Residents: Thank you for your patience as we are negotiating these difficult times. Our primary focus is on keeping our members and employees safe. Beyond that, we are working diliegently to stay on schedule with our budgeting for fiscal year 2020-21. To do that, we have pre-recorded a presentation of our capital budget, which you can view at suncitywest.com/gbvideos.
We have four Committees that play a part in reviewing the budget prior to the Board’s expected adoption on May 28. We are meeting virtually with the Chartered Clubs, Properties, Budget & Finance and Golf Committees on Thursday, April 2. Those meetings will be recorded and posted at suncitywest.com/gbvideos after they have concluded.
You can view the Committee meeting videos on the website, and then email us any questions/comments to questions@suncitywest.com. We will post your questions and our responses on the same website. Be sure to include your name and rec card number in your question. We will not publish your rec card numbers with your names on the Q&A.
Once we have completed this capital review process with the committees,we plan to schedule Board meetings and a public forum. Stay tuned for details on how you can participate in those meetings.
Stay home and stay healthy!
Are there any confirmed Corvid19 cases in SCW? I have heard that a “nurse” on the Nextdoor Facebook page, claimed we have had a positive case here? Can you confirm?
We are moving to sun city west in may. We are wondering where we will go to sign up and receive a rec number. Will this happen when we close on our house?
Hi Leslie, please give Member Services a call at 623-544-6100 as they would be able to help answer your question. Please be aware that the current office hours are 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday.
How much money will have been saved by closing all SCW indoor facilities until early May? Will the SCW administration consider a partial fee refund for this year, or will annual fees be reduced next year? Many auto insurance companies are refunding partial premiums as a result of less driving due to COVID 19. A partial fee refund or reduction in annual fees next year is only fair. It would probably be easier to reduce annual fees next year as cutting 20,000+ checks to property owners and others holding rec cards would be very expensive for the community. You may consider reducing fees next
year as my recommendation.
I would like answers to these questions so all residents can see what is going to be done.
Thank You.
Hi Mr. Slade. Please visit suncitywest.com/gbvideos – check the Q&A section – for answers to your questions.
Actually, no questions I asked were answered with the proposed 2020-21 budget. SCW Management has some nerve to raise activity fees when thousands and thousands of dollars will be saved by shuttering facilities for who knows how long.
I recommend that SCW management rethink membership fees for next year. For those who don’t read the proposed budget there is about $500,000 in increased salaries and a total increase in expenses from last year of over 3.5% while inflation and the CPI remain well below this level. Why?
Moreover, millions of dollars going into reserves while pavement assets deteriorate in front of our eyes. I am most displeased with the wasting of money and lack of proper maintenance (particularly of pavement assets) at this commmunity.
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I encourage all SCW members to stand up to this bullying by Schwind, et. al. After all, they serve at our pleasure and they better start to act like it!
Tom Slade, the proposed increase in salaries is due to mandated minimum wage increases. Very little has been saved during this pandemic and closures as most staff has been reassigned to closure/sanitizing activities, or are working from home. Revenue of course has been lost. But insurance, fertilizer and chemicals, irrigation, etc., all remain in effect, as do most personnel costs. Please let us know what pavement assets you are referring to. Our are on a regular repair/maintenance and replacement schedule. We would agree that pavement on some non-RCSCW properties need work, but we have not authority over them.
SCW is apparently afraid (or too lazy) to show an actual number as to what is being saved per week as a result of shuttering the facilities, as I requested. Just to name a few expenses that are saved as a result of facility closure: electricity for lighting and HVAC, natural gas (or electricity) for swimming pool and hot tub heating and operation, savings in employee expense for those that have been laid off, and there are probably many more if maintenance and repair is reduced during this time. These items can amount to thousands of dollars per week which should be passed through to owner’s in the form of reduced fee increases for the 2020-2021 budget period. Not providing these numbers, as requested represents a complete lack of transparency by SCW management!
The administration of SCW is being coy in their dealings with we citizen’s, and the only way to change this is to demand accountability and transparency from Schwind and the others that are supposed to be our fiduciaries.
Please open the outside activities. one outside pool and all the golf courses. The virus does not due well with sun and heat. You commumity is not doing well outwith these activities.
It is time we stand up and be counted, our facilities are paid for by the residents and should be open to the residents. People who have underlying medical issues should stay home, not the many many other people who are healthy. We should be able to live NORMAL lives, not this quarantine. We should NEVER have closed down the country, only people who have suppressed immunity should be quarantined not EVERYONE.
I agree open facilities people that are compromised can choose to enter or stay home.Locker rooms outside at johnson do not need to be opened you have two showers and outside bathroom. People who want to swim will show up in suits and leave in suits.
When can we expect opening of outdoor activities?
Such as pools, mini golf,pickleball, ect.
Not all of us play golf and need
You folks are aware that the economy is in a free fall, right? Many (most?) SCW residents and Rec Centers members are on fixed incomes. Those of us who have investment portfolios to supplement retirement benefits and savings are taking a hit as the stock market fluctuates and real estate values decline. I’m a new homeowner/resident but this doesn’t strike me as the time to raise member dues and golf fees. Are you sure you can’t tighten your belts and keep operating expenses in line with current revenues, especially since the annual member dues are mandatory?
The Maricopa county dog parks are open and the dog parks in the surrounding city parks like Surprise are opening May 15th. I use the large dog park not the small one. I don’t sit there and visit. I go at times when no one is there. I just let my dog loose to stretch his legs. He doesn’t touch anything but the ground. I am fine wearing gloves and a mask. I wear them when I go out anyway. Seriously should be able to use that park. Tape off the bench areas so people can’t sit down and visit. It’s the only thing I’m asking for! There’s nights when there are many coyotes out on my street and sidewalk and I need a safe place to take my dog. And gyms all had to refund memberships when they closed and they have the same expenses to maintain. You’re going to have a hard time pushing an fee increase on top of this.
Governor Ducey announced pools open up May 13, 2020. It has been announced by Doctors and scientists that UV Rays, high temperatures, and chemicals in the swimming pools keep the Covid-19 virus dead.
Our RCSCW pools NEED to be open! It’s ARIZONA, triple digit weather here people.
We know how to take care of ourselves, you members on the board are to facilitate the employees, the buildings, the money, etc. Take our temperatures before entering the pool,
have someone sit at door to hit the automatic button to open the door to enter in the pool, all the is easy for you board members to figure out.
We as members have paid our dues to live here!
We are intelligent citizens to know how to space ourselves. My question is what have you board members been doing these past few weeks to get ready to phase into opening up? I believe absolutely zero. You all will be voted out of your your position due to
Procrastinating!
Since the Governor has stated pools can be reopened, when will you announce the opening date for our Sun City West Pools. All the walking exercise we use to do has been put on hold for a long time now, we are anxious to hear when this will happen. Hopefully, sooner rather than later.