Subject: Please Return your PVHA Ballot and Vote ÒYesÓ to Lower the Quorum

I am writing you to urge you to return the ballot you recently received in the mail for the Palos Verdes Homes Association Election. 

This is a critical election because the California Superior Court required that PVHA members be asked if they support lowering the quorum from 50% to 35%. If the majority says ÒnoÓ, then the quorum stays at 50% and likely can never be revisited again by the Court. A 50% (+1) quorum was achieved only 29% of the time since 1941, and only three times in the last 25 years. In the last three contested elections, the vote count only reached 35% once Ñ 32.5% in 2016, 29.2% in 2017 and 39.5% in 2018.Ê The last valid election (which met the 50% quorum) was 2009. All the current Board members have never been elected.

New leadership is needed. In recent years, the Board burned through $1 million in reserves defending their illegal sale of parkland to a private resident. Only $56k is left. We cannot afford that kind of stewardship.

Please see the attached flyer for a summary of the issues. You also can check out ROBEÕs website which has more information at http://www.pvegoodgov.org/pvha-2020-election. In addition, there is a Candidate Forum at PVE City Hall at 7pm on November 21, and written answers from all six candidates to ten questions are at https://www.pvrrg.org/pvha-questions-for-candidates.

So please vote ÒYesÓ on lowering the quorum to 35%, and I encourage you to vote for the four ROBE candidates (Marlene Breene, Dick Fay, John Harbison, Ried Schott).

Without all our votes, this will be just another invalid election and the Board will just keep re-appointing themselves Ð and we will deserve what we get.

Please pass this along to a few friends and neighbors.