Board Onboarding Kit

What this is

You just got elected to your condo or strata board. Nobody hands you a manual. This kit is that manual — the plain-English starter pack that turns a nervous first meeting into a confident one.

It explains what a director actually does, what you're responsible for (and what you're not), how to read the documents that land in your inbox, and the questions worth asking your manager in the first month. Written for people who volunteered to help, not to become part-time lawyers.

What's inside

• A "what a director does" one-pager
• The documents you should ask for on day one
• How to read a budget and a reserve fund study, briefly
• The first-month question list for your manager and board
• A short glossary of the terms everyone uses and nobody explains

How to use it

Read it before your first full board meeting. Bring the question list. You don't need to understand everything at once — you need to know what to ask and where to look, and this gets you there.