This article is important for you to read. Does PCM even care if you drink contaminated water? Apparently not. Everything seems to be okay with Milt. Maybe he feels he has nothing left to lose.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/hoses-231434-water-residents.html
The Unted Board was notified of the unsafe conditions Sunday, January 24. The conditions, according to a United Director, are still not corrected.
Congratulations PCM on another job well done.
Congratulations to Gail McNulty, Marv Rosenhaft, Arlene Miller, Ron Beldner, Michelle Stanton, Marty Rubin, Linda Wilson and other United Directors notified of this reprehensible situation who have apparently done NOTHING to help protect their members.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
New Letter from Corky and Noni Eley
Below is a letter from Corky and Noni Eley. Folks, PCM and GRF have to be replaced.
DATE: January 18, 2010
TO: Golden Rain Foundation Board
Third Laguna Hills Mutual Board
United Laguna Hills Mutual Board
Mutual Fifty Laguna Hills Mutual Board
All LWV Homeowners
RE: Violation of Corporate Code #8215 by LWV Boards and PCM.
Confusion!! Confusion!! Confusion!! This is the life style we bought into when we purchased a Cooperative or a Condominium in Leisure World/ Laguna Woods Village. The Governing Documents (Trust, Articles of Incorporation, Regulatory Agreements and CC&R’s) mean nothing to the Boards or PCM, the Managing Agent. Several written request have been made to LWV four Boards and PCM for open televised meetings on the interpretation of the Governing Documents and to whom these Governing Documents apply.
Golden Rain Foundation (GRF) for months has published paid advertisements each week in the Laguna Woods Globe with misleading information regarding the Governing Documents, Tax status, Corporation status and Banking procedures. Several of these ads are in violation of Corporation Code #8215.
PCM staff, as part of the Communication Plan, has created a monthly newsletter “United Laguna Hills Mutual-Village Snapshot” for LWV Boards. In the August Village Snapshot, under “Just the fact, Please,” the information staff gave the boards regarding the CC&R’s was incorrect. The December Village Snapshot, under the article “The Operating Budget,” was also Incorrect Information. GRF for the past 10 years has failed to deliver to each homeowner an Operating Budget as per the Amendment to the Trust, dated April 6, 1964. Perhaps staff should read the governing documents. In our opinion, Staff, by publishing false information in the Village Snapshot, which was delivered to the Board Members, has violated Corporate Code #8215.
Corporate code #8215 states: Any officers, directors, employees or agents of a corporation who do any of the following are liable jointly and severally for all the damages resulting there from to the corporation or any person injured thereby who relied thereupon or to both:
(a) Make, issue, deliver or publish any prospectus, report, circular, certificate, Financial statement, balance sheet, public notice or documents respecting the corporation OR its memberships, assets, liabilities, capital, dividends, business, earnings or accounts which is false in any material respect knowing it to be false, or participate in the making issuance, delivery or publication thereof with knowledge that the same is false in a material respect.
(b) Make or cause to be made in the books, minutes, records or accounts of a corporation and entry which is false in any material particular knowing such entry is false.
(c) Remove, erase, alter, or cancel any entry in any books or records of the corporation, with intent to deceive.
The latest announcement made in the Laguna Woods Globe, was “Laguna Woods Village gets New Cable Operator.” “Connexion Technology of North Carolina, beginning January 2010, will manage and operate the network, while GRF will still own the cable TV franchise and broadband network, The partnership will reduce GRF’s operating costs and capital expenses for the cable network, and savings will be passed on to residents, according to a statement released by the managing agent, PCM staff, on Tuesday, January 5, 2010. "In excess of a $1,000,000 a year," said Russ Ridgeway of expected savings. Russ Ridgeway said, "The current Broadband Staff will remain the same, although they will become Connexion Technology employees.”
Several questions need to be answered by GRF and PCM.
(1) How and Why was a partnership formed in the Laguna World Trust without the Homeowners approval?
(2) Is Connexion Technology a full partnership or a limited partnership?
(3) How much is Leisure World / Laguna Woods Village Cable TV worth?
(4) Was the $1,406,000 paid to GRF the full amount Connexion paid for the partnership?
(5) Broadband Staff are PCM’s employees and now they are going to be Connexion
Employees? Is Connexion a subsidiary of PCM?
(6) Who negotiated this 15 year contract/partnership?
