Vote YES to recall the Board of Directors.
Vote for 5 candidates who will serve your best interests:
Nelson Cuervo
Milina Kasalian
Keith Campbell
Alicia Boatman
Tom DePalma (listed as Tom Del Alma on the ballot)
Come meet all 5 candidates
Thursday, May 6th @ 7 p.m.
in the GGM Recreation Room!
This is not a Board meeting! Current Board members are not invited.
The Board and employees keep making false promises and false statements. Are you confused about the recall ballot and tired of empty talk with no results? Bring us your questions, concerns, hopes and priorities for Garden Grove Manor!
We will provide facts in writing and explain:
How to fill out and mail the recall ballots.
Why the current Board must be recalled.
How we will correct their mismanagement.
What we will do to earn and keep your trust.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Letter from the GGM Board Nominees
To All Shareholders of Garden Grove Manor:
Your home is an investment that also gives you special rights as a shareholder in the Garden Grove Manor corporation. In the weeks ahead, we will show how the current management and Board of Directors ignore your rights and put your investment in danger. After the current Board of Directors is removed in the June 2010 recall election, we need to elect new leadership that will restore financial stability and keep shareholders in control of Garden Grove Manor until the mortgage is paid off in October 2013 and for all the years that follow.
The current Board and management are making expensive promises with your money to buy your votes, but they can’t keep their election promises without raising your carrying charges again or taking out another loan. We put our promises to you in writing. If you elect us as your new Board, we will make the following improvements:
· Remember that the Board of Directors, all employees and all contractors work for the shareholders.
· Perform all our Board duties with honesty, fairness, and respect for your rights and your investment.
· Be available to shareholders to exchange information, answer questions, listen to your concerns.
· Bring openness and transparency back to Board meetings, financial affairs, all areas of management.
· Pay off the 40-year mortgage on schedule in October 2013.
· Keep the monthly carrying charges as low as possible.
· Stop all unnecessary spending and get the best prices for all services, purchases and contracts.
· Review all current jobs, services, contracts and all other expenses to eliminate waste.
· Fill empty units as quickly as possible to keep money coming in to Garden Grove Manor.
· Keep the office open on a regular schedule and post the office hours on the office doors.
· Supervise all employees to make sure they are doing their jobs correctly, respectfully and competently.
· Make sure shareholders know the names of all employees and what their exact job is.
· Make sure all employees treat shareholders and their rights with respect, honesty and fairness.
· Make sure all contractors have the proper licenses, insurance and qualifications.
· Supervise the move-in waiting lists to make sure they are accurate and updated regularly.
· Make sure the HUD Section 8 and Basic certifications are completed accurately and on schedule.
· Bring back the waiting lists for replacements and repairs based on need and fairness.
· Have a Maintenance Technician live on site at GGM if that is what shareholders want.
· Perform necessary maintenance to keep GGM a safe, comfortable and clean place to live.
· Consider hiring a management company with experience in Section 236 cooperatives like GGM.
· Follow the Garden Grove Manor by-laws and California law as we are required to do.
· Hold annual election meetings on schedule.
· Hold the annual budget meeting on schedule and give shareholders a copy of the budget.
· Hold regular open meetings so shareholders can watch the new Board in action.
· Make the meeting minutes available to all shareholders so they know what is happening.
· Post the meeting agendas and other documents by the office so shareholders can read them.
We look forward to talking with you about your priorities for Garden Grove Manor. Thank you very much.
Cooperatively yours,
Nelson Cuervo, Nominee for the Board of Directors of Garden Grove Manor
Milina Kasalian, Nominee for the Board of Directors of Garden Grove Manor
Tom DePalma, Nominee for the Board of Directors of Garden Grove Manor
Alicia Boatman, Nominee for the Board of Directors of Garden Grove Manor
Keith Campbell, Nominee for the Board of Directors of Garden Grove Manor
Your home is an investment that also gives you special rights as a shareholder in the Garden Grove Manor corporation. In the weeks ahead, we will show how the current management and Board of Directors ignore your rights and put your investment in danger. After the current Board of Directors is removed in the June 2010 recall election, we need to elect new leadership that will restore financial stability and keep shareholders in control of Garden Grove Manor until the mortgage is paid off in October 2013 and for all the years that follow.
The current Board and management are making expensive promises with your money to buy your votes, but they can’t keep their election promises without raising your carrying charges again or taking out another loan. We put our promises to you in writing. If you elect us as your new Board, we will make the following improvements:
· Remember that the Board of Directors, all employees and all contractors work for the shareholders.
· Perform all our Board duties with honesty, fairness, and respect for your rights and your investment.
· Be available to shareholders to exchange information, answer questions, listen to your concerns.
· Bring openness and transparency back to Board meetings, financial affairs, all areas of management.
· Pay off the 40-year mortgage on schedule in October 2013.
· Keep the monthly carrying charges as low as possible.
· Stop all unnecessary spending and get the best prices for all services, purchases and contracts.
· Review all current jobs, services, contracts and all other expenses to eliminate waste.
· Fill empty units as quickly as possible to keep money coming in to Garden Grove Manor.
· Keep the office open on a regular schedule and post the office hours on the office doors.
· Supervise all employees to make sure they are doing their jobs correctly, respectfully and competently.
· Make sure shareholders know the names of all employees and what their exact job is.
· Make sure all employees treat shareholders and their rights with respect, honesty and fairness.
· Make sure all contractors have the proper licenses, insurance and qualifications.
· Supervise the move-in waiting lists to make sure they are accurate and updated regularly.
· Make sure the HUD Section 8 and Basic certifications are completed accurately and on schedule.
· Bring back the waiting lists for replacements and repairs based on need and fairness.
· Have a Maintenance Technician live on site at GGM if that is what shareholders want.
· Perform necessary maintenance to keep GGM a safe, comfortable and clean place to live.
· Consider hiring a management company with experience in Section 236 cooperatives like GGM.
· Follow the Garden Grove Manor by-laws and California law as we are required to do.
· Hold annual election meetings on schedule.
· Hold the annual budget meeting on schedule and give shareholders a copy of the budget.
· Hold regular open meetings so shareholders can watch the new Board in action.
· Make the meeting minutes available to all shareholders so they know what is happening.
· Post the meeting agendas and other documents by the office so shareholders can read them.
We look forward to talking with you about your priorities for Garden Grove Manor. Thank you very much.
Cooperatively yours,
Nelson Cuervo, Nominee for the Board of Directors of Garden Grove Manor
Milina Kasalian, Nominee for the Board of Directors of Garden Grove Manor
Tom DePalma, Nominee for the Board of Directors of Garden Grove Manor
Alicia Boatman, Nominee for the Board of Directors of Garden Grove Manor
Keith Campbell, Nominee for the Board of Directors of Garden Grove Manor
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