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Lottery Players BEWARE playing at vegetable store across from 9707. One of the men has a habit of not clearing the machine before entering your plays. Yes he gives you a printout but most of us just look at the total and throw the receipt away. My neighbor went there with $20 of numbers and was told he owed $24.00 as was showing on the receipt. At the top of the receipt were two Mega tickets he didn’t play. A long time ago he was playing $10 of numbers and told he owed $12.00. Again they showed him the bottom of receipt but he saw a C4L entry on top of receipt. C4L stands for Cash for Life which he didn’t play. When he showed him he said “Oh that was someone else”. Those are not accidents.
In a rush this morning I gave a $3.00 winning scratch card and played $120 Mega, Powerball, and Lotto. He scanned the scratch card and cleared machine and then entered lottery tickets. I paid the expected $120 and left. When I was in the subway I realized he didn’t give me a replacement $3 scratch card. I approached him about it tonite when I got home and he said to look at the receipt. Of course I had tossed it.
A dollar here, a dollar there, no one usually argues about it. If you have to go there – PAY ATTENTION.
Akam running park city estates and park city. Akam prices going up therefore our Maintence going up. Last think you want to do is compare to park city estates. Also keep in mind that last year for 2023 management increased maintenance to 4% and now yet another increase of 4.7%. Where did all that money go?! I don’t see very big projects going on. There should have not been a 4.7 increase since last year we had a major one.
Park city estates by the way was taking over by Zarina as well and Akam fyiiiii!!!
Easy to compare Estates to us but was Estates charged $4.35 per share for a June 2023 “assessment”.
Probably NOT!
Checked with friend in Park City Estates. Their maintenance is going up 5.46%. Anyone know of other coops in the area?
There are 9 members comprising the Board of Directors. It takes at least FIVE (5) of the NINE (9) members to agree on an action.
One or two “good board members” can’t do anything for the co-op. There were three people on the prior Board who disagreed with almost all of the excessive spending – especially the $840,000 cameras – but SIX members out-voted them and now we have meaningless cameras everywhere.
The Board took out a $30 million mortgage when they came into power. They paid off the $16 million old mortgage and then starting spending. It made them feel powerful. But then they had to beef up the piggy bank so in June 2023 everyone paid an additional $4.35 per share “Assessment”… that came to about $1.3 million dollars more in their piggy bank… and they are spending it.
The average 224 shares one-bedroom paid an extra $976 for the June 2023 Assessment and now the 4.7% increase will be an additional $31.00 a month more in maintenance in 2024. Will that feed their money-hungry mouths or will there be another “Assessment” in June 2024?
They need the 4.7% increase so that they can either balance the 2024 budget or spend more on unnecessary stuff. WHY! When we are scraping bottom, did the Board create “merit based increases for some security and staff members”?
Did your boss give you more money because you work “beyond meeting minimum requirements”? I DOUBT IT!
This will continue for as long as shareholders just sit on their hands. We need to remove this Board asap!
There is no need to get all new board members as the key is to have board members unafraid to hold management counsel and members accountable
Even 1 or 2 good board members who are tough can do a lot of good for the coop
After the recent boiler repair, there is almost no water pressure for the hot waterin our bathtub in 9805. I will call the office tomorrow. Anyone else have this problem?
To answer an earlier question, Ron can be reached by email to ParkCityOneVoice@Yahoo.Com
As for many of the recent comments on this site, each of you will find your answer in the ABOUT US tab of this website. I also encourage you to view the Certificate of Incorporation (Page 4 “Section 4. Resignation and Removal”) posted in the DOCUMENTS tab of this website – if pages do not open, look in Downloads and click on the file.
Basically, with a meeting called for the specific purpose of removing members from the Board of Directors, a shareholder majority can remove one, two, three, OR ALL members of the Board (it is stated as such in Section 4 of our By Laws). The big question is “What then?”
We already tried putting 9 inexperienced shareholders on the Board and, in my personal opinion, we only managed to empower a lawyer to lead them by their noses for two-plus years!
Going back to “What then?” – again, in my personal opinion – we have to start with a new lawyer from a different law firm and if the entire Board must be removed to accomplish that then – so be it!
It’s very distressing to go on Zillow and see how many people in the complex are trying to sell and how long some things are on the market even after big price drops. It seems like half the listings for sale in rego park are in our complex.
Putting big desks for the security was a waste of money making a big new office for David so he can sit like a king is a waste of our money who the heck is he. Greedy person robbing all of us! What kind of person does a renovation for his nasty self as the first project which he probably spent around 250k for including all the new equipment. Who the heck is he to have a brand new office like that. Who approved this?! Rose? Zarina best friend!!
Organizing a protest outside the office makes 0 sense. Just talk to your neighbors, express your disappointment, and don’t vote for these people next time
The thieves just sent a letter 4.7% maintenance increase. Time to get Zarina out. We need to organize a protest outside of the building. Ron how can I get into contact with you?
I passed the below information to members of OneVoice Tenants Association and thought I’d share it here. I hope it’s helpful to those with billing issues.
Ron
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I went through my last 7 months of 2023 maintenance bills and, using the kHw usage divided into the dollar amount charged, I came up with what looks like we’ve already been paying a variable rate.
May 2023 reads .1698870056cents per kHw {that’s almost 17 cents} to simplify the next 6 months, I’m only going to use the first 4 digits:
June 2023 = .1738 (again, these are all cents per kHw not dollars)
July 2023 = .1647
August = .1831
September = .1953
October = .2218
November = .2457
December = .2385
While it may appear the rate is getting higher – I spot checked some 2022 rates, as follows:
May 2022 = .1922
September 2022 = .2435
December 2022 = .2235
Lastly, do what I do. On the 20th day of every month check your meter and write the usage number on your wall calendar (it helps when you use ALEXA reminders – or SIRI ). Then, when you receive your maintenance bill showing the prior month’s usage you can compare it and should be within 50kHw of your calendar entry.
