The resignation demand was made when the board discussed an act to censure Singh for violations of the board’s code of conduct. The violations reportedly included taking political actions beyond his limits as a board member, bad behavior toward staff and disrespect toward other board members.
“His actions can no longer be tolerated,” said resident Mike Klinkner, once an appointed member of the board who was defeated by Singh in 2010. “The town and many of its people have suffered through this long enough. To spare yourself and the town the embarrassment of an investigation by the county (grand jury), plus the cost of a recall at the same time, you need to resign.”
Angela Lamb, who is related to Director Jim Lamb, told the board that Singh had said in public that her husband runs a Mountain House mafia.
Resident Pam Klinkner said: “I, along with others, respectfully request Mr. Singh stop his attacks on private citizens, board members, vendors and developers. The board, as our overseers and caretakers, has no choice but to censure Mr. Singh. It is the board’s duty to act in the best interests of Mountain House. He must be censured, and frankly he needs to resign as a … director.”
Two men took to the podium on Singh’s behalf, including Rajesh Dighe, who said the problem was a lack of communication among the board.
“I don’t agree he doesn’t read stuff,” Dighe said. “I still feel he is doing a great job. He was right there trying to do right for the community.”
When the board got its chance to speak after public comment, Lamb, the director, cited three areas in which he thought Singh violated the code.
Lamb said Singh sought requests for
proposals from prospective landscaping firms without board sanction;
disregarded board President Bernice King Tingle’s attempts to keep meetings on time and within scope; and wrongly accused Director Andy Su of taking money from ValleyCrest Landscaping Maintenance for his own benefit as a member of the Mountain House Flag Football organization.
Su reminded Singh that the board’s legal counsel, Daniel Schroeder, said there was no foundation for the accusations against Su.
“We repeatedly explained these things to him,” Su said, “but he has chosen to ignore us, ignore the (board) attorney and use smearing tactics for his political gain. Director Singh is a disgrace for our board and for our community, and I wish he would resign, too.”
When Director Celeste Farron had her turn to speak, she presented a much longer list of code violations by Singh that included harassing staff with emails and racist
comments. She said the proper conduct of a board member was not showing antagonism or hostility, acting in a self-righteous manner or spreading rumors.
When Singh tried to explain his actions, he started talking about outstanding community debt, but he was reminded by Tingle that the topic was actions to censure him, and not the budget.
“We have to run as business professionals,” Tingle said. “Things must cease and desist.”
The vote to censure Singh was passed by the four board members, with Singh casting an abstaining vote.
The board had previously accepted Singh’s submitted resignation as board vice president, and the directors voted unanimously to make Lamb the new vice president.
Keep up the good work!
Mike
As for your claim I know too much it must be collusion, it's called freedom of information. If you have checked my background you know I have the ability to find out most anything I want and stay within the law.
Mike
It would obviously seem that information is more freely available to some then others. From what I have observed there has without a shadow of a doubt been an attempt to bury information by making it difficult to get to. The CSD constantly say that information is on the web but honestly I often find there are no navigible links to the info. The select few get direct html links to the docs. So in a way it is on the web - if you know where to look.
Mike as for it being about "YOU" - it is very apparent that YOU are very desparate to attain a seat on the board. With this years election Jim, Bernice and Andy will be defending their seats and it will be next to impossible for you to beat any of them.
The only realistic way of you getting on the board is if Jass Singh is recalled. I have seen you try your very best to encourage people to register their concerns and urge them to use the disciplinary procedures to try and force a recall. But in reality that will not happen.
Do you believe the MHCSD puts an impostor in the videos? Do you believe they dubbed his voice and made up everything? The bullying won't work either, so stop drinking the koolaid and wake up.
Mike
Do we need to bother arguing with such embarrassingly faulty logic?
Director Singh ran an election campaign just like any other candidate would do. The electorate had the opportunity to review and analyse his manifesto. Yes there may have been some rather wild claims in that but people are basically so ignorant of the world around them that they bought it. Director Singh just used the system to his end and he got the desired result and won.
Mike Klinkner on the hand lost out on an opportunity to get a seat on the board - it was the seat that Director Singh won. Mike has been bitter and twisted ever since and immediately launched a "campaign" against Director Singh. He has worked closely with the CSD staff (hence accusations of collusion - indeed Mike has often stated facts that could have only have been gotten from the CSD staff - you would think that Mike actually is a member of the CSD)
Mike ought accept defeat graciously and stop his campaign of hate against Director Singh.
To all those making comments about the quality of English grammar of some of the posters here - yes it is bad but please do not castigate them for it. They are trying to express themselves as best they can.
