The Board of Directors has no obligation to host a meeting. Any unit owner may offer to have a meeting in their home. As I have asked you to and so has the Board. Why do you avoid hosting the meeting?
Again, state what you will about the BBB and their response. There is no indication that they support your claim. You can continue to demand payment, waste more of your time and money printing invoices and lengthy memos. There will be no payment forthcoming from the Association or Fox Management Group.
Unless you are agreeing to host the next meeting, please do not respond to this e-mail. There will be no further correspondence on this issue.
Believing that no one, least of all Manic Mara, dictates when I may speak on any matter, I responded once more...
Why would I host a meeting, as you suggest?
And, of course, you don't answer why the present Board members fail to host meetings when previous Board members enthusiastically did so!
I note you don't address the matter of Sunday meetings you apparently discontinued when attendance by owners proved TOO good.
As to your opinion (as you have no legal training, only a Bachelors in Accounting) that the BBB's decision wasn't a confirmation of the legitimacy of the billing...well, that's to be expected from someone who (deliberately?) isn't a member of the BBB and has resisted even providing basic requested information since the first of many complaints was lodged against you in 2000.
The Association has no say or standing in the billing matter. Only Fox Management and I do.
Another example of obfuscation on your part.
But then, you're the person who listed...
Candidate Master's in Economic Crime Management, Utica College, NY
on your page at http://www.mcgoverngreene.com/
I e-mailed admiss@utica.edu... "I'd like to confirm that Mara Fox (or Mara Feldman-Fox or Mara
Feldman) is, in fact, a "Candidate Master's in Economic Crime Management, Utica College, NY" as she lists on her credentials page <http://www.mcgoverngreene.
The admissions office responded...
"I am replying back to your inquiry. I don’t have a Mara Fox listed as a student."
I also note you since removed the listing.
Why?
Curiously, on that same page, you list memberships in several professional associations.
I contacted them all.
None list you as an active member since you last paid dues in 1999, a decade ago!
Most people who haven't been active members of professional associations for 10 years would remove the listings, or list them as "previous affiliations".
You don't.
Interesting obfuscation, again.
(Vetting your CV was equally revealing, but I'm saving that for another occasion...)
Now, there will be no further correspondence on this issue.
But, there will be correspondence on many more such matters over the next 40 years.
Looking forward to our next encounter...
In addition, with the Board meeting occurring tonite, I e-mailed the only two Board members (Diego Arce & business analyst Carol J Krengelis) who could vote on the rental of the '58 basement space (Eddie Foss would have to recuse himself due to conflict of interest.)
Regarding the vote on the proposal to rent the basement back room of '58...as listed, the main aspect of this is the "matching rent" factor.
M will happily pay the same amount as the renter of the front room (Eddie Foss) , even though the back room is 1/3 smaller and has no ventilation or natural light whatsoever, and she intends it as storage, not living space like Eddie.
So...
if Eddie pays $10 per month, M pays $10 per month.
if Eddie pays $50 per month, M pays $50 per month
if Eddie pays $150 per month, M pays $150 per month
Very simple.
Interestingly, you've voted to keep the rental space at the same rate since 2001, but raised unit assessments several times (including special assessments) where most condo associations would raise rents first, then raise unit assessments.
Of course, the renter usually isn't a fellow Board member.
However, given the current financial situation (including numerous units in arrears) raising assessments again without raising the rent will be looked upon extremely suspiciously by the non-Board owners.
Here's your chance for the "best of both worlds"
1) up to $3,600 a year in income from the combined rents
2) Eddie gets to keep his second living space
3) a chance to prove me wrong, and a minimizing of bad pr for the Board!
Talk about "Win/Win"!
Also, the new income will help cover the cost of repair to the '58 basement (including the June 20th cleaning already done by Enterprise), something the $120 a year Eddie's presently paying can't
begin to cover.
(The fact that the Misc Income and Misc Expenses are both $120 has not evaded notice or comment, especially since the usual check listings were not included with the 2008 Common Expenses...)
Of course, the now-ruined carpeting will have to be removed and the mold will have to be cleansed/decontaminated.
Since the condo doesn't have flood insurance, it will probably have to be paid for out of Association funds.
It should be done quickly.
If I lived directly above it, as Diego does, I'd be worried about mold/spore migration & contamination thru the hole in the basement ceiling into MY unit.
But that's just me.
In fact, I'd be surprised if your pets hadn't already shown some signs of distress from it. Their olfactory systems are far more sensitive to such things than humans'.
And we know it's been there for awhile (at least 6 months).
The March 2009 meeting minutes mentioned Krengelis was going to talk to neighbors to allow access for repair to the condo's foundation, and since only the south wall (bordering Eddie's basement living space) butts up to another neighbor's property, it's obvious what they were talking about.
I implore you, vote for what's best for the Condo.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of a Board Member.
Wednesday's total for Fox Management Group's still-unpaid bill from July, 2008(almost a year ago)...$690.11, from an original $75!
Note; now that the 1% per workday cumulative late fee is over $6, it's really starting to mount up, at a rate of $30+ a week!
And, it's over 200 (two hundred) late charges, and almost a full year...
I hope Mara's better with her library books and DVD rentals! ;-)
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Thanks for your input.