Spring Valley Lake Association
13325 Spring Valley Parkway
Victorville, Ca. 92395
Mr. Glen Goslaw
Proxy for Mrs. Marjorie Goslaw (AC 360)
7983 SVL Box
Victorville, Ca. 92395
October 1, 2009
Dear Board of Directors:
This letter is not a notification of an assessment increase but rather to notify each of you that this one SVL homeowner is in opposition to your continued service on the Board of our community. Your style is to berate and belittle descent but this one voice will not be stifled. My action is in response to your lack of leadership and the refusal to hold yourselves to any standard of accountability.
As noted in a previous letter to this board, big government solutions to association management issues will compound our pain into the future. Real change begins when oversight failures are acknowledged and corrections instigated in full public view. Back room manipulation of any crisis is big government leadership. Our small pleasant community wants real people centered change. This may be an unfounded assumption but let us hope for the best.
Prior to the tenure of our current general manager, the juvenile mismanagement of our members interests were your team’s responsibility. Your leadership was and is SVL. There are three questions that any reasonable association board member should have address without direct prompting.
1. The accounting mess.
In this member‘s opinion, this mess is in your lap. The prior “sloppy at best accounting”(not my words) was on your watch. You will not own up to this responsibility. Instead,you hire a very competent firm at $8,ooo a month. This firm tells us at the meeting of August 26, Haney & Associates will “not” assess past accounting. This created a stir at the meeting and many asked, “if you won’t, who will?” Again, your members ask you,our leaders, who will? Our fear is that investigating past accounting is mere lip service because it was your system.
2. The security issue.
The security budget of the association has exploded in the last two years under your watch. Security visibility has increased proportionately but are we any safer? This member believes not. A criminal element lives in our community as it does in every community. We are very appreciative of the sheriff’s criminal sweep of this past Friday and the eleven arrests. Security visibility will not scare off this criminal element, to so assume is to be at least naive. To pay for this visibility we are being asked to fork over 7.5 % increase in assessments. You, our board, are acting in juxtaposition to this age of belt tightening mandates. Again, your members ask you, our leaders, are we any safer?
3. Association mismanagement
Credibility from the office of association management is one cause for our mistrust of this board. When employees are guilty of extreme misrepresentations to this member, some would use a better word, management is a failure. Rules are made up on the fly to hamper visibility and protect jobs. The bylaws of the association are not so specific as to address every issue. Like every business the association needs a written policy statement by board action.
Remember every policy passed by the board, the board owns. Possibly, that is why undue authority is delegated to management as has happened in the past. A change is needed. The new general manager, Jon Sabo, seems to be a capable and sincere administrator operating for the protection of our interests. He has signed onto a tough job and this member is willing to give him time. We have no such sentiment for the board, you have had your time and failed.
Some of us are experienced enough to remember the “Laugh In” television show. Well, this is a “sock it me “ letter. This is a no confidence vote and a call for new leadership. We shall not pay the 7.5 % increase, ever. For the above stated reasons, we vote NO!
Glen Goslaw
Proxy for Marjorie Goslaw ( AC 360 )
