Sun City Anthem
Resident
Mary
Lee Duley
Reacts
to
David's Anthem Journal
Article
Many of those in Sun City Anthem are
aware of the substantial data base established by resident, Mary Lee Duley.
Recently, she can under strong
criticism in an article published by David's Anthem Journal, to which she has
made a request of various blog owners to post a series of
emails.
Below is the detailed
correspondence.
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Dear SCA Web Site Owners:
I am forwarding the below email “string" to
the three of you, as owners of web sites available to all SCA residents. As
you can see, I have obtained CONSENT from the “concerned citizens” to forward
THEIR email.
This is MY consent to FORWARD or POST this email string, exactly as it appears, without any changes or additions.
This is MY consent to FORWARD or POST this email string, exactly as it appears, without any changes or additions.
David Berman’s immediate finger pointing at
ME is the REASON why residents are FEARFUL of retribution.
This saddens me more than I could ever express.
This saddens me more than I could ever express.
I will NOT be intimated by anyone and, in
this case, never read postings on Anthem Journal, and the owner's opinions and
postings are deplorable when the finger pointing begins, regardless of who they
are.
My data base participants made me aware of
his criticism using me, this time around.
This type of “gutter politics" does
not help Sun City Anthem but hinders it’s progress in moving forward.
I do not
consider this “journalism” but postings in poor
taste.
Residents need to FOCUS on the upcoming
election, meet ALL of the candidates, attend meetings, research their
qualifications and the experience they have that will benefit this community,
contact the SOURCE (namely the candidates themselves) IF they have any
questions, and most importantly VOTE.
Sincerely,
Mary Lee Duley
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From Concerned Citizens of Sun City
Anthem to Mary Lee Duley
Thank you Mary Lee.
We have paid close attention to the
various community blogs and sadly, one of them which mentions you by name,
should be ashamed of himself for casting a shadow on your integrity. We know how
well you are respected for the information you provide the many people of Sun
City Anthem.
You can now understand why we must
remain anonymous. The retribution from various sources who must at all costs,
maintain the status quo of corruption and waste, would attack us, as they have
you, and we will not subject ourselves to such abuse after making every attempt
to be honest with a community we love enough to do such extensive
research.
For your information, we have thus
far sent this email to approximately 1,500 different email addresses.
The
number of complaints: 2.
The number of individuals asking who we are: 12.
That totals to less than 1%
objecting to the email.
To all of them responding to our
email questioning who we are or the 2 who have been quite insulting, we send
the following email response, refusing to degrade them in any
way.
It reads:
We can understand your concern.
This information can be obtained through a Document Request
form obtained and submitted to the FSR Management office. We urge you to obtain
this information before you cast a ballot for any candidate.
You must be very specific in your requests, and it will
take 21 days to receive a response. There is a cost to obtain it.
This information was obtained through an extensive analysis
of the minutes of Board meetings and voting records.
It is 100% accurate based on those findings.
Due to a concern for retribution, we must remain anonymous,
but what we will tell you is that we are a group of individuals who have resided
in Sun City Anthem ranging from 3 to 15 years and have watched funds squandered
needlessly.
This was merely a token of good faith on the part of Sun
City Anthem residents who want honest and fair treatment from their board of
directors.
We do not ask for money, and nothing is asked to download
in order to create some form of SPAM.
All we asked is that IF you felt this was of benefit in
choosing a candidate, to merely forward it to your neighbors in order that they
also may be aware of the many issues that face us.
We took a great deal of time to research and provided
information to people who choose to be aware of their association financial
matters. The delete button solves the issue if that person does not wish to
receive it.
Who sends the information is irrelevant, what it conveys IS
relevant.
We can assure you that the email you received will not be
sold or used for any future purpose.
This was a single email to Sun City Anthem residents and
will not be repeated.
Have a pleasant day.
Concerned Citizens of Sun City Anthem
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From Mary Lee Duley to "Concerned Citizens of Sun City
Anthem"
(March 18, 2016)
Dear Concerned Residents:I am forwarding this to keep your group in the loop. I cannot add you to my personal data base without names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and names of villages. If members of your group want to contact me directly to be added to my personal data base, I’m happy do to that. Perhaps some are already participants. ALL of my transmissions are sent using Bcc and the information remains in my laptop and is not shared with anyone. Thanks, Mary Lee
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From: Mary Lee Duley
Subject: Forrest
Fetheroff, Candidate for Sun City Anthem Board of Directors....Position Paper
3 Date: March 18, 2016 at 11:06:37 AM
CDT
Dear Sun City Anthem
Neighbors:
As promised, ALL candidates
“position papers” will be forwarded to my personal data base, as they are
received. Below find the one for Forrest Fetherolf. The one for Barry
Goldstein was forwarded over a week ago and the one for Stephen Anderson will be
forwarded today. I have not received any other position papers but have offered
to forward ALL upon receipt but these must come directly from the candidate.
When they are received from any or all candidates, you will receive
them.