The USA is supposed be the "land of free speech" not "the land grammatically correct free speech"
Singh didn't "shake things up," he introduced the worst aspects of politics to Mountain House. He didn't present any issue that hadn't been approached before him, all he did was add dishonesty into the mix. There isn't a single resident or board member that doesn't want what is best for Mountain House. The difference between most of us and Singh is that most of us accept differences of opinions as just that, while Singh seeks to capitalize on these diferences and present them as acts of treachery. He understands most voters are unaware of the facts and the details, so he makes up his own, solely to scare the pants off of folks into voting for him. You can attempt to trivialize this by saying that's just how it's done, but the truth remains: Jass Singh lied to get votes. He continues to lie in furtherance of his own agenda. Ask yourself this: if Singh really was interested in doing what is best for Mountain House, if he really does want to act as an advocate for its residents, why has he gone about it the way he has? Why has he lied, attacked board members and residents, why has he insinuated and implied corruption on the part of everyone he works with on the board and at MHCSD, and why has he acted like such a sneaky jerk? And if you want to talk about "elite," what do you have to say about his accomplices and their tactics?
I'd say Mike Klinkner has every right to be upset over his loss. He lost to someone who has proven he does not have the best interests of Mountain House residents in mind. He lost to a guy that lied about what he would do when elected, lied about the facts surrounding salaries, lied about Mike Klinkner himself, etc. Wouldn't you be pissed, too? I'd say anyone who gives a damn about this place should be pissed, too, especially if you were fooled in to voting for Singh. You people should be especially pissed. That Matt and Mike are as concerned about Mountain House as they are also indicates to me that they do, in fact, have "a life." It's here. This is where they live. It's important to them that our officials, who have as much control and say as they do, act in an above-board way.
And for those of you who tl;dr'd, summary:
* Singh has all the credibility he deserves: 0.
* MH residents have every right to be - and should be - irate that this clown was elected.
IamSpartacus to IamRidiculous.
I don't think any /reasonable/ person could read Skctreasures and Orotha's posts here without coming to the conclusion that they are completely untrustworthy (to say the least). I think every time they post, they further embarrass themselves and their cause.
For that reason, I'm tempted to just stop feeding these trolls.
People are questioning your command of the English language, and that has nothing to do with your race.
They are questioning it because your replies are garbled and riddled with errors and the content usually makes no sense as a response to what you seem to be replying to.
Just put the keyboard down and cool off. Your house was almost certainly egged by bored teenagers. It happens from time to time. The suggestion that it was Mr. Lamb is ridiculous. Truly.
In any case, your race or ethnicity was never even mentioned or considered. The only time race was mentioned previously was by Jass Singh when he made really racist comments about Mexicans and Koreans. He seems to be very bitter and angry, as do you. Frankly, I am glad you are moving out of Mountain House. Take Singh with you.
He kindly explained to you why your criticism made no sense. He was genial and helpful to you for no other reason than he is just a helpful person, which he has proven time and time again by helping out his neighbors and asking nothing in return. And your response is to accuse him of egging your house? That just makes absolutely zero sense.
Then you said "Delta is wasting our cash" and people were confused because again, that makes absolutely no sense. So after a few polite questions, people figured out that you meant Valley Crest, and you were complaining about "too much leaf blowing". Not everybody agreed with you, some people liked the clean and neat areas that the leaf blowers clean up. Then you got angry again because you were "torn apart" over it. Well, news flash, people politely disagreeing with you and helping you correct your factual mistakes about who "Delta" is is not "tearing you apart". It's just having an adult discussion. If you can't handle that, please, just step away from the keyboard.
Four out of five directors are actively involved in making Mountain House a better place. They participate in functions and organizations that make this a great place to live. Only one director is actively trying to tear this place down, and it's Director Singh. His supporters are just as destructive, you included.
By the way, you nutjobs realize Mr. Lamb voted *against* the Valley Crest contract extension, right? Against! I swear, at least make the loony conspiracy theories plausible...
You know, I give up. Jass and his cohorts are dangerously myopic. Scktreasures, you are scary in your ignorance.
And you can hold me as responsible as you like. You can blame me for whatever you want, but the fact is you're likely to attribute anything and everything you object to, to your supposed enemies. I really don't care at all about you, other than that you are bent on destroying a community and I happen to live there.
On a positive note, you are providing ample evidence of the craziness that permeates Jass' supporters, as well as giving a lot of people a really good laugh. So I suppose we should all appreciate that.
