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Our Gen. Manager ( Milt Johns) was distressed and fearful because he did not like what was said in an e-mail. He has hired attorney Bill Harts firm to handle it, so there goes more of our residents money raising our assessments. Milt join the crowd, how many seniors do you think have lost sleep when our management fee went up 83% over the last few years ( $ 350,000 to over $600,000) How many seniors were distressed and fearful when our chief financial officer tells us that PCM has saved us millions of dollars but our assessments keep going up. Where did the millions go?

Who knows, surely not to lower assessments. How many seniors lost sleep when they learned about thousands upon thousands of dollars on credit cards and reimbursements expenses for lunches, dinners, parties, birthday parties, gifts, and etc. The shame of this is that the residents did not even know these cards existed. These same cards are the ones that Milt Johns said were to be used for emergencies only. How many seniors are distressed and fearful when they found out about PCM giving themselves an incentive bonus plan that the residents nor our boards knew nothing about.When you read all of this it kind of answers the question. Why are assessments going up? It's hard to believe that PCM (Milt Johns) is managing Laguna Woods Village efficiently. I believe that if we stick with Milt Johns (PCM) managing style we will suffer profound and lasting harm financially. It is time now for residents to work together for a more efficient managing system that puts the residents first and that honors our ideals of integrity, transparency, accountability and freedom of choice.

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