Today, Chris Butler, on behalf of the SSSFHOA, opened opened a fourth Silver Springs Single Family HOA domain.

The first site, www.silverspringshoa.org opened, paid for, and hosted by the Archers in 2000-2005, is now serving as a portal to both the www.silverspringsSFhoa.org site owned by the HOA  and the www.silverspringscommunity.com site provided free by the Archers without any logon or password restrictions.  The “board” voted to shut down this site on November 6, 2008, and demanded that a statement be posted indicating that this domain and website were not funded by, associated with, nor represents the SSSF board.

The second site, www.silverspringsSFhoa.org contains all the design work and content paid for by the HOA (and which they claim to have spent $4,028.90 to develop and have hosted) from April 2006 to March 2008.  The 2009 SSSF board has chosen to abandon this site and investment in favor of the fourth site.

The third site www.silverspringscommunity.com began conceptually in 2000 and was recommenced in March 2008 and continues to be developed and built by the Archers.  This site contains information pertinent only to our Silver Springs Community and the twelve subdivisions that comprise the Silver Springs Master HOA plus other contiguous subdivisions.  This site is provided free to the Community by the Archers, and has no logon or password restrictions.

The fourth site is a pretty cookie-cutter site embarked upon by the SSSF board on March 16, 2009 and launched around May 22, 2009.  It has pages with many Park City links external to our community, a few pages belonging to the Weather Channel and other pages and links available on many other websites.  The start-up fee was $200.  The annual fee is $450 for the initial Pro pages, additional $15 per year for domain registration, and a variety of add-on fees for other services.   To access the Resident section the homeowners need to answer dozens of questions in order to register as users and to receive a password.  Why the shroud of secrecy?  Why does the HOA need to know the names of each of your children and pets, etc. ?  If a homeowner does not register then they are excluded from access of most of the website content they are co-paying to publish.

Note:  A resident of Quail Meadows Condos started a website for the master association late in the summer of 2008 which was not approved by the master board.  So our Silver Springs area has a total of five known websites.  The QM website and the fourth SSSFHOA website are cookie-cutter sites through HOA-sites.com.