Club Information - Sun City Anthem

SUN CITY ANTHEM BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President’s Report
We have a new CAM. Robert Feldman became our
Community Association Manager (CAM) at the beginning
of September. He worked 25 years as a manager in the
Marriott hotel chain, followed by several years in
association management.
The selection of our CAM is made by RMI under the terms
of our Management Agreement. RMI’s President, Steven
Parker, provided our directors with an opportunity to
interview the three candidates he was considering for this
position. Six of our directors interviewed these candidates.
Each of our directors, independently concluded, Mr.
Feldman is well qualified to serve as our CAM, and he was
the first choice among the candidates we interviewed.
Mr. Feldman was also Mr. Parker’s first choice.
I want to thank Sacha Fotu for her excellent work serving
our community as our CAM. It has truly been a pleasure to
work with Sacha. She has impressed me with her positive
attitude, dedication to her job, and responsiveness to our
suggestions and comments.
Our CAM is comparable to a chief operating officer in a
business corporation. In addition to many other duties,
our CAM supervises all of our employees.
We also have a new Lifestyle Director. Maurice Talley
became our Lifestyle Director at the end of August.
Maurice is an Army vet and a native of Las Vegas. He has
13 years of property management experience, and was
most recently the Lifestyle Director at Montelago Village at
Lake Las Vegas.
Maurice will oversee the operations of the Activities,
Communications and Fitness departments. The creation of
the Lifestyle Director position is part of the reorganization
of these departments. This reorganization will reduce the
number of managers and maintain the size of our staff,
and it complies with our Board’s budget guidelines for
2012 and 2013.
Restaurant progress report. Our restaurant selection task
force selected Anthem Restaurant Partners as its first
choice for a tenant. Our Board approved these
recommendations at its August meeting. Next, our
negotiating team will finalize lease terms with Anthem
Restaurant Partners, and our auditor will analyze their
financial capabilities. If a problem arises, we will go
through the same steps with Divine Events, the second
choice for a tenant.
The restaurant survey we conducted last December told us
that 78% of our members want to have a restaurant in
Anthem Center that serves lunch and dinner. Most of our
members support giving the restaurant tenant exclusive
catering rights in our ballroom. We also learned that few of
our members believe our Association should subsidize the
restaurant operation.
We have used this survey information to guide us. The
new tenant will be required to serve lunch and dinner and
will be the only caterer for events in our ballroom. Over
the course of a five-year lease, they will be required to pay
all utilities plus enough rent to cover replacement of our
restaurant equipment and furnishings.
Important document revisions. At its August meeting,
our Board adopted a revised set of our Association’s Rules
and Regulations. We also adopted revisions to our
Association’s Design Guidelines. You should have
received a copy of these documents on a computer disc
during September. If you did not receive this or you prefer
a paper copy, please stop at the Membership Desk in
Anthem Center. I urge you to become familiar with these
documents.
Director specialization. Our Board has long followed the
custom of designating two directors as liaisons to
committees, service groups, and other areas of
responsibility. The Board establishes these assignments at
the organizational meeting in early May each year. The
current liaison assignments are posted on the SCA website.
After logging in, click on Board/Committees, Board of
Directors, Board of Directors Liaison Positions.
Directors perform the traditional liaison role with their
committees or other groups. This includes serving as a
conduit for information from the group to the Board and
the Board to the group. This specialization puts a liaison in
the best position to understand the issues faced by each
group. For example, the primary liaison to the Property
and Grounds Committee (Wade Terry) understands the
issues faced by P&G better than other directors.
We receive many questions from our members through the
message feature of the SCA website (click on Contact Us,
Board of Directors.) Our custom is for the liaison to the
relevant group to answer your question. Using the same
example, Wade answers the questions within the
responsibility of P&G. The other directors read your
question and the liaison’s response, but usually respond
only if they have something additional information to add.
Jim Long,
Board President
6 Sun City Anthem • October 2012