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Welcome to ARCH! The Board and Officers of the Alliance of Reston Clusters and Homeowners (ARCH) are pleased to introduce our organization. Thank you for taking time to learn about ARCH, Reston’s network of homeowner associations! Our members are the leaders of homeowner groups, and individual homeowners not affiliated with a Member group.

Corporate Documents
On June 3, 2004, the Alliance of Reston Clusters and Homeowners was registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a non-profit, nonstock corporation. We operate under IRS section 501(c) (4) as a Social Welfare Organization, to be operated exclusively to promote social welfare, primarily to further the common good and general welfare of the people of the community, such as by bringing about civic betterment and social improvements. The fiscal year of the corporation is July 1 to June 30.

Delivering Benefits to Members
The Board of Directors has charted an ambitious course to deliver meaningful services and benefits to ARCH members. The organization’s workhorses - its Operating Committees will be staffed by volunteers from amongst our Members. Through these committees, ARCH expects to provide its Members with services and benefits that generally fall under three categories:

MEMBER SUPPORT: One of ARCH’s foundational principles is to build a network of homeowner associations that will easily interact with one another to share resources and ideas, thus creating a practical resource to homeowner association leaders in meeting their day-to-day management and problem solving challenges. The founding vision is to provide this Member support in three critical areas:

1. Governance and Administration - by sharing the experiences of our Members, provide a resource to help craft and understand key issues of homeowner associations governance and administration (from how to draft organizational documents, understanding meeting law requirements, and enforcing association regulations);
   
   
2. Neighborhood Initiatives - provide a means of accessing the experiences of Members who have been through the local political processes, from the RA Design Review board (DRB) to the Fairfax County Planning and Zoning Committee (P&Z). This will help individual Members more effectively participate in those processes on matters of individual interest or concern.
   
   
3. Procurement - serve as a resource on vendors and suppliers that will hopefully save our Members time and money in procuring key goods and services;

COMMUNITY ISSUES: A second foundational principle is to create a means of assessing local community issues of importance to our Members in a politically nonpartisan way, and determine how, if at all, ARCH might constructively participate in the debate on those issues. This will serve two critical goals:

1. Create a resource that will help educate our Members and make them more aware of local issues affecting them, and;
   
   
2. Create a means by which our Members can more effectively participate in the dialogue with our local, county, and State leaders on matters of key importance to homeowner associations and their residents.

Effective and timely communication and fiscal discipline are essential to success. The principal communication tool is the Web site, www.RestonARCH.org, and associated applications. 

The organization is funded by the modest annual dues from our Members. No ARCH Members are compensated; ARCH intends no capital projects; surpluses are not part of the plan and electronic communications avoid unnecessary costs. The point: the operating budget is lean.

The organization’s success depends exclusively on the volunteer efforts of its Members,  the Committees that support the organization, and those that deliver benefits to ARCH Members and the community.

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