★ Every Fountain of the Sun homeowner needs to tell the FOSA board to STOP spending money on ALL non-maintenance projects without a vote of ALL home-owners on EACH non-maintenance project or plan. This is the only way, we can PROVE what the majority of home-owners actually want and DO NOT want. This may be the only way to get the FOSA board to pay attention and to stop wasteful spending and continued excessive increases in dues and assessments. Please, write to the FOSA board and email a copy to UpQuick@gmail.com or postal mail to:
KFA Freedom of Speech We will post copies of as many letters as possible: Dozens of replies came back quickly expressing similar frustrations ... if not anger to the December 28, 2022 survey with only 3 options, NONE of which are unacceptable. KFA needs your ACTIVE help! KFA has 237 KFA member email addresses now; and we need to add hundreds more so that we can DRIVE HOME the KFA message to the FOSA board. Will you PLEASE help us to add as many FOS home-owner names and email addresses as possible? The ONLY WAY that KFA can win this battle is by getting ALL FOS home-owners who agree with the KFA objective to add their voice IN WRITING ... to the responses that we publish. Here are a few early responses:
★ Joel Twaiten: We want to keep FOS Affordable. ★ Pat Lehmbecker: Yes, keep KFA. ★ Larry Lewandowski: These people are out of there minds!! We are talking to as many people as possible to let them know the real plan. So far no one is up for a new building. ★ Patty Seneski: Yes, I want to keep FOS affordable! ★ Sgt Rock aka Sam Jones: Spend no money but if I have to choose one option then it would be #1). Spend as little as possible! ★ Betty Glider: Keep Fountain of the Sun more affordable !!!!!! ★ Bruce Mills: I am not in favor of Option #1, 2 or 3! HOA FEES, already out of control along with what the board spends our money on. They have wasted thousands of dollars for a few. Meanwhile they don't maintain properly what we have. We have lived in FOS since 1997 but if things don't chance we will be forced out along with many others. ★ Linda Ohlsen: Yes. We do want to try to get the board in check. HOA's getting higher and higher. Not in favor of spending any money that we don't absolutely have too. Need rid of manager John Millar. Big savings right there. ★ Frank Lamotte: Count me in. Fosa board is out of control. ★ Ed Mazurowski: Yes we need KFA. ★ Denise Townsend: Yes I definitely want to keep it affordable. I for one can not understand how or why our HOA can justify spending money on a new facility. They put on a new roof and A/C unit on the activity center just to let it get damaged AGAIN by the pigeons. First and for most our HOA needs to properly maintain our current facilities which they are obviously not doing. Building new facilities will not solve the issues if they can't take care of what we currently have. Just my opinion. What we need to emphasize is we are a 55+ adult COMMUNITY not a RESORT community. Thank you, ★ Carol & Dan Christensen: I would like to give you a short narrative of my perception of what has been going on for at least the last year between Betsy Wergan (BW) and myself. Betsy came in with these grand ideas for FOS and managed to get herself elected President of the board. I am an Architect and so have knowledge of what the City of Mesa will go for and not go for. I have told her for many months that her grand ideas will not allow for the additional parking that the City will require. She has managed to blackball me from being on the Long Range Planning Committee and disbanded a task force because I was on it. At the last meeting that the Long Range Planning Committee put on, she had her minions shut me down when I tried to speak. Betsy was a Minnesota State senator for 8 years and is a professional politician, so she is very cunning. The Architect for FOS is doing whatever Betsy tells her to do and so is able to tweak the plans and dollar amounts to please Betsy. Betsy is also bypassing the IMPOC committee because of me and the other professional Engineers who are on it. She is instructing the GM and Blake to do what she wants. Most of the Board are fans of Betsy but 2 of them are now getting some idea of her deviousness. At this time she has complete control of the information that is given to the residents of the community. She says that she wants the residents to vote on what they want but she will shut down any other opinions but her own. I believe it is basically a propaganda campaign to get her way. I am all for KFA because maybe she will not be able to shut those in that group down. We need to get our neighbors involved as the more people we can enlist will help her decide that she can't get everything she wants. If that is what the community wants that is fine but they should have all sides of the information to make an informed decision. ★ Cathy & Mike Werner: We are opposed. Options (are) not good to even consider doing anything. Leave it alone. Invest and SAVE our money! (Vision for the Activity Center) Board it up or tear it down if too expensive to use as is. Make an open air venue. It is not broke. Make smarter use of it. If people don't like what we have, they can go elsewhere and pay more money there. Don't spend the money we have. Better yet, DON'T SPEND MONEY NOBODY HAS! Stop raising Association dues because you feel the need to keep spending