At the open Board meeting last night, 4/15/2020, Paul Bromley asked the Board: Why are checks made out to Shelby Wagner personally? Why do we need security guards? These are two of the questions listed in the description of Christopher T. Barone’s video titled “Lordon Management & the imposters are fleecing our HOA”, uploaded to Youtube on 4/4/2020.
With the court ruling validating the New Board(click to view), Christopher T. Barone is no longer able to control the Board or make decision for the Board. But his stringed puppet, Mr. Paul Bromley, continues to perform in the Barone puppet show, demonstrating that his loyalty to Barone is above his fiduciary duty as a Board member to the HOA.
Did it surprise anybody that the next question Paul Bromley raised was why the HOA has not paid the $70,000 owed to Barone? (The HOA does not owe Barone $70,000.)
Why do we need security guards, Mr. Paul Bromley?
Because you, Mr. Paul Bromley, together with Umann and DiNapoli failed miserably in your responsibility as Board members to provide oversight of the former employee, Christopher T. Barone. You allowed the tail to wag the dog. You supported Barone’s illegal act of ignoring the recall election results, occupying the club and dismantling the security system at the club. Prior to the court ruling, the New Board could have installed a new security system but chose not to because they could not have stopped Barone and gang from tearing it out. Hiring a security guard was the only option available to the New Board to protect the assets of the HOA. With Barone and gang focusing on accessing the restaurant, Proshop, HOA offices and the equipment warehouse, where all the golf course maintenance equipment is stored, with over $100K worth of equipment at risk, hiring a security guard was imperative.
Note: Per the Board, it is currently in the process of installing a new security system. Security guard service will be cancelled once the security system is in place at the club. Why are checks made out to Shelby Wagner personally?
Checks made out to Shelby Wagner are the reimbursement for security guard cost. The security guard company requires payment much sooner than the regular lead time to process payment by check accommodates. The solution is to have the management company employee pay the security guard invoices incrementally, submit the invoices for reimbursement, then checks are issued. Each check is backed up by an invoice.
Why hasn't the HOA paid the $70,000 owed to Barone?
First thing first, the HOA doesn’t owe Barone $70,000. If it owes him any money, the amount would be much less.
Before you asked the question why money owed to Barone has not been paid, ask the question is Barone owed any money? Did you bother to ask if the HOA has the money Barone and gang took from the HOA operations in January, February and March, 2020? Do you even care?
Thanks to you, Mr. Paul Bromley, and Umann & DiNapoli, your failure to perform your fiduciary duty as Board members coupled with the gross mismanagement of the former employee, Christopher T. Braone, the HOA is facing a financial crisis. In 10 months out of 12 in 2019, the HOA lacks the means to pay its bills.
Contrary to what Barone proclaimed that the HOA has $200K in reserve, he conveniently omitted that the HOA also had bills going unpaid in the amount of more than $186K, at the end of year 2019. The HOA’s financial distress was worsened by your support of Barone’s illegal collection of the club income since the recall. The lost revenue (not including the dues) is estimated to be around $70K by the end of March, 2020.
The financial distress was further worsened that the New Board was forced to file a lawsuit against you, Mr. Paul Bromley, and Umann, DiNapoli, Barone to validate the recall to stop your illegal actions. These additional legal expenses were brought on due to your refusal to recognize the New Board.
In violation of the court order to turn over all LLHOA property by 4/13/2020, none of the LLHOA funds or property in Barone’s possession had been turned over to Lordon as of 4/15/2020. (Mr. Paul Bromley did turn over approximately $13,100 in dues checks.) Mr. Paul Bromley, as a member of the New Board, did you make any effort to do the right thing for the HOA to recoup the lost revenue Barone illegally collected and ran through his Pivotal management company since the recall election? Did you make any effort to recoup the cash that Barone, Judee White and Yvette St Onge misappropriated from the club?
On 3/5/2020, Mr. Paul Bromley proclaimed that “I am in this fight for the good of our HOA”(click to view). Seriously, Mr. Paul Bromley? At the open meeting last night, you unfailingly demonstrated where your loyalty is. Your loyalty lies with Barone, not with the HOA. Paul Bromley needs to resign now from the New Board. Paul Bromley is an embarrassment to the HOA and a disgrace to the community.
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Oh yes. Paul himself is the old school chauvinist, the dog whistle type that many are initially fooled by as being a “gentleman”. He uses words like “sweetie” and walks women to their car, when they complain that it’s dark leaving an HOA meeting. Women don’t like being called “sweetie” by strangers and some need light because the pathway is uneven leaving meetings and they don’t want to twist an ankle or knee - they don’t need a male escort. (Both are true stories.) I was referring to his support of Barone. Some women who seem to fall for the old school dog whistler find the brash chauvinist, like Barone offensive. They aren’t gentlemen. Kathi may …
Let’s not forget that Lucilady threatened to sue for slander on this thread, without any examples of what she considered defamatory. Just a threat made against neighbors, designed to silence their exchange of views. Sounds like they are a match made in heaven.
No GPL 1 - Poor old Kathi scuttled around Paul fetching him his dinner on time, while he reclined on the sofa during the HOA meeting, so I’d imagine she is likely aware she’s married to a chauvinist. However, I don’t imagine that either of them think there’s anything wrong with that. She is here supporting her man, no matter what, but a moral person would be finding his conduct reprehensible. My wife would go nuclear at me if I had committed even a fraction of his immoral behaviour, but I guess Kathi fears Bromley’s response if she did. Old fashioned guy with out-dated ways.
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cutthebaloney, “Paul Bromley made a motion to file counter suit to Caroline Feraday for Character Defamation. Mike Umann seconded, and the motion carried unanimously.”
What Character? What character of the HOA had been defamed by Feraday? HOA is a corporation, not a human.
Great human observation and legal absurdity in our time. Most of us believe that Corporations do not have coequal constitutional rights as living, breathing human citizens. However debated back to the late 1800’s, related to slavery and women's rights; recently more and more Corps are making claims on rights that were previously asserted by real people. I think a big chip was made towards Corps as being ‘human’ in 2010 - Citizens United v. FEC. (Don…
Thank you Homeowner in Crazy Town for your eloquence.