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April 2018
Annual Meeting on April 19th at 1:00pm Vivian Timian, General Manager
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he Annual Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, April 19th at 1:00pm in the Vermilion Room. With the accounting audit for 2017 complete, there will be a review of the financial results for 2017, which includes the Golf, Food & Beverage, Operations and General & Administration areas. We will also review current balances on the Replacement Reserve Fund (RRF) and Capital Improvement Fund (CIF). In 2017, all Home Resale Fees were placed into the (CIF) totalling $324,388 (136 homes sold). Please plan on attending this Association meeting. Department Updates for 2018 Golf The Golf department had an excellent start in January, with a total of 8,221 rounds played during the month. February brought in more challenges, as the weather for the last twenty days of the month brought cold, windy and rainy conditions. A total of 6,881 rounds were played in February. The financial results for the first two months are encouraging as the department currently boasts a $80,889 positive cash flow, over $47,750 better than budget. Bernie Eaton and Mike Roddy continue to produce a successful operation. F&B Food and Beverage have made changes within the management team, with positive improvements going into March. Please review the weekly features on the menus. The names of the employees that are creating the features will be listed. F&B Director Dave Bishow is highlighting the contributions of his team. Kiara Rago, a native of Tucson, has joined the management team with responsibilities for evening dining service, as well as weekend duties in the RoadRunner Grill. Please help us welcome her to SaddleBrooke One. Although the 1st two months of the year are lower than expected on revenue, the F&B team has a strong performance level in March with an anticipated sales income of $260,000. Thanks to our F&B management team, Dave Bishow, Dylan Carothers, Billy Austin, Kyle Randall, Carolyn Butler, Kyle Meacham and Kiara Rago for their excellent offerings and service. Operations/Administration The Operations team is off to a great start. Our IT professional, Ray DuRain, has been working long hours as he coordinated repairs to the phone system with minimal downtime, while working on the implementation of computerized tablets for our servers in the RoadRunner Grill. A new wi-fi system has been installed and a terminal server to meet the demands of our increased business levels due to the addition of the patio at the RoadRunner Grill. The Facilities supervisor, Joey Lopez, along with his team, has just completed repairs to the lattice structure outside of the Fitness Center and replaced the beams in the Arts & Crafts gazebo. Joey’s team has also coordinated a replacement roof for the electrical room at the Clubhouse, a new lap pool chemical storage area and lap pool heater replacement. Continued on page 3
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SaddleBrooke One Common Area Abuse Rian Ross, Director of Operations Currently, we are going through several units to get the areas cleaned and to remove pack rat nests. In doing this, we have found several locations that have had cuttings, old plants and tree limbs apparently thrown over the walls and fences into the common area.
Marco Rubio and the Common Area team, along with Primavera, have been clearing the trimmings tossed over the walls by the homeowners or their landscapers. SaddleBrooke One Rules and Regulations prohibit homeowners from tossing landscaping materials into the common area. The cost to clean-up a section behind 20 homes totaled $6,600. If you notice a neighbor throwing materials behind their wall, please contact the Administration office so that we can correct this situation before it gets further out of hand. Trimming trees and bushes in the common area by homeowners is also prohibited. If you would like a tree trimmed back in the common areas— please put in a work order at the Administration Office so that the Common Area Maintenance team can trim back the landscaping.
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Annual Meeting on April 19th at 1:00pm . . . continued from cover page Marco Rubio and the Common Area Maintenance team have been working on several erosion projects, including a retaining wall at the golf course maintenance yard and work along the drainage channel next to Catalina Golf Course hole #1. Mike Treiber, and the Accounting team, have just completed another successful audit. So, congratulations to the Accounting team: Mike Treiber, Dana Hawkins, Rikki Renteria, Connie Ramirez and Beverly Salonga. Rikki is the pool technician for SaddleBrooke One, but has been working in accounts payable for the first three months of the year, covering the position while our regular accounts payable clerk has been out. Special thanks to Rikki for her flexibility, and a welcome back to Connie Ramirez, you were missed. John Hoehne, the front desk supervisor, has just completed the installation of a new card encoder at the reception area. In addition, the ad developed for SaddleBrooke One F&B positions was John’s vision for recruiting new personnel. If you go to Cinemark at Tangerine and Oracle and arrive 12 minutes before the movies, you can see John’s creativity at work. This is working well, as we have been able to recruit several needed F&B servers, bussers and expos. The Human Resource manager, Christine Burns, has been developing on-board processing for new employees. She has also been working with the staff on coaching methods and training needs. Overall, 2018 should be a good year for SaddleBrooke One as our staff continues to work through the projects and needs of the community.
