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Mike Kosor - former owner elected director ​

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Qualifications:  A retired USAF Colonel and former hospital CEO. I have led in combat, guided numerous large complex organizations, served one term* on our Master Association Board, and served three terms as a director on the Christopher Communities HOA in Southern Highlands. For years I have advocated for owners before the County Commission (here) and Nevada Legislature. I fought and prevailed in a landmark Nevada Supreme Court case (Kosor v Olympia Co.'s LLC) defending HOA owner rights. I have lived in Southern Highlands for over 13 years.

 

*OWNERS HAVE BEEN DISENFRANCHISED by our board. SHCA has effectively been an autocracy for over 25 years electing only a minority of the board.​ Then, in May 2022, as part of a long running effort to conceal records and preserve the status quo the board “deemed nullified” my election as your owner representative. It did so without authority and without notice to owners. When I subsequently applied for re-election, the board rejected my application. After the election in April 2024 it sued me- for simply applying. Americans should certainly find this wrong. This is currently being litigated with details found on my website.

 

I wish to serve on the SHCA board because, while we live in one of the finest communities in Las Vegas:

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• We cannot trust our board. This unfortunate assessment if based on my experience dealing with our board and serving as a director.  Foremost, I BELIEVE THE APPOINTED DIRECTORS ARE ILLEGITIMATE. You will find a far more expansive list for this unfortunate assessment here. With your support and vote I will again work to ensure board legitimacy, integrity, and transparency.

 

• Owners should control HOAs- not developers.  After 25 years, one developer continues to exercise control over Southern Highlands appointing 3 of 5 SHCA board members. The board acknowledges nearly 80% of the allowed units are conveyed. Developer control ends at 75% (more information can be found here). In March 2021, after being elected to the board, Mr. Goett committed to me he would relinquish control of SHCA “in 6 to 12 months.” 

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• The developer wholly owns our management company and continues to appoint the majority of our board. This interlocking relationship and span of control by one man is too encompassing. It threatens owner fiduciary representations. It removes necessary checks and balances. Inevitably, developer interests will differ from those of owners. If elected, I’d continue my efforts to end this.

   

• Should the SHCA Board have repeatedly renewed Olympia Management Services' (OMS) $1.8M/year contract and other large agreements without soliciting bids? No, is my answer and I will work to effect change. (more information can be found here and here). AB 129(2025), I assisted in bring before the 2025 Legislature, if passed would make clear this type of board abuse is unlawful.  ​

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• Owners should not fear reprisal by their developer, a community management company or governing board, for encouraging accountability, transparency, and fostering public debate. We should be able to disagree without being disagreeable. Owners cannot allow our freedom of speech to be “chilled” and the governance of their community conducted in secret. In March 2024 the SHCA board engaged me in litigation for simply applying for re-election. 

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• Parks and low crime rate are critical to our community. We need more green spaces and more public services funding. Owners should not be forced to assume the huge liability of operating “public” parks open to the entire county nor should we pay for more private security. This is the wrong approach (read more here).

 

• The community needs to use its collective voice of 9,000 households (over 20,000+ voters) to:

• End Clark County’s systematic underfunding of public infrastructure improving builder margins. The County has failed to ensure those benefiting from growth, equitably pay for the growth. ​​​

• Curb the massive levels of high-density housing being approved around Southern Highlands.

• Obtain the original, far more expansive Sports Park promised by the developer and County. (see here and here)

• Retract and/or modify LVVWD’s excessive (water) usage charges. Once again, the wrong approach.

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Learn more about my qualifications, experience, issues listed on this website. Your investment in your home, your family’s safety, and our community are at stake. Please learn and VOTE.

 

Full disclosure: I have been involved in extensive litigation with the SHCA developer and the SHCA Board. Since 2017 Mr Goett, his Olympia Companies and his appointed SHCA board have engaged me in litigation.  In 2020 I along with another owner filed an action seeking an end to the developer's control of the Association. This continues in the courts today. I successfully defended against a recent frivolous action by the SHCA Board. Additional litigation was filed in late 2023. As your director, I alleged the board unlawful acted to void my seat on the SHCA board eighteen (18) months after owners had elected me. The association expanded litigation in Aril 2024, notabily doing so after excluding me from seeking re-election. Inexplicably, SHCA is alleging I violated Nevada laws in simply applying for re-election. 

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Despite assertions by the Board to the contrary, I do not stand to gain personal profit or compensation from my litigation. My serving on the SHCA board would not create a conflict of interest(s) with SHCA owners. Any conflict I have exists exclusively between the majority, allegedly illegitimately appointed board of directors and our developer- not the owners of SHCA. Click here full disclosure.