Monday, July 09, 2012

Laguna Woods Village United Governing Documents - gotta pass'em to know what's in'em


LETTER




Greetings Patriots!


Laguna Woods Village - There have been a number of emails circulating of a proposed and very costly decision by the United Board to expand UNITED'S GOVERNING DOCUMENTS ( BY- LAWS) from Thirty Seven (37) Pages to Sixty Two (62) Pages!


This measure has been placed on United's July 10th  Monthly meeting agenda. The board will vote to publish their new BY-LAWS, that have only been discussed in a closed agenda meeting.




This is the expensive part!! The board will also vote for approval to mail the new By-Laws, to all 6,300 Resident Owners in United without an adequate timeframe for the resident owners to read, understand and discuss the contents.


This action will deny any opportunity for the general membership to have their questions addressed, add revisions and review any ramifications whether of a positive or negative nature before this is put out to a general vote.


The cost for this action by the board is said to be about $50,000  of our money!


The Board will schedule TWO (2) Townhall Meetings for open member discussion. The first meeting is scheduled for July 30th. However the information I have received is that the information packet will not be mailed to residents until August 1st. 


The second Town Hall Meeting is scheduled for August 10th  in the Board Room. Your vote will need to be returned by August 30th.


According to our present  BY-LAWS  this new measure can be approved with only a15% VOTE  which is approximately 900 voters!


I am told that a copy of these revised documents will not be available to United Residents prior to Tuesday's United Board Meeting.


I strongly urge all United Residents to attend the board meeting Tuesday, July 10th at 9:30 A.M in the Board Room. I would like to know what changes we can expect and why we do not have the BY-LAW proposed changes before our monthly meeting!  I would like an answer as to why we would consider spending $50,000 of our money for these changes. My question is this, can this be done in a more prudent and cost conservative manner?


Last year the old United board spent in excess of $300,000 of our money on an investigation of Third Mutuals Lawsuit. I was told by a sitting board member that the United Board had no intention of filing a Lawsuit!!!!!


Three hundred thousand dollars of our money for an investigation and now they want to spend Fifty Thousand Dollars for the mailing of BY-LAW changes and we wonder why our assessments keep going up?


I hope you are interested enough to attend tomorrows meeting! 


See you tomorrow.


 



Pam Grundke

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