Properties Chair Robert Hefner 825-4825 Third Thursday, 9 AM, Vistoso Center/Yaqui SCV Realty Committee Chair Allan Jakosa 609-6368
The Realty Committee has started gathering information beginning with issues and concerns from residents in six focus group. The results from the focus groups, along with any answers to concerns the committee can provide, are explained in an insert in this Tipster and via the ListServ. The committee has also started to gather information about Arizona Real Estate Rules and Regulations pertinent to any realty arrangement we might want to pursue. We are also identifying built-out communities like ours that have a real estate connection and hope to learn from their experiences. The Realty Committee continues to have open minds to all possibilities. We are dedicated to working toward recommending the most attractive viable option, if any, that generates sustainable income for our community. SCV Sports Complex Committee Chair Bob Carlson 825-4627 First and third Fridays, 1:30 PM, Social Hall/Navajo
In an earlier meeting we expanded the goal of the Sports Complex to exercise and fitness by incorporating wellness into the goal. We created three alternative solutions to the Board assignment: 1. Using the current footprint to create the best possible exercise facility. 2. Using the March 2009 Report submitted to the LPR Committee to enlarge/remodel the current footprint in order to accommodate fitness as well as exercise. 3. Build a new building on the green space next to the cafe, freeing the current complex for meetings and classrooms. The new building would incorporate fitness as well as exercise. Each subcommittee is working independently. We are working on the criteria to use in making a decision amoung the alternative solutions. All meetings are open to residents. Strategic Planning Committee (SPC)
The SPC met Monday, January 10 and conducted a review of each of the Ad Hoc and Standing Committees considering their progress with the Strategic Initiatives (Long Range Plans) assigned by the Board of Directors. The SPC will submit to the Board: 1. An updated progress report on each of the Strate gic Initiatives. 2. Recommendations to modify several current mis sion statements to accommodate implementation of current and perhaps future Strategic Initiatives. Members of the SPC are actively participating with the committees by providing guidance in understanding and implementating their assigned Strategic Initiatives and helping them facilitate their meetings with the residents of SCV. SPC meetings are scheduled for Monday, February 7, 8:30 AM Vistoso Center/Conference Room; Monday, February 21, 8:30 AM, Desert Oasis/Aztec.
Sun City Vistoso Tipster, Febraury 2011
Tipster Editorial Chair Tom Polley 818-9073 Anticipated Tipster delivery of the March issue is Monday, February 28. Tipster Editorial meeting Tuesday, February 15, 9 AM, Vistoso Center/Apache. Sun City Vistoso Café News
Make your reservations now (825-3277) for our Valentine’s Day dinner, Monday, February 14, featuring David’s tenderloin steak and a shrimp skewer. Specials for the month include the popular Soup and Salad Night, Pasta Night and a Western Night with barbecued ribs. There will also be two special Sunday night dinners on February 6 and 20. Come join us. Every month we have a drawing from our completed SCV Café comment cards. Five cards will be drawn each month and the winners will receive a free breakfast or lunch. The individuals drawn from December SCV Café Comment cards are: Bill Nagle, JoAnn McPherson, Brandt A. Soito, Christina Raynor and Bob Fritz. Congratulations and Bon Appetit! Robin Coulter, Admin. Comm. Director Strategic Plan Initiatives Update
In November 2009 the Long Range Plan (LRP) was presented to the Board of Directors and community. The Board of Directors accepted 28 of the recommendations and assigned them to themselves, a committee or staff. Four ad hoc committees were created to deal with six of the approved initiatives. It’s hard to believe, but it’s been over a year and all are at work on their specific tasks. The nature of the initiatives runs from finite to philosophical. Those finite initiatives will have a definite end to them (i.e., a policy was developed to address storage), but those philosophical initiatives will need more breadth to their implementation. An example of this is SI-6 assigned to the Marketing Committee to “Design marketing strategies that target the next generation of SCV home buyers, including optimization of the SCV website.” This is not something that has an end to it. Marketing strategies need be developed, implemented, assessed, adjusted and evaluated for effectiveness. This one area alone is an in-depth, ongoing process that became a focus as a result of the LRP, but there will not be an end to the process itself. Rather, the socalled end will be the implementation of the process. Initiatives were approved and are being implemented. The final step, then, is the process for documenting the completion of an initiative. The current procedure for the few initiatives that have been completed has been a Mission Accomplished report submitted to the Board. The Board has accepted some of these reports and has requested additional work or information on others. This process provides a measurable record of the work begun and completed on the LRP. A grid has been set up in the Vistoso Center/Hospitality room with a record of the initiatives and the dates determined by the Board as having been completed, as well as the official record in the corporate minutes. This process is an excellent example of how the Association, Board and community have worked together to assess needs/wants, evaluate, implement and track progress.
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