Woodside Village INL
Serving Woodside Village Community - Santa Ana, California

August, 2000
HELP!

From Stanley Fiala Editor

The following is a reprinted message from our friends in American Homeowners Resource Center:
DEAR HOMEOWNER FRIENDS

Please write California's Governor Gray Davis to Restore Homeowners Right to Companion Pets by signing AB860 when it goes to his desk this month.

American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and Assemblywoman Helen Thomson have worked hard for several years to restore homeowners right to pets.

The homeowner association lawsuit industry (CAI) opposes your right to pets. CAI wants total contol of homeowners so they can keep churning out lawsuits to take away savings and homes.

CAI lawyers and vendors are bankrupting associations, homeowners and snatching homes. CAI and their lobbyist Skip Daum have been collecting money from associations and paying politicians who help them hijack your rights. They misrepresent the effects of bills.

This bill "lists several associations" as opposing the bill. AHRC's experience has been that these "several associations" are in fact merely association managers or individual board members who lobby with the CAI industry without the knowledge or consent of the owners. Association managers and boards do not have a right to vote on new legislation on behalf of the homeowners.

Do write Assemblywoman Helen Thomson's office and Governor Davis in support of this bill.

For more information:

Assembly Bill 860
Proposed Housing Laws for California Bill to Restore California Citizens Right to Pets Goes To Senate Floor and Then To Governor

http://www.ahrc.com/HOAorg/Legislation/assemblybills/AB860_081100.html

http://www.ahrc.com/HOAorg/Legislation/legis.html

From AHRC staff

Letter from the Office of California Asemblywoman Helen M. Thomson

August 11, 2000

To: American Homeowners Resource Center (AHRC)

Re: AB860

Author: Assemblywoman Helen M. Thomson
Coauthors: Granlund, Havice, Keeley, Kuehl, Lempert, Longville, Mazzoni, McClintock, Romero, Wiggins

This bill will restore to owners in homeowner associations and mobile home parks the right to keep pets.

PLEASE VOTE YES ON AB 860


Thank you for your previous letter of support for Assemblywoman Helen Thomson's legislation to ensure that homeowners who live in condominiums and mobilehome parks are entitled to keep a companion pet. I'm pleased to inform you that AB 860 passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, August 7th, after sitting in the committee for more than a year.

The bill will soon be taken up on the Senate Floor, and it should arrive on the Governor's desk by August 31st. There remains strong opposition to the bill from mobilehome park owners and a number of homeowners associations.

Both claim that the bill unnecessarily micromanages their businesses. They have stated that they will now focus all their attention on "forcing a veto" from Governor Gray Davis.

We need you to send a letter of support for AB 860 to Governor Davis.

Please do so as soon as possible and be sure to send our office a copy of it. We'll hand deliver an extra set of support letters when he has the bill.

His address is:
Governor Gray Davis
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814

Our address is:
Assemblywoman Helen Thomson
StateCapitol Building, Room 4140
Sacramento, CA 95814

Fax: (916) 445-4633 Fax: (916) 319-2108

Please call or e-mail me if you have any questions. My phone number is (916) 319-2008.

Thanks. - Chris

Chris Tapio, Associate Consultant

Tapio, Chris <Chris.Tapio@asm.ca.gov>
Office of Assemblywoman Helen Thomson
Thanks. - Stanley Fiala, Acting Director
Woodside Village INL is published in good faith to promote awareness among the homeowners, tenants and property buyers, pursuant to real estate transfer disclosure statement See California Civil Code 1102. ET SEQ.
Acting Director: Stanley Fiala. 3337 South Bristol #312 Santa Ana, CA 92704
E-mail: WoodsideVillage@talk.to
Homepage: http://talk.to/WoodsideVillage
The included Woodside Village INL will be distributed to 403 homeowners and tenants at 2511 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92704 on Monday.

This is independent effort! The Association is not sponsoring it.
August 15, 2000

Hi

So, today I have finished distribution of all 403 copies of the Woodside Village INL -- August 2000 issue.

I hope it will make difference.

I am planing to publish "Homeowner Bill of Rights" in the September and October issue.

Is there any other issue which can I promote in Woodside Village or help you with.

Are you membership organization?.

How do you finance your effort.

Stanley Fiala