OMHA NEWSLETTER, October, 2017
Oceanside Manufactured Homeowners Alliance, Inc.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE, by Bob Markley
MEMBERSHIP DISCOUNT!! The OMHA Board of Directors has voted to allow any new member who signs up after Oct. 1, 2017, to have their membership for the rest of 2017 FREE, and the membership extends through the full year of 2018. SOOOO, if you are not a member now, you can get a new membership of 15 months for the price of 12. See application at the bottom of page 2 and send in your application form right away or bring it to a meeting.
RANCHO SAN LUIS REY has a new Park Representative, Debra Johnson. Debra takes over from Ardis Coburn, who has retired due to health reasons. Thank you, Ardis, for your service to OMHA.
TRICO also has a new Park Representative, Debbie Mastro, who takes over from MilliPalaferri. Thank you, Milli, for your service to OMHA.
AB 1269 has been the subject of great interest and effort for most of this year.GSMOL sponsored this bill, and they have been supported by the mobile home owners in Oceanside: OMHA and the Mobilehome Advisory Committee (MAC) of ACTION. It was VETOED on Oct. 14 by Governor Jerry Brown.
OMHA ELECTIONS:There are three OMHA Board of Directors positions up for election in the combined General Membership and Board of Directors meeting in December: President, Treasurer, and Director at Large. The Director at Large must be a Park Representative and is elected by other Park Representatives. The duties of each position are shown in the OMHA bylaws, ARTICLE VI, posted on the OMHA website ( Each candidate will need at least basic computer skills, including Internet access, so the duties are not re-printed here. A person must be a member in good standing (meaning dues paid up) as of September 1, 2017, in order to nominate someone, be nominated, or vote in December. It is possible to nominate yourself. See nomination form below:
NOMINATION FORM (please print legibly)
Position (circle one) President Treasurer Director at Large
Name of person being nominated (Nominee)______
Nominee’s qualifications for the position______(use additional pages if needed). By their signatures below, both the Nominee and the Nominator certify that s/he is an OMHA member in good standing as of September 1, 2017. By signing, the Nominee agrees to accept the duties of the office, if elected.
Nominator______
(Nominator’s printed name) (Nominator’s signature) (Date)
Nominee______
(Nominee’s printed name) (Nominee’s signature) (Date)
In order to qualifythe above-named Nomine for eligibility to be elected in the December, 2017, combined General Membership and Board of Directors meeting, this form, fully executed, must be received by the OMHA Vice President no later than 1:10 p.m. on November 17, 2017 (the date of the November combined meeting).
YOUR HELP NEEDED You have probably heard and/or read about a large developer named Integral Communities attempting to purchase 176 acres in South Morro Hills and convert it from farmland to high density housing. If this plan is carried out, the rest of South Morro Hills (another approx. 3200 acres) will probably be next, in a domino effect. The developer is not planning to cover the cost of infrastructure to support all those new homes (water supply, sewers, a waste treatment facility, another fire station, another bridge to handle all the new traffic, etc.) and wants Oceanside taxpayers to pay for that infrastructure.This development has been opposed by the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce, the Oceanside Planning Commission, and The Sierra Club, among others. Now crops are grown there ALL YEAR.
Developing any or all land in South Morro Hills would require a change of zoning for farmland that would be converted to high density housing. Under current law, the Oceanside City Council can change the zoning by a majority vote (3 people). A group called Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources (SOAR) is organizing an initiative to change current law to require a vote of the citizens (YOU) for approval of any change of zoning of land currently zoned for open space or agricultural use. The initiative will require thousands of signatures of registered Oceanside voters. That is where you come in. They need volunteers to sit at grocery stores and elsewheretocollect those signatures. If you are a registered voter in Oceansideand willing to help collect signatures, please call Bob Markley at (760) 435-1126 or send an e-mail message to .
OMHA PARK REPRESENTATIVES
PARK / Name / Phone no. / PARK / Name / Phone no.Cavalier / Pat Sherwood / unlisted / Mission View Manor / Donna Morel / unlisted
El Camino 76 / Frank Crowley / (7 (760) 685-2380 / Mission View West / Donna Cooper / (760) 453-7054
La Salina / Vacant / Rancho Calevero / Bonnie Wright / unlisted
Lamplighter / Rosa Guardarama / (760) 626-6307 / Rancho San Luis Rey / Debra Johnson / (714) 651-8224
Laguna Vista / Thom Taylor / (760) 721-2429 / Terrace Gardens / Larry Schrack / (760) 453-7297
MiraMar / Patricia Olkowski
Dwight Johnson / (760) 717-9207
(360) 933-1754 / TRICO / Debbie Mastro / (760) 529-5322
OMHA BOARD of DIRECTORS
President / Bob Markley / (760) 435-1126 / Secretary / Vikki Schaffner / (406) 459-0953Vice President / Thom Taylor / (760) 721-2429 / Ombudsman / Sherrie Goldby / (760) 715-2161
Treasurer / Barry Horton / (760) 757-2337 / Director-at-Large / Donna Cooper / (760) 453-7054
NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Dr. Ginger Marable, 760-439-1786,