Protected Asset Classes in Mount Gretna

Recently, the MG Borough Council paid the borough lawyer to work on a morals-guiding "rental ordinance". Now, among some other "guvment takings" that brilliant piss of work included, it gave the guvment--here, Chuck Allwein and/or William Care,  the right to come into your property/home to make sure that you did not have more than two adults sleeping in any one room. Absent from the proposed ordinance is any definition of when "sleeping" hours begin or end. That scenario--watching Bill Care or Charles Allwein, come knocking at 2a.m. in the morning on any of our doors to count adults, seems like it may be worth the price of admission, but it reminds me that we already have entertainment venues in the borough. (And you think Bill Care would have had his fill of going to his neighbors' houses and pursuing an interest in the adults and beds therein after what I heard happened in the 70's.)

And that makes me wonder why Chuck is hands-off those venues....because those venues really do attract a lot of unhealthy folk to our small and intimate neighborhood. They attract boatloads of cars that take up our own parking spaces, park on our lush green park grass, costing us a boatload of tax dollars maintaining the parking infrastructure and repairing the parks. So why isn't Chuck leading the complaint about those scallywags and using OUR money to pay for the development of an ordinance that makes the venues tell us the names of who their visitors are, and the names and dates of who is going to be using OUR parking availability, and crafting a "licensing" regime that controls and inspects against improper morals--including parking on park areas, and including feeding children sugary, chemical-laden, junk foods? Oh, that's because its Chuck's own activities with his leased-property that we are talking about--property that he practically got from US for FREE. And you bet that he intends to squash any competing property interests that infringe on him maximizing his Jiggershop profits. The less parking spaces taken up by re-uniting families in rented cottages, and the less re-uniting families and other revelers cooking it up in a cottage kitchen, the more capacity for business for Chuck's Jiggershop.

Funny, he doesn't seem to care that he stole from us borough residents the enjoyment of a real rental income from OUR Chautauqua property. And now he wants to make sure that we can't enjoy a rental income from our individually owned Chautauqua-situated property.

 How did he steal property from us, you ask. Well, the Jiggershop sits on commonly-owned Chautauqua property (commonly owned as in the shareholder/residents of the Chautauqua (which is the same place as the Borough), and Chuck Allwein--Borough Council President, used Borough Lawyer Keith Kilgore to negotiate a commercial land-lease for the Chautauqua land that his Jiggershop is on by negotiating with the Chautauqua, whose lawyer is also Keith Kilgore. Can you believe their luck--or would they want us to call it "skill", at negotiating a c. $2 per square foot restaurant land lease when the going market rate, last I asked the experts, was more like $20 per square foot, and for, oh, what was the term--a hundred years?

OUR ASSETS' LOSS IN VALUE CAN BE DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTED TO THE BOARD'S FAILURES...?

Ok, so here's a guy who knows all too well how homeowners associations board members get all full of themselves and loose sight of their financial responsibilities:

http://neighborsatwar.com/2015/03/hoas-claim-embezzling-is-rare-lmao/#comment-14639


But, before you go see his site, ask yourself why, again, has the PA Chautauqua Board blown smoke up its shareholders' arses and NOT done what they committed to to do by the end of the last Shareholders Meeting. What is the big deal about providing the people who OWN THE ASSETS with a real website that allows real access to real documents. That the Chautauqua secretary--Kathleen K Snavely, can't even get her attitude correct enough to provide THE ASSET OWNERS with meeting minutes via a website is true testimony of her disdain for THE ASSET OWNERS and OF her megalomaniacal dysfunction of self-righteous self-importance.

Then also ask yourself why, even after it has been made clear to the Board members, the numbers still don't match up and just why aren't they explaining to us shareholders--again, THE REAL ASSET OWNERS, exactly how much money we are spending on no-bid stuff improperly arranged by Board members and people who won't show us the real books.

Mind you

This author would like to point out that the Mount Gretna Borough Secretary and Council President have proven that the Mount Gretna Borough's budget--and the reporting shenanigans, that I pointed out to borough citizen's 5 years are, in fact true.

Back in 2007, when we first purchased a house in the borough, we witnessed several elderly residents' complaints to Council President Charles Chuck Allwein ignored. Every year at the Homeowners Association annual meeting, and at several borough council meetings, we watched many elderly persons bring their concerns to Allwein and to the HOA Board and BOTH would acknowledge the complaint in the meetings and then completely ignore the person and their complaint.

Feeling complete dissappointment in our public officials' failures to treat their constituents with any degree of respect, I started researching how things--politics and elections, worked in Mount Gretna. When LebCty Republican Party Co-Chair and HOA Board member Kathleen Kathy Snavely found out what I was researching, she "reported" it to her fellow republicans, including David Arnold. Arnold took that information and, at a January 2008 staff meeting, asked his staff to brainstorm a way to criminally prosecute the "two women living as lesbians in Mount Gretna". Snavely continued to present herself as a helpful Board member, though, while really conspiring with her party allies to stifle any discovery of their bad behavior and thieving.

Despite the secret efforts to stifle discovery of their bad behavior, I found stuff--lots of stuff. And what I found shocked me. Short story: I found out that Mount Gretna Borough doesn't have any public infrastructure--all the property within the borough boundaries are privately owned. Nevertheless, I also found out that the Borough had a Public Works Crew that siphoned around $250,000 a year from our pockets.  Umm---a public works crew that works on a non-existent public infrastructure....

Stay tuned--Chapter Two out next week

Deed Restrictions PA Chautuaqua

Here are the deed restrictions that we are told applies to PA Chautauqua (which are not the same as the ones that are for the Chautauqua Heights, up the hill: