by DAVID CRUZ 

Several shareholders of a gated community in Fordham will be putting their heads together this evening hoping to regain control of the sprawling complex amid turmoil.

The shareholders, all tenants at the sprawling Fordham Hill Oval Cooperatives, will get together at the Father Smith Center at the corner of West Fordham Road and Andrews Avenue tonight to determine how to legally disband the current Board of Directors, establish an interim board and remove Argo Management, which oversees the properties.

For the past few months, shareholders have been in loggerheads with the Board of Directors. The Board’s incumbent president, Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter, was once again voted in as president last May despite shareholders contending the race was invalid due to no quorum.

The news comes amid the Board backpedaling on its move to impose a $30 cable fee, which sparked protests outside the complex. Some tenants refused to pay the fee altogether, citing the average $900 monthly maintenance fees that are lumped together.

Still, despite news of the Board’s withdrawal of a cable bill, shareholders will still look to meet with a civil rights attorney to flesh out the suit.

Reach David Cruz at (718) 324-4998.