Election 2019
Looking at Sun City Anthem
through the Eyes of Yet Another
Former Sun City Anthem Board Member
Jim Mayfield
PART
1 of 2
I
have heard from many of you that three practical issues are facing
our community and that the board candidates’ responses are critical
to choosing who to trust in governing of our homeowners association.
Transition
to Active Enforcement of SCA Rules
The
poorly executed transition process from passive to active enforcement
of SCA governing document rules causes many people to feel that
management is not competent to execute basic tasks.
One of these
tasks is to insure that the SCA rules, the purpose of which is to
protect our home values, are enforced by properly trained and
supervised employees who are guided by common sense within a
well-planned, considerate process.
You are further upset by board
members who inaccurately use words like “fiduciary responsibility”
and “legally required” in an attempt to cover up their deficient
oversight of management’s planning and performance, instead of
looking out for the interests and feelings of SCA homeowners.
Planning for a Restaurant
Residents
within SCA have repeatedly expressed their support for a restaurant
and bar operation at SCA.
Most of you have also expressed your
expectation that a food and bar operation should provide basic, not
fancy, food and bar services.
It is now time to accept that even
modest food and bar services will need to be subsidized if they are
to be successful in the highly competitive and frequently subsidized
local environment.
Since all amenities (e.g. the pools, tennis
courts, meeting rooms) at SCA are underwritten by the proceeds from
your annual homeowners assessment, reasonable underwriting of a food
and bar operation in a limited, closed market should be expected.
What you do not expect is that the SCA Board and management should be
willing to “give away the ranch” to a for-profit, commercial
entity to satisfy the elaborate requirements of a very small group of
residents who still believe in a fancy food and bar operation concept—no
matter the cost.
You also do not support opening the door to special
assessments to fund either the refurbishment or operation of food and
bar operations.
Conservative Fiscal Operations
Recent
Board treasurers, their handpicked members of the Finance Committee,
and the overpaid sycophants recruited by the General Manager to
manipulate the SCA budget have constructed a story about why the
accumulation of surplus funds is a good business practice, even
though the accumulation of surplus funds is not permitted under
Nevada law, specifically NRS 116.31151.
By giving it a financially
appealing new name, “minimum excess capital”, they obtained an
opinion from the Nevada Real Estate Division (“NRED”) that overcharging you for your annual assessment under NRS 116 is OK because NRED doesn’t enforce the
law it is chartered to support.
They have also used a complex,
frequently confusing, reserve study to support a significant
reduction in the percent of funding of SCA reserve funds as the
source for the creation of surplus funds.
The question that
homeowners should be asking is why are these manipulative budget
devices necessary?
The “business as usual” candidates are running on a platform that their lack of answers to these issues shouldn’t be held against them and because they are experienced, you should trust them because of their experience and lessons learned from their mistakes.
Yes, experience is important, but only if it is valuable experience
that has proved beneficial to SCA homeowners.
The
New Traditions Team has offered new ideas and solutions to these
issues that their opponents attempt to drown out by accusing them of
being inexperienced in the way things are done at SCA.
But,
the New Traditions Team’s positions on these key issues are not the
primary reason that I support the New Traditions Team.
In Part 2, I will explain why I support them.
In Part 2, I will explain why I support them.
Rana Goodman
(1)
(3)
Barry Goldstein
(8)
Larry Mayer
(9)
Bill Odelson
(10)
Larry Mayer
(9)
Bill Odelson
(10)
It is obvious that they have been classifying big ticket items as reserve items and have been reducing our reserves quite a bit in order to not have to raise dues.
I figure the dues increases will come in a year or so.
There is so much FAT in this budget that with line by line reviews of all expenses, that will avoid that dues increase.
There is no doubt in my mind.
This Team is composed of 4 business people and 1 individual with years of property management experience rather than the current bunch AND other candidates who are BUREAUCRATS.