectively carry out all of the administrative and clerical functions of the community, process all assessment and member communications, facilitate the community's governmental process, and supervise all contractors that maintain the Association's common areas.

Desert Mountain Properties, the developer of Desert Mountain, turned over the HOA and all of the above-mentioned responsibilities on December 12, 2000, meaning the HOA has been member-controlled for almost 10 years now.

Desert Mountain residents should be assured that the work of the HOA, professional staff and contractors helps protect, preserve, and enhance the value of the collective assets and the quality of life in the community and enhance community-wide safety.

If you have any questions regarding the role of the Desert Mountain Master Association, please forward them to Karen Angelo, Communications Director, at .