January 24, 2010 by admin.

Nelson Orth has posted a very useful, updated report on AnthemToday about the outrageous mismanagement of the Liberty Center program as follows:
http://anthemtoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1362#p1951

In addition, other SCA members with extensive construction expertise have reported the board is not hiring a licensed  Inspector to provide a detailed report on all of the construction defects in Liberty Center PRIOR to accepting the building from Pulte.

This failure is a repeat of the board’s failure during acceptance of Rec. Ctr. 2.  It is guaranteed to cost our members hundreds of thousands of dollars in the future.

In case you missed them, Nelson’s article is in addition to these 2008/2009 AV articles/documents:
http://blog.anthemvoice.org/2010/01/03/board-failed-to-collect-1375-million-from-pulte/
http://www.anthemvoice.org/c-gen_issue.html
http://www.anthemvoice.org/resources/Revised+Co-Gen_RecCtr3+Agrmt.pdf
http://blog.anthemvoice.org/2009/12/06/failure-to-answer-questions-proves-board-coverups/
http://blog.anthemvoice.org/2008/10/20/let%E2%80%99s-make-a-deal/
http://blog.anthemvoice.org/2008/10/06/questions-about-co-gen-recctr-3-for-board-meeting/

This long record of apparent gross negligence started in 2005 with board presidents David Weil and continued on with Favil West, Mike Dixon, Roz Berman and Jack Troia.

We do not know what benefits any directors might have received in return for such apparent waste and abuse of homeowner funds.  But, it remains true that:

1. SCA boards in 2005, 2006 and 2007 failed to collect the $1.4 million Co-Gen funds owed by the developer in 2005.
2. SCA’s Board, Community Manager, Finance Committee (under Jack Troia) and Auditor failed to legally account for the $1.4 million payment due into SCA Reserve Fund in 2005 and 2006.  Instead they used surplus assessments to fill up the reserves, and forgave the debt owed by Pulte.
3. Past boards refused to require the developer to build Rec. Ctr. 3 on-time in 2006 using only developer funds.  Instead, the board conducted a bogus survey in 2006-2007 that served to allow the developer to delay construction start by 2 years and saved the developer hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.
4. Homeowner agreement was never obtained to spend a million dollars of reserves funds to “green” the 3rd Rec. Ctr.  And, the claimed “Return On Investment” for greening was bogus.  These failures could be shown to be important law violations.
5. None of the involved/culpable board officers since 2005 will reveal the secrets about why they acted as they did in 2005 and 2006.  And, the so-called “unity party” group has fought viciously to help them keep the secrets.  The unity group’s mantra of “cooperation–not confrontation” has been shown to protect the corrupt secrets of their board and committee buddies.

Eventually, the truth will come out on this and other board actions that resulted in the developer gaining millions of dollars of benefits to the detriment of our unit owners.  As we systematically follow the money trail, more and more facts are emerging and law enforcement departments are paying attention to the reports.  It is just a matter of time.   2010 may be the year for stopping such misconduct.

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January 24, 2010 by Mark Cook.

This is a photo of our new Rec Center 3, taken from my backyard.  The building looks rather odd to me, how about you? 

Notice those very large steel trusses that are clearly visible, especially so because they have been painted white.  All during the construction I wondered when they were going to put the roof on the building!  

Also notice the three deep slots cut into the top of the wall; the sky is visible through those slots.  Yep, no doubt about it, the roof is missing.  What you see is what you get…I’ll bet the architect is still laughing. 

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