Kudos to Blackmans
Congratulations to Barbara and Tom Blackman on their 55 years of marriage. (Seal Beach Sun, Thursday, July 11, 2013) I was hired by the city of Seal Beach in January of 1978.
Tom Blackman was the mayor at the time. He was truly concerned about making Seal Beach a wonderful place to live and was very pro public safety for the community.
I had worked with many service organizations over the years and Barbara as well as Tom were involved with most of them. Their resume is much to long to put in this letter but Friends of the Library, Seal Beach Historical Society and Seal Beach Women’s Club just to name a few, doesn’t really scratch the surface for all they have done.
I would like to thank them both for all they have given back to this community unselfishly.
Rick Paap
Los Alamitos
Right to information – the Rebuttal
The following is a rebuttal to “Right to Information” response published on May 16, 2013 in the Sun Newspaper’s Letters to the Editor:
If I have to interpret the bottom line of Kurt Bourhenne’s response to my request pertaining to carport assignment, it means that the hard proof blueprint or original layout of contested subject assignment is just illusory and therefore does not exist. I refused to accept this because it is obvious that he did not do his due diligence before he issued statements pertaining to my request. His statements were devoid of substantial evidence and as such were by and large, hearsay.
I have records of my requests to substantiate my actions and declarations contrary to how Mr. Bourhenne handles this case. In July 2012, President Bourhenne managed to measure the distance of building 24 to carport building 157 to figure out the layout of logical assignment. Instead of getting the layout or blueprint from the engineering office, he just promised that he could only approve one space instead of two. That was in July 2012. But, on May 16, 2013 his response to the letter to the Sun editor, stated that a 50 year old document doesn’t exist.
This is totally a nonsense and irresponsible comment. I have a copy of the 17 page Declaration Trust document of Leisure World dated April 17, 1962, recorded in Orange County on July 10, 1962.
I do not persevere to this date and hurdle all the challenges emotionally and physically for the acquisition of the blueprint or original layout of the carport assignment for no reason at all.
As a shareholder I am invoking my basic informational rights which include among others the right to inspect blueprint/layouts of carport assignments of building 157 for the residents of building 24. This basic right is corollary with my economic right. My wife and I invested our money in this mutual corporation in order to get maximum profit.
Carport assignment is part and parcel of our stock certificate which is essential to get the highest return of our investment.
The minutes of Board Meetings dated Aug. 23, 2011 stated among others that carport assignments are controlled by the Mutual Corporation and a record of assignment is kept in the Stock Transfer Office of the Golden Rain Foundation.
Then Mutual 14 President Martha Destra reiterated in the same meeting, which I quote, “ … carport assignment is a part of the Stock Certificate and cannot be legally changed … President Destra indicated that Carol Weller has a list of the original assignments of carports … ” However, Carol Weller’s response to all my requests were contrary to what has been recorded in the past as noted below:
1. On Jan. 28, 2013 she issues a letter of introduction to the county of Orange Map and Records endorsing my request. I did not receive any response from the city. Ms. Weller further stated that because of the 1995 flood, some of the records were misplaces or damaged. However, there were no reports of damage as claimed. I have a newspaper clipping of the reported flood but there was no report that office records were not directly affected by the flood.
2. On March 14, 2013, we had another meeting with Carol Weller together with Steve Perez and one Mutual 14 board member discussing this matter.
After which, I just received a letter from Ms. Weller that (they) don’t have the requested record, except other mutuals. Why discriminate building 24? I have requested this records for the past three years now but no document was shown to my full satisfaction.
The officials concerned gave me a different reason and/or alibi in order for them to hide the truth. It is apparent that these individuals are trying to manipulate the veracity of the existence of this record. I will not be silenced until justice is served. I have a legitimate request to get a hold of the records as a matter of my basic right. I am the aggrieved party in this situation. If this matter is not settled amicably among the officials concerned, I will not hesitate to lodge this case at a proper legal forum invoking the Davis Sterling Act of the Corporation Code Sections 8333, 8334, 8335 and 8336.
Joseph Estanislao
Seal Beach Leisure World
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