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January 2009
We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!
To
Freeze or Not To Freeze – LWV’s PCM Salaries, That
Is
Posted
by CotoBlogzz | 12/30/2008 9:00 PM
At
today’s open GRF agenda meeting, GRF President Erwin
Stuller disclosed that the Third Mutual board had
requested that the managing agent, PCM, institute an
immediate wage freeze on non-union employees. This
would put a freeze on the 4% increase scheduled for
2009. After a bit of a shocked pause a member of
the audience finally suggested that the proposal
should be discussed further in executive session.
But of course, the damage had already been done:
The appearance was that the request was in
confidence and discussed only in closed meetings,
before Stuller brought it all out into the open -
the request appearing to come from the Third Mutual
board, seemed to catch all other boards by surprise.
Presumably this means that the board presidents who
were aware of this did not feel the need to disclose
anything to the ordinary board members.
Last
week, indeed, the Third Mutual had asked several
directors to join them in asking PCM to implement a
hiring freeze with increases for union contracts.
To
answer the question: is this another instance of
closed session business getting “leaked” by a
signatory of the Positive Solutions? we turned to
Michael Curtis.
Mr. Curtis indicated “the housing mutuals don’t have any direct control over PCM Inc. employees or their wages - that’s all under GRF”, he said. Adding “of course, today the GRF Board decided not to even discuss it next week. By virture of their lack of discussion and quick unanimous No Vote, it was obvious that the GRF Board had some sort of a closed meeting on this issue prior to today’s meeting. I am still hopeful this topic will come up during the resident’s comments at next week’s GRF meeting”
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