So where do MCA Homeowners go from here?

It is up to YOU. Tomorrow (Monday) is the MCA Annual Meeting.

We’ve provided you with a lot of history, information, and analysis that you probably didn’t have before. But publishing this information for all to read is not enough. At least 2 MCA Directors are subscribers and we’ve asked MCA Staff to make sure all Directors are provided with the information. So the MCA Board are aware of this information and a lot of it may well be new to them (like TMCC’s financials).

But unless MCA Homeowners speak up and say it is time for change, the MCA Directors may not make the difficult move to make things change and be better for MCA Homeowners.

MCA Homeowner discounts or additional access is not our goal

Our advice is: don’t get distracted by small changes.
They are not enough to fix MCA Homeowners’ relationship with TMCC.

We believe that the large majority of MCA Homeowners are not golfers and would not benefit from discounts or additional access. Same is likely true for tennis and the fitness facilities.

Any large discounts would benefit some, but would be paid for by all MCA Homeowners. That is just a variation of what we are pushing to change now (TMCC is a small group who benefit from subsidization by MCA Homeowners).

We’ve received some comments about whether to close one or more golf courses and how to manage the land. We think The Meadows is better off with successful golf courses that the MCA should do everything possible to keep them viable. There are lots of alternatives to work through so we think discussions about closing courses are premature distractions at this time. Hopefully we never have to go there.

Let’s keep focused on our objective: to minimize the cost of keeping the greenspace to ALL MCA Homeowners. We believe that this is by moving to a semi-private model and we can build from there.

The recreational facilities have gone through a number of big changes:

• Initially the golf courses were public when Taylor Woodrow owned them
• In 1990 a group of 1,500 Meadows residents purchased the facilities and make it private.
• In 2016 TMCC opened the Highlands and Groves courses to public play.
• In 2018 MCA Homeowners purchase the facilities from TMCC

The next chapter to write: In 2025 the MCA moves OUR facilities to semi-private.

When the MCA Board acquired the recreational and dining assets in 2018 it was a difficult but wise move. It came with a HUGE increase in responsibility. But the MCA Board has not accepted that responsibility and passed it back to TMCC who got us in this situation in the first place. It is long past time for the MCA Board to accept and embrace the responsibility they had to take on in 2018. They can’t change the past, but they can shape our future.

It is the purpose and obligation of the MCA and MCA Board to do what is best for MCA Homeowners as a whole, not what is best for TMCC and its members. The stated goal of the MCA Board was to save the greenspace, not save TMCC. So far, MCA Homeowners have kept spending money saving TMCC.

It is up to all of us as MCA Homeowners to influence the MCA Board make changes for the benefit of MCA Homeowners.

We ask for your support to make your voice heard and press the MCA Board to:

1. Complete a long, hard, thorough investigation of what the courses, courts and dining facilities would look like as a semi-private organization. It may require some expert assistance which will cost some dollars, but certainly not anywhere near the $12 million we’ve spent on assets and the $1 million/year we’re subsidizing TMCC.
2. NOT sign another 3-year lease with TMCC until the above work is done. The current lease expires in less than 4 months on June 30, 2024. If the Board renews the lease for 3 more years it will be a clear sign of their determination to have MCA Homeowners subsidize TMCC in perpetuity. A one-year lease would be appropriate at this time.

We need YOU to carry this message forward to the MCA Board. Monday’s Annual Meeting would be a great place to start.