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thethe ViewView January 2016 From Rosetown to Sun City Story on Page 18 Photo by Anna Kelly Important Contact Numbers SUN CITY SHADOW HILLS Sun City Shadow Hills Community Association COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 80-814 Sun City Boulevard, Indio, CA 92203 Hours of Operation 760-345-4349 · www.scshca.com Association Office Montecito Clubhouse . 760-772-9617 Monday – Friday · 9 AM – 12 PM, 1 – 4 PM Montecito Clubhouse Fax . 760-772-9891 First Saturday of the Month · 8 AM – 12 PM Montecito Fitness Center . 760-772-0430 Santa Rosa Clubhouse . 760-342-2850 Lifestyle Desk Santa Rosa Clubhouse Fax . 760-342-5976 Daily · 8 AM – 5 PM Ceasar Larrach, General Manager Montecito Clubhouse [email protected] . 760-345-4349 Ext. 225 Daily · 6 AM – 10 PM Richard Smetana, Assistant General Manager [email protected] . 760-345-4349 Ext. 227 Montecito Fitness Center Ozzie Lopez, Facility Maintenance Director Daily · 5 AM – 8 PM [email protected]. 760-347-6780 Ext. 202 Santa Rosa Clubhouse Evangeline Gomez, Lifestyle and Fitness Director Daily · 5 AM – 10 PM [email protected]. 760-772-0430 Ext. 231 Liz Gutierrez, Lifestyle Coordinator Shadows Restaurant [email protected] . 760-772-9617 Ext. 241 Monday – Friday · 10:30 AM – 8 PM Veronica Moya, Lifestyle Coordinator Monday Night Football Happy Hour · 4 PM – 8 PM [email protected] . 760-772-9617 Ext. 243 Saturday – Sunday · 8 AM – 8 PM Gus Ramirez, Communications Manager [email protected] . 760-342-2850 Ext. 204 Montecito Café Tony Chavez, Director of Golf Operations Daily · 8 AM – 2 PM [email protected] . 760-200-3375 Ext. 221 David Archer, Community Safety Director Santa Rosa Bistro [email protected] . 760-342-2850 Ext. 202 Daily · 6 AM – 4 PM Main Gate House . 760-345-4458 Golf Snack Bar Phase III Gate House . 760-342-4725 Daily · 6 AM – 4 PM Sales Office . 760-772-5400 Shadow Hills Golf Club. 760-200-3375 All hours are subject to change. Shadows Restaurant. 760-772-4342 Visit www.scshca.com for the latest hours. Sun City Shadow Hills Community Association Board of Directors Joan Dzuro, President [email protected] . 760-347-6496 John Council, Vice President / Secretary [email protected] . 760-360-9331 The View is published monthly by the Sun City Shadow Hills Community Association. This publication is copyrighted and may not be Stu Stryker, Treasurer reproduced or reprinted without the written permission of SCSHCA. [email protected]. 760-469-3922 Mission Statement Erica Hedlund, Member at Large To promote the community and recognize the individuals [email protected] . 760-200-1939 who contribute to the identity of the community, and to impart information relevant to the community as a whole. Vicki Berg, Director SCSHCA Communications Advisory Committee [email protected] . 760-772-0577 Shaun Casey, Chair; Beth Bolduc; Arnold Choy; Lee Powell; Sid Weiss. For warranty or customer service needs concerning Staff your home, please email: [email protected] Editor-in-Chief: Ceasar Larrach, General Manager All warranty issues and questions must go through this email. Production Manager: Evangeline Gomez, Lifestyle and Fitness Director You will receive an auto-reply stating your email has been received. To inquire about articles, content, and advertising – or to submit stories for publication – please contact Gus Ramirez, Communications Mailbox Repair . Ozzie Lopez, 760-347-6780 Ext. 202 Manager, at [email protected] or 760-342-2850, ext. 204. 2 January 2016 theView 11. Went line by line through our budget and balanced it for 2016. We held three open President’s sessions where residents could attend and hear the discussions on the budget before it Report was finalized. The budget was mailed to members so that everyone can review the details of the 2016 budget that the Board BY JOAN DZURO will be following. PRESIDENT 12. Made available an open session Board book online (at the SCSHCA.com website), and Board meetings are being videotaped and Starting a new year always has me reflecting on placed on the website so residents who the past year and how to make the new year even cannot attend can watch what occurred and better. In reflecting on 2015, I recall a few of the what decisions were made. items this current Board accomplished: 13. The Board wanted to know what is better, 1. Reduced our speeding citations by 59% and self-management or communities that are our failure to stop by 40% in the seven months helped by hiring a management company. the $200 fine schedule had been in place. The The Board received an analysis of how well goal of this program is to keep our residents our community fares compared to other News from the Board from experiencing what the people in self-managed and communities managed by Thousand Palms experienced where two of management firms and we are leading the their residents and two dogs were killed by a pack with lowest assessments, and lowest speeder. administrative costs. 