Wilson: Resigns from Sun City Foundation board

After serving and promoting the Sun City Foundation for seven years, I have turned in my resignation.

Over the last seven years, I have met and helped many of our Sun City residents who are at the poverty level and cannot afford to pay their RCSC annual assessment.

The Sun City Foundation board has always worked to help our people, or at least they did until October 10. At the Oct. 10 meeting, the RCSC board decided to place several new members on the board without following the usual protocol of allowing the Foundation directors to vote. The Foundation directors who have served on this Foundation board were disrespected by the RCSC board.

Their reason for doing this is because they want a sound system for the new Performing Art Center, whenever they decide to build it, and they want to write grants for it. Since RCSC is a 501(c)4 they cannot be issued grants. However, the Foundation is a 501(c)3 and it can so they want to run that money through the Foundation.

They are changing Board Policy 20 to allow them to expand the reason for the Foundation. The problem is that this board policy hasn’t gone through a first or second reading and it was not voted at the last RCSC board meeting. I was told by the new RCSC board president that they could put new people on right now. So, this means that the RCSC Board no longer follows their bylaws or they passed this in a secret meeting.

I am not sure why this new sound system is not being bought with the Preservation Improvement Fund since they have changed the guidelines on that. I will miss the people I have served with and miss the people I have served, but I can no longer be a part of this with the RCSC board bullying the Foundation board.

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