[Watchdogs] The trip to The Canyon of the Eagles, charged to office supplies, Garza's contract

Tue Jul 7 15:59:43 CDT 2009

Juan Garza has been running PEC for over a year now and no one can get an
answer on how the money is being spent. Maybe somebody should recommend that
they purchase Quicken and then hire someone that knows how to use the
program.  Clyde Doyal  Lakeway 

-----Original Message-----
From: watchdogs-bounces at pec4u.org [mailto:watchdogs-bounces at pec4u.org] On
Behalf Of Paul Langston
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 7:27 PM
To: Merle L. Moden; Andra Jacoby; Garza.Juan; 'Patrick Cox'
Cc: PEC Watchdogs
Subject: Re: [Watchdogs] The trip to The Canyon of the Eagles, charged to
office supplies, Garza's contract

Dear Merle:  What I see is that no executive in PEC has the faintest notion 
of how or why money should not be spent lavishly.  What is also,  evident is

that the costs are deliberately hidden to fool the owners.

Merle, I am going to ask the Elected Directors to carefully examine the 
Employment Contract of Juan Garza.  That contract was dictated by Fuelburg 
Jr. and most likely bonds Mr. Garza to following the express and specific 
orders of that Board of Directors at that time, February 2008.

The new Board needs to change or simply discard that contract and have him 
sign a new one obligating him to the Owners of the Coop.  After all, Mr, 
Garza has a whopping salary riding on the pleasure of the old Board of 
Directors.....and by extension, Fuelburg Jr.

The actions of Mr. Garza clearly put him with the old Board of Directors. 
Example:  Garza stood with the old guard against one lone, Elected Director,

Patrick Cox,  in the affair of  the approval of the Swineford House Bill. 
The Swineford bill would have chased all of us out of the monthly Director's

meetings and Garza approved it.

I  really want a new Employment  Contract that puts Garza clearly at the 
side of   the Owners of the Coop.

Regards,  Paul Langston   830-598-1322

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Merle L. Moden" <mlmoden at gmail.com>
To: "Andra Jacoby" <gopheraj at wildblue.net>
Cc: "Paul Langston" <langston at zeecon.com>; "PEC Watchdogs" 
<Watchdogs at PEC4u.org>
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Watchdogs] The trip to The Canyon of the Eagles, charged to 
office supplies

> Watchdogs:
>
> If one were focused on minimizing expenses, one would do their seminars,
> training sessions, etc. in the PEC Training Center in Johnson City.
> Apparently, the focus is not on minimizing expenses.  Unfortunately, I
> have witnessed this goofy behavior before.  I've never accepted the
> various rationalizations for wasting money.
>
> I'm concerned that our General Manager is repeating some of the bad
> behavior of the former General Manager.  Perhaps, it was a mistake not
> to insist on a complete housecleaning of the upper management at the PEC.
>
> Mr. Merle L. Moden
>
> Andra Jacoby wrote:
>> It's in Burnet County on Lake Buchanan.
>> http://www.canyonoftheeagles.com/ It's a lodge/resort. Could they not
>> have had a training session at the  building that used to be the 2801
>> Club? Anywhere from $109-$145 a night for a room but has group lodging.
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Langston wrote:
>>> Dear Milton:  You asked an interesting question to Juan Garza about
>>> why the trip, apparantly a training session for PEC employees, to
>>> Canyon of the Eagles, about
>>> $65,000 was posted in the accounting section, 820, as A&G-OFFICE
>>> SUPPLIES
>>>
>>> This was at the regular Board Meeting of June 15.  I did not
>>> understand Juan's explanation and I wondered if you heard it plainly
>>> enough to explain it to me.
>>>
>>> $70,000 of pads and pencils means that the boys took lots of notes?
>>> Where is Canyon of the Eagles, is in Texas? is is in the PEC
>>> territory?  Could this be like those famous "Director's Retreats",
>>> back in 2007,  where the boys all got in the limos, went down to a
>>> five-star hotel, in San Antonio , "Retreated & had tea and crumpets?
>>>  I would bet you that those "Director's Retreats" were posted as
>>> office supplies, as well. (Navigant Report)
>>>
>>> You can find this $65,396.10,  on PP-3 of the "Invoices over $10,000,
>>> April 2009
>>>
>>> Regards,    Paul Langston   598-1322
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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