Sun City Anthem Resident "Humorously" Looks at Latest Association Waste

Let’s have a Contest!

A Sun City Anthem Resident Editorial

By

Robert N.

Sun City Anthem Resident

For many years Sun City Anthem has held those Saturday Morning Parking Lot Sales, Recycling Truck Saturdays, and the annual Computer recycling Saturday.

Up until about a year ago, the SCA Community Patrol successfully handled the traffic situation, with a goal of assuring pedestrian safety.

I happened to be at the Anthem Center this past March and May, and HOA employees were on site “assisting” the Community Patrol members with traffic control.

Likewise I happened to be at the Anthem Center recently where the Computer Club had their most recent ‘computer recycling event’.

Although the Community Patrol (e.g. volunteers) were present assisting in traffic control, there were also one or more HOA paid employees in the lot directing traffic.

Undoubtedly the hourly employees were enjoying overtime pay.

I don’t want to say that traffic control was not necessary – BUT the Community Patrol is a volunteer organization and their service costs you nothing, whereas the HOA employees are PAID – OUT OF YOUR HOA FEES.

The Patrol VOLUNTEERS successfully handled traffic and parking control without incident over the years….so why (once again) is SCA Management paying for a service that used to be 100% free?

That got me to thinking: How about an SCA-Wide contest to see who can come up with the best way to waste our HOA fees?

You’ll have a lot of competition via the Board, so you need to be innovative.

Alas, some of the best suggestions for the biggest wastes of HOA fees have already “been taken”.

Thus your entry CANNOT include:

a. Subsidizing a restaurant

b. Continued pay increases for the General Manager

c. Over utilization and over payment of the SCA Attorney

The grand prize for the contest has yet to be determined; however the winner will undoubtedly receive the accolades of the Sun City Anthem Board & General Manager.

Of course, the contest entries could be evaluated by the same Accounting Firm that was used last year during the “recall effort”; however, the validity of the entries would then come into question.

Any Suggestions? – remember:

As always, it’s YOUR MONEY !

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Thanks to Robert N. for putting both a smile and frown on our face.

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