Club Information - Sun City Anthem

SUN CITY ANTHEM BOARD OF DIRECTORSPresident’s ReportBoard’s Organizational Meeting. The newly constitutedBoard resulting from this year’s election will hold itsorganizational meeting starting at 10:00 a.m. on May 10th.At this meeting our Board will elect officers and establishcommittee liaison assignments.Tax Audit Update. Our special tax counsel and membersof our Tax Task Force met with the IRS on March 21. TheIRS has granted us time to submit additional informationsubstantiating our position. The IRS will not issue a noticeof deficiency while our discussions with them continue.We anticipate that our discussions will take at least sixmore months before a resolution is possible.2013 Association Budget. Our Finance Committee andstaff have been working on next year’s budget since earlyFebruary. Our Board will hold a budget workshop todiscuss the guidelines for the 2013 budget on May 15starting at 10:00 a.m. A pre-meeting at 9:00 a.m. willprovide an overall review of our budgeting process.Management Contract Preparations. Our Association hasbeen managed under contract by RMI Management, LLCsince 2006. To read this contract, search for “ManagementAgreement” using the site search feature of the SCAwebsite. The current contract expires at the end of thisyear, at which time the contract will continue on amonth-to-month basis. Our Board has appointed twogroups to provide information on the future managementof our Association.A task force composed of three directors andrepresentatives from the Finance, Community Lifestyleand Property and Grounds committees have beenholding public workshops to develop our community’sexpectations for the management of our Association. Asecond task force composed of member volunteers willassess the availability of management companies capableof managing an association as large and complex as ours.The Board will use the information developed by thesetwo groups in making decisions about the futuremanagement of our Association.Government Affairs. Nevada lawmakers have written alengthy and complex set of laws regulating homeownerassociations. These laws apply to everything from smallneighborhood associations that just manage entrancegates to associations like ours, with community buildingsserving thousands of residents. Our Board’s legislativetask force has been meeting with representatives of severalother large associations to identify and address legislativeand regulatory issues shared by large associations. Thegoal of this process is to provide lawmakers with proposedlegislative and regulatory changes from the perspectiveof the volunteers governing large associations. Ourlegislative task force will recommend proposed changes toour Board for adoption as Association goals.Anthem Center Traffic Circle. The traffic circle at the mainAnthem Center entrance continues to create confusion andpanic stops to avoid accidents. Most problems can beavoided by remembering that traffic always flows in acounter-clockwise direction around the traffic circle, and avehicle within the traffic circle has the right of way over avehicle entering the traffic circle.Traffic Enforcement. The Henderson Police Department isresponsible for enforcing the traffic laws throughout ourcommunity. Police cruisers regularly patrol both our mainstreets and the streets within villages. The police also rely onour residents to learn about specific problem areas. You canprovide this information by calling the traffic hotline at(702) 267-5099 or by using the “Contact Us” tab atwww.cityofhenderson.com Provide information about thespecific day and time of the complaint and the type ofproblem (speeding, running a stop sign, etc.)Policy Governance. Our Board spends most of its time andeffort reviewing and acting on recommendations made byour standing committees, special task forces, andmanagement staff. In essence, we are reactive rather thanproactive. Indeed, this is the normal approach followed byAmerican governing boards, whether they oversee abusiness, a non-profit organization, or a government entity.This approach is so common that many assume it is the onlyoption.We recently learned there is an alternative approach gainingacceptance, which is referred to as the Policy GovernanceModel. Under this approach, our Board would establish theend results that are the goals of our Association, establishthe limits placed on the attainment of these end results, anddevelop the methods to monitor accomplishment of theseend results. Our Board is currently studying the potentialbenefits and likely difficulties of applying this approach toour Association. A detailed article discussing the PolicyGovernance Model can be found atwww.carvergovernance.com/pg-np.htmShredder Truck. Your next opportunity to have sensitiverecords shredded will be on Saturday, May 5, from 8:00 a.m.to noon. You will need to show your SCA activities card tohave your documents shredded.Jim Long,Board President6 Sun City Anthem • May 2012