It is time the four Boards (GRF, United, Third and Fifty) and PCM give the homeowners correct information on the governing documents, contracts or partnership the homeowners are responsible for. The homeowners, who pay the bills, should be fully informed as to what their obligation is and what has been sold, built, given or taken under these contracts or partnerships.
Sincerely yours,
Noni and Corkey Eley
Transmitted at the request of Noni and Corkey Eley.
DATE: January 18, 2010
TO: Golden Rain Foundation Board
Third Laguna Hills Mutual Board
United Laguna Hills Mutual Board
Mutual Fifty Laguna Hills Mutual Board
All LWV Homeowners
RE: Violation of Corporate Code #8215 by LWV Boards and PCM.
Confusion!! Confusion!! Confusion!! This is the life style we bought into when we purchased a Cooperative or a Condominium in Leisure World/ Laguna Woods Village. The Governing Documents (Trust, Articles of Incorporation, Regulatory Agreements and CC&R’s) mean nothing to the Boards or PCM, the Managing Agent. Several written request have been made to LWV four Boards and PCM for open televised meetings on the interpretation of the Governing Documents and to whom these Governing Documents apply.
Golden Rain Foundation (GRF) for months has published paid advertisements each week in the Laguna Woods Globe with misleading information regarding the Governing Documents, Tax status, Corporation status and Banking procedures. Several of these ads are in violation of Corporation Code #8215.
PCM staff, as part of the Communication Plan, has created a monthly newsletter “United Laguna Hills Mutual-Village Snapshot” for LWV Boards. In the August Village Snapshot, under “Just the fact, Please,” the information staff gave the boards regarding the CC&R’s was incorrect. The December Village Snapshot, under the article “The Operating Budget,” was also Incorrect Information. GRF for the past 10 years has failed to deliver to each homeowner an Operating Budget as per the Amendment to the Trust, dated April 6, 1964. Perhaps staff should read the governing documents. In our opinion, Staff, by publishing false information in the Village Snapshot, which was delivered to the Board Members, has violated Corporate Code #8215.
Corporate code #8215 states: Any officers, directors, employees or agents of a corporation who do any of the following are liable jointly and severally for all the damages resulting there from to the corporation or any person injured thereby who relied thereupon or to both:
(a) Make, issue, deliver or publish any prospectus, report, circular, certificate, Financial statement, balance sheet, public notice or documents respecting the corporation OR its memberships, assets, liabilities, capital, dividends, business, earnings or accounts which is false in any material respect knowing it to be false, or participate in the making issuance, delivery or publication thereof with knowledge that the same is false in a material respect.
(b) Make or cause to be made in the books, minutes, records or accounts of a corporation and entry which is false in any material particular knowing such entry is false.
(c) Remove, erase, alter, or cancel any entry in any books or records of the corporation, with intent to deceive.
The latest announcement made in the Laguna Woods Globe, was “Laguna Woods Village gets New Cable Operator.” “Connexion Technology of North Carolina, beginning January 2010, will manage and operate the network, while GRF will still own the cable TV franchise and broadband network, The partnership will reduce GRF’s operating costs and capital expenses for the cable network, and savings will be passed on to residents, according to a statement released by the managing agent, PCM staff, on Tuesday, January 5, 2010. "In excess of a $1,000,000 a year," said Russ Ridgeway of expected savings. Russ Ridgeway said, "The current Broadband Staff will remain the same, although they will become Connexion Technology employees.”
Several questions need to be answered by GRF and PCM.
(1) How and Why was a partnership formed in the Laguna World Trust without the Homeowners approval?
(2) Is Connexion Technology a full partnership or a limited partnership?
(3) How much is Leisure World / Laguna Woods Village Cable TV worth?
(4) Was the $1,406,000 paid to GRF the full amount Connexion paid for the partnership?
(5) Broadband Staff are PCM’s employees and now they are going to be Connexion
Employees? Is Connexion a subsidiary of PCM?
(6) Who negotiated this 15 year contract/partnership?
It is time the four Boards (GRF, United, Third and Fifty) and PCM give the homeowners correct information on the governing documents, contracts or partnership the homeowners are responsible for. The homeowners, who pay the bills, should be fully informed as to what their obligation is and what has been sold, built, given or taken under these contracts or partnerships.
