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Monday, August 7, 2017

Sun City Anthem Looks at History of Association Payroll Numbers

Resident Asks
Was $20,000 Seddon General Manager Bonus Warranted?

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by
Dave Czech
Sun City Anthem Resident since 2005

Let’s take a look at job performance and see if a $20,000 General Manager bonus was indeed warranted.
Straight from the Sun City Anthem website financial documents.
First, look at the payroll costs from when FSR managed our HOA in 2015 to the transition in 2016 and on target for 2017.
We will look at a few items from the budget summaries
Payroll for Sun City Anthem employees by year:

2015       $2,916,000
2016       $3,040,700
2017       $3,501,103

Note the difference in 2015 before self-management and 2017 after self-management.
The New GM received a 20,000 dollar bonus for increasing our payroll by
$585,103

(that's a 20% increase from 2015 to the present  and a 15% increase from 2016 to 2017)

Let’s put that in perspective:

At $16.00 an hour that is 36,568 man hours or about 18 extra full time employees (6 extra per building) at 40 hours a week for a full year.

Or did a few people get a giant raise?

Next let us look at the General & Administrative costs from year to year in dollars.
2015       $240,000
   2016       $1,729,270
2017        $378,523
We will be fair here and exclude 2016, not a typical year at all with the Liberty center being closed.
However, with that being said, our payroll for that year should have been down.
There were no employees working at the Liberty center for most of 2016.
So, let’s just compare 2015 to 2017 an increase in payroll of $585,103.
General Administrative 2015 to 2017 an increase of $138,523.
Not sure why the General Administrative cost for 2016 was $1,729,270.
Only in government and the Sun city Anthem can you increase payroll by almost 20% and increase General Administrative fees more than 50% and

Receive a Bonus
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I think in any corporation anywhere in the world you would not receive a bonus but instead, likely get a pink slip.
You have to ask the question,  What is going on?
Budget information is available on the Sun City Anthem website tab; however, for your convenience, here are some helpful links to substantiate the above reference costs.
2015
2016
2017 
(thru 4/30/17)
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Anthem Opinions thanks Dave Czech for his research and analysis.
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  1. From Laura Shapiro...to...Anthem Opinions

    All I can say is that there better not be any increases in HOA dues after all their payroll increases.

    WHEN WILL THIS EVER STOP...........ITS ENOUGH ALREADY.
    1. From Tim Stebbins...to...Anthem Opinions

      In the comparison of payroll costs for 2015 (under contract management) to 2017 (under self management) Dave did not include the $736,000 we paid to FSR in 2015 but did not pay to anyone in 2017.

      That is more than the difference he pointed out.
  1. No matter how you play with the accountant's sheets; the General Manager, Community Association Manager, Chief Financial Officer, and Head Maintenance Manager are all paid well over, by easily 1/3rd, what should be paid for those positions in a "city" the side of Sun City Anthem. I strongly suspect the other salaries follow the leader.

    If you haven't done so yet, sign the recall and no-confidence petitions.

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  1. From Laura Shapiro...to...Anthem Opinions

    All I can say is that there better not be any increases in HOA dues after all their payroll increases.

    WHEN WILL THIS EVER STOP...........ITS ENOUGH ALREADY.

    ReplyDelete
  2. From Tim Stebbins...to...Anthem Opinions

    In the comparison of payroll costs for 2015 (under contract management) to 2017 (under self management) Dave did not include the $736,000 we paid to FSR in 2015 but did not pay to anyone in 2017.

    That is more than the difference you pointed out.

    ReplyDelete
  3. No matter how you play with the accountant's sheets; the General Manager, Community Association Manager, Chief Financial Officer, and Head Maintenance Manager are all paid well over, by easily 1/3rd, what should be paid for those positions in a "city" the side of Sun City Anthem. I strongly suspect the other salaries follow the leader.

    If you haven't done so yet, sign the recall and no-confidence petitions.

    ReplyDelete