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Bagnato: Reader happy others are speaking out

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Hats off to Sun City West resident Mark McKinney, another person willing to stick their neck out (“Property reviews not practical,” Sun City West Independent, July 28, 2021) and point out just how poorly our community is being run.

As a retired attorney, Mr. McKinney offers a legal perspective of the absurdity of offering property inspections to people selling their homes. But there’s more, and the financial part of the equation should be looked at as well. These inspections are free — free!—and offer zero benefit to residents except if they happen to be selling their homes. Seriously, our dues, which support the administration of the rec centers, are being spent not for the greater good, but to help other residents sell their homes. How ridiculous does it get?

Moving on, if you’ve been to the R.H. Johnson pool lately and paid attention, you’d see one of our major assets in such a state of despair that it looks like it’s 20 years old instead of just 4-5. The deck is now so black stained from the interaction of the coating with the pool chemicals that the only remedy seems to be to re-coat the entire deck. There are tiles missing at one of the fountains, and maybe at the other. Thick, white, hard water deposits have all but ruined the remaining tiles. The furniture is truly showing its age. As for the two broken umbrellas, I’m not overly concerned. The powers that be decided it would be perfectly okay to approve $37,080 to replace them. Six of them, at $6,180 per umbrella.

This is how our money is spent. Am I really the only one who cares?

Frank Bagnato

Sun City West