Join The General Manager & Board President Thursday, April 12th 9:00am - 10:00am
Please join us for a casual coffee hour in the back of the Agave Lounge with Vivian Timian, General Manager & Chris Toney, Board President. The coffee hours are a great opportunity to ask questions & discuss community concerns. Coffee and cookies will be served.
See you there!
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SaddleBrooke One “Little Rhymes to Help Your Pitching” Bernie Eaton, Director of Golf
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t some point or another, we are bound to face the shot that many of us fear – the pitch shot over a bunker. We immediately conjure up images of the ball lofting high in the air . . . and plugging right in the face of the steepest bunker on the course. I find that pitching is relatively simple when you think about proper setup; and, follow a simple little rhyme to help you clear the bunker. For the RIGHT HANDED GOLFER, the pictures below will help you with this shot - weight on your left foot and then remember - “Ball Under My Left Eye, Make My Swing Touch the Sky” This little saying will aid in your ball position and remind you to make a full swing past the ball.
Weight on left foot
Ball underneath left eye
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Backswing - little to no weight shift
Make Your Swing Touch the Sky!
A critical element of this shot is to KEEP your weight on your left foot throughout the swing. This will cause you to make a descending blow and “thump” the grass versus trying to lift or scoop the ball in the air. With a little practice you will be getting the ball over those bunkers in no time at all!
GO FOR BIRDIE!
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SaddleBrooke One 2018: Summer Plans
Mike Roddy, Golf Course Superintendent
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t's hard to believe the winter golf season is wrapping up. The summer weather is just around the corner and with that comes our annual summer cultural program and summer projects. This summer will be a little different, with several small projects as opposed one big project. The following items are scheduled for completion this summer: Aqua Tees: Several select aqua tees will be re-graded and sodded to provide level teeing ground and improved visibility and sightlines. Drainage: Sub-surface drainage will be added to several trouble spots. These areas are located on several holes and include green surrounds, fairway areas and rough areas. SaddleBrooke Bunker Sand/Liner: The bunker sand and some bunker liners on the SaddleBrooke Course will be replaced. The existing sand is no longer able to provide acceptable playing conditions due to its age; and, some of the bunker liners have failed. New improved sand is being considered and will provide more consistent playing conditions and improved appearance. This project is pending Board of Director’s approval. SaddleBrooke One staff will be busy completing our summer cultural program during the same time period. Core aerification is the most important part of this program. Core aerification involves the physical removal of a core of turf and soil. This process is time consuming and can be disruptive to playing conditions for a short period of time; however, the benefits far outweigh the short term disruption. Benefits to Core Aerification • Compaction Relief: Physically removing cores allows the soil to recover from months of traffic • Thatch Reduction: Thatch is dead and dying plant material that needs to be removed periodically to provide a healthy growing environment • Air Movement: The coring process allows air into the root zone • Water Movement: The coring process provides new channels for water movement down into the root zone The entire Golf Maintenance team looks forward to a productive and busy summer.
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SaddleBrooke One The Bar is Set High in F&B
Dave Bishow, Food & Beverage Director/Executive Chef
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ll of our restaurants have been in full swing with dining, private events, BBQs, wine dinners and everything in between. The response to our new menus for dinner and dessert in the Vistas and Agave Lounge has been outstanding and we truly appreciate all of the support and feedback we have received about them. April is always a busy month with all of the golf invitationals, the Mystery Theatre Dinner group, the Chef’s table, as well as à la carte dining. It is a fun and hectic time of year that we truly enjoy in the Food and Beverage department. Our commitment to our guests continues as we set our bar high for food quality and service. We will reach those goals and then aim even higher. We will continue to evaluate and re-evaluate our processes, procedures, successes and failures to always improve our service to the residents of SaddleBrooke. From a financial standpoint, our department has seen record lows in subsidies in 2016 eclipsed by more record lows in subsidies in 2017. This has been attributed to intelligent and aggressive purchasing, fair pricing, waste & labor control and sales volume. But, as the minimum wage continues to increase, our challenge gets even harder to continue to turn in these types of subsidies. We have been scrubbing our budget and have found some interesting facts that I feel are relevant. The first being medical insurance. We give a premium benefits package to attract the best possible candidates to our Association. In 2016, we spent $137,219 in medical benefits and 401k. In 2017, that number increased to $159,371. Even with an attractive HSA plan to entice our associates into a more cost-effective program, the numbers for health insurance will continue to rise. The second challenge we face is a rising global food cost. We have watched all categories of food from dry goods to center-of-the-plate proteins increase anywhere from 4%-10%, depending on the item. Our challenge here is to maintain an attractive price point for our food while meeting our budgeted guidelines by staying aggressive with our suppliers, portion control in our kitchens and waste management by our Sous Chefs. The third factor is credit card charges. In 2016, we spent $42,337 for credit card processing in Food and Beverage alone. In 2017, that number went to $54,768. With that being said, we would ask our guests to use their house account cards wherever possible in an effort to control that cost. I hope that this information was helpful and informative and as always, the Food and Beverage team thanks you all for your continued support & honest criticism and feedback. We truly appreciate all of it.
