RCSC Director Candidates 2024 Elections

• RCSC Announces Candidates Running in 2024 Elections

There are three 3-year positions and two 1-year positions open for the term starting January 1, 2025

The Recreation Centers of Sun City Board of Directors and the Elections Committee are pleased to announce the candidates on the ballot for this year’s election:

• Anita Borski
• Chris Nettesheim
• Tom Foster
• Mike Ege
• Richard Gray
• John Bressette

Candidates are competing for five open positions on the RCSC Board of Directors. Three positions are for three-year terms, and two are for one-year terms. The terms of Kat Fimmel, Karen McAdam, Anita Borski, Tom Foster, and Chris Nettesheim will expire at the end of the year.

The top three candidates with the most votes will serve three-year terms, while the next two highest vote-getters will serve one-year terms. Candidates must receive at least 100 votes to secure a seat. If there are not enough eligible candidates elected, the Board will appoint other members to fill any remaining terms.

RCSC Cardholders can meet the candidates and learn their views at two Candidate Forums
• Monday, November 18 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m
• Wednesday, November 20 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Both forums will take place in the Sundial Auditorium, 14801 N. 103rd Ave. Candidates will greet attendees 30 minutes after each session, with light refreshments provided. Videos of the forums will also be available on the RCSC YouTube channel for those unable to attend.

Other chances to meet candidates include upcoming Exchanges and Board Meetings (if candidates attend):
• October 31 at 9 a.m.
• November 11 at 9 a.m.
• November 28 at 9 a.m.
• December 9 at 9 a.m.

All meetings will be held at the Sundial Auditorium.

Candidate biographies will be available at the Corporate/Board Office at Lakeview Center, in the upcoming Update newsletters, and through the RCSC Web Portal when online voting begins on Monday, November 25 at 8 a.m.

Members are encouraged to vote online via the RCSC Web Portal but may also vote in person on Election Day (Tuesday, December 10) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lakeview Social Hall #2, located at 10626 W. Thunderbird Blvd.

Absentee ballots can be requested starting November 22 by contacting the Corporate Office at 623-561-4600. Alternatively, absentee ballots may be picked up at the Corporate Office. All absentee ballots must be received by December 10.

The newly elected Board members will be sworn in during the Board Meeting on Thursday, December 19 at the Sundial Auditorium.

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Source: RCSC E-notice Friday, 10/18/2024, 4:37pm includes candidate photos. https://mailchi.mp/b60e570f7164/exchange-meeting-5-7786073?e=f18f779945

 

Happy to see six well qualified candidates. With the five director vacancies deciding who to vote for basically is a choice about who you don't want. Then vote for the rest!

Rumors dispelled, noticeably missing, Darla!
I looked forward to a Candidate Forum grilling about all her boasting that assessments had not been raised. She made the best decision not to run!

 

Just one word comes to mind for the candidate I will not be voting for: "Retread".

 

Janet, good to know you won’t be voting for 4 of the 6 based on your knowledge of them which is I would say minimal. I have worked with or have had discussions with these individuals and I find them highly qualified. Maybe you should attend some meetings and learn something.

 

Dave,
I don't consider a sitting Board member who is running for reelection a "retread". Perhaps a poor choice of words on my part but I did think Bill P would get a laugh out of it since he is the one who first used it on this blog, at least to my knowledge. Guess I wasn't too far off because the Merriam Webster dictionary defines "retread" as: "one (such as a retired person) who is recalled or retrained for work". Using that definition there is only one candidate who would be a "retread". You can figure that one out. I agree the others are well qualified and I will be voting for them. Of course, I am completely puzzled about what "qualified" or "unqualified" means at this point.

Dave, Dave, Dave, you know full well that I attend RCSC Board and Exchange meetings, as well as some committee meetings, whenever I am in Sun City. Plus I watch the videos when I am not there. If being a snowbird is a sin in your view, then I plead guilty and feel fortunate to be able to do so. Most people will realize your comment was a low blow and tells more about you than me.

Since we are conversing, I have an insurance question for you. It has become obvious that liability is a big concern for RCSC, especially the GM. Examples include the dog park, library and homeless at Fairway which necessitated a new reception desk, food trucks and golf carts at Sundial events, volunteers helping with cleanup, maintenance, landscaping on RCSC property etc. Since I am now a Director for the SC Foundation, I need to ask if there is any liability for us, as volunteers, to go into the homes of RCSC Members who have requested assistance with their annual assessments. I have no problem doing that, but in this day and age, anything can happen. I think two SCF Directors go together, but I don't want to expose RCSC to liability in the event anything happens. I would appreciate your insight into this. I know we have Directors' insurance, but I want to avoid any conflict with applicants who may think our home visit is too intrusive. Thinking more about safety than monetary liability.

Lovely day in the Midwest! Glad to see it is cooling down in Sun City.

As always,
Janet

 

Why is a home visit even necessary with the mounds of financial information required. I am seriously curious. What do they look for? A piece of furniture that could be sold in lieu of a check from the foundation? Jewelry? Do they do a walk thru or just sit and chat. I don't let anyone I personally don't know into my home since the HOA recommended roofer turned out to be wanted by FBI for drugging and raping a girl in California.

