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:  

Observations of the Election Committee Meeting - February 23, 2022

My observations on the Election Committee Meeting, February 23, 2022, 1 pm

Chairman: Dale Lehrer, Co-Chair: Sue Wilson (absent), Secretary: Marcia Johnson

Members: Ida (not present)  Tom Marone; Denny Nichols – These

Poll: We Need to Ask You Some Things...And We Need Your Answers...

By the people, for the people

Did you know that Sun City was built around a structure of asking members/residents what they wanted? John Meeker was brilliant and when he came to oversee the community in 1965, he had a number of aggressive ideas to help make that happen. As smart as he was, he understood that one day the Del E. Webb Corporation (DEVCO) would leave, and

Our Notes and Observations from the Long Range Planning Committee Meeting on 2-21-2022

A few of the members of the Advisory Panel attended the Long Range Planning meeting.  We are trying to attend all committee meetings and bring you the recaps of the meetings.

Meeting notes will be posted to the RCSC website at some point and can be found there when that happens. 

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