OPEN LETTER FROM AN MVHAI HOMEOWNER
31 MARCH 2007
DEAR “MVHAI DIRECTORS ON HOLD-OVER CAPACITY”
MVHAI CLUBHOUSE,
I received your unsigned letter addressed to us homeowners. May I then respond as a homeowner.
In 2003, my wife and I acquired our
We both work as company executives and we regret not having much time for our village affairs. Yet, we make sure we participate in the village democratic process which is its annual election. We deem it not only our right but our duty to vote and put in good hands the affairs of the village while we work to sustain our family. We are very thankful at how our selfless neighbors could willingly offer their time and services for our village so we take our hats off to every candidate whether he wins or loses They make the democratic process succeed for our collective benefit.
Last January 2007, I voted as director my good neighbor 61-year old Ms. Mila Medina, a long-time resident in this village. It so saddens me to read in a paper the other day that she was violently booted out from the clubhouse with the use of brute force. Village properties were destroyed. Our lady village manager, Ms. Noni David, the MVHAI employees and even a MVHAI counsel were physically harassed. Their only fault was to be there to work for us villagers while we kept ourselves secure and safe in the comforts of our houses or offices.
And we just learned this morning that you caused the police to haul the guards at the gates. They must now be in detention? Their only fault also was to be engaged by the present board to protect our village so we can be secured in our homes. What worse things do we expect to happen next? Arrest the board members chosen by the homeowners themselves? What have we transformed ourselves to be?
I was just struck by your statement about “HLURB and Malacanang, the sheriffs and SPD who all believed in the cause that we (you) steadfastly held on”. Please tell us what kind of “cause” is this which is more noble than the inherent right of us homeowners to choose our preferred officers. Please make us understand what “cause” is this that defiled, negated and subverted the sacred choice I made last January 2007 elections. Allow us to grasp why we get strangers to impose that “cause” in us instead of you making us believe in it. If that is a good cause, should we not be given the change to embrace it willingly and voluntarily rather than it being forced in us by the “sheriffs and SPDs”?
You are asking us to “pay your (our) dues at the Clubhouse”. At the very least, please tell us who you are and what your intentions are about our dues. Your letter is unsigned and does not even bear names. Please tell us why we should trust you with our hard-earned money. Do tell us why we should not heed the directive of the present board to pay to them so they can in turn pay for our village utilities.
Whoever you are, the clubhouse, the auditorium and the gates are just structures. By force, you can always take them with the zealous assistance of your “sheriffs and SPDs”. Yet, I hope you will soon realize that you cannot take by force the minds and hearts of villagers whose right to choose, and whose right to leave in peace and in honor, you have just torn and trampled. I fear you might even have cancelled that opportunity to make them believe in your “cause”. My humble view is that leaders do not and should not demand recognition and respect from their members. These are much valued things that are given voluntarily and expressed during our annual elections.
You proclaimed that “we (you) have reclaimed our (your) rightful positions in MVHAI”. I can understand this if MVHAI is a disputed private property. But it is not. It is the repository of the cumulative hopes, aspirations, choices and preferences of the villagers including both you and me. The board and officers’ seats are so reserved for whoever the villagers choose to be worthy of their trust. Your were once trusted in year 2004. If you value this small voice from a homeowner, my view is that this is not the way to redeem that trust once reposed in you.
You said “we(you) will explain in detail the events”. What else other than the numerous exchange of letters from various sides do we need to know? What is clear is that you were able to nullify the 2005 election and the 2005 directors were ordered to step-down in your favor as hold-over. Did the Malacanang decision also nullified the 2006 and 2007 election and ordered the corresponding boards of those years to step down? We leave these legalities to the lawyers concerned. After all, good relation among neighbors is more than legal. It is founded on basic trust and respect. Again, those are not forced or demanded. Those are earned and voluntarily given.
May I just wish for peace and reason to reign in your hearts. Neighbors may disagree but there is no need to hurt each other. I still believe in your inherent goodness.
