The facilities coordinator first noticed the water stains in the basement storage room on a Tuesday morning in early spring, nearly fourteen months before the executive director would mention any building concerns to the board of directors. She documented what she saw in an informal email to the operations manager, attaching three photographs taken on her phone: dark patches spreading across the concrete floor near the northeast corner, a visible tideline suggesting repeated moisture accumulation, and what appeared to be efflorescence on the foundation wall where white mineral deposits had formed in crystalline patterns. The operations manager thanked her for the report, made a note to check the basement more frequently, and assumed the issue stemmed from unusually heavy snowmelt that year. Neither of them considered this a matter requiring board attention. Neither of them understood that this moment—this quiet Tuesday morning observation in a basement storage room—would later become the fulcrum upon which a multimillion-dollar limitation period analysis would turn. The facilities coordinator went back to her regular duties. The operations manager filed the email in a subfolder she rarely opened. And the volunteer board of directors, meeting that same month in the upstairs boardroom to review quarterly financials and approve a new program initiative, remained entirely unaware that the building beneath them had begun to fail.