(Revised as of Nov 27) Why DID SCA Board and Communications Committee terminate the SCA-HOA message board?

It is simple.  They refuse to allow their judgment to be challenged or disputed.  It is fine with them if the members will just “recreate” amongst ourselves.  But, members dare not post any public criticism about the board, its supporting committees, or their actions.

Board actions to purge the community website of respectful dispute of board actions is a violation of Nevada Statute NRS 116.3103 and NAC 116.405.  Refusing to allow member dissent about board actions on the internal membership media channels could be judged as violating the board’s fiduciary duty and displaying unacceptably poor business judgment.

See this example of the last message board topic concerning the “gaming poll” just before the board arbitrarily terminated the community web site feature.  Notice that none of the member words violated the terms and conditions of the message board.  The Board appears to be clearly in violation of the Statutes and Administrative Codes.
[1] Last SCA-HOA Message Board Topic–Just Before The Service Was Terminated

This type of gross misconduct and statute violation started under the 2006 Favil West regime when he and his collaborating directors shut down the Business Development Club because his business judgment and misconduct were openly questioned by about 100 SCA members.  He and some of his fellow directors appeared they might have some agreements and conflicts of interest with the developer and the restaurant operator that they wanted to be held confidential.

All the club did was sponsor workshops that wound up telling the Board it was wrong to let the Trumpets lessee get away with owing the community hundreds of thousand of dollars of rent for close to 2 years while continuing to use and profit from free access to SCA’s restaurant facilities.

What the club stated was true, but since that time, telling the royal rulers/directors they “have no clothes” has been decreed to be unacceptable behavior by mere (mortal) members.

Since Favil West’s time, all individuals daring to publish public complaints against the board have been viciously attacked and retaliated against.  In spite of the fact that these directors are just fellow residents without unique expertise, their policy is that “thou shalt never disagree with the board royalty.”  Otherwise, you will suffer severe punishments for your disloyalty.

In the past, if a member spoke up on the message board and opposed a board policy or practice, the member’s posting was summarily deleted.  But, lately, there have been so many members with the courage to openly challenge the board’s  actions by posting compelling facts against the gaming/gambling survey that the Board could not stand the opposition.

What happened was sort of an updated version of the Unity board mantra first heard years ago from former director Lanie Berg who shouted at a board meeting, “We have to let THEM speak, but we don’t have to listen!” That mantra was told them by their association attorney and publicly repeated by such directors as Favil West, Kay Dwyer and many others in their social clique.  The current board refuses to even let us openly speak on our own membership message board–that stays within the community.

The whole message board appears to have been deleted (in part) because a Sun City McDonald Ranch member had successfully sued his board for removing his message board postings.  Our board is already facing membership litigation, and it has probably been told to avoid the additional litigation risks of arbitrarily removing individuals from the message board.

While the best board option was to do nothing, the board’s attorney assures them they can do what ever they want–regardless of member complaints.  And, since it is board election time again in a few weeks, the (Unity Party-sponsored) Directors are determined to stifle all kinds of dissent for fear they might get removed or replaced.  Since they are unpaid (and supposedly uncompensated in any way) it is a mystery why the Unity Party group is so determined to retain absolute board control–forever.

Perhaps we now know why the board, and some former directors recently went out of control at being called “gestapo” and “Nazis” for this kind of arbitrary suppression of member dissent.  Perhaps they prefer to be called “fascists” or “communists”, but the fact remains that the dictatorial concepts of “Big Brother” as used in “Anthem” by Ayn Rand is alive and being practiced by your unity-party-controlled board.

And, in case you do not recall the essence of “Anthem“, here is a wikipedia summary:

“Anthem is a [2] dystopian fiction [3] novella by [4] Ayn Rand, first published in 1937 in England. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another [5] dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and [6] collectivism and the weaknesses of [7] socialistic thinking and [8] economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of [9] individuality has been eliminated (for example, the word “I” has disappeared from the language). As is common in her work, Rand draws a clear distinction between the “socialist/[10] communal” values of [11] equality and brotherhood and the “[12] productive/[13] capitalist” values of [14] achievement and [9] individuality. “

This stimulates a question about why Del Webb used the name “Anthem” for so many of its HOA  developments?  Maybe the basic governing rules were always intended to be more diabolical/dictatorial than we have realized?  The previous AV blog about “Del Webb’s outrageous policy requiring 6,431 members to show up at the annual meeting to reject a budget” may be a clue to the developer’s true intent of how SCA is to managed under unquestioned board authority.

In the near future, we hope more residents will feel motivated to help SCA members oppose the suppression of individual behavior by our director-dictators, and continue to speak and act out on the various message boards and blogs.

Freedom is not free–not even in Sun City Anthem!  We need to remember that a new board majority from the next election could quickly reverse the misconduct of the “Big Brother/Unity” party and put Anthem on the right path for the future.

SCA homeowners need to capture the spirit and energy of the “Tea Party Grassroots Movement” and elect a board in 2011 that honestly and ethically serves member interests as its top priority.