2. Sent out over a dozen RFPs to run our five I live and serve in this community because I F&B venues – got two proposals and chose believe this is a wonderful place to be. No place WGP to run the five venues. They took over is perfect because people live in our community July 1, 2015. and people oversee our community. What your 3. Has been working on, with resident feedback, Board of Directors asks you to do is, when you a 3- to 10-year strategic plan for our community. hear something that concerns you, ask the Board 4. Listened to the residents in our community through “Ask a Question” on our website or and added four Pickleball courts. This now email Hot Topics and then check the documents gives tennis six courts and six Pickleball courts for yourself – they are stored on the official to play on. SCSH website. 5. Listened to residents and expanded the Santa Something I do want to clarify, as I have had Rosa area around the pool and furnished the several people come up and tell me they pay new area with additional lounge chairs and my salary, is that I serve for free as does every umbrellas to accommodate more residents. person on the HOA Board of Directors. We are 6. Renovated the Shadows restaurant and our volunteers, as are all the committee chairs and ballroom. committee members who work hard to keep this 7. Had the landscape committee work with the fabulous community the great place we all love. local water authorities to reduce our turf As we start this new year, we as residents have coverage in the community while getting a full a choice. We can work together to solve our reimbursement through Water Authority future challenges/issues, or we can choose to rebate programs. fight against solutions and try to tear our 8. Has been working on upgrading and expanding community apart. My wish is that we all choose areas in our current dog park. to work together to improve our fabulous 9. Conducted a Meet a Board Member each community. month to give residents more time to discuss Happy New Year – may God bless you and concerns they have about our community. your family with health and happiness this year. 10. Reviewed our reserve study and budget. We are now 95% funded in our reserves. Joan Log on to www.scshca.com January 2016 3 Meet a Board Member You’ve probably read short biographies about our HOA Board members during a past election campaign. And maybe you’ve heard them speak during a monthly Board business meeting. But have you really had the chance to get to know them personally? If not, please read on. and I toured five European countries an absolutely fascinating place with in July 2014. Emily, who is the a variety of cultures, traditions and quintessential “horse whisperer,” family practices. Traveling beyond Erica Hedlund wants to become a horse trainer. Her the USA is the best way to rid the Born in the Midwest sister, Audrey, is stressing over SAT mind of prejudice. at the height of scores and college applications. the depression and My favorite activities are cultivating raised in a minister’s family with roses, reading, playing the piano and three competitive siblings, I decided walking around SCSH in cool Stu Stryker early on that my focus in life would weather. For many years in BY PHYLLIS COHEN be to help people; thus began my Washington I lived near the water Stu Stryker career, first as an educator, then as an and enjoyed swimming, boating and loves all things attorney and now as a homeowner water skiing. I still love to stroll on automobiles and advocate. an ocean beach and collect shells. is a self-described car nut who is still Education has always been my My summer home is on the water driving an almost 30-year-old passion. In the last 10 years of my where I enjoy watching ducks and Mercedes Benz 560SL convertible. 25 year teaching career I enjoyed kayak races. My goal is to learn to In what little spare time he has, Stu teaching mathematics to gifted ride a jet ski and explore the entire enjoys watching car auctions and TV students. Retirement was not for waterway. At night deer wander shows about car restoration. How me. I had been involved in local and through my property; one day I did such a guy who was born and state politics and realized I would sighted a caribou; a young black bred in Portland, Oregon, and have more leverage in dealing with bear crossed the road to my home; a laughingly states, “where else could issues if I knew more about the law herd of buffalo live on the Indian you play ball in the rain 300 days a so I went to law school in the reservation nearby.