Sincerely yours,
Noni and Corkey Eley
Transmitted at the request of Noni and Corkey Eley.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Shennanigans redux in the community center
This is an excellent article about more of the shenanigans coming out of the second floor of our community center. It's about rent. Who pays it, who doesn't, how much and more.
http://www.atwebo.com/cotobuzz/2009/LETTERS/CotoLETTERSOCRegister.htm
The big news that GRF was so excited about was the "partnering" with a company to take over the broadband services. Folks, start asking questions NOW. Why were no facts or figures presented? Why was this negotiated COMPLETELY IN SECRET? If Kurt Rahn and his fellow employees working in broadband now are "employees of Connexion Technologies" why haven't we seen an appropriate drop in salaries paid BY US? Since when does the company itself do due diligence? That's like the skunk looking for a foul odor and saying there is none. Me thinks the skunk is still in the halls of PCM/GRF AND THEY NEED TO GO NOW.
This morning's Globe contained another windy and clueless letter in it from the perennial contributor Dave Blodgett. It's too bad he is so far out of the loop that he has absolutely no idea what he's even saying anymore let alone who the people are he's talking about. I guess that when no longer in the public eye all the time and the need for attention is greater than accuracy one has to make one's own news even if it is blatantly wrong and without basis.
Blodgett makes about as much sense as the person who posts to the Globe and the Register as "luvithere" who on one hand rips people all the time for wanting transparency from the boards and consideration for what the owners/members actually want and on the other hand talks about how they are now going to stop making mortgage payments because they are angry with the bank. The article and comment are at http://www.ocregister.com/articles/short-225651-lenders-sales.html. It was posted on December 27, 2009.
Shades of Margo Bouer who threw the keys of the manor in and let it be foreclosed on and then sticking the membership with assessments in arrears. She's still omni present in the community even though she doesn't live here. Thanks to her and her little story all over the news about medical marajuana people are now going into the community center of Laguna Woods Village and asking where they can buy the pot. I have absolutely no objection to people who need it for medical reasons using it. I object strenuously to it being grown by a cooperative of residents in COMMUNITY GARDENS, having a little problem with theft of plants, and people coming into OUR community center and asking to buy weed. But it's okay....Margo is related by marriage to Erwin Stuller.
As much as things change things just don't change. My prediction for the election of GRF is that Souza, Foster and Stone will be elected to the board. Foster seems to have forgotten that he made a commitment to his United constituents to serve his term. Of course, he's just following the less than stellar example of folks like Jim "let's built a really big palace and not just a decent building for the golfers" Matson. Watch a few tapes of past meetings and watch Souza pound the desk, curse and set the spittle fly from his mouth as he casually spends as much as he possibly can OF YOUR MONEY. He also wants you to "change your own damn faucets. I did!" Well, Lar, we'd all like to have a decent community. One that runs well and looks good. But that begins with BASICS. Why don't you discuss the plumbing/epoxy debacle. Truthfully. And Mary Stone. She's going to be saved for an entire column. I just hope that this year they get rid of PCM and then go to work on getting rid of themselves.
Getting rid of PCM means getting rid of Milt Johns and his executive staff. It means the Disbro boys and their partner Olsen will have to go elsewhere to find pockets to suck money out of at will. I'm beginning to think there is some executive/administrative support staff that should probably take a fast hike, too, before the IRS comes in and has them all do the perp walk to the paddy wagons. Picture a few of these prizes in manacles.
If the links don't work simply copy and paste them to your browser.
http://www.atwebo.com/cotobuzz/2009/LETTERS/CotoLETTERSOCRegister.htm
The big news that GRF was so excited about was the "partnering" with a company to take over the broadband services. Folks, start asking questions NOW. Why were no facts or figures presented? Why was this negotiated COMPLETELY IN SECRET? If Kurt Rahn and his fellow employees working in broadband now are "employees of Connexion Technologies" why haven't we seen an appropriate drop in salaries paid BY US? Since when does the company itself do due diligence? That's like the skunk looking for a foul odor and saying there is none. Me thinks the skunk is still in the halls of PCM/GRF AND THEY NEED TO GO NOW.
This morning's Globe contained another windy and clueless letter in it from the perennial contributor Dave Blodgett. It's too bad he is so far out of the loop that he has absolutely no idea what he's even saying anymore let alone who the people are he's talking about. I guess that when no longer in the public eye all the time and the need for attention is greater than accuracy one has to make one's own news even if it is blatantly wrong and without basis.
Blodgett makes about as much sense as the person who posts to the Globe and the Register as "luvithere" who on one hand rips people all the time for wanting transparency from the boards and consideration for what the owners/members actually want and on the other hand talks about how they are now going to stop making mortgage payments because they are angry with the bank. The article and comment are at http://www.ocregister.com/articles/short-225651-lenders-sales.html. It was posted on December 27, 2009.
