Ellie’s Notes – 2/10/23
Hello Sun City Center,
If you have friends, neighbors, or associates that could benefit from our SaveSCC email blasts, please forward this communique to them. Anyone can sign up as a member and receive our email blasts by going to our web site and registering.
A reminder to all!
We will not host a SaveSSC meeting on Tuesday February 14th. Instead of our regularly scheduled program, we will be ceding to the hearts, flowers, chocolate, and romance that is Valentine’s Day. Our next meeting will be on February 21st. No meeting on Feb 28th.
Here’s the Zoom info and agenda for Tuesday, February 21st
SaveSCC Agenda – Working Session Meeting
February 21, 2023, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Rollins Theatre, 960-E, Cherry Hill Dr., SCC
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84987340508?pwd=Vm4vS3ZpWFBFOXZJL3NDemhPU05Zdz09
Agenda
Welcome & Call to Order
BOD Update
New Business/Decisions/Directions/Polls
Committee Updates (target time – 5 minutes)
· Finance Committee (John Newbury)
· Technology Committee
· Communications Committee (Rick Johnson & Joan Zegras)
· Gov’t Relations and Zoning Committee(Mike Newsom)
· CA Board Relations Committee (Jim McCaw)
· ClubLink & Birds of a Feather Committee
· Petition and Canvassing Committee (Carol Hugill)
· Application (Emergency) Response Committee ( Joyce Black & Punky Fedora)
· Okay We Won, Now What Committee
Resource Needs/Recruitment
Wrap-up
It takes a village
A gigantic thank you to our volunteers who made the golf tournament a sell out success. Our lineup is full and it’s going to be a fantastic day of fun and competition, loads of challenges, good food, no trash talking and laughs. Golf scramble committee members who have worked tirelessly under the leadership of Coach Starewicz are his wife Nancy, Bill Fleck, Jack Hugill, Peter Hyjek, John Jackson, Dennis “Doc” Ora, Rich, Mellissa Soucie, and Bill Stinchcomb. Your dedication made this inaugural event a happening thing. Thank you all!
We also thank our participants and appreciate you for playing and supporting golf and courses in Sun City Center.
We are incredibly grateful to the generous Double Eagle sponsors, The Dilly Dilly Group and Podmore Manufacturing and to our Par sponsors, Dr. Allen T Zak, Bunkers Bar, City Salon, Corky Stallings, Dukes Irrigation and Landscape Design, John Herriko, Katie Crider (Re/Max), Legacy Law, Pinch-A-Penny, Pura Vida Salon, SCC Shrine Club , Tom Butler and West Coast Golf Carts. You have helped us to realize a “Par Tee” and successful fundraiser.
We are also grateful to our gift/prize donors – AMC Riverview 14, Beef O’Brady’s, Bill and Martha Fleck, Buffalo Wild Wings, Cali Nails, Classic Cuts, ClubLink, David Cook, The Dilly Dilly Group, Doc Ora, Dunkin’, Fletcher Music Center, Glory Days, Harry Barry, John Bradley Thomas, John Jackson, Joyce Bruno, Kathy Ambs, Katie Crider (Re/Max), Maid Easy Cleaning Professionals, McDonalds, Nancy Starewicz, Nearly New Shop, PGA SuperStore, Pinch-a-Penny, Riverside “Golf” Club, Salty Shamrock, Spa Celeste, Taco Bell, and Tom Hallis.
It is the efforts and contribution of you all that makes this event and our cause the success it is. Thank you!
Speaking of a village
More thanks to Carol Hugill and her merry band of Canvassers. Again, you have all done a super job connecting with the residents of Sun City Center and encouraging them to sign the petitions to SCC. You have been dedicated and have done a wonderful job. Please keep on truckin.
For all of you wanting to support the cause by signing the petition: Keep in mind that there are many options for signing. Petitions are available at the Emergency Squad on 720 Ray Watson Drive or at the Security Patrol 1225 Pebble Beach Blvd. They will also be at FunFest on March 11th from 9 am to 2 pm at table 72. Stop by. If you prefer to download, go to https://savescc.org/petition/ and email to cah5652@gmail.com or follow the mailing instructions on the bottom of the petition.
If you have your own network of friends, please volunteer to make contact and help the Canvassing team. Contact Carol Hugill at cah5652@gmail.com.
In addition, we are looking for people to work on The Clublink and “The Birds of a Feather” committee. This is an intelligence gathering group. The goal is to learn what other communities (Saddle Brook, Walden Lakes, the Woodlands, etc.) are doing in the face of unwanted development and methods they use to block developers. We might be able to learn from their strategies.
The ClubLink aspect is looking for intelligence on what the company is doing and where. The plan to develop/sell off golf clubs is obviously patterned behavior and we want to see how other communities are addressing their plans.
Another committee that will be extremely important as we move forward is the “ Okay We Won, Now What?” This is an extremely important question that we have to answer, perhaps even when speaking before the county commissioners and others. And there are some very interesting options that we need to explore and evaluate in a very detailed and methodical manner including establishing a special recreation district to own and operate the ClubLink closed courses for recreation, a potential equity ownership setup to own and manage Sandpiper as an operating golf course and social club, and a number of other options depending upon ClubLink’s future actions and decisions. Some work has already been done but we need smart folks and brain power to push this forward. Are you ready to assist? This is a critical one! Let us know. We need you!
May you all have wonderful days enjoying all that there is in Sun City Center and may our community flourish forever under great leadership, fighting for what’s right and planning for Sun City Center 2.0.
See you soon!
Ellie Anderson
312-282-7337