Julio Espinosa was hired by a unanimous vote of my SC. His contract calls for a retainer of $850.00 a month for 17 hours and $50.00 an hour after that plus unlimited emails and phone calls and his presence at 2 meetings.![]( "Read more...")
The contract was approved at the time by al least a majority of SC members. It was in replacement of Juan David Barcenas which charged us over $10000.00 for the first quarter of 2014. The Agreement with JDB had been negotiated by Rod Parker and Carol Bruner and called for a retainer of $2000.00 a month for a few hours a month plus $175.00 an hour for the extra hours plus reimbursement of all traveling expenses every time he flew to Boquete.
Julio's $4000.00 bill that included 2 overdue invoices for $1000.00 each for the months of August and june 2014 and the current invoice for $2000.00 for October. These invoices were approved by 3 members of the SC including me.
The so-called SC composed of only 1 legitimate member only (unable to fulfill her function) has made some very bad decisions:
-Taking the funds out of the VEHOA bank account, for some stupid reasons, and putting those funds in their personal lawyer's account.
-Pretending to be capable to run the SC without the presence in country of any legitimate member.
-Delegating power to accept and approve payment on all bills by Bill Day (not a member or official adviser of the SC).
-Allowing Mike Traynor to run the legal side of the Association without a Panamanian law license.
The list goes on and on….
Richard Charbit
78/105/147
2 comments:
I have to give our community credit, we are very allowing of our funds to be used extensively for lawyers and advisers over the years and very limited on any funds to be paid for road or infrastructure improvements. This current non elected SC just loves the continuation of all our money going to lawyers and legal bills. I don't see any outrage to throw these people out with their continued lies. Why?
This comment below taken from the VEHOA website. It was written bu Jon Arcuni and supports Richard's Olga's, and Julio;s claim as to the validity of Julio's agreement.
Richard Charbit has stated:
“Julio Espinosa was hired by a unanimous vote of my SC. His contract calls for a retainer of $850.00 a month for 17 hours and $50.00 an hour after that plus unlimited emails and phone calls and his presence at 2 meetings.
The contract was approved at the time by al least a majority of SC members. It was in replacement of Juan David Barcenas which charged us over $10000.00 for the first quarter of 2014. The Agreement with JDB had been negotiated by Rod Parker and Carol Bruner and called for a retainer of $2000.00 a month for a few hours a month plus $175.00 an hour for the extra hours plus reimbursement of all traveling expenses every time he flew to Boquete.”
Jon Arcuniu states the following
"I was at this meeting and the above is correct. Charbit stated that he wanted a “bull dog” to work for the association. It seems to me that this was a verbal contract. This should have been included in the minutes of the meeting.
However, I do not remember a time period for the contract being discussed at this meeting.
I can only say that paying a lawyer late is very bad form, and contributes to a poor credit rating which hinders the VEHOA from the hiring of any qualified contractor.
As to the rest of this post by Mr. Charbit, I have no knowledge."
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