Developer Control of Our HOA
The Developer has done a great job building an excellent community. But the time to allow the community to be self-governed has long been upon us. The Developer’s ability to appoint three of the five directors and holding owner elections for all Board directors needs to end.
Security for Homeowners and Our Families
A community needs to provide a safe environment for all its residents. While I currently believe Southern Highlands is one of the safest places to live in Southern Nevada, the area is growing rapidly and our crime is increasing. This needs to be an important focus of our Association going forward.
Assessments and Expense Control
We all understand a quality product generally requires money to maintain. This applies to HOAs. My issue with SHCA is it spends too much of our money, often on items that have not improved quality. I believe we can significantly lower expenses, thus assessments, while maintaining quality. Here is what I will push for on our behalf:
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Renegotiate our very expensive contract with Olympia Management, an affiliate of the Developer. We currently pay as much as double what I believe we should for quality management services
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Immediately work to address the large park maintenance costs we as owners pay. These expenses account for almost half of the HOA’s total landscape, maintenance and utilities expenses and comprise 25% of your total assessment.These are after all "public parks" that should/could otherwise be paid by the County
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End the wasteful legal costs. Spending owner money blindly chasing delinquent payers must end
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Stop the huge deficit spending which occurred in 2016
Sports Park – the Great Failed Promise
The promise of a Sports Park has long attracted families to the Southern Highlands community. However, the County and Developer have repeatedly failed to deliver on their promises for the Sports Park, first set out in 2005.
Our children have long needed and waited for baseball and soccer fields. The current plan for our Sports Park is a far cry from that originally promised.
The Sports Park is now ten years late and if completed, as now scheduled for May 2018, it will be only a fraction of what was promised. In September 2015, the infrastructure of the Sports Park was drastically reduced. The change relieved the Developer of millions of dollars of private funding commitments. In return, the County and SH citizens would get absolute nothing.
Unless we intervene as a community the Sports Park we were originally promised will never happen. Our current SHCA Board, controlled by the Developer, is not engaged. In contrast, the Mountains Edge community, with a Homeowner controlled Board, is and owners are benefiting. Mountain’s Edge is getting $23M in public funded parks maintained with public tax dollars.
Read what the Review Journal had to say about the Sports Park.