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here is nothing like sitting down to a good mystery and/ or thriller. Brad Meltzer has written The Escape Artist with new characters – Nola and Zig. The publisher says this is the first of a series. Speaking of series, J.A. Jance has an Ali Reynolds series. The latest is Duel to the Death. Ali is a former LA news anchor turned amateur sleuth. Always a good read.
International intrigue falls into the category of mystery/thriller. You might want to try Joel C. Rosenberg’s The Kremlin Conspiracy. It seems a Putin-like father-in-law of Russian attorney Oleg Kraskin will cross swords with former Marine and U.S. Presidential aide Marcus Ryker. There is nothing like international intrigue. C.J. Box is a very popular author whose stories are set in Wyoming. His hero, Joe Pickett, is a game warden extraordinaire. There are two mysteries to solve in The Disappeared: find a missing female British attorney and discover who is blocking falconers from using their eagles to hunt? Could these two things be linked? Would you like to travel to Venice for your mystery? Then, you will want to read The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon. Clive Cussler brings a different kind of mystery in his The Rising Sea. We know about global warming, but what could be causing a much greater rise in the waters of the Pacific? The NUMA Files scientific team must find out. We go from the Pacific to the Caribbean Rim (pictured on following page) by Randy Wayne White. Sunken wrecks and those who hunt them can cause old time hunters to run afoul of officials at times. Doc Ford will try to help his friend who has had just such a problem.
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Is there anything else on our shelves but mysteries? Sure, but you will have to come looking. I will give you a tip on a new non-fiction book: it is The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss. The time is 1920 and the place is Tennessee. We assume women vote but at the time there were those (women included) who didn’t think it was the right thing to do. This is an interesting and, at times, humorous story. Give it a try. Come in and see what else there is to find.
Architectural & Landscaping Committee ALC Email: alcadmin@saddlebrooke.org ALC Secretary: Linda Irwin All ALC forms, as well as exterior home color selections, may be accessed on the ALC webpage or in the Administration Office.
April Meetings April 5th April 19th
ALC Hotline 917-3767
Meetings are 1st & 3rd Thursdays of the month 9:00am Bobcat Suite (Lower level of the SB One Clubhouse)
SADDLEBROOKE ONE APRIL SCHEDULE REGULAR PICK-UP • Normal schedule - every Tuesday
RECYCLE PICK-UP • Normal schedule - every Friday
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SaddleBrooke One New Rules on Dumpsters and PODS
Ron Tuxbury, Patrol Manager n their February meeting, the Board of Directors approved new rules regarding the use of Dumpsters and PODS container(s) in SaddleBrooke One.
