Fellow IV Unit Owners,
The simple facts about the AMG lawsuit:
American Management Group has filed a Defamation and Tortious Interference action against unit owner John Labriola. The Complaint seeks both monetary damages and injunctive relief. The Complaint was filed in the Broward County 17th Circuit Court. The case number is CACE14010530.
The action is against John Labriola as an individual, not as a Director nor as an Association officer.
The Board of Directors is not being sued and is not a defendant.
The Association is not being sued and is not a defendant.
However there are two aspects of the action that have implications for the unit owners and the Association.
The first is that items in the Complaint detail events surrounding the illegal balcony repairs. They directly contradict the story circulated by Mr. Labriola (and other Board officers) which blamed the property manager and the property management company as the cause of the City's actions. That false story was used to justify canceling the AMG contract.
The AMG lawsuit is due to Mr. Labriola's personal behavior, not his actions as a Director or Association officer. As such there is no basis for the unit owners to pay for Mr. Labriola's defense. So the second unit owner concern is whether the Board officers agree to use our funds to pay for Mr. Labriola's personal defense.
There is little doubt that Mr. Labriola will ask the Board to use the Association's attorney and/or insurance company for his defense. Either of which will mean that we would be responsible for some or all of Mr. Labriola's attorney fees.
Obviously this would be wrong. We, the unit owners, have no duty to pay for any individual unit owner's personal legal bills.
If you agree, please let your elected Board members know. Here are their email addresses:
President Marcio Jaspan, marciojaspan@hotmail.com
Vice President Duv Wolff, guitarharm@aol.com
Treasurer John Labriola, jflabriola@hotmail.com
Secretary Wendy Hernandez, wendy_hernandez@gmail.com
Director Collette Goslin, colletteg@comcast.net
Director Frances Mesirow, fmkmbm@gmail.com
Director Marc Richman, mwr2020ou@gmail.com
FYI,
Mr. Labriola has inexplicably repeated the same arithmetic error when he compared the new Campbell management contract with the cancelled AMG contract. Here are the simple facts:
Actual contract costs with same manager salary
AMG Campbell
manager salary $60,000 $60,000
25% burden (1) 15,000 15,000
management services 41,375 55,000
total contract price $116,375 $130,000 (2)
(1) The burden includes payroll taxes, worker's comp insurance, payroll services, etc. Note that 25% is a close approximation and is common throughout the industry for administrative employees.
(2) The details of the Campbell contract will soon be available. They will show that the 'apples-to-apples' cost of the new management agreement(s) is even more than the $130,000 figure that was provided by the Board officers.
Mr. Labriola is now in a leadership position as our Association Treasurer. The time is over for using inflammatory rhetoric to justify off target business decisions. We call on him and the other Board officers to behave ethically and honestly, and to provide the unit owners with dependable, accurate information.
We, the unit owners, deserve accurate, dependable information about the operation of our Association. CIVOC is dedicated to providing that information and all unit owners are encouraged to participate. If you have information you believe important to share with your fellow unit owners please do so either by email or by commenting to the blog.
http://www.ivillagenews.blogspot.com/
Respectfully,
CIVOC (Concerned International Village Owners Committee)
Charles Addison, Zurich
Jill Becker, Nottingham
Lilo Beigel, Marseilles
Sandy Best, Interlaken
Israel Bruch, Orleans
Elaine Campbell, Yorkshire
Joan Clemente, Cabana, Edelweiss
Marsha Curliss, Marseilles
Geoffrey Edwards, Cabanas
Joe Frederick, Heidelberg
Richard Goodheart, Bordeaux
Miriam Gordon, St. Moritz
Collette Goslin, Grenoble
Harriet Handler, Edelweiss
Robert Hoffecker, Yorkshire
Raymond Jean, Orleans
Louis Kornbluth, Yorkshire
Abe Landau, Zurich
Alice Large, Yorkshire
Marty Lattanzi, Marseilles
Phyllis Lloyd, Edelweiss
Betsy Mendelson, Nottingham
Frances Mesirow, Yorkshire
Marilyn Navarre, Bordeaux
Irene Pressner, Yorkshire
Marc Richman, Bordeaux
Ray Rizzo, Bordeaux
Judy Rosen, Heidelberg
Norman Sackin, Nottingham
Helene Scharfman, Yorkshire
Sid Schulman, Bordeaux
Molly 'Jane' Sird, Marseilles
Larry Topolowski, Edelwiess, Heidelberg, Orleans
Marvin Tow, Zurich
Ilan Weiss, Zurich