Shades of Margo Bouer who threw the keys of the manor in and let it be foreclosed on and then sticking the membership with assessments in arrears. She's still omni present in the community even though she doesn't live here. Thanks to her and her little story all over the news about medical marajuana people are now going into the community center of Laguna Woods Village and asking where they can buy the pot. I have absolutely no objection to people who need it for medical reasons using it. I object strenuously to it being grown by a cooperative of residents in COMMUNITY GARDENS, having a little problem with theft of plants, and people coming into OUR community center and asking to buy weed. But it's okay....Margo is related by marriage to Erwin Stuller.
As much as things change things just don't change. My prediction for the election of GRF is that Souza, Foster and Stone will be elected to the board. Foster seems to have forgotten that he made a commitment to his United constituents to serve his term. Of course, he's just following the less than stellar example of folks like Jim "let's built a really big palace and not just a decent building for the golfers" Matson. Watch a few tapes of past meetings and watch Souza pound the desk, curse and set the spittle fly from his mouth as he casually spends as much as he possibly can OF YOUR MONEY. He also wants you to "change your own damn faucets. I did!" Well, Lar, we'd all like to have a decent community. One that runs well and looks good. But that begins with BASICS. Why don't you discuss the plumbing/epoxy debacle. Truthfully. And Mary Stone. She's going to be saved for an entire column. I just hope that this year they get rid of PCM and then go to work on getting rid of themselves.
Getting rid of PCM means getting rid of Milt Johns and his executive staff. It means the Disbro boys and their partner Olsen will have to go elsewhere to find pockets to suck money out of at will. I'm beginning to think there is some executive/administrative support staff that should probably take a fast hike, too, before the IRS comes in and has them all do the perp walk to the paddy wagons. Picture a few of these prizes in manacles.
If the links don't work simply copy and paste them to your browser.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
a letter from Corky and Noni Eley
January 4, 2010
Janet Price, Finance Director
Milt Johns, General Manager
All LWV Board of Directors
LWV Homeowners
Re: No response to letters written regarding Leisure Worlds
Original Trust and amendments and Leisure Worlds/
Laguna Woods Village Management Contracts.
Happy New Year!! We certainly hope this New Year will
bring some drastic changes to Leisure World/Laguna Woods
Village. It is time the governing documents (Trust, Articles of
Incorporation, CC&R's and the By-Laws) are enforced and new
management contracts written. The homeowners of this
community deserve better management and advice than
they have been getting in the past.
Leisure Worlds Original Trust and the amendments to the
Trust have been violated by GRF and PCM by not delivering to
each homeowner a copy of the Operating Budget each year, as per
the amendment to the Trust dated April 6, 1964. The Trust must be
acknowledged and honored by GRF and PCM. The homeowners have
been kept in the dark as to how their money, land and assets
are being distributed. This is Senior Abuse at its worst and must
stop.
The thirty eight (38) board members of the four corporations
(GRF, United, Third and Fifty) at the beginning of each year are
given a copy of the Red Book. The Red Book contains the Operating
Budget, the Business Plan for each of the four corporations and the
Business Plan for each Division (Broadband Services, General
Management, Community Relations, Financial Services, Security,
Landscape, Recreation, Human Resources and Maintenance). Included
in the Red Book is the Golden Rain Foundation Trust Capital Reserve
Expenditures for equipment and facilities. The Capital Reserve
Expenditures reported in the 2010 Red Book for equipment and
facilities was reported as $8,931,350; however this amount is closer to
$10,000,000, as the Golf Starter Building cost of $4,886,300 was changed
in the December finance committee meeting to $5,500,000 and will
probably change again when construction begins. Remember Clubhouse 7?
The Management Contracts between PCM and the four corporations
should have been re-negotiated many years ago, as per
Article 5 (b). Article 5 has been written in each contract since 1996 and
the CPI has exceeded eight percent (8%) on GRF's operating budget for
several years with NO re-negotiations of the contracts. Why not?
Listed below is Article 5 of the above mentioned contracts. This
article has been included in each Management Contract since 1996.
The article number may be different on each contract but the statement
on Fee's is the same.
ARTICLE 5. Fee. Agent shall be paid, as its sole compensation for all services
performed hereunder, a fee payable in advance on the first day of each month in an
amount, exclusive of all surcharges, determined on the basis of the total number of
dwelling units in Owner under management by Agent as of the last day of the
preceding month as follows:
(a) Said fee shall consist of a monthly charge in the amount of ________, per
dwelling unit.
