Poll Results - A Members Matter Poll - Question 5

 We are almost done sharing the results of the recent poll. The last question before a blog post on your overall comments to the poll.  This question gets to the heart of the matter - does the board want to hear from the members?

Please feel free to weigh in again and let us know your additional thoughts in the Comment Section below.

Question 5: When passing motions, the RCSC board should act how?

Vote for Jean Totten, Steve Collins, and John Fast in the RCSC Election!

The Sun City Advocates were formed just over a year ago. We agreed upon three objectives to accomplish one clearly stated and defined goal: We would use Communication, Education, and Participation to try and elect candidates in the 2022 RCSC election who believed members' voices should matter. Despite all of the criticism that we were just a bunch of disgruntled and angry members, nothing could be further from the truth. We did it because we love Sun City, what it once was and what we hope it will become again.

One Final Thought...(Checks and Balances from a Member Perspective)

Member / Board Exchange Recap - Part Five

Words Matter

Yesterday was painful; perhaps for all of us. I was really hopeful the new board president meant what she said about having a Kumbaya moment. She seemed real, she seemed interested in us all working together. It's just been slow to germinate (I’m being really freaking kind here).

I listen intently, always have, always will. If you don't know by now, I subscribe to the adage; words matter.

Priorities and Amenities - Is Our Priority to Give Away Our Amenities?

Member / Board Exchange Recap - Part Three

This meeting had so many interesting parts to it, hence the Five Part Recap.  Here we offer up the major points not covered in the other blogs.  The video of the September 12th meeting is worth watching.

Where should our priorities lie and what should our priorities be? 

Jaundiced? (The diminishing role of Committee members)

Member/Board Exchange Recap - Part Two

I love words, and I hate to sound like I am becoming jaundiced. Truth is, I kind of am. Although, the meaning when I looked it up said this: bitterness, resentment, or envy. Honestly, the closest may be resentment. I resent being lied to and resent being treated like I don't understand what is going on.

At yesterday's Member/Board meeting, we were treated to an interesting exchange.

Golf is an Important Amenity in Sun City so Let's Talk...

Eleven Courses within Sun City

Sun City was built as a "golfing community." It will always be a "golfing community." Our history is invaluable in helping us understand the important role golf played in the marketing and selling of Sun City. The challenge for all of us

The train trip to Mountain View

We wanted to be sure to capture President Lehrer's comments and member responses to her Guest Commentary in the Sun City Independent recently.  While Lehrer may view the train as en route, the final plans and budget assessments will tell the real story.

Nevertheless, the members of Sun City will not be bull-dozed into other multi-million dollar projects without more TRANSPARENCY, clear process, up-to-date input, and true review of the numbers.  We don't see lingering questions as analysis paralysis but as clarification.  In fact, we dispute there was enough analysis done.

Sun City resident urges others to verify

OPINIONS

Fast: Sun City resident urges others to verify

Just the facts, Ma’am.

Those who remember the TV character Joe Friday will remember that line. It seems our board is having a hard time dealing with the facts that created the Mountain View Center mess, and some on the board want people to look the other way. Like Ronald Reagan used to say, “Trust but verify.”

Latest Poll Results

•  BACKGROUND:

• On April 6, we invited you to take a poll. (Click this link to take you to the Poll.)
• Unfortunately we had some issues with it.  Some of our valued members mentioned that they could not put their comments into the Comment boxes.

Here are the results of the poll:

$$$$ MONEY – WHO DOESN’T LIKE MONEY? $$$$$

 

I’ve never met a soul that didn’t like money.  How about you?

 

·      I came away from the Board meeting on Thursday, March 31^st pretty upset about what I had just witnessed. 

·     While I will be the first one to tell you that I have never paid too much attention to our Management Reports or Financials (Balance Sheet/Statement of Income and Expenses) – mostly because I didn’t understand them – I DID understand what was said and am appalled at what I heard.

Another look at the April 4th Bylaw Committee Meeting - A Difference of Opinion

Personal Viewpoint

These are my personal notes, comments, and opinions from the April 4th Ad Hoc Bylaw Committee. These notes and comments are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the Committee. 

Anyone who has read my previous comments and opinions regarding Robert’s Rules of Order will not be surprised to read that in my opinion, they are going about this process incorrectly. 

A Deeper Dive - One Man's Take on the Poll Results

We Need to Ask You Some Things...And We Need Your Answers...Boy Did We Get Them!

The Sun City Advocate Group is barely 4 months old, and we recognize we are learning and growing as we go. With your help, we will get better and become more efficient with each passing month. Thank you to all who took the time to

The whole poll and nothing but the poll. Well, and the results.

Your responses to We Need to Ask You Some Things...And We Need Your Answers

We have some awesome comments to the seven questions we asked. Please take some time and review the responses.  The open-ended questions have a PDF

We Need to Ask You Some Things...And We Need Your Answers... - A broad summary of the recent poll

We recently sent a poll your way - We Need to Ask You Some Things...And We Need Your Answers...

We received awesome feedback.  We will be posting specifics to the Blog shortly so stay tuned. I created a simple, condensed interpretation of all the answers.  In future Blogs, others may choose to answer some of the comments individually. My compilation follows:  

Hang 'em High - A Lesson in How the RCSC Spends Our Monies

And Then There Was Eight. Actually, it's not 8, but 8 million dollars.

Towards the end of last year at one of the board's planning sessions, we heard and saw a proposal to include repairing the leak in Viewpoint Lake in the Preservation and Improvement Fund (PIF) budget. It was going to be done for 6 million dollars, which was shocking because 11 years earlier the bid was twice that. The RCSC had received a reprieve on the leaking lake, which was a blessing at the time. Following the 2021 presentation, 

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Part Two

Too much cash is not always a good thing

One of the biggest challenges over the years has been for board members and RCSC management to overcome the idea that we are a not-for-profit organization. Most often those hired and elected have come out of for-profit businesses. Two wholly different and complete animals. Some have done better than others. Some who have come out of education and others who have worked for non-profits more easily adapt to our environment. Others steeped in the secrecy of for-profit companies look at transparency with

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Part One

The Meeting Drama Continues

I suspect most of us, at least those who liked those Western movies, remember fondly the Clint Eastwood epic 3-part series (is that too strong a term?), A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More and the best of the bunch, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Wikipedia called the three movies from the 60's Spaghetti Westerns and starred Eastwood and launched his career. Oddly enough I came across the final one on cable a month or so ago, and my memories of it were better than the movie was while watching again.


What hadn't changed was the haunting theme song

Accountability, Loyalty and Community Governance

Who is doing what?

The general manager has one employer; one entity he or she is accountable to. If the Directors of the Board – who were elected by us don't do their job -  we end up with one person doing whatever they want. This magnifies each year when the board members keep conducting business in the same manner. There was a reason they had term limits (1 three-year term), and there was a reason to allow a second. I'm not sure one was more beneficial than the other. I know in retrospect as openings occurred, bringing back retreads insured we continue down the same path. They simply refused to hold the general manager accountable. Frankly, I think that was why they brought former directors to close out the year.  

Duties of the Board...

One of the duties of the board...questioning what the GM is doing and why