LMA vs. Esch UPDATE posted January 16, 2013:

 In late November 2012, LMA board lost their appeal of my building permit application that was approved by the county. The vote by the Sacramento County Planning Commission was 4-0. A month prior to that hearing, five of the LMA board members had a secret email chain with votes within the emails and also wrote a check from the Locke property owners' treasury funds, allocating $1878 to schedule the Appeal hearing without a required prior public meeting and without prior knowledge of the Locke property owners.

The bigger property lawsuit case they have against me should come to the table sometime soon. At present,  the LMA board acts like nothing has ever happened. I haven't heard a word from them or their lawyer in over 7 months regarding their lawsuit against me and Dona LaBlanc in Illinois. Dona told me she also hasn't heard anything from LMA or their lawyer. The LMA board and its lawyer are once again, ignoring the Superior Court Judge's ruling. The most recent ruling was made in August 2012 for them to send Dona and me their case management statements, but they haven't as of yet.

 Meanwhile, the LMA/LF Boards continue violating the Brown Act at their monthly meetings, such as:
1) in November 2012 and January 2013 calling the 5 LMA directors present a quorum of 13 and continuing on with their meetings despite audience objections, then making several action votes;
 2) self-electing three of themselves back into their expired chair seats without distributing ballots to homeowners;
 3) appointing one of the LMA board member's friends, onto a home owner chair seat - his qualifications are questioned as he's believed to be a renter and new in town, less than 6 months, and his name was not on the nomination list that was distributed to property owners in October 2012. Also, no voting ballots were subsequently distributed to Locke property owners. At the January LMA meeting that was held without a quorum, He was seated without any counted ballots of homeowners and without any action vote of LMA board. Note: The property owners and renters in Locke don't necessarily have a problem with him being seated on the boards. The objection is with the hypocrisy of the LMA/LF boards in once again, ignoring or changing the CC&R rules to suit their own wishes.

Since 2006, the LMA/LF boards have adamantly opposed Lisa Kirk, a pro-active business owner/renter in Locke, from qualifying for property owner board seats since her name is not on a Locke property title. Yet, in January 2013, one of the LMA Directors appointed her friend to the seat w/o public discussion, votes of property owners, and without votes of a quorum of LMA Directors. Her own chair seat expired in December 2012 and she re-nominated and re-appointed herself, also without votes of the property owners and without action votes of a quorum of board members. Pat Braziel re-appointed herself to her expired board seat, again, too - note that Braziel has been perpetually seated since LMA's formation in 2005 - eight years ago.  At the January LMA meeting, it was questioned by an audience member how and why the chair seat term limits are continuously ignored. Braziel replied, "There are terms, but no term limits." The legality of this is also questioned.