(b) Said fee shall be adjusted annually for each succeeding year by the
same percentage as the All Urban Consumer Price Index (CPI) of the United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Los Angeles-Riverside, Orange County
Metropolitan Area. Such annual re-computation shall be based on the July to
June CPI increase or decrease, but not to exceed eight percent (8%). Should
the variation in the CPI exceed eight percent (8%), the fee set herein shall be
reopened automatically and subiect to re-negotiation. Such fee adjustments
shall be budgeted and become effective as of January 1 of the succeeding year.
Wake Up!! Every homeowner should purchase a bound
Red Book for $10.00 from the print shop on the first floor of the
Community Center Administration Building if they are interested in
knowing how the Operating Budget for 2010 of $94,970,566 is being
spent. This is your home and you must get informed and participate
before it's to late. The Red Book and the Management Contracts are
good starting points.
Sincerely yours,
Noni and Corkey Eley
Janet Price, Finance Director
Milt Johns, General Manager
All LWV Board of Directors
LWV Homeowners
Re: No response to letters written regarding Leisure Worlds
Original Trust and amendments and Leisure Worlds/
Laguna Woods Village Management Contracts.
Happy New Year!! We certainly hope this New Year will
bring some drastic changes to Leisure World/Laguna Woods
Village. It is time the governing documents (Trust, Articles of
Incorporation, CC&R's and the By-Laws) are enforced and new
management contracts written. The homeowners of this
community deserve better management and advice than
they have been getting in the past.
Leisure Worlds Original Trust and the amendments to the
Trust have been violated by GRF and PCM by not delivering to
each homeowner a copy of the Operating Budget each year, as per
the amendment to the Trust dated April 6, 1964. The Trust must be
acknowledged and honored by GRF and PCM. The homeowners have
been kept in the dark as to how their money, land and assets
are being distributed. This is Senior Abuse at its worst and must
stop.
The thirty eight (38) board members of the four corporations
(GRF, United, Third and Fifty) at the beginning of each year are
given a copy of the Red Book. The Red Book contains the Operating
Budget, the Business Plan for each of the four corporations and the
Business Plan for each Division (Broadband Services, General
Management, Community Relations, Financial Services, Security,
Landscape, Recreation, Human Resources and Maintenance). Included
in the Red Book is the Golden Rain Foundation Trust Capital Reserve
Expenditures for equipment and facilities. The Capital Reserve
Expenditures reported in the 2010 Red Book for equipment and
facilities was reported as $8,931,350; however this amount is closer to
$10,000,000, as the Golf Starter Building cost of $4,886,300 was changed
in the December finance committee meeting to $5,500,000 and will
probably change again when construction begins. Remember Clubhouse 7?
The Management Contracts between PCM and the four corporations
should have been re-negotiated many years ago, as per
Article 5 (b). Article 5 has been written in each contract since 1996 and
the CPI has exceeded eight percent (8%) on GRF's operating budget for
several years with NO re-negotiations of the contracts. Why not?
Listed below is Article 5 of the above mentioned contracts. This
article has been included in each Management Contract since 1996.
The article number may be different on each contract but the statement
on Fee's is the same.
ARTICLE 5. Fee. Agent shall be paid, as its sole compensation for all services
performed hereunder, a fee payable in advance on the first day of each month in an
amount, exclusive of all surcharges, determined on the basis of the total number of
dwelling units in Owner under management by Agent as of the last day of the
preceding month as follows:
(a) Said fee shall consist of a monthly charge in the amount of ________, per
dwelling unit.
(b) Said fee shall be adjusted annually for each succeeding year by the
same percentage as the All Urban Consumer Price Index (CPI) of the United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Los Angeles-Riverside, Orange County
Metropolitan Area. Such annual re-computation shall be based on the July to
June CPI increase or decrease, but not to exceed eight percent (8%). Should
the variation in the CPI exceed eight percent (8%), the fee set herein shall be
reopened automatically and subiect to re-negotiation. Such fee adjustments
shall be budgeted and become effective as of January 1 of the succeeding year.
Wake Up!! Every homeowner should purchase a bound
Red Book for $10.00 from the print shop on the first floor of the
Community Center Administration Building if they are interested in
knowing how the Operating Budget for 2010 of $94,970,566 is being
spent. This is your home and you must get informed and participate
before it's to late. The Red Book and the Management Contracts are
good starting points.
Sincerely yours,
Noni and Corkey Eley
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