Pattern of Behavior

THE LAWN'S & WELCOME CENTER'S MIS-INFORMATION is a Continuation of 'Behavior'.

Updated: Jan 2026

Re: Lawn

Several years ago the (now previous) General Manager started saying that the green Lawn was on our liquor license (even though later it was found it never was). He also stated that people who were sitting on the Lawn were being harassed (even though they never were).

It was his goal to claim the Lawn area for the sole use of the restaurant, which certain residents using the Lawn for fun and relaxation, believed wasn't permitted without a member vote. He wanted the residents using the Lawn be required to buy alcohol from the restaurant as opposed to bringing their own. Those who did buy liquor from the restaurant had unknowingly been doing so illegally, since the Lawn had never had a liquor license, which was unbeknownst to the General Manager. What incompetence.

In Arizona, a homeowner's association does not need a liquor license for residents to bring and consume their own wine in common areas. However, the HOA cannot provide alcohol to residents without a proper liquor license. (It was found later, the restaurant was doing so, out of compliance.)

There were several people who questioned the General Manager's plans. This was when he started naming those who cared and questioned him, as 'troublemakers'. For months he posted mis-information concerning the Lawn situation in the Tipster, TWISCOV, and even on video.

Residents performed the appropriate research and discovered that the Lawn was not on the liquor license after all. It was also discovered that the two patios were not on the license either and had been out of compliance for many years! The additional square footage to the patios were not added to the liquor license when built.

For months residents who questioned this, were ridiculed and called names by the General Manager, without apology. Finally they called the AZ Liquor Board who handled the situation promptly with the threat of fines unless corrected.

Re: Welcome Center

This kind of behavior, involving the harassment of residents, incompetence and even cheating and lying persists now during the Board's vigorous promotion for the purchase of the Copper Health Bldg. There are several issues and much mis-information surrounding the plethora of announcements concerning the Welcome Center.

For example, our leadership continues to claim the Welcome Center is built out of (4) double wide trailers, to justify razing it in order to entice the purchase of the Copper Health Bldg. But it is easy for anyone to tell just by looking at the building that it isn't built with modular trailers, but as a standard stucco frame structure. The residents called 'troublemakers' requested paperwork on the building and discovered an engineer's report had been performed several years prior verifying the building was solidly built. But this was denied by leadership as invalid according to the wording in the report.

A capable and honest board of directors would have required confirmation and proof on such broad statements about the Welcome Center, before promoting a very important vote to spend $4.5 million dollars, a lot of money, on the purchase of a new building. They also would not relay inaccurate financial calculations in relation to this purchase based on 'hearsay' about the Welcome Center.

Those called the 'troublemakers' believe all is not right in 'Sin City'. Something always seems fishy lying beneath the 'propaganda' and they can smell it.