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If a resident plans to have PODS container(s) on their property, they must notify the SaddleBrooke One Patrol Manager (520) 917-3752 prior to the arrival of the PODS container(s). The PODS container(s) may remain on the property for up to one month. If you need PODS container(s) for more than one month, an extension may be given by the Patrol Manager. POD container(s) must be placed in a resident’s driveway, unless they cannot be safely placed in the driveway. Then, they may be placed in the street. If they are placed in the street, the PODS container(s) must have some protection placed between the PODS container(s) and the road surface, such as a 2in x 6in x 2ft plank under each corner. If the PODS container(s) have a flat bottom, no additional protection is necessary. If a resident plans a project that will require the use of a dumpster or a construction trailer that will be used as a dumpster, a permit will be required. The permit application can be obtained from the Administration office. The permit will be approved by the Patrol Manager. Permits will be approved for up to one month. Any extension beyond one month must be approved by the Patrol Manager. Dumpsters must be placed in a resident’s driveway, unless they cannot be safely placed in the driveway. Then, the dumpster they may be placed in the street. If they are placed in the street, the dumpster must have some protection placed between the dumpster and the road surface, such as a 2in x 6in x 2ft plank under each corner. If the dumpster has a flat bottom, no additional protection is necessary. Seasonal Residents Many of our seasonal residents leave SaddleBrooke in April or early May. If you are a seasonal resident or are planning to take a long trip, please be sure to check the following items as you are preparing to leave for the season: • Door going into the house from the garage is locked • Bar is in place on your sliding glass doors • Call the paper company to stop paper deliveries • Stop or forward your mail • Make an arrangement with a friend, neighbor or a house checking professional to check your home while you are away • Be sure that all windows and doors are locked • If your house is alarmed, notify your alarm company that you will be away and make sure they have a local contact if there are any alarm issues • Unless someone needs to get into the house through the garage while you are gone, disable the garage door opener before you leave • Don’t block your mail tube - blocked tube is a sure sign that someone is away for an extended period • Purchase automatic timers to turn lights on and off while you are gone • File a Resident Absence Form with Patrol One
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Golf Cart Safety Tip Many golf carts are now capable of speeds of 25mph and higher, but in many cases they still have 2 wheel brakes and either no seat belts or seat belts that are not being used and no speedometer. They can be compared to cars the way they were built 50 to 60 years ago with very little safety protection for the drivers and passengers. In most of the serious accidents involving golf carts, the carts tend to skid and tip over because they have a small wheelbase and are top heavy. When they tip over, the occupants are ejected from the cart onto the pavement. If you own one of the faster golf carts and normally drive at speeds above 20mph, you must always be alert to any situation that would require you to make an evasive maneuver or stop suddenly. If you have to brake and swerve at the same time, your cart will probably tip over.
2017/2018 NOV Statistics for February Violations
2018 2017
Fines Imposed
2018 2017
Speeding
13
13
Multiple or Flagrant Traffic
$100
5
0
Stop Signs
6
2
2nd Violation in 12 Months
$50
2
1
Handicap Parking
3
3
Golf Course Walking/Dog Walking $100
0
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RV Parking
7
3
Other Parking
2
5
31
26
Totals
There were also 10 citations for speeding violations and 4 citations for stop sign violations issued by our Special Duty officers in February.
Please help us welcome our new SaddleBrooke One residents NAME Donn & Deborah Mouw Jeffrey & Patricia Oswalt Forrest & Lisa Urban Roald & Linda Bendixen Steven & Lois Smith William & Katherine Frevert Harold Moore & Claudia Gerkin Robert Magnani
UNIT 5 19 11 8 9 1 11 7
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Forever Property Solutions, LLC William & Patricia Homer Patrick & Susan Dresser Steve Rosen & Sandra Strauss Stanley Schuette & Linda Kelly Ronald Horton Scott & Carol Whiting
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SaddleBrooke One Let’s LIVE Our Way to Strong Bones Sheryl Nugent, Recreation Coordinator
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he photo to the right shows the stages of osteoporosis from a healthy bone to severe osteoporosis. Regular exercise is one of the most important ways we can keep our bones healthy.
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- The exercise needs to be Load-Bearing - The exercise needs to be Intense - The exercise needs to have Variety - The exercise needs to be Enjoyable
Load-bearing exercises require our muscles to work against gravity to move our own body weight (or added weight). These exercises include walking, running, jumping, stair climbing, step aerobics and jogging. We need to ramp up the intensity of our exercise to cause our osteoblasts, our bone building cells, to do their job. The more stress we put on our bones by moving our muscles, the more our osteoblasts are activated and stimulated. Our leisurely walk needs to be more intense. We need to challenge ourselves to complete our walk in less time. Our exercise needs to include a variety of movements that involve as many different muscles in as many functional movement patterns as possible. Strength training is an excellent way to help improve bone health. We need to remember to move the weight slowly from our starting point and to return the weight slowly to the starting point for the greatest benefit. If our exercises are not enjoyable, we will not continue to do them. Our program needs to be one we will enjoy. This will help motivate us to continue our program. Good intentions have not built any strong bones. We must DO IT. We can begin by getting up out of our chairs without pushing with our hands. Research shows that this simple action can decrease our incidence of balance problems and falls. We can all improve our bone health by following this LIVE approach. References: Anderson, Dean: “Exercising to Build Strong Bones”; http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/fitness_articles.asp?id=910
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