WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS RECALLED

· On July 1, 2010, Ballots will be mailed to homeowners asking them to vote on whether or not to recall the Board of Directors.


· August 1, 2010, A Special Homeowners Meeting will be held to tabulate votes for the recall.

· If the Board of Directors is recalled, nominations will be solicited for the five open positions. Many homeowners, including board members, have expressed an interest in becoming candidates.

· After the 20-day period in which homeowners have announced their candidacy, an election will be scheduled.

· Ballots will be mailed and homeowners will have 30 days to vote for a new Board of Directors.

· At a Special Meeting of the Homeowners Association, votes will be tabulated and the newly elected Directors will take control.


The total cost of the recall election is $799.00.

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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Letter to Home Owners by Former Landscape Committee Members

A WAY FORWARD.....
9 TIME HONORED STEPS WE ALL SHOULD EXPECT FROM A NEW BOARD
Dear Fellow Homeowners:
If this Board is recalled, the following are 9 steps a new board can take to be functional, effective and accountable to, and for, all. They are "tried and true" basics and premised on "best practices". Division will disappear. Trust and civility will be restored overnight.
I guarantee it!
1.    Micromanagement of the complex. We should allow our property manager, and our employees, to manage and carry out the day-to-day maintenance and operations.
2.   We should perform an honest, objective analysis of our structural and  functional priorities. Do we need driveway repair, structural exterior repair, etc.? Do the analysis, and let the homeowners, after full disclosure, make the choice.
3.    After we have completed step 2 above, we should perform an honest, objective analysis of our aesthetic priorities. A landscaping plan presupposes we need one. Is landscaping an aesthetic priority? Let's do the analysis first.
4.      Committees should be open to all homeowners.  Committee membership should not be an exclusive, discretionary club. We should write into our by-laws the defined purpose of all committees, and make them open to everyone. This encourages broad and varied participation. To ensure serious participation we should have attendance requirements (for example miss two meeting you're out!).
5.    Committees should decide for themselves who will be their chair person. This prevents the potential for favoritism, the appearance of favoritism, and pet projects.
6.    Committees should provide monthly written reports to the board and make them available to all homeowners. This ensures undiluted, unfiltered, apolitical transparency, and accountability.
7.      Follow our "governing documents", California corporation law, and "best  practices". This is the most important and most obvious! It's easy to get sloppy when you are a relatively small organization as we are. We should have minimum personal attendance requirements. There are valid reasons for acting like any other responsible corporation and following the law.
and the "Tidings" newsletters from Gail do not invite homeowners to join the committee. In fact, what Gail keeps saying in the "Tidings" is that once there is a plan, the Board will let the homeowners have input. But after two years of significant landscape changes being made and $55,000 being spent, the Board has yet to produce a plan. However, the work continues and we are only informed after it is under way or upon its completion.
We believe the Board has a fiscal and fiduciary responsibility to all homeowners to address the following questions:
·        At what meeting did the Board approve the change of our landscape to a "Mediterranean look" for our multi-multi-million dollar complex and when did the homeowners vote on it? Why would the Board seek a vote on earthquake insurance coverage but not allow a vote on this dramatic change to our community which directly impacts our property value?
·        How many more ad hoc landscape changes will be made, how much money will be spent and how many landscape architects will the Board hire before the Board produces a Plan and gets homeowner input?
·        Since the Board is trying to convince us that the underlying premise for landscape changes is savings on water costs, what will these savings be? When will we receive a return on the $55,000 we've spent so far on Gail's landscape changes?
·        Where is the money going to come from to implement the Board's proposed landscape plan - the reserve fund, a special assessment or increases in our dues?
·        Where is the formal authority upon which the Board regularly permits Gail Young and a few homeowners to direct work, order plans, place plants on our property and hire landscape architects?
Because the Board has failed to produce a plan for the dramatic changes currently being made, has failed to take a vote of the homeowners as to whether they want a "Mediterranean look", and has not addressed the above questions, we have no choice but to support the recall of the Board of Directors. Given the ad hoc nature of the changes made to date, we don't believe the community can wait until another $55,000 is unwisely spent to make changes to the Board of Directors.
Sincerely,
FORMER LANDSCAPE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Judy Gifford Alayne Ylarris Jann Pasfer Lois Summers
[Copies of the relevant meeting minutes and landscape invoices will be Provided upon request. Please email jgbadger@cox.net or llsummersftcox.net.]
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  1. Lois SummersAugust 11, 2010 at 6:38 PM

    ELECTION RESULTS:

    A meeting was held on August 1 for the purpose of announcing the results of the vote to either RECALL or NOT RECALL the current Board of Directors. The results were as follows:

    In favor of recall: 99

    Not in favor of recall: 53

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