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USALAND
1.
VOTE
FOR KERRY IF YOU WILL....
2.
FAHRENHEIT 911 - THE REST OF
THE STORY
3.
I HAVE A PLAN
4.
COTOBUZZ
INCOHERENT & POLITICAL
5.
Senator to introduce bill to protect residents.
6.
9-11 COMMISSION REPORT - ONLINE
COTOLAND
A
CZ BOARD
RECALL GAINS MOMENTUM
B.
COTOCAN SELLS IT
SOUL
C.
2004-2005
CZ BOARD PROGRESS REPORT
D.
A CZ MIDSUMMER's
NIGHTMARE
E.
FIGHT TERRORISM
F.
HOW TAXES WORK
G.
CZ DISTRICTS WITH NO
REPRESENTATION
H.
COTO
DISCUSSION FORUM BETTER THAN EVER!
I.
ASK COTOLADY: What
is with the CanyonLife: Using WPD?
J.
ASK COTOLADY: WHO?
K.
ZCLOCK: HOW LONG
SHOULD WE WAIT?
"The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the
man who manages to make no decisions and escape all
responsibility." ~
Brooks Atkinson.
"In
general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from
one party
of citizens to give to the other." ~ Voltaire
Think
wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for
yourself. -Doris Lessing
Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican Congregation
for the Doctrine of Faith has a number of
non-negotiable issues, including abortion, euthanasia,
death penalty, cloning, stem celll research,
homosexuality, education and family.
Others argue that in ethics, an important
consideration is the application of the principle of
proportionality to moral issues.
This principle is a safeguard against a
distorting reductionism.
Applied to the upcoming presidential election,
the principle asks us to look at the totality of the
candidate’s policies and the nuances of their
policies.
It
is one thing for a person to vote for a candidate on
the basis of their opposition to a moral stance, and
another to vote for a candidate despite their
opposition to a moral stance, when one has applied the
principle of proportionality.
Consider
the issue of abortion.
When the principle of proportionality is
applied, the question may be “which candidate’s
social and economic policies might possibly reduce the
number of abortions and balance it with other issues
such as the death penalty, stem cell research, health
care, etc., and where each candidate stands on these
life issues.
Please
join us and vote for President George W. Bush and vote
NO on all California propositions.
Vote wrongly if you
please, but in all cases, vote.
CZ
BOARD RECALL GAINS MOMENTUM!
In early September, 2004, a group of self
described Concerned Coto Residents unhappy with the CZ
board leadership compiled a letter with a number of
issues dealing with lack of planning, Safety &
privacy, Fiscal Responsibility & Transparency, and
Abuse of Authority,
as listed below:
Safety, Privacy of
resident information
- Terminating the contract with the CHP, exposing our
members to speeders on our streets, without
putting in place any other pro-active traffic
patrol
Providing an outside organization our names and
addresses without the proper controls and without
member permission violating our right to privacy.
Lack of Planning
- Implementing a $100 Special Assessment to purchase the
Welcome Home Center while at the same time
providing revenues to outside organizations.
- Failing to develop comprehensive goals and objectives to
inform CZ members of the Board’s plans each year
and to properly drive the budget process.
Fiscal responsibility
& Transparency
- Providing Association revenues to other organizations
that have nothing to do with the CZ Master
Association.
- Subsidizing the other two Homeowner Associations in Coto
and CotoCAN with CZ Revenues.
- Ordering Keystone Pacific staff members, who should be
totally focused on Association business, to
support outside organization’s function.
- Failing to properly fund our Reserves while at the same
time giving CZ revenues away to outside
organizations.
Abuse of Authority
- Opening of the Oakview/Oakknoll gates, in complete
disregard of the legal agreement put in place by
former Board’s, to protect our members from
unnecessary liability and security breach.
- Discussing Open Session issues in Executive Session in
violation of the law
The group then put the current CZ Board on
notice and “… we are asking the Board to act in
keeping with our governing documents and the law to
remedy all of these issues as quickly as possible”.
Recall Movement Gains
Momentum
Growing dissatisfaction with the current CZ
Masters Board of Directors prompted a second meeting of Coto Concerned Residents,
held Wednesday, September 29, 2004.
“Many in the community believe that Board
Members have violated their fiduciary responsibility
to protect the interest of the 3,500 CZ members,” said Joe Morabito, a
backer of the movement.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss an appropriate course
of
action and was open to all residents.
So much so that the current CZ board president
was one of the first to arrive at the meeting.
“He was crisp and very uninformed
about everything”, said one of the participants.
“When
he didn't have an answer for Joe, he yelled next.
Very rude. …participants really grilled him.
He had no answers and it was obvious he had done no
research”, attendees concluded.
“I did not attend that meeting at Joe's, but I have been in contact
with him and support his efforts. In general I believe
the Board is doing the best they are capable of doing.