Please research ALL candidates that
are running for the Sun City Board of Director’s position, their qualifications,
what they can bring to the table, what they hope to accomplish,etc. After
reviewing their candidate flyers and their position papers, IF you have any
questions, please contact the candidates directly. I have always elaborated
about going to the SOURCE rather than asking others their interpretations of
what they hear as that’s how Rumors and Distortions begin.
All candidates are providing their
email addresses and phone numbers and are happy to respond so concerns do not
go unanswered. Again, contact them DIRECTLY, do not rely on secondhand
information or rumors. Most importantly, research ALL, THEN
VOTE!
My data base is a personal data base
and has no affiliation with Sun City Anthem or ANY SCA web site or privately
owned web site providing information to SCA residents. My personal data base
began in 2006 for Desert Sky VIllage. It NOW includes residents from every
village in Sun City Anthem.. Participants REQUEST to be added and if they
desire to be removed, their personal information is deleted immediately.
Personal information is NOT shared as privacy is important to all of
us.
IF you, as a data base
participant, have any questions about me or my opinions, I suggest you contact
me directly. I do NOT respond to negative comments or rumors, and feel finger
pointing using any one specific residents name is juvenile and shameful in this
“active ADULT” community.
Sadly, residents hesitate to attend
meetings and ask questions at the at the Board Meeting Podium or express
concerns out of FEAR of RETRIBUTION by having their names and reputations
smeared needlessly on personal web site blogs. I will NOT be intimidated by
anyone, much less blog owner and I have no use for senseless drama and
distortions.
Those on my personal data base will
continue to receive information as it is received. Please sign up with for
E-Blasts to be sent to you directly. The Spirit Magazine has email addresses
for all SCA Board of Directors and SCA Committee Chairpersons. Contact the
SOURCE when you have issues please. I reserve the right to remove
participants, as do local web site owners.
Again, please scroll down for
Forrest Fetherolf’s Position Paper 3, it will be followed in a separate email
with the Position Paper 3 from Stephen Anderson. Please feel free to forward
this email to your family, friends, and neighbors in Sun City Anthem. Research,
contact the SOURCE, and VOTE!
Thank you.
Sincerely,Mary Lee DuleyDesert Sky Village North
Thoughts on a RestaurantbyForrest FetherolfPosition Paper 3
Sun City Residents have been exposed to and suffered through five restaurant failures over our seventeen years.
Nearly a million dollars has been spent on remodeling the space allotted to the restaurant, repairing and replacing aging and abused kitchen equipment, and subsidizing the restaurant time and time again, to allow the restaurant to keep the doors open.
Resident members are fed up with the past results, and so am I.
In December 2015, the Board leadership finally threw in the towel and negotiated a settlement whereby the restaurant would cease operation.
The actual cost of the restaurant settlement and losses SCA incurred as a result of writing off the failed loans and unpaid utilities, remain a mystery.
Those estimated costs are between $53,000 to $90,000 based on a financial report given during the last monthly board meeting.
Those substantial losses to our community are not acceptable, and will not be tolerated if I am elected to the Board.
Good sound financial planning must be a part of any future option, and that plan must include both qualified advice from professionals in the restaurant industry, sound statistical evidence, and most importantly, a vote of the members to make a final decision.
We can no longer rely on an informal survey that has no statistical evidence to support a successful operation.
We live in 2016 and we must accept that today's world has tools to determine success that far exceeded any we had.
One option to determine success would be to hire a professional organization to do statistical studies examining various options we have available. If the studies are found to have merit, they would be explored by the General Manager. "Winging it" has produced failure in the past, and will so in the future. A properly designed plan today, should give us the guidance for a road toward tomorrow.
If that is found to have merit by the General Manager, the next step would be to explore the options suggested.
Examining the various options would be the responsibility of the General Manager, and then her recommendations should then be placed before the Board for guidance in the options recommended.
Finally, I believe any option or options considered must be placed before the members for a final vote. Those options and ballot should include commentary, pro and con, each recommendation including realistic cost estimates to the members in order to for them to make an intelligent decision at the time they vote.
Let me fully emphasize my belief that no board should be allowed to go forward with any venture until it is put before the members for their approval.
When you can't dispute the ugly accurate facts brought out in the "Concerned Citizens" letter, let's kill the messenger.
Why did he not print the letter?
Simple answer....
In every case, those board members who created the problems that were discussed and UNDISPUTED...
...were SUPPORTED by him for election.
Our congratulations to him for a "distinguished record" of being...
A WINNER at picking LOSERS.
When you cast a ballot this year, remember the name BERMAN for these 4 "B's":
1. Bella...gate
($2800 of buses for a political rally)
2. Building
(Roz Berman's not having the Liberty Center inspected prior to acceptance and it being closed for months)
3. Bistro
(Cafe V subsidies and not vetting loans that defaulted)
4. Baloney
(for "conveniently" avoiding any meaningful discussion of the first 3 "B's)
All of the individuals running for the Board that have been promoted by and lauded by Berman are the ones that have gotten us into the problems we now face, and because
of his influence he is the major problem.
Why do people follow his advice like lemmings?
It will be interesting to see who he promotes this time, and residents should consider his track record before they cast their vote.
Another Concerned Citizen
If you publish this comment please don't use my name as I have already been a target of his venom.