This is just mesmerizing. How exactly has he made "life hell for you"?
No bizarre delusions, please. Just facts.
"Fighting at near Wickland school. Teenagers. Neighbors and us had to break it up. Who brought the ghetto to MH?"
You really need to do a better job at this. Borrow a dictionary.
I don't know if it's a language barrier or if you're just not balanced, but your responses are not reasonable, and your tirade against the Lambs would be laughable if it weren't hurting some of the most contributing members of our good community.
Your ideas are completely hair-brained: "appoint citizens to assign contracts"? No, we have a department of experienced, educated professionals that work full-time in our Community Services District to manage the town, and they take direction from a publicly-elected board of directors - the citizens get their voice through democratic election of directors. Replacing all this knowledge with a handful of guys that yell a lot is hilariously misdirected, a sign of disappointing naivete on your part.
...and your accusation of a director of only approving CSD-recommended contracts when something is "in it for him" is slander and is illegal. I hope he find yourself a defendant in a lawsuit as a result. You deserve it.
Matt went to serve on the school board. I didn't talk to him about why, so I can't say his exact reasons. Can you?
We are Mountian House Resident, Californian Republic Citizen, and Proud US citizen to spend our life in military if needed.
We don't want Indian, Korean, Chinese, Italian, and more over the BRITISH business to thrive in our community at the cost of our TAX like LAMB's associate CDOG want.
WE WILL FIGHT FOR USA!!!!!!!
Not for the one who is taking advantage of US(citizens) like LAMB.
"We don't want Indian, Korean, Chinese, Italian, and more over the BRITISH business to thrive in our community at the cost of our TAX"
What the HELL are you talking about?
If some of your are ready to pay tax the way LAMB want to impose on. Go ahead and pay.
IF SOME ONE WANT TO CONTROL THE EXPENSE, AND FEEL LIKE ME AND FIGHT FOR US LIKE Drear Jass Singh, Let us not pay for what the thugs are signing up.
Jass, IT IS OK TO BE ANGRY AT TIME TO STOP THE CORRUPT PEOPLE. You know what is GOOD FOR MOUNTAIN HOUSE like others.
Don't worry about loosing; the courage is standing for right.
GANDHI, ABRAHAM LINCON and KENNEDY DID THE SAME.
Don't worry; I can see the GOODNESS IN YOUR ACTION.
By the way I have not connection to you. I will reveal my identity at the RIGHT TIME.
I know more than many of you. Stay tuned!!
LET US HAVE AN OCCUPY MOUNTAIN HOUSE. We don't want these KIDS IN director board. Let us decide for ourselfs.
Every Tyrant like LAMB starts with censoring people.
Every Tyrant like LAMB starts with playing racist sentiment.
Our community is a very diverse and culturally rich.
If you want a good place to call your home stand against those tyrants and their associates now.
I am there for the next election.
For one if I was ignorant as you claim I would not be speaking out on this topic as I would be happily ignoring it and going on my merry way. Jst because I happen to take a stance that conflicts with your way of thinking does not make ignorant or an idiot.
Luckily most sensible people will realise in fact that you are probably an idiot and hence disregard any comments that you have to make. To use language that will resonate with you "Your opinion counts for sh*t"
CDOG is a very close relative/friend of LAMB.
Here are my points.
-> Even if someone just used a word Mafia it is not a racial word. Look at the dictionary http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Mafia?s=t. Due to its history it has become an english word that has hierarchical structure. This is the structure in CDOG (who is also like LAMB, practically want a segregation in Mountain House)
-> Oh' CDOG want LAMB to run the MH Villages in the capacity of an elected officer of mountain house. This is what people call CORRUPTION. You mind, once you have taken a job (like an officer/director/working in some public sector), you have restriction on how to further your gain being at that position.
Since it is very clear that LAMB and his associates want to spread falser rumor and censor another elected official; and at the same time twist the information using his power as an elected official. I would say HE SHOULD RESIGN.
LAMB has a choice to behave the way he wants; or RESPECT THE OFFICE HE IS ELECTED and take that as a high priority for him.
Let him decide what is wants
Who said MHVillages is impartial? It's a privately run site, he can allow who ever he wants to post there. That's how America works.
This whole Lamb mafia thing is totally ridiculous. What sort of advantages are they getting out this? It would seem to me that being a Realtor in town would actually boost one's credibility in regards to trying to do what is best for the town. If the town thrives, then the realtors make more money. It's not like they live in Pleasanton and just manage some leases in MH, they live here. If anything they have more stake in what happens to Mountain House since their way of making money is tied to what happens here.
