Tenant Alliance of Concourse Village
WHAT’S GOING ON? We will never know all the wonderful things we are capable of UNLESS we try. zsssssss We the SH-shareholders, CAN make changes IF WE UNITE and collect 1,500 signatures, NYS HCR will allow changes. This is my first website, it took me 12 weeks, it isn't perfect, but it's honest and if your reading IT, then I've suceeded, and for the past TEN years, I've been waiting for someone to come and help me, only to create 1800TACV.com with some guidence. This is far from a Professional website, it's more like a conversation between NEIGHBORS. My goal was to share information with you,information that I didn't think you had,and should have. It has taken a lot of research, which I know is impossible to do while your working full time. So, grab a cup of tea, coffee or wine,and LET'S TALK ! I've done the research for you,and what I've learned is game changing. These are the NYS Laws of 2022 that our board has been ignoring,breaking, and definitly not sharing with us for almost five years now. In the process, the lives of thousands of people are negativly affected, people who you had a fiduciary duty to protect, to make good decisions for, and to act in their best interest? 2022 Mitchell-Lama Amendments
Amendments to the New York State Private Housing Finance Law (PHFL) were signed into law by Governor Hochul in 2022 and were to put into use immeadiately.
Chapter 749 (2021 N.Y. AB 7272), “chaptered” as of December 22, 2021
Chapter 167 (2022 N.Y. SB 7830), “chaptered” as of March 18, 2022
We/Shareholders have been asking for new Mailboxes for over 17 years. The boards have been aware for our structual problems for just as long. I was asked on two occasions to resubmite financial information to the new management company BECAUSE the previous company had taken,or desytroyed our papers. The board did not hold thoses Companies accountable. I could not understand WHY, any paper that is notarize is a legal document, the names and a social security numbers of our family was not protected by our board and that infomation was and is CVI property, we were rob as well, and our board allowed it. I tried to understand, put myself in the place of the board. That was when I came to a few conclusions and stopped participating in meeting and voting, it was useless. In June 2026, our NYS rep Mr. Mohamed told the board that our 2010 By Laws were not in compliance, needed to be rewitten and ready for our 2026 September Annual Meeting. This website was born to share information and WAKE EVERYBODY UP! This was the ONLY way that real change WILL take place. Our ByLaws are the rules that CVI follow, they state How and Who make the decisions. The 2010 By Laws give ALL the Power to the Board, the Shareholders are mentioned 2-3 times, how we vote for the board, our qualifications to run for the board, and with 200 sh signatures we can ask for a special meeting, and a yearly budget. We are entitled to a DETAILED budget, we have been given summaries, parts of the actual budget that the board and management chooses to show us. The CPA states on every budget given to us that information was OMITTED. I learned that CVI was approved a $14 mill loan on May 27,2026. This wasn't shared at the June meeting, and I was able to find it in the 2026 fianancal packet listed as $8mill. I posed the question at the Sept.annual and someone said something, most of the meeting was difficult to understand. I couldn't see in the packet where the $6mill was applied, but the loan stated structual repairs. I didn't get the link for a transcript of that meeting, please share if you do. Ms Santos 917-678-8495. I asked about the By Laws and the board pres. in a whisper said"they were sent to the state for approval." I was not expecting to hear that, I read that the board writes the By Laws and the Shareholders vote either accepting or not accepting them, if needed conversations take place until an agreement is reached, the By Laws are then sent to the state for final approval. NYS HCR,(DHCR dropped the D), will not approve any By Laws unless WE approve them first. How many of us were asked, whether we wanted the added weight of storage rooms and vending machines in our lobbies? I wonder who had such a brilliant idea and their resoning was, to generate extra income. Adding weight to our already weak supports, is not looking out for the well being of CVI. The extra income? They collected $600,000. in increases alone in August. Since July 2023 WE have paid $12.6 million in increases (based on avg of $100 monthy increase X by 1,500 units/apt thats on the low end). If the board and management can show HCR that CV is not meeting the fianancial obligations, they can ask for another increase NEXT year. If you look at the annual summary budget the mintenance budget went up $4.5 millon between 2020 and 2025
Were any of us consulted before spending $20,000 on a Deer tractor in 2022 or an outside hire for the west side? Why is the board making these purchases that are not beneficial to CVI? Outside hires, new faces in maintenence, but they can’t pay to fix the fire alarms, working two-way intercomes is a legal requirement. We are paying NYC min wage $17 hr x24hrs=$408. x30 days = $12,240 per month x 5 months = $61,200. x 2=$122,400 for two people to sit and walk the halls.
The Board has been failing to ensure that we have SAFE homes, anyone can walk into our buildings for a few years now. Two way intercomes are required by NYS law. I can’t understand, why they haven’t call the company who installed the intercomes, had them come back and fix the issue? I wonder what that cost us.
At the Annual Meeting on 9/13/26, I couldn’t clearly hear but it seemed that they are going to replace all the fire systems in the 6 buildings. How could they be thinking of spending money on anything but the podium and they also metioned doing something on the east side while work on the west side was still happening? We can’t allow them to continue making these kind of choices. If ANYONE did heareverthing clearly please call me and share, or was able to get the transcript, please share. Ms.Santos 917-678-8495.
I would like to borrow and make copies of Annual fianancial summaries and any preliminary increase packets as far back as possible. i need them. I have found that the maintenance budget increased by almost $5 million dollars between 2020 to 2025. During the same time that we are paying twice as much for maintenance, we are getting less service. The responce time is unacceptabe, many of us have needed to make muliple request, and we are no longer getting 24 hours maintenace, but an ansewring service telling us that someone shoukd be getting back to us tommorow. I REALLY need to see those summaries, I will make copies and return them in a few days. Call Me I will come and get them.
A Change is Coming.
The Rochdale Principles are a set of 7 ideals for the operation of cooperatives. They were first set out in 1844 by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in Rochdale, England, and have formed the basis for the principles on which co-operatives around the world continue to operate.* It believes that cooperatives should be self governing democracy, governed by the people, for the people. All Mitchell Lamas are Self Governing and are expected to be controled by the people for the people/shareholders or members through elected-voted representatives. We know better.
Now more than ever, we need access to the same information so we can begin rebuilding a better, organized Concourse Village community. If all 1,800 of us share information and work together, we become capable of far more than any of us could accomplish alone.