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COTO DE CAZA BOARD OF DIRECTORS BEST KEPT LITTLE DIRTY SECRETApril
23, 2006 District
residents get to elect one delegate per district, with the delegates having only
two official responsibilities: 1)
Determine the composition of the board of directors and 2)
Vote to recall any member, at any time.
But
wait, there is more: CAUSE-EFFECT CotoBuzz
readers know that we have invested time and money single-mindedly tackling
head-on public safety. So, now we are able to predict each and every move this board
makes in this regard – given that they have consistently pursued personal
agendas over public safety- Earlier
this year (February 11, 2006), we sent this note to the association’s legal
counsel, its property management company and the board:
CAUSE From:
CotoBuzz As you know, for years we have been advocating a comprehensive public safety program for Coto de Caza. Days before the most recent fatality, we asked legal counsel to compel Keystone and the board to either consider any of our public safety proposals or articulate one of their own – we all know what happened The CZ Master board of directors have used derogatory remarks, in public, when referring to the CHP, using fallacious reasoning: “because Coto residents pay taxes, so CHP services should be provided for free” – However, at the same time, the board has refused to take advantage of the CHP’s most respected community awareness program, a cornerstone of an effective public safety program, provided free of charge. It should be noted that other communities such as Ladera Ranch jumped at the first chance to include a CHP agent as a member of their public safety committee.
Most people in the community, and a
lot more outside of it, by now know that this board has been more interested in
pursuing personal agendas over public safety issues, including the trampling of
civil liberties. Simply consider the most recent
event involving the failure to keep up road certification, the promise of
pro-active traffic control by the Sheriff at no additional charge, and the
fired group Formerly Known as the Safety
Committee. So now the board wants to bring in a consultant to advice a new Safety Committee – that is, if the board is able to find other volunteers willing to give up their free speech rights and their spouses.
From:
CotoBuzz Public
Safety: When CJ Klug (property manager’s general manager) first came on board, we volunteered to meet with him and to provide him with all the information we had regarding public safety, including CHP statistics, William Pilot’s seminal White Paper on the State of Coto security (click here for copy State of Coto Security, a White Paper) critical of Keystone personnel and the board, and copies of a number of comprehensive security proposals which include traffic control, crime and vandalism prevention and invasion of privacy issues. He refused.
“Recently,
the California Highway Patrol sent a letter to C. J. Klug, manager of the CZ
Master Association of Coto de Caza describing the amount and types of citations
the CHP is writing. According to the letter, the CHP issued 64 citations for
people failing to stop at stop signs, and 67 speeding tickets. All in all, the
CHP spent 158 hours patrolling in Coto in the month of March and handed out 149
citations and 33 warnings” and
in covering the April 13, 2006 Coto de Caza board of directors meeting
that “CZ Master Association Manager C.J. Klug reported on
continuing speeding problems along Coto’s main roads, and said people continue
to run stop signs" Conveniently,
no mention of the recent fatality that did not occur on a main road,
and that all main roads are not traffic patrol worthy because he felled
asleep at the wheel and let road certification expire "He
presented a California Highway Patrol report which showed the CHP issued 64 stop
sign citations and 67 speeding citations within Coto in the month of March.” First,
the CHP is not in the business of publishing traffic statistics.
The CHP is the official state agency chartered with the collection and
investigation of the traffic incidents. CHP management will go out of
their way to provide communities with the information they need to prevent
traffic accidents: When we have asked for daily reports, the CHP has
provided the information. When we asked for weekly reports, the CHP
obliged. When we asked for monthly reports, the CHP responded! – yet the
board of directors calls the CHP extortionists and refused to provide them board
meeting time for public awareness campaigns, but readily turn over control of
board meetings to the producers of the Freaks! “Published”
reports or not, these are the same CotoBuzz has been publishing for years and
which we had asked Keystone and the GM to publish – we were ignored. In
fact, Keystone’s senior management told CotoBuzz that Keystone did not
have the authority from the Board to use meaningful public safety statistics!
We should also mention that Klug met with CHP management, early on, and even
then refused to publish CHP data! “Official
Published Sheriff’s Report” By
the way, we have also commissioned a report dealing with crime and
vandalism, from the Sheriff, identical in format, to the one we worked on
with the CHP, and have now started to make it available to Cotobuzz readers. No
evidence of due diligence in firing largest private security company in the
world Keystone
and CJ Klug participated in the firing of the largest private security in the
world, in Securitas and replaced with one of the smallest in the region in UPS.
When Klug was asked about due diligence, he mentioned having received six
quotes, but an audit revealed no signs of due diligence ever used in the
process. When we started to question the Securitas-to-UPS transition plan, we
were told that the GM was responsible for the transition plan. We
never did get a copy of such a plan, and we all know what happened. Transponder
Fiasco Not
unlike the Transponder Fiasco. When we asked the GM for a copy of the
Transponder Plan, his response was “define what you mean by plan”! Participation in the Sheriff is coming ruse – working with the Coto de Caza board of directors in support of Orange County Supervisor’s Trojan Horse, that allows the board to turn Coto into a city, as an excuse for not having the CHP in place.
As
if this was not enough, the property manager and the board have engaged in a
number of highly questionable practices with regards to
the Coto de Caza 2006 Board of Directors election – these have been referred
to government agencies requesting they take action.
Some of these irregularities are documented in our request to nullify the
2006 CZ
Master Association Board of Directors Elections Not surprisingly, the April 13, 2006 Harvard Gazette reads “A new national poll by the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics (IOP) finds that seven out of 10 college students in the United States believe that religion is somewhat or very important in their lives”, and go on to say that “More than half of the students agree that they are concerned about the moral direction of the country. While a majority believes hot-button issues such as abortion policy, gay marriage, and stem cell research are issues of morality”. Meanwhile the current Coto de Caza board of directors call the California Hyway Patrol Management (CHP) ionists” and preferred to turn over control of a board meeting to the producers of the Desperate Housewives, but refused to allow the CHP to conduct public awareness campaigns – with disastrous consequences!
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