I happen to believe in a bit more conservative
approach to spending other homeowner's money. The
Board of Directors are entrusted with managing the
property which is owned jointly by all CZ Master
homeowners. Therefore, in my opinion, the board must
always consider what is best for the HOA in its
entirety and of course, how to best protect the CZ
Master property. Lennar chose to create and
financially support Coto Can to provide for the social
interaction of the community, a clear separation from
the duties of the CZ Master Board of Directors. So if
I were on the Board I would maintain a separation of
those two groups. In addition I would do whatever is
possible to ensure the safety of our streets, which
has been undermined by the current Board. The final
issue I will mention is the open gates at The Summit
in south ranch. This is a flagrant violation of an
agreement negotiated between CZ Master and Toll
Brothers which the Board refuses to read or discuss
with the land use attorney who represented CZ Master!
I cannot comprehend their priorities, but they clearly
are not mine” - Jan Glisson, former CZ board member. We tried to reach various residents who openly support the
current board for their perspective on the meeting and
the movement in general. All declined to
comment.
This open approach differs significantly from how the current
board was elected.
The Delegate and Others Group led by Paul Young
emphasized, “keeping the strategy closed to
outsiders”, until the candidates were revealed. Interesting to see whether Coto has matured civically to
handle open debates such as this one, which by the way
is alive and active in the Coto Discussion Forum.
CotoBuzz
has learned that at least three potential candidates
have surfaced that would challenge the incumbents in
either a recall effort or during new elections.
The Coto Concerned Residents leadership have
assured Cotobuzz that there is critical mass and
commitment to see changes are implemented with the CZ
Board as soon as possible.
Finally there is movement to collect evidence
that may eventually lead to a California Bar Complaint
with regards to the performance of legal counsel in at
least three areas:
·
Rule 1-120.
Assisting, Soliciting, or Inducing Violations
·
Rule 3-110. Failing to Act Competently.
Rule
3-100. Confidential Information of a Client
For
the record, CotoBuzz has been a long time supporter
and promoter of CotoCAN.
Recently, however
CotoCAN violated a founding principle and has gotten
too close to the current Board.
Consequently CotoCAN is rapidly becoming a
lightning rod galvanizing the community.
Community culture and
identity grows out of grass roots effort, not mandated
from the top down.
For a community to thrive, it must have shared
goals and values.
That is, all members must carry their own load.
Current CZ board decisions, as well intended as
they may be are misguided:
·
When CZ continues to subsidize the Coto
Lifestyle for the Estates and the Villages converging
in shared values is a monumental task.
·
When CZ board activity with regards to CotoCAN
adds to the potential CZ member’s liability,
achieving shared goals may be unattainable.
The
CZ board president likes to say, “Perception over
knowledge”. In
this case we believe that Perception is Reality. What
is your reality?
Earlier in the year, during the CZ Board of
Directors elections,
the incoming freshman director was quoted by
the local mis-information media as saying “…I know
this group and I can hit the ground running”! Apparently he hit the ground so hard that he might have
gotten a concussion and has been missing ever since.
Since he “took office”, the CZ board has
been embroiled in the Welcome Home Debacle, where the
board voted for a special assessment thinking the deal
was done. In
this case, the freshman director admitted to having
voted for the special assessment without having read
all the related documentation, and only after he had
numerous voice mail and email messages letting him
know it was OK! Keep
in mind that by this time, the board has not offered
the 2004-2005 Goals and Objectives and has not
prepared a yearly budget.
Also, allegations that the board has
compromised resident privacy
have surfaced.
It is now widely known that the board has
consciously or unconsciously abdicated their
responsibility to communicate promptly with Coto
residents by outsourcing the monthly newsletter to
CotoVoice, with proceeds going to CotoCAN.
The last explanation offered for this move was
the newsletter was too expensive.
This is the same board that promoted a glossy
monthly newsletter as a “great marketing
strategy”, to discontinue its use a few months
later. A
perfect example of a SAR strategy (Shoot, Aim, Ready!)
"A
popular government, without popular information, or
the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a
farce or a tragedy... a people who mean to be their
own governors must arm themselves with the power which
knowledge gives."
—James Madison, Author of the U.S Constitution and
4th President of the United States
Six months later, the 2004-2005 Goals and
Objectives have note been published, and the budget
has not been finalized, but the board has authorized a
monthly dues increase!
Other issues include the alleged
mis-management of the property management
company, by using management employees to help out
with CotoCAN events, while on CZ board money and not
being available to handle resident issues.
A cursory review of the current board can be
revealing:
2004-2005
Report Card
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Effort
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When directors vote without having read back up documents such
as the Welcome Home Center special assessment,
we think there is no effort.
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Leadership
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When directors vote for or against measures because they are
told to do so may work well in the military –
not in a CID environment
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Operational
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When
the management company deals with
“amendments” to change procedures while we
are in the middle of major debacles and
personnel are not available to attend resident
concerns because they are busy with CotoCAN
events, efficiency is the last thing we may
worry about
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Transparency
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What?
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Accountability
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Where?
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SCENE
I. Coto - Keystone The palace of BARO.
Enter BARO, Keystone, Legal Counsel, and rest of the
CZ Board
BARO
Now, fair Keystone, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; O, methinks, how about
a PLAN?strategy,
Methinks a great marketing plan with a glossy
newsletter?
O,O,O, how about riding the kingdom from the CHP?
