TAKE ACTION! Did You PHONE to Protect Your Voting Rights and Your WALLET?

Please get out your phone and CALL your Assembly Member and Senator in SACRAMENTO – right now — to stop two bills that injure the voting rights and the wallets of homeowners.  AB2159 is on the Assembly floor for a VOTE and SB900 is on the Senate floor for a VOTE.
 
Can’t remember who your Assembly Member and Senator are in Sacramento?  Go here on the CCHAL website to find out: https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/  Enter the address from which you vote and the names/Sacramento phone numbers will pop up.
 
Thinking of recalling your board or challenging the last election in small claims court?

You won’t be able to do either one if AB2159 becomes law. 

AB2159 lets California associations use email and the HOA’s website to vote for board directors.  VOTING BY EMAIL AND WEBSITES LEAVES NO PAPER TRAIL OF SIGNED ENVELOPES AND BALLOTS THAT HOMEOWNERS CAN COLLECT AS EVIDENCE TO SHOW THE COURT IN ORDER TO CHALLENGE AN ELECTION OR MOUNT A RECALL. 

Without envelopes, proxies, and ballots, there is nothing for homeowners to “witness” in a tabulation.  Nor can quorum be established under the laws now governing elections.  

SB900 is the legislation that will make homeowners responsible to “maintain, repair, and replace” ALL utility lines supplying gas, electrical, water, and heat to the subdivision when an “interruption in service” occurs in a common area.  [What’s an “interruption in service” you ask? Bill doesn’t say.]

CCHAL readers will remember our NewsBrief describing what triggered SB900: the Orange County homeowners who got socked with a $4800 emergency assessment – due in 30 days – to pay off a $1 million dollar repair bill for broken gas lines. [See the CCHAL Facebook page for the facts and the news story about the homeowners.]

SB900 will make this “solution” permanent: instead of making the UTILITY COMPANIES fix their own lines (which is what typical CC&Rs require), HOMEOWNERS are going to get stuck with

  • the LEGAL duty to fix utility lines;
  • the repair bills; and 
  • the liability if the repairs aren’t done right.

PHONE – DON’T EMAIL –

  • Your ASSEMBLY MEMBER IN SACRAMENTO URGE ‘NO!’ ON AB2159 AND
  • Your SENATOR IN SACRAMENTO TO URGE  ‘NO!’ ON SB900. 
  • IDENTIFY Yourself as a homeowner in a California association.  If the receptionist says s/he can’t take your vote “because you’re not in the lawmaker’s district,” explain that you are weighing in on a statewide bill affecting your voting rights (AB2159) and you’re your money (SB900).  Insist politely that your vote be recorded.
  • THANK whoever answers the phone and records your vote.

 
Please email CCHAL at [email protected] to let us know that you phoned and

     THANKS FOR TAKING ACTION!  PROTECT YOUR 
                VOTING RIGHTS AND YOUR WALLET!

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