That is incorrect, assessments are based on spending on both operational and reserve accounts.  The current budget has over $100k in operational IT expenses (>$12 per lot) and $400k in reserve capital, which is earmarked as NorthStar apparently.  The operational IT would be for the steady state being maintained for this year, and the $400k would be the new software, which equals more than $47 per lot for the new software this year, almost 5% of the assessment. So if there was no new software purchase this year, to maintain the same end of year reserve balance, assessments would be reduced by $47 to $904 per lot.

In fact, you were the first person to explain that to me over a year ago.

What was explained to you was the difference noted above in operational versus capital IT expenses, and that conversation originated as to how your time impacted the budget.  For instance, when you were fixing someone's computer, that was an operational expense, and should have been charged to the operational budget in the same category that BDK would have fallen into.  When new routers and firewalls were deployed, they fell into the capital reserves, and your time as well as Inacom would have been charged the same as the labor was part of the asset delivery.

The real numbers were made public, with details, during the B&F reviews (and once Northstar excluded them from the NDA).

Only total numbers were made public.  I am asking to see the total dollar of expenditures that make up your total 6 year costs for all elements in the comparison, including steady state.  How did you get to your conclusion?  A one page summary is not reasonable to approve a Million Dollar purchase.  The NorthStar numbers provided last summer in the board packet are not close to the total dollar projected now, so what changed?  What other vendors are needed to make the total solution?  As Frank Daly noted, what other solutions are filling the areas that are not native to NorthStar?  These are reasonable asks and on a purchase this large, should be a given.  Don't get me wrong, I think you and the TWG did a great job on RFP preparation and collecting detailed responses.  After that, I think you got lost in informing the membership of the decision.  Transparency solves most problems here.

Brett