Wednesday 26 November 2008

DISGUSTING WASTE OF COMMUNITY MONEY

At the AGM in September this year, the other faction produced a document showing they had lodged papers with the Courts in Torrevieja, we were assured this was simply an attempt to prevent Pepe ever becoming President again.

Attached is a copy of a document which proves that to be untrue. It is in fact a form of appeal to the Courts in Madrid against the judgement we received in our favour in May of this year.
Whilst there was no right of appeal against that judgement, this is a Recurso, and from what I am given to understand from our Lawyers it is an appeal against the wording of the judgement, not against the judgement itself. This is going to cost us a minimum of Euro 2000 (two thousand) to defend, and of course presumably a similar amount will have to be paid by the other faction. However we all know that money will not be paid by them personally, but from funds they are holding which rightfully belong to the Community. Therefore the Community can look forward to losing at least another Euro 4000 as a direct result of the other faction taking this action. It is quite obvious they have no regard or concern for the welfare of the Community, only for the self interest of the 4 or 5 of them that are still carrying on.

Bear in mind this action has been taken AFTER several discussions have been held and a way of resolving the dispute was AGREED. The date of presenting this document to court is clearly shown as 11th November 2008.

This is AFTER we had agreed to credit proper Cambank receipts to the accounts of those who have paid the other side.

This is AFTER we had agreed to consider other receipts of these same people, provided the Administrator acting on their behalf demonstrated by proper accounts where that money had gone. So far he has only managed to produce accounts for 2003.

This is AFTER we were told the court case was only to stop Pepe ever becoming President again, and that they were paying for it out of their own pockets.

This is AFTER we were told they had sacked their Lawyer, clearly not true as his name is on the document.

We all know that the only winners in Court cases are the Lawyers, which is why I have preferred to spend my time as President reaching agreements for people to pay in instalments rather than resort to legal action.

At the end of the day the other factions disagreement is with Pepe, not the Community which has done nothing wrong. So why should the Community have to pay for what is essentially a private war ?

It seems a member of the other side paid a very large amount of money into their Caja Rural account at the end of October, later he approached a candidate for President offering his support, and indicating his desire to become Vice President. If this was a guenuine approach, why did he not pay his money into Banco popular where it rightfully belongs ?

Wednesday 19 November 2008

New President

In a few days time the Community will be called upon to elect a new President. Secretary Mrs Mo Taunton has indicated her willingness to stand. This is terrific news for the Community, I have no doubt whatsoever that if she is elected she will make an excellent President. Mo has my complete support and in the interests of the Community I would ask you all to support her also. During the last few weeks Mo has been doing all the work, due to the pressures of my job I have only been able to carry out Official duties, and even before being elected to the Committee she worked very hard for the Community.

A change of President will not mean the end of this Web Log you will continue to receive true and accurate information about what is happening on Mi Sol.

Thursday 13 November 2008

EGM Update

To date the notification of the forth coming EGM has still not been sent out by APYME. They have been asked the reason for the delay and have replied that the legal requirement for notification is 48 hours, not very helpful for the return of proxy votes!

Electricity and Water increase.

In July Iberdrola and Aguamed increased their charges by 8% and 100% respectively, APYME were instructed to put these charges onto the October bills which they failed to do, reason from Melanie...."I forgot"!!! The bad news is that both Iberdrola and Aguamed have Direct Debits and the increase has been debited from the Mi-Sol bank account. The consequence of this is that these increases will have to be paid retrospectively in January 2009.

It has been reported that when an owner tried to pay her bill into Banco Popular with a cheque from her own bank it was refused, she asked the young man behind the counter as to the reason and was told that the Administrator of Mi-Sol had instructed them not to receive payment by cheques from other banks. I made a telephone call to APYME who denied this vehemently. I suggested they make a call to Banco Popular to get an explanation.

Gates.
Mi-Sol have lost their appeal to have the gates re-instated, we are waiting for the relevent paperwork. The cost of a further appeal is 1500 euros with a result not expected for 5 years, needless to say it has been decided not to appeal at this time as the bank balance is at a precarious low. The gardeners are not working this month due to lack of funds, residents have been asked to keep the outside of their plots tidy if possible. It is apparent that the swimming pool contract is a major drain on our resources and it's not likely they will receive payment this month.

After the EGM some drastic actions will need to be taken. Thankyou to all those owners who have promptly paid their bills.

This post has been written by Mo Taunton - Secretary