I have a plan to keep my subjects in the dark
So, I will use the town crier, in case they complain.
My pets the Estates and the Villages can get special
treatment.
Methinks this is a royal PLAN!
I will put up the money for the Equestrian
trail,
so my buddy, the Duke of Horses will be loyal.
O, O, O, I have a PLAN to purchase a Welcome Home
Center? How you ask, I will tax my subjects!,
I Have a PLAN to give you all you want, sweet KS.
I Have a PLAN to not have a PLAN so my subjects will
not know how I spend their money!
KEYSTONE
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
Of our solemnities. A new glossy just for me?
BARO
Go, COTOCAN,
Stir up the Coto youth to merriments;
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
Exit COTOCAN
Keystone, I woo'd thee with my charm,
And won thy love, giving you a free ride;
And I will wed thee in another key,
With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.
Enter LIGIT, SECURITY, COTOVOICE,
and YOUNG
LIGIT
Happy be BARO, our renowned duke!
I will gladly quash any dissention!
BARO
Thanks, good LIGIT: what's the news with thee?
LIGIT
Full of vexation come I, with complaint
Against my Coto residents who mock SECURITY.
Stand forth, YOUNG. My noble lord,
This man hath my consent to marry her.
Stand forth, COTOVOICE: and my gracious duke,
This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child;
Thou, thou, COTOVOICE, thou hast given her rhymes,
And interchanged love-tokens with my child:
BARO
What say you, SECURITY? be advised fair maid:
YOUNG is a worthy gentleman.
SECURITY
So is COTOVOICE.
BARO
In himself he is;
But in this kind, wanting your father's voice,
The other must be held the worthier.
SECURITY
I would my father look'd but with my eyes.
BARO
Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
SECURITY
I do entreat your grace to pardon
me.
I know I have ovebilled thee.
I knw I do not earn my keep, but
If I refuse to wed YOUNG.
BARO
Either to die the death or to
abjure
For ever the society of men.
Therefore, fair SECURITY, question your desires;
For perception over knowledge.
SECURITY
So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,
Ere I will my virgin patent up
Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke
My soul consents not to give sovereignty.
BARO
Take time to pause; and, by the nest new moon--
The sealing-day betwixt my love and me,
For everlasting bond of fellowship--
Upon that day either prepare to get a raise
For disobedience to your father's will.
YOUNG
Relent, sweet SECURITY: and, COTOVOICE, yield
Thy crazed title to my certain right.
COTOVOICE
You have her father's love, YOUNG;
Let me have Coto resident’s confidential
Information, and I shall go my way.
YOUNG
Scornful COTOVOICE! true, he hath my love,
And what is mine my love shall render him.
And she is mine, and all my right of her
I do estate unto YOUNG.
COTOVOICE
I am, my lord, as well derived as he,
My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd,
I am beloved of beauteous SECURITY:
Why should not I then prosecute my right?
BARO
I must confess that I have heard so much,
And with YOUNG thought to have spoke thereof;
But, being over-full of self-affairs,
My mind did lose it. But, YOUNG, come;
And come, LIGIT; you shall go with me,
I have some private schooling for you both.
Come, my Keystone: what cheer, my love?
YOUNG and LIGIT, go along:
LIGIT
With duty and desire we follow you.
Exeunt all but COTOVOICE and
SECURITY
COTOVOICE
How now, my love! why is this a problem?
Keystone works for us and gets paid by Baro?
SECURITY
Belike for want of rain, which I could well
Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.
COTOVOICE
Keep promise, love. Look, here comes COTOCAN DIANA.
Enter COTOCAN DIANA
SECURITY
God speed fair COTOCAN DIANA! whither away?
COTOCAN DIANA
Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art
You sway the motion of YOUNG' heart.
SECURITY
I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.
COTOCAN DIANA
O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!
SECURITY
I give him curses, yet he gives me money.
COTOCAN DIANA
O that my prayers could such affection move!
SECURITY
The more I screw up, the more he follows me.
SCENE
II. Coto. JOE'S house. COMING SOON!
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DISTRICT
NAME |
DELEGATE |
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| 10 |
Stonehedge |
Tom
Barker |
| 11 |
The
Trails/Master Collection |
Alternate:
Richard Fragapane |
| 14 |
The
Greens |
Cheryl
Harris |
| 15 |
The
Woods/Arroyo Su |
Ron
Eger |
| 22 |
The
Legacy/Enclave/Stonefield Estates |
Joan
Rebensdorf |
| 26 |
Oak
Ridge |
Patrick
Taylor |
| 27 |
Tanglewood |
Dave
Batson |
| 28 |
Glen
Eagles |
Michael
Guerin |
| 33 |
Glenmere |
Paul
Thomas |
| 34 |
Crooked
Oak |
Elaine
Hamill |
| 35 |
Courante |
David
Ridel |
| 36 |
Part
of Atherton/Part of Weatherly |
William
Linas |
| 38 |
Terrazza |
Mario
Beas Alternate: Jerry Kranitz |
| 42 |
Stonefield
Private Collection/San Marino |
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Estates, Villages and CZ Masters. Subjects covered
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