The Sun City board of directors is swiftly moving on from the recent financial out-sourcing controversy.
At the board’s committee of the whole meeting on September 2, directors revitalized the Finance Advisory Committee, which was minus two members in recent weeks, and completed formation of an ad hoc committee that will evaluate and review the recent out-sourcing decision.
The board itself was operating with a full group of seven members for the first time since last January, when the late James Van Fleet died.
Bill Bendick, treasurer of the board and board liaison to the Finance Advisory Committee (FC), moved that the board appoint four members to the committee, since the terms of two current members expire this coming December 31. The board unanimously agreed. Re-appointed to the seven-member committee were Bob Wainscott and Rudi Welvers, and newly appointed members are David Dibblee and Robert Kennedy. Remaining committee members are Sandy Frost, Calvin Meyer, and George Sebastian. All were appointed to two-year terms.
The ad hoc committee will have seven members, several of whom are current or former members of the Finance Advisory Committee. Sun City directors Bendick, Ken Andersen, and Dennis O’Leary were appointed earlier, and appointed last week were Wainscott, Frost, former FC chairman Bob McGouey, and David Shotic. Formation of this committee was included when the board approved the out-sourcing of accounting and financial reporting functions to First Service Residential, Sun City’s management company, late last year.
The ad hoc committee will discuss three aspects of the out-sourcing: The pros and cons of external vs. internal financial/accounting services; whether promised annual cost savings of more than $100,000 are being achieved; and whether a Request for Proposal (RFP) is needed to explore the subject further with other companies.
In another advisory committee matter at the COW meeting, the board discussed the future of the elections committee, after Dennis O’Leary suggested that the committee be re-elevated to an advisory level to the board. The committee was originally an advisory body, but it’s status was reduced a few years ago when the tabulation of ballots for board elections was out-sourced to an outside agency. This subject will be discussed at the next regular board meeting on September 23.