In ending, may I invite the other villagers to come out and speak their minds. Many of us have been fence-sitters for so long. This is our village and we can rely only on ourselves, next to God.
Sincerely,
HARRISON M. PALTONGAN
Lot
Cc: Ms. Olive Begre, President
7 comments:
I suggest that we should show to Gacutan and Yutadco that they are unwanted in the village maybe we homeowners should sign a petition to removed them as members of MVHAI. We should also show our support to the 2007 Board.
All homeowners should pay their membership dues in the auditorium
Yes to arlu's suggestion.Why dont we ask our directors to draft said petition and have it ready for signature at the Auditorium for homeowners to sign when we come to pay our dues then have it notarized to make it more legal and binding.It is about time we stand up and show our disgust against these two and the other misguided members of their group who has done great damage to our village because of their desire to become MVHAI directors for life.
By the way, they said in their letter that they will call a gen memebership meeting after Holy week lets see if they have the guts to face us. Ever since i can remember they never called membership meetings during their time because they are afraid of being questioned about what they have done to our village among others the shabu issue.
Meantime let us pay our dues na lang to the 2007 Board. I dont want my hard earned money to fall into the hands of Gacutan and Yutadco, i dont trust them to give me my money's worth in terms of basic village services.
Who are the legal directors?
I agree with Multinational resident. I am getting confused here. With the sheriffs and police around, will these law enforcers allow brutality? The sheriffs and police would act based on legal documents. I watched the youtube video. I don't see any brutality? The spectators were merely looking at somebody in the video. Why will the sheriff side with Gacutan if Ms. Begre's reasoning- Gacutan and his goons are illegal?
Previous letters said, since Resuello's group won through an illegal election, it follows all succeeding elections/directors are illegal. So therefore Ms. Begre you are illegally seated as Board? The articles you posted here do not seem to jive with witnesses- spectators and the streetcleaners "kwento" when Gacutan tookover the clubhouse. And if they tookover the clubhouse, it follows that Ms. Begre you should also turnover the our money and documents etc to them?
Accdg. to the witnesses, it was the other way around. It was your directors who shouted and provoked the sheriffs. The sheriffs were merely informing you to vacate the place because of the final decision.
Our checks are paid to Multinational Village Homeowners Also, why will you deposit our checks to your personal account?
Can you not open a MVHA corporate account? Therefore the bank knows that you are illegal?
It is very simple isn't it our checks should be deposited to MVHA and not to you. I'm afraid of what is happening to our village specially to our funds. Can we still TRUST you Mrs. Begre?
If they say you are illegal, therefore all contracts you entered are also illegal? You will be liable to us homeowners? Again, can we still trust you Mrs. Begre?
In my opinion, I suggest that we should show to Begre and Medina that they are unwanted in the village because according to the documents under the possession of Gacutan, they deposited our payment in their personal account!
However, you view this, you are not allowed to deposit homeowners funds to your personal accounts. It does not even say in our articles of incorporation... ooohh that's bad!
We should draft a petition, sign it, notarized to make it more legal and binding. It is about time we stand up and show our disgust to this impostors/illegal directors Begre and Medina and the other misguided members of their group who has done great damage to our village using Gacutan and Yutadco as the bad guys and simulatneously discrediting their names because of their desire to become MVHAI directors for life.
All homeowners should pay their membership dues in the clubhouse to the legal directors and not to the impostors, illegal directors for life!
We need to attend the General Assembly on April 14, 2007 at 9:30 am in the Auditorium to hear the side of the 2007 board and hopefully the 2004 Board if they attend the meeting and we homeowners decide on what we want. To hell with the government orders its just being paid for by who ever has the money. That is why justice in the country is based on either your lawyer is Aquino or abad santos, escoda & vicente lim law offices.
I would like to congratulate all homeowners for attending our general assembly as they have now awaken from our deep slumber. The said general assembly was a complete success as Yutadco and Gacutan also attended the said occasion.
Well for the first time our parish priest had shown their courage to also attend the said assembly
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