MH gets sucked in to a black hole tomorrow, I can rent or buy in a new location and continue on with my job. Something bad happens to MH and the realtors have to rebuild both their homes and their businesses. Do you have that much at stake?
It is no wander they have been labelled "The Lambinis". And in true style "the family" turned out in force to slap the Director who is upsetting the cosy arrangement in Mountain House. Cannot have anyone muddying the waters and rocking the boat that is bringing in a great bounty for the Lambinis.
You sound like a moron. Why don't you take a few minutes to organize whatever thoughts are in your head. At this point you are just babbling on about random sh*t. I think it's cute how you capitalize names though. For kicks through, let's go through your "points":
-> Even if someone just used a word Mafia it is not a racial word. This is the structure in CDOG (who is also like LAMB, practically want a segregation in Mountain House)
<--Mafia can be used as a slur against Italians. That's just a fact. What do I want want to segregate by? Have you seen the club I started's membership roster? Doesn't seem like I segregate people out.
-->Oh' CDOG want LAMB to run the MH Villages in the capacity of an elected officer of mountain house.
<--Reading comprehension fail here, I actually said that he runs it as a private citizen, which mean he can do whatever he wants with it. That's America.
-->Since it is very clear that LAMB and his associates want to spread falser rumor
<--What false rumor did they spread? You'd think I would know the answer to this since it's so clear.
We know One of the directors brought his family members to fight for him (not for the residents RIGHT?)
YOU KIDS I call these directors coming up with his family members. Don't call me I am violating the code of conduct. Board meeting is not a place for you KIDS to fight.
Look at the real issue. Not how you feel when people question you. If you want to censor, we will come to the board meeting. As a tax payer we will censor all of you.
At least the family members who came up live here, if they live here they can speak. Additionaly, not only do they live here, but they actually do stuff that benefits the community as a whole. What have you done? What has Jass done?
Jass is a terrible representative for MH, it's just that simple. Does he have a legitimate talking point w/ debt and taxes. Maybe. Does he present it in a way that makes people want to listen? No. Does he present it in a way that is in line with our Code of Conduct guidelines? No. Maybe if he could follow the rules, and not just slander people or go off topic all the time he would get some respect, but he doesn't, so he gets no respect.
I hope he gets recalled, and I hope he moves out of Mountain House.
Second, Singh's racist comments are all on record. He was dumb enough to post them on public forums and state them during public board meetings. It's sad that a man that hates Mexicans and East Asians and white people is representing Mountain House's culturally diverse communities. Oh, wait… he isn't. He's representing his little group's best interests.
In fact, did you notice that Singh had only two supporters at the meeting? One guy didn't know what he was talking about at all. I felt bad for him because he was so out of touch with reality that folks were laughing at him under their breath. The other guy, Rajesh Dinghe, even seemed to be embarrassed by Singh's actions, as he should be.
Third, he "real issue" isn't taxes. It's one of the issues, one of the many the Board of Directors has to contend with at their meetings. In addition to taxes and contracts and all the other stuff, they've had to deal with Singh's utter lack of preparation and complete ignorance of matters at hand. Go ahead, watch the videos of the meetings. Watch how Singh has no idea what's going on. Watch as he asks for the same information over and over again. Everyone else is prepared and understands what is going on, but he doesn't. In fact, he regularly falls asleep during board meetings. When he does bother to stay awake, he finds it impossible to stay on task. Singh wastes an amazing amount of time as the meetings.
Fourth, Singh and his many screen personalities, along with McDonald, were banned from MHVillages, not because of their opinions, but because they lied and implemented a program of character assassination to further their lies. Ask yourself; if his ideas were valid, if he really had the best intent in joining the board, why did he have to lie to folks? I'll tell you: because Singh and McDonald both knew it was impossible for Singh to do the things he promised, so they made up numbers and put fear into the hearts and minds of folks who probably just didn't know any better.
Ask anyone from India and they'll tell you political and bureaucratic corruption is a fact of life in India. This is not a racist statement, it is a cultural reality. Singh thought he could pull this nonsense here, but he got caught and people are pissed. Singh and McDonald have introduced an element into Mountain House that did not exist previously.
It's a shame, too. Mountain House is a great place to live. It's clean, it's safe, and the folks here are actually really nice and neighborly. I think that's why you see such outrage of Singh, McDonald, et al. This town is too small for big-city power plays and we just don't want it here. Please keep in mind Singh and his quickly-diminishing band of nuts is not representative of MH. When he get recalled or arrested for fraud and corruption, we'll all be able to look back and laugh.