Meetings

As you know from a previous post, a meeting of the two Committees took place on the Bar Terrace which produced little in the way of moving forward to a united Community.

Since then I have held talks with Paco which again resulted in little, if any progress. On the advice of Apyme our Administrators, I formally invited Paco in writing to arrange a meeting between himself and their Administrator, myself and our Administrator. I also informed him that no Lawyers should be present. Having consulted Mi Sol Lawyer previously, she advised me that under the protocol of these things, Lawyers should not be present at this meeting. She explained that at this meeting the Administrators should exchange documents and financial accounts, and after studying them put forward proposals for an agreement, which would then have to be agreed between Paco and myself. Because of the complexity of the situation this could involve several meetings of this nature. Only after such an agreement was reached, should Lawyers be involved in drawing up a contract of agreement to be signed by both parties.

Paco did arrange a meeting, and our Administrators did telephone him to ask, due to a prior engagement whether the meeting could be brought forward by an hour. During this telephone call in my presence, he explicitly told Paco that if their Lawyer was going to be present, I would not attend the meeting.

The evening before the meeting was due to be held, Paco telephoned me to say the time could be brought forward by half an hour from the original arrangement. I asked him if their Lawyer was going to be present, and he answered yes, I informed Paco that because of this I would not be attending the meeting.

Alberto our Administrator, reported to our Committee that he did attend the meeting himself, and advised us of his findings. It would seem that Paco and his supporters owe a large sum of money to their Administrator. Their requirement for any settlement between the two sides would include the Community paying this money on their behalf.

At this moment in time the Committee and, I refuse to accept this proposal for the following reasons :-

In the first instance we do not have the money to pay it, even if we wanted to.

The Community did not employ their Administrator, they took it upon themselves to do that.

Except for money gained through the Courts for 2004, we have received no money from them to help with the running of Mi Sol. We have received no money from them for the last three years for the Water and Electricity they have used. We have received no Community charges from them for the last three years.

They have made no financial contribution towards the running of Mi Sol in the last three years, except for a Gardener and Cleaner, which again they took upon themselves to employ, and this was for a relatively short period.

An account was set up by them at the Cambank, which they said was to accept payments for their Water and Electricity accounts. Promises were made on several occasions that when a new President was elected, they would hand this money over to the Community, this now appears conditional on an agreement being reached between the two sides.

At the recent meeting of the two Committees the question was asked, where was all the money from their supporters for Community charges, Water and Electricity charges for the years 2005 ,2006 and 2007 , given that they only had around Euro 9000 in the Cambank account?
The answer was given that it had gone on Lawyers fees and the employment of a Gardener and Cleaner.

Whilst it is vital for the well being of Mi Sol that an agreement is reached, this should not be at "any price" the Committee and I will not be pressured into accepting something which is clearly unfair to the very large majority of Owners.