money to draw in and entertain outsiders! This is of NO financial benefit to FQS. I think it is called smoozing. Hmmm. Who are we trying to impress here? Job security for someone we know maybe? Just saying, let us be real here. This is a 55 plus community. How many residents of FOS did not get included in this survey because they don't have computer access? When will a special vote be held or meeting, or is this another done deal? ★ Donna Theobald: I filled out the survey and in every comment section I wrote something similar to this: I say ... leave it as is ... use it for 5 more years and maybe eventually build a new one (preferably after we have saved more money up for the new one and construction prices have come down). Then after the new building is done, go back and upgrade the old one. Because we can't be without some sort of large structure ... we need something to gather in. So keep the old activity center as is ... save money for the new one ... after the new one is built ... go back and do the work on old one. I think the timing is off on all of the options. Inflation is high right now! Save the money. Impose 10 or 20 dollars a month hoa and save up the money and wait for inflation to go back down. This is the absolute worse time to build anything of this size. We should be fiscally responsible and save the money up in our budget before we build. ... designate it for future activity center building! The Apache Wells community did a remodel and had all the money saved up in advance." I am honestly very tired of people taking my money and deciding what they want to do with it. I agree we need to save up for the inevitable remodel or new additional building. But save 75 percent of it up in advance. I do support an outdoor covered patio for gatherings and classes outside. Thanks! ★ Evelyn Banks: We certainly are in favor of keeping FOS affordable. It seems we don't get to vote on anything any more they just spend money and try to control our lives, like with garbage collection, dog parks and bocce ball courts! ★ Curt Appel: Yes I want to KFA more than ever. You have my support. Get our voices to the Board. ★ Annabelle Doughty: I sold my house at FOS three years ago because of the stink that was coming up with the new board and their plans to build. I believe that our country is heading for a serious challenges financially and the people looking to build what doesn't need building at FOS are not wise leaders. There are times that I feel sad that I moved from FOS and that is the reason I moved. I was hoping they would wake up and it sounds like they have not as of yet. ★ Marilyn Lindberg: Many residents in FOS are not interested in spending a lot of money to update. We will not pick an option until the dollars are revealed to residents. We realize some updates are needed but be careful of how those dollars are spent!!!!!! ★ Mary A Anderson: Keep Fos Affordable. ★ Al Laehn: The current structures are more than adequate to serve the needs of this community. ★ Annabelle Doughty: There are many things that I miss about living at FOS. I loved living in the Fountain of the Sun community ... However I sold my house because of what appeared to be a takeover of the association by a small group of people who seemed to be determined to tear down buildings to build an agenda that did not feel sound or wise to me. I had great concerns that the new association leaders were not listening to the concerns of the residents and they appeared to eagerly gather absentee ballots of winter visitors to pass their own adgendas. The community continues to be in my prayers. I felt like my retirement was being dictated by a group of people I did not know who had an agenda to change everything that I had bought into in the name of retirement. I felt that their agenda was to attract younger residents and their intention was to compete with new construction and charge excessive amounts for their monthly fees. It seemed ridiculous to me to destroy what was there to build facilities that people who had lived there for decades would not use or enjoy. Basketball courts? Seriously? I saw the number of people who walked with assistance and walkers, slowly at that. Their goals seemed to be targeting the almighty buck with little concern for the residents. I was all for keeping it affordable. And the conditions that our country is headed economically are pointing to EVERYONE being mindful to keep it affordable. It disturbs my soul that the association at FOS is planning to make changes and that the residents of FOS still have a fight on their hands. I do not feel that the association has the residents best interests at heart. I liked owning my own land there and I loved living at Fountain of the Sun. I loved and supported Birdies. I loved being able to have a fenced in back yard for my dog and I liked my neighbors. I loved that US Flags were flown and that we had a sense of belonging and I loved it having a flag in my own yard. I would love to move back to FOS if I felt as though the association was not going to assess the residents to pay for their agenda. Not every FOS home-owner has a computer or smart phone. We need neighborhood teams to visit neighbors who do not have Internet to give them updates on what the board is trying to do behind their back and ask for their comments and suggestions.
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