Good Stuff Happens in 1:1 Meetings: Why you need them and how to do them well
Geraldine after you left
1. GERALDINE
1.PUT DOWN AS MUCH AS YOU REMEMBER RE: ACTIONS OF SG AND L.CANTY ETC AFTER YOU LEFT
2.HOW MANY BOARDERS STAYED
3.DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THEY PAID?4.NEW INFO THAT CANTY TURNED DOWN LONG TERM CONTRACT
AND DID SHORT ONE.$?
5.WHO WAS LOOKING AFTER FACILITY.WAS THERE ANYONE THERE TO DO WORK THAT YOU AND YOUR GUYS
DID?CAN WE SHOW MAINTENANCE DROPPED OFF?ETC.
1.WHEN I TERMINATED, I TOLD LAURIE(SHE WAS IN HOSPITAL AND WANTED ME TO COME).SHE SAID SHE
COULDN’T FACE HER CLIENTS, AS SHE HAD MOVED THEM 3 TIMES IN LAST 2 YEARS, AND THEY WOULD LEAVE
HER, SO SHE SAID SHE WOULD EITHER QUIT TRAINING AND MOVE TO ANOTHER TOWN, OR MOVE BACK TO
RANCHO ROYAL WHERE SHE WAS FOR 10-13 YEARS.( I LATER HEARD THAT THEY DID NOT WANT HER BACK .
THIS PLACE WAS ALSO CHEAPER, AND IN OJAI). I THINK SHE BECAME DESPERATE AT THIS POINT AND JOINED
GAGGERO AND MADE AN AGREEMENT WITH HIM, TOLD HER BOARDERS THEY DID NOT HAVE TO LEAVE, AND
JOINED HIS SIDE OF LAWSUIT, TOLD ME SHE WOULDN’T LEAVE. AT THIS TIME I LEFT….SHE ORDERED HER OWN
SUPPLIES, HAY FOM HARVEY, HARVEY AND LUIS (WHO WORKED FOR ME..HE STAYED 1 MONTH AND THEN
LEFT), AND STEVE’S MEXICAN WHO LIVED ON THE FACILITY DURING THE WHOLE LEASE, VICENTE, STARTED
HELPING. THEY HAD HARVEY DOING TRACTORING AND CLEAN/FEEDING AND LAURIE PAYING BY STALL
(STEVE HAD WANTED 200 PER STALL)
2. APPROX.ALL STAYED AND SINGLE BOARDERS…JENNI MARTIN LEFT..SHE ONLY HAD 6. KIM CRUISER
EVENTUALLY LEFT…SHE HAD ABOUT 6-8.
3. ABOUT 200 PER STALL OR BY BARN IS HOW HE WANTED IT, e.g. 12 STALL BARNx$200=$2,400 A MONTH
40 STALLSX $200=$8,000.00
THIS IS HOW STEVE CAME UP WITH $8,000.00 A MONTH……VERY UNREALISTIC, AS EACH HORSE’S MONTHLY
UPKEEP IS ROUGHLY $252-380 WITHOUT MAINTENANCE, LABOR, WATER,ELECTRICITY.ETC.
4. I WAS TOLD LAURIE WAS PUSHED INTO A LEASE SIMILAR TO OURS, BUT WAS ABLE TO MODIFY SLIGHTLTY.I
THINK IT IS A 1-3YR.LEASE.
ALSO, CARMEN (VICENTE’S WIFE) STARTED HELPING AT THE FACILITY,AND STEVE WAS PAYING HER,
WATERING, TURNOUT HORSES, FEEDING. HE WAS ALSO PAYING HARVEY AND VICENTE.
5. DON’T KNOW IF IT DROPPED OFF….MAYBE FOR NOV/DEC, BUT CARMEN/VICENTE LIVED ON THE FACILITY
AND WERE LOOKING AFTER WATERING/MOWING,ETC…..BEFORE I GOT THERE, SO THEY PROBABLY TOOK
OVER.