The key reason why I insist on a truly independent, investigative audit of our community finances is because without it, we will not discover the true nature of the unanswered questions we have about our financial management. Such an audit should clear up most of the mysteries you mention, as well as others.
If the "resident board" had sponsored such an investigative audit at transition time in May of 2005, and continued to do so each year since then, I am convinced the board could have saved this community millions of dollars, and avoided much of the trumpets lease and reserve funds fiascoes. It is just what is usually called "business 101".
No doubt in your lifetime, you have seen the value of having independent audits, and the costs of not having such, and I encourage you to keep asking the hard questions. This is just as much your money as mine, and you have every right to get clear answers. You also have the right to demand that board members be accountable for their decisions.
Don't waste your time praising board members for volunteering their time. If board and committee member RESULTS are unacceptable, get rid of them. No one had a gun to anyone's head to serve, or to continue to serve.
You have the right to demand excellence from all volunteers, and there are plenty of other honest, honorable people among our 11,000 residents who will volunteer--if community members will not accept mismanagement. It it very hard to get truly qualified and motivated people to serve if they have to associate with others who do not share a passion for excellence in serving the needs of our homeowners.
Bottom line: Individuals who oppose/resist an independent audit are at risk of creating questions about their own personal agendas. Why would anyone not want to resolve, once and for all, every financial question/allegation? Only in that way can we face the future of this community with a clean financial baseline and achieve the peace and harmony that most members seek in this wonderful retirement community.
Tom said:
Mike Dixon was a bully with my wife on the phone & went around in circles when he talked to my wife when she asked about something she was concerned about...In my own opinion he & the other corupt members have made us look bad through out Henderson. If he had worked for me, he would have been fired the first week..Like the people that run the country from the White House now. It is time to get rid of the people who are running things now for people who will get us back on the right path again. I can see that Mike is a whiner instead of a winner. My wife & I plan to start attending more meetings to check who we put there to do what WE THE PEOPLE want done. It's our neighborhood.. Getting rid of over inflated egos would be a good start.
Charlie said:
I just don't get it. Nine pages of highly charged verbiage ("fraud", "corruption", "bad faith", "conflict of interest", etc.) and I still don't know what sins our board committed. I've read the previous postings as well (all of them equally long winded and inflammatory) and it still remains a mystery. Are they getting kick-backs from Pulte, are they being paid off by Favil West, are they grossly incompetent? If there are funds that the association is owed, why would they let Pulte off the hook? What's the motivation here?
I do not know the members of the board personally and I have no axe to grind one way or the other. All I know is that we need people who are willing to give of their time and expertise to run our community. Why they continue to do it, given the grief and aggravation they receive for their efforts, is equally mysterious.
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This page contains a single entry by Ron Johnson published on April 19, 2008 2:19 PM.
For Charlie:
The key reason why I insist on a truly independent, investigative audit of our community finances is because without it, we will not discover the true nature of the unanswered questions we have about our financial management. Such an audit should clear up most of the mysteries you mention, as well as others.
If the "resident board" had sponsored such an investigative audit at transition time in May of 2005, and continued to do so each year since then, I am convinced the board could have saved this community millions of dollars, and avoided much of the trumpets lease and reserve funds fiascoes. It is just what is usually called "business 101".
No doubt in your lifetime, you have seen the value of having independent audits, and the costs of not having such, and I encourage you to keep asking the hard questions. This is just as much your money as mine, and you have every right to get clear answers. You also have the right to demand that board members be accountable for their decisions.
Don't waste your time praising board members for volunteering their time. If board and committee member RESULTS are unacceptable, get rid of them. No one had a gun to anyone's head to serve, or to continue to serve.
You have the right to demand excellence from all volunteers, and there are plenty of other honest, honorable people among our 11,000 residents who will volunteer--if community members will not accept mismanagement. It it very hard to get truly qualified and motivated people to serve if they have to associate with others who do not share a passion for excellence in serving the needs of our homeowners.
Bottom line: Individuals who oppose/resist an independent audit are at risk of creating questions about their own personal agendas. Why would anyone not want to resolve, once and for all, every financial question/allegation? Only in that way can we face the future of this community with a clean financial baseline and achieve the peace and harmony that most members seek in this wonderful retirement community.
Mike Dixon was a bully with my wife on the phone & went around in circles when he talked to my wife when she asked about something she was concerned about...In my own opinion he & the other corupt members have made us look bad through out Henderson. If he had worked for me, he would have been fired the first week..Like the people that run the country from the White House now. It is time to get rid of the people who are running things now for people who will get us back on the right path again. I can see that Mike is a whiner instead of a winner. My wife & I plan to start attending more meetings to check who we put there to do what WE THE PEOPLE want done. It's our neighborhood.. Getting rid of over inflated egos would be a good start.
I just don't get it. Nine pages of highly charged verbiage ("fraud", "corruption", "bad faith", "conflict of interest", etc.) and I still don't know what sins our board committed. I've read the previous postings as well (all of them equally long winded and inflammatory) and it still remains a mystery. Are they getting kick-backs from Pulte, are they being paid off by Favil West, are they grossly incompetent? If there are funds that the association is owed, why would they let Pulte off the hook? What's the motivation here?
I do not know the members of the board personally and I have no axe to grind one way or the other. All I know is that we need people who are willing to give of their time and expertise to run our community. Why they continue to do it, given the grief and aggravation they receive for their efforts, is equally mysterious.