Tenant Alliance of Concourse Village
We will never know what we are capable of, until we try!
The purpose of this website is to share factual information with my Concourse Village Neighbors that I have learned from HCR and other resources. We are all experiencing the same things, maintence increases between $300-$700. in FIVE years, a massive decline in maintenance services, playgrounds, and parking closed for FOUR years, adding $300-$400, on top or the increases for many of us. We have 1,872 units, shareholders, and head of households, and without a doubt, I am sure that less then 10% or 187 people know where or how OUR monies are being used. For example: in my 2026 CVI was given a loan for $14.3 million dollars, the annual summary only showed $8.3 million dollars, in June NYS representative asked for the By Laws to be amendended, and ready for our vote during the September 2026 Annual Meetng..The loan and the By Laws, were ONLY addressed by the Board after my questions. They were ot part of the agenda which leads me to believe that the Board has no intention of telling us about neither. I hope that this website will supply YOU, my Concourse Village Community with enough information, and realize that Your individual actions are needed.
The Board will ask NYS HCR for another increase in 2027 if we don’t ACT NOW. We will be facing another maintenance INCREASE in 2027, unless we unite. The signature of 1,400 shareholders has more power than the Board, and NYS HCR will give us what we ask for with 1,400 shareholders . I am asking YOU to support me in these matters.
file:///.file/id=6571367.6518539laws.pdf
# 1. With your signatures we can get our documents to be kept On-Site, where we can examine them as is our right.
In 2022, NYS signed into law amendments that Mitchell-Lamas Boards were told to put into use immeadiatly. These amendments gave Shareholders the transparency we had been asking for from the Boards. Websites to share information, major projects, shareholders can attend all meetings, voting, qualifications for board members, and clarifications on apartment transfers and buy back funds to be returned. Our Board of Directors haven’t in 5 years, followed any of these new laws.
Governor Hochul signed amendments into the New York State law in 2022.
- Chapter 749 (2021 N.Y. AB 7272) was “chaptered” on December 22, 2021. chapter-749-of-2021.pdf
- Chapter 167 (2022 N.Y. SB 7830) was “chaptered” on March 18, 2022. chapter-167-of-2022.pdf
The CVI By Laws were from 2010, and Mr. Mohamed, our NYS representative, at the June 24, 2026 meeting asked the Board to bring them into compliance, and to be voted on by shareholders at the September 13, 2026 annual meeting. The shareholders accept or deny them through a vote, once approved the By Laws are then sent to NYS HCR for final approval. Ms. Kirkland, the board president said “ the By Laws were sent to NYS HCR for approval.”
. # 2. By Laws must have our approval. I have DRAFTED a set of By Laws that include the Shareholders as part of the Governing and Decision Making for CVI.
CVI was approved a $14.3 million dollar loan on May 27,2026. This was never shared with us, and it shows up on the Budget we were given as $8 million dollars. I have so many questions. if anyone was parking in the lower level in 2025 and 2026.
26-HF-1072 $14 loan.pdf
I examined a few of the past Yearly Budgets we’ve been given, and will point out a few things I’ve learned:
* We should be getting Detailed Budgets, these are summarized and incomplete. The last paragraph from the CPA states that information was OMITTED.
* The Board has told us many times that everything has gone up in prices, nothing has gone up as much as Maintenance total cost which has almost doubled in 5 years, while the rest have gone up within reason.
* Prior to 2020 the budgets do not show any amounts for apartment restoration, then in 2021 it starts showing a figure, in 2025 $1.3 million. The total for supplies, elevator, and overtime.
I want to share that with at least 1,400 Shareholder signitures WE can Make A Difference
The Management Co. are allowed to keep our books, and all our papers with vital information OFF-SITE, we need to change that. Prestige Management is being sued for breach of data by Mitchell-Lama shareholders. How can we practice our right to examine the books if the books are not here? The books weren’t here during the increase preliminary period even though Management should have been prepared to show them.
Cooperatives are governed by the people, and the basic laws are written in the By Laws. Our By Laws of 2010-2011, gave all the power to the Board of Directors, that is why they don’t feel that they have to share anything with the Shareholders.
What should be known is that the Boards still have a FIDUCIARY DUTY to the shareholders and CV property to ACT ON THE BEST INTEREST OF CVI and shareholders. When Board members make decisions that do not benefit CVI they are in breach of their fiduciary duty, and can face legal disciplinary actions. Mismanagement of money, decisions based on self interest, allowing others to abuse CVI and cause us harm, are just a few. New non working intercoms is a NYS law, which states we are supposed to have 2 way intercom systems for our buildings of our size, this is a safety issue. In 2021-2022, a Deere compact tractor($20,000 value) for snow removal was allowed to be purchased, Why were cameras installed if anyone can walk in, and they haven’t even been used to solve the misuse of the compacter rooms? The garbage problems are still persistent as stated at the annual meeting by the Dir Maintenance. So, how are the cameras being used to benefit CVI?
I have examined the summarized budgets, that should be detailed budgets, the largest increase has been in the Maintenance Dept. by almost $5 million dollars, however our services are at the lowest and far below acceptance. I would like to know how any overtime is given when we no longer have 24hrs service, and though the Board approved an assistance for the Maintenance director. You have to make several phone calls for any service, and when you call for late night service you get an answering service (Prestige).
Prestige is also offering paperless maintenance services, and wants us to send the monthly maintenance fee directly to them, I strongly suggest against sending them any monies directly.
We are entitled to know how our monies are being used, we should be told what is happening in our homes, projects, deficits, we should’ve been asked about both the storage rooms, and vending machines, the monies that the board has spent on insignificant things is unacceptable.
The Board was wrong to keep any major decisions from us since January 2022. The Board, continues to keep information from us, information that we are entitled to know, even after the 2022 NYS laws, as if they are hiding something hat they don’t want us to know. They choose to break the NYS laws of 2022, if it let them keeps us in the dark.
ML bad behavior.pdf
I have included a pdf with examples of other Mitchell-Lamas who’s Boards and Management Companies breached their Fiduciary Duties, were found guilty of various crimes, had to pay fines ,and do jail time.