The La Costa Valley HOA has formed a committee to look at options for the vacant land. To help them set their budget, take a moment and tell them how much extra you, as a homeowner, are willing to pay in the coming year.
This would be their budget for consulting fees, research, legal fees, meetings, and possibly to buy the vacant land. This would be a one-time assessment that each homeowner would need to pay within the next 12 months.
How much can we put you down for?
Immediately after you take this poll, you will be able to see the results. Visit this site again, and you’ll be able to see the latest results as your neighbors give their votes. This is only a straw poll, so it not legally binding! It’s simply a way for us all to know where our neighbors stand.
The La Costa Valley HOA is having a special HOA meeting on Tuesday May 6th at 7pm, at the Coastline Community Church on Calle Barcelona.
The topic of the meeting is the vacant property next to the church, and how much we will be involved in its future. Specifically, the meeting is regarding La Costa Valley Master Assoc.’s authority-limitations and capabilities regarding School District property.
Can La Costa Valley Homeowners have a say in the use of the property?
Will this be as citizens of the City of Carlsbad?
Will this be through the LCV Homeowner’s Association?
Will our voices be heard as parents of middle-age school children?
It’s very important that homeowners get involved now however they feel about the school district’s property.
Please tell your La Costa Valley friends and neighbors about the meeting, because we did not get much advance notice.
There’s the possibility that this special HOA Board meeting may not be valid for any voting purposes.
According to the HOA by-laws, we need to be told about upcoming meetings well in advance. Notice for HOA special meetings must be within 20 days after a board president calls a special a meeting or after the board receives a petition asking for one, and must be no sooner than 35 days and no later than 90 days after that decision or petition. See section 4.6 in the by-laws on the official La Costa Valley HOA website (you will need Adobe PDF).
The notice will be in the paper newsletter, but at best that will only arrive one or two days before the meeting, certainly not enough time for busy La Costa Valley HOA homeowners to change their schedules.
The following email was sent out to many La Costa Valley residents. There was no attached presentation.
The Friends of North County bring up some interesting questions
Just how many people attended this meeting?
Why can’t they share the documents they mention? If they can send emails, they can certainly attach scanned documents
What will happen to property values if LCV gets mired in a legal dispute?
How is this letter different from what FoNC says the school district has done: “misinformation, propaganda and scare tactics”?
What will happen with any money donated to FoNC? Is it a legally registered foundation?
To all that were able to attend the Community Meeting last night at Coastline Community Church, thank you so much for your participation, interest, questions, and donations to Friends of North County. We were pleased that so many were motivated to attend the meeting despite the District’s scare tactics and warnings not to attend. Ironically, many of you mentioned that the District phone call and letter actually inspired you to attend. After the presentation, I’m sure you have a better understanding of why the District did not want you to hear what we had to say, to see the documents we shared with you, and what the likely uses for the property will be if we were to all stay silent and don’t get more involved.
Unfortunately, we recognize that many who would have liked to attend were unable to due to the myriad of conflicts that our busy lives present. Given the wonderful turnout at the meeting, we expect that you should be able to identify a friend or neighbor that was able to attend the 2+ hour presentation and can share a summary of our findings. We hope too that you will feel motivated, like so many of your friends and neighbors, to donate to Friends of North County as we will be continuing to pursue our efforts. Friends of North County, and many in attendance, believe that the Homeowners Association for La Costa Valley should get involved in this issue. While we are hopeful that they will do so, that will not happen without greater community involvement and letting your voices be heard that you want them involved. Regardless of their involvement, we also will continue the process we have pursued for the past 31 months. However, as we expand our investigation efforts we are requesting greater financial participation from the community. Again, please speak with your friends and neighbors and/or contact Friends of North County via e-mail (mail@friendsofnorthcounty.org) to inquire about donating.
We are currently developing a strategy of how best to communicate with our community on this issue. Regardless of the strategy please note that our correspondence via email will be very limited. We will not be sharing critical information, documents or findings electronically. In the meantime, we encourage you to forward this email to your friends and neighbors. If they would like to be in the Friends of North County database they can send an email to mail@friendsofnorthcounty.org.As we have said repeatedly to the school district in meetings, at public hearings and in our media interviews, our goal has always been, and continues to be, to seek open and honest dialogue with the school district about the ultimate use of the school property and the money associated with our Mello Roos taxes. The school district has all of our contact information. We continue to hope that they will decide to work with us in this manner to reach a solution. Until that happens (or in case it does not) we will not be deterred by the school district’s campaign of misinformation, propaganda and scare tactics. The history of the district’s actions can’t be changed. They can’t erase it, get rid of it or avoid it. We have taken the time to learn those facts and are determined to learn more.
