I am so very sorry to keep you in suspense 
.................................................truth is you had to wait for the abatement of the celebratory hang-over !!!!!!!!!!!!
YES !!!!!!! WE DID IT !!!!!!!!!! 
This is a copy of the email I have just sent to all our non-resident owners giving a blow-by-blow account of last night's meeting !!!.................................................................... Enjoy !!!!!!!!
Hello everyone !
Wonderful news !! Last night's Extraordinary Meeting was exactly that !! I've never seen anything like it, there was almost a full turn-out and the atmosphere was electric, heated and stormy !!
A great big thank you to every one of you who gave your proxy vote to resident owners..........we couldn't have achieved what we have without you !!!
Report on the Meeting
The minutes of the AGM were disputed as not correct and there was a huge row over it !! Eventually, order was restored and the Community officials backed down and said that it will be stated in the minutes of last night's meeting that the 2008 Budget was not approved !!! First round to us !!
The election of a new Secretary-Adminstrator..........this was by far the best bit !!!..........our proposal and seconding of Jose Blank as our Secretary-Administrator took the Community officials by complete surprise and their faces were an absolute picture !!! (We think their plan was that no-one would bother to stand, that they would make Asesoria Blank Secretary-Administrator instead of just Administrator, and our finances would then have been sewn up completely between three people, who are either related or are in business together !!!) We had a HUGE majority, Spanish and English united and voted Asesoria Blank out and Jose Blank in ............it was wonderful to see everyone united on it !!! The only ones who voted against were the three officials !!! Second round to us !!!!
So now we have, of our own choosing, a totally honest, highly recommended and thoroughly checked out Secretary-Administrator in charge of our Community finances and our money ! Vitally important major achievement !!!
Date to close the pool................there was another huge row over this ! No-one really wanted to close the pool at all as they were concerned that it would never be opened again. We were promised a technicians report on what is actually wrong with the pool and quotes for the repairs at the AGM in March, to be fair these were produced, but there was such a row going on that the official got shouted down when he tried to read them out !!!!! The officials were telling us that the pool is leaking 1,400 euros worth of water per month !!?? Nobody was particularly convinced of that and there was a lot of feeling expressed about pool leakage being used as an excuse/cover-up for financial mismanagement! At this point, Jose Blank stepped in and said "Whether what they say is true about the pool wasting all this water, we will not know until I have thoroughly checked all the accounts. Please vote to close the pool temporarily to give me chance to look at the water accounts to see if this is true, and if it is to get an independent technician's report and quotes for repair and then find ways to pay for the repairs. If it is not true what they say, then the pool can quickly be re-opened" That sounded like plain common sense to us all and so we voted to close the pool temporarily, what else could we do? We can't just ignore the issue in the hope that it will go away !
Increase in fees or extra payment.................another huge row because no-one wanted to pay any more on the basis that the officials have not properly managed the money we've been paying, let alone pay them any more !! Once again Jose Blank stepped in and demanded to know why they wanted more money NOW !!! ...........and he got a truthful answer !!! The water company will cut off the entire Community's water next week if they do not get paid !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What do we do now ??? This is really bad news for us who live here and for those of you who have your house rented to tenants or holiday-makers !!! Again, Jose Blank made a suggestion..........if we will agree to a one-off extra payment of 50 euros he will ensure that our water supply is not cut off..........and once he has familiarised himself with the accounts.............. if it can be managed, he promises that he will return our extra 50 euros payment to us all. Unfortunately, as you can see, it was a case of agree to paying an extra 50euros or have the water cut off..........we had no choice but to agree to the extra payment. No-one liked it, but, once again, what else could we do?
There was no questions and answers session, because at this point the officials got up and walked out !!!
After the meeting
Jose Blank met with the President and has arranged to meet with her at 2.30pm on Tuesday for everything to be officially and formally handed over to him (unfortunately, Monday is a Bank Holiday here)
Then........... the President tells Jose that she will resign !!
Then .............Jose finds out that the person who we all believed was the VicePresident is, in fact, only an owner the same as all the rest of us and has never been elected VicePresident !!
The phrases "one out, all out, everybody out" and "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" spring to mind!!!! Talk about absolving oneself of all responsibility while you've got the chance !!!!!!
To sum up
Although this may sound horrific, it is in fact wonderful news ! We now have an honest Secretary-Administrator in place and that's the first major step achieved towards getting our Community sorted out and managed properly.
What's next?
The next step is that we will have to call another meeting to elect a new President and probably two Vice-Presidents, and set a proper 2008 budget that the Community can afford.This will undoubtedly include the dismissal of the maintenance man as he is costing half the Community's annual income and it does seem, although we must await confirmation from Jose, that our water money has been used to pay his and the President's salaries !!!!
As I understand it from Jose, the law states that 25% of the owners must sign a request for a meeting to be called, so we may well need you to sign this request form fairly soon. If so, I'll be in touch again asking you to sign yet another form.
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Yes, you've guessed it, once the meeting is called, we shall need your proxy votes once again!!
In the attachment, you will find a new proxy voting form that Jose has designed. It is a permanent proxy vote form. Once completed, your proxy will vote for you at any meeting that arises. This saves us having to harrass you for proxys every time there is a meeting !! You can, of course, revoke your proxy at any time, and, also, if at any time you are here when there is a meeting you can still vote yourself.
If you could please complete the attached form and email it to the proxy of your choice, that would be great and it will save a lot of bother for you and for us!
Finally, depending on Tuesday's handover meeting, Jose may want to open a new Community bank account. If this turns out to be the case, then there will be another new form for you to complete to authorise bank payments to the new account. I don't know yet and neither does Jose.
Rest assured that we will let you know as soon as we know and that we will email you the necessary form to complete and return if it is necessary.
I am sorry that this email is long and a bit complicated, I'm just doing my best to let you know what is going on...........as is your right!
If there is anything you don't understand, please don't hesitate to email me and I will do my best to help. If I don't know the answer, I will ask Jose for you !
Best wishes to you all and thank you once again for supporting us with your proxys! Votes are everything and the more we have the more we can achieve, as last night has already proven !!
Audrey
So there you have it...........................end of suspense !!! I expect you'll all be just as chuffed as I am and I await your comments with gleeful anticipation !!!!!
A huge great big thank you to all you EOS guys and gals cos without your advice, support, encouragement and finger-crossing I don't think I would have ever started this ................let alone got this far !!
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to all !!!!!