 

Let me ask you Janet How much money will you donate to help me. Or you Bill Pearson. My income is 17K year, I was fine till 2021. Bill you have degraded me for so long I am going to upload my SSI 1099. Bill I have been saving every single hate post you made towards everyone. They will all be made public, well actually they already are.

 

Janet, I would simply suggest you have your concern answered by the RCSC Corporate attorney and its insurance provider. And I think you understand why?

 

The homeowners policy would cover that.

 

For the record, Bill actually got the word from me as I saw incompetent people continually appointed to vacant positions and anybody who either/and pissed of the GM or didn’t suck up to the GM’s pet directors would never be appointed. Nice job by the huskers today.

 

Glad to give credit where credit is due, Dave. Yeah, everyone is depressed in Mudville over the loss to Indiana. Not much of a spectator sport fan myself, but I did watch the first half with friends at a local watering hole. I will bring up the insurance matter at one of the Foundation meetings. I don't want to put you in a untenable position. Insurance was always at the forefront of my husband's mind and I guess I have developed that trait.

P.S. It's cooler in Sun City this morning than here in Mudville NE.

 

Like I said, I am more concerned about safety issues for SC Foundation than monetary claims.

 

Josie,
I don't give money to individuals except one relative of mine. However I can help in other ways. Let me get more familiar with how the SC Foundation works for paying annual assessments. Then I would be happy to meet with you to assist with the application process. My entire career was protecting anonymity of my students and families, so I am not one to share that information with anyone. Perhaps the Foundation could eliminate names when reviewing the need for assistance, and use a number or letter system to assure private information is not divulged.

Janet

 

I known stuff started popping up in other threads (The Del Webb Foundation for example), but the reality is organizations like the Sun City Foundation have always had the capacity to reach out to other organizations that help fund non-profits, there's countless numbers of them across the country. Identifying them as sources and resources wouldn't be difficult.

What it would take is a change in philosophy and structure. The Sun City Foundation has always been an internally driven organization with a fairly small-minded thinking process. When we did the whiteboard exercise, the woman who ran the session was extremely blunt in stating there was an unlimited number of opportunities. Most of the funding would have been used to grow the structure of the organization, which is what we sorely needed.

The Sun City Foundation's makeup with the requirement of a majority of board members being former RCSC board members was restrictive. I never understood the logic of it and sadly, it held us back from moving forward and just doing what we were doing. It's been 10 years since i sat in on Foundation board meeting and i don't know how much has changed.

I do know, new ideas and new energy is a good thing and in this case, could be a great thing. We'll see.

In addition: It is critical for the new Foundation board members get buy-in from the soon to be elected RCSC board members. While talking about all the great things the Foundation should or could do, they do not operate in a vacuum. They are an extension of the RCSC and their governing authority is ultimately the RCSC board (with buy-in from the GM).

 

Look on the bright side Janet, the last time Indiana had a team this good was 1967 and I was a freshman at the university and Lyndon Johnson was president. I’m an old man now.

 

You are older than me. By a year. I went to college when the University of Nebraska was a football powerhouse. I wasn't there though. I was in a smaller state college which is all my family could afford. However, I did get my Master's degree at UNL at the ripe age of 58.

 

My college education was the best value I have ever had. It cost me $5,000 for all four years for everything, tuition, books, housing, food, transportation, etc. I paid cash for it all as I had a great summer job that paid well,

 

I for one am thankful that six qualified people are running for the five open positions. I hope they all have an open mind regarding some of the large, proposed capital projects and will use common sense. broad member input, data and logic to guide their voting as OUR REPRESENTATIVES.

I look forward to civil debate on the questions regarding building a third live entertainment venue. Sun City already has Sun Dial and the Sun Bowl. Theaters are very expensive to build and maintain and, I dare say, antiquated vestiges of a past where electronic entertainment options were limited to non-existent. The more I think about this project the more I equate it to spending millions to put rotary dial phones throughout Sun City. Similarly, building another k-9 facility (there is already one at Fairway) seems to be an expensive extravagance advocated by a few board members. Sorry folks, I call it the way I see it.

Thanks again to those that are running.

 

What ever happened to the draft proposal where PIF or CIF projects could only be submitted after proper due diligence was done? I believe it was called "RCSC Business Case."

It was a series of forms requiring the need for the project, estimated cost, as well as the benefits to the Membership.

It would prevent a single Director from making a motion to allocate dollars for a pet project! Dare I say a 1 million dollar dog training facility?

 

Dave, It appears that we both followed Warren Buffet's advice before he even said it, "Invest in yourselves." Like you I worked my way through undergraduate school, my parents helped some and had loans that I actually paid back myself. The summer before my freshman college year, I worked as a janitor in an elementary school. Not too glamorous slaving in an unairconditioned building cleaning toilets, painting, washing windows and trying to avoid the wasps that I was deathly afraid of. However I made twice as much money as my friends who were lifeguards or car hops. During my college years, I worked 29 hours a week (30 hours was considered full time and they didn't want to give me benefits) at Sears in the catalog department. (I knew that catalog book front to back helping customers find what they wanted. A good education for me.) You are right, best investment of my life but I don't remember the cost. I do remember that I budgeted $15,000 for my Master's program and I was able to stay within my budget. I was working full time, but took one night class a semester and the rest during the summer months. Even stayed on campus one summer. The amenities in the dorms have improved since my undergraduate days!