Hi Folks !
Report as promised !
1. I'm alive and well and there was no horse's head in my bed
2. My website was hacked while I was at my Meeting last night and as I have a tracking thingy installed I know exactly who it was
, quite flattering really that my not very good little site should be such cause for concern !!!! Oh, btw, now I'm allowed to post links, it's
www.freewebs.com/villasdeartenara/ if any more "new battlers"want to have a peek !
3. Last Night's Meeting..............went really well ! Not a great turn-out, but so many owners are non-resident I wasn't expecting that many............9 Brits and 1 lovely Spanish lady who I've even seen before !
The meeting lasted almost three hours and oh boy did we cover some ground !
I was asked to chair it cos I'd collected all the info to share.
Bless 'em, they all stuck to my request to keep to the main really important issues and forget about the minor day-to-day winges that we all have when stuck with useless Community management!
Four main issues were identified .............financial mis-management/misappropriation of funds re non-payment of water bills........... failure to comply with owners voted wishes................failure to record minutes correctly/ minutes stating matters were approved unanimously when there was no vote/ failure to provide full and correct translation...................failure to answer written complaints/address verbal complaints.
It was unanimously agreed that this was sufficient for a censure movement/vote of no confidence.
After much debate on Horizontal Law 13.7 it was agreed by all that the EGM called for 5th September was a golden opportunity for a complete overthrow IF we can manage to raise a majority vote !
Following advice from EOS oracles, we then made Plan A and Plan B.
Plan A
If can muster enough votes ,they all wanted me to be President .......ouch ! and we all agreed a vice-president and secretary. We all agreed also on a new Asesoria(administrator who has been highly recommended to me by a Brit President of a nearby Community.
Plan B
If not enough votes, then it's me standing for the current Secretary vacancy to hopefully get a foot in the door, be responsible for cheque-signing and find out where our money is all going, cos as sure as hell it's not being spent on the Community! Hopefully then gaining more support and going for the Grand Slam at the March AGM.
We all agreed to chip in to the cost of a professional AGM/EGM translator for the September meeting.
We all learned a lot from two owners present who have lived here a lot longer than the rest of us, most interestingly that our President is the sister of the guy that owns our Asesoria !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We finished on a positive note with everyone firmly focused on gaining support and getting proxy votes !!!
This morning.................hub and I were a bit despondent about the poor turnout and muttering about vote targets that were impossible !!
By lunchtime, I'd had two emails from Brit owners in UK offering support and asking what to do about their proxy vote !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By afternoon, my Morrocan neighbours, who are not even owners, and speak about ten languages between them, had asked me for proxy vote forms and went round banging on doors to talk to Morrocan and Rumanian tenants to find out the who and where of their landlords!! By 5pm I had two peeps wanting to come with me to the Asesoria tomorrow to inspect the accounts !!!!!!
Ssssshhhhhh ........................I think we might be on a roll ...........and a quick tally of already signed and obtained proxy votes plus promised but not yet received proxies and we're nearly there,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I'm really starting to think we can do it !!!!
I'll shut up now before I bore the pants off you all
This message was last edited by On a mission ! on 8/19/2008.