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.

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