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CA NEWS
Let’s Communicate! Nominating
Committee
Jim Romine, Executive Director 2015 fall cycle report
Celebrating 20 years of The Nominating Committee (NC)
Sun City Texas is responsible for interviewing and
recommending those applicants best
2016marks the Sun City Texas Back in those days, our golfers would qualified to fill vacancies on Com-
Community Association’s line up early morning outside of the pro munity Association (CA) Advisory
20-year anniversary. Yes, it is hard to shop to request tee times. Times have Committees to the CA Board of Di-
believe our wonderful community is 20 certainly changed! I was hired as the rectors. Advisory committee openings
years young and still expanding and Food and Beverage Director and ran the are advertised each spring and fall in
growing. Many, including the Developer, Legacy Hills Grille daily for four years the Sun Rays, Communicator, NRO
would have thought we would have built before being promoted to the Associate Bulletin and on the NC website.
out by now. Instead, we are adding close Executive Director in 2000. Our first
to 2800 more homes. Our community has Executive Director was Danny McCoy Below is a recap of the 2015 Fall Cycle
seen a lot over the years and overall has and boy, was he a character and great at applicants:
aged well. While we have a lot of exciting his job. Danny developed many activities
years ahead of us, 2016 will allow us early on - some, like Junior Camp and • There were 50 applications for 25
an excellent opportunity to reflect on the Arts and Crafts Fair, still exist open positions on 10 advisory com-
our community’s past, our pioneers and today. mittees
many success stories. Since we cannot
have one large party to celebrate our Back in these days our Chartered Clubs • 18 women and 32 men applied
20th birthday, we will be honoring were just forming. Early on, groups only
our community throughout the year needed 25 people to charter a club. There • Four applicants withdrew, leaving
at various dances, events, golf outings were no residents serving on the Board 46 eligible applicants
and parties. You will notice our 20-year of Directors – we did not see our first
logo in many locations and even if you resident Director until July of 1999 when • Nine incumbents applied for a sec-
are not one of the few pioneers, you can Marion Butcher and Gragg Guthridge ond two-year term
still celebrate and honor our 20-year joined the Board. Since then, we have
anniversary. had 20 residents serve on the Board. • Nine women and 16 men were ap-
pointed by the CA Board
Having started here in 1996, I will share I could write on and on about the history
a brief historical recap with all of you. of Sun City Texas, but the best history We had an outstanding group of appli-
In July of 1996, when I was hired, we comes from our residents. Throughout cants this fall. If you were not selected
were still building the Legacy Hills 2016 you will have opportunities to this cycle we urge you to try again.
Clubhouse and Social Center. Our read many fun stories from a few of our If you are interested in serving on
offices were in trailers on Williams pioneers, as well as to attend various a committee, prepare by attending
Drive close to where the First Texas parties and events honoring our 20th committee meetings (Sun Rays, page
Bank now stands. Williams Drive was anniversary. I would like to thank the 6), visiting that committee’s website
an old county road with two lanes and no Community for being a wonderful part or getting involved in committee ac-
light at our entrance. The only buildings of my life over the last 20 years and I tivities.
that were open and complete at this am looking forward to many exciting
time were the Sales Center (now our years ahead. Happy 20th anniversary Thanks to Ann Dodson, our staff li-
Activities Center) and the Legacy Hills Sun City Texas and thanks for many aison, for her valuable support and
Park Pavilion. We celebrated a wonderful years of good times for our residents and assistance and also to one of the NC
Social Center Grand Opening that fall, guests. members, Ev Canfield, for providing
during which time we also opened the the statistics for this report. We would
Legacy Hills Clubhouse, the Legacy Hills Jim especially like to thank all those resi-
Grille and the Legacy Hills Golf Course. dents who applied this cycle for volun-
teering to spend their time and efforts
ONLINE: SCTEXAS.ORG to help keep Sun City Texas a great
place to live.
Pat Alexander, Chair
Nominating Committee
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