Winter 2025 Shadows of the Ridge Newsletter

Greetings All,

May the New Year find you well. Kristie

and I are in LA visiting our daughter and

her family. Fortunately, they merely

witnessed the city's recent wildfire

devastation and were not directly affected.

Throughout the experience, the go-to app

for monitoring fire activity in real time was

Watch Duty. It is a free 501c app used by

fire departments throughout the country.

Fires are tracked by their name showing real

time borders, evacuation zones, and watch

areas. Thinking back to our Big Horn fire

of 2020 and the increasing risk of wildfires throughout the west this is an app we have

downloaded for our own local events that hopefully never will occur.

At our January quarterly Board of Directors meeting we discussed the challenges faced

in 2024 with dues statements and timely dues payment. Both were considerable issues.

Timely payment of dues facilitates book keeping and ensures proper HOA cash flow.

At this point everyone should have received their first quarter statement and returned

their payment. If not please contact our HOA manager, Belinda Taylor, at

(520) 744-5321.

Beginning our second quarter, April, statements will be sent out 3 weeks prior and

payment expected by April 1, which is the start of the quarter. If payment is not

received by the 15th, formal notification will be mailed. If payment is not received by

the end of the month a 10% late assessment fee will be applied. This is the same policy

we had when AME was our HOA manager.

We don't mean to cause any distress over this. Reminders will be sent. When making

payments double check the payment address, amount of the payment, and ensure you

account number is included. In short, all those things that any charge card wants with

payment.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding,

Mike Flamm, President / Treasurer

Shadow of the Ridge HOA

  Hilton Pool Pass Update!!

Our neighbors at the Hilton are currently experiencing much higher occupancy rates. This is great news for the resort and our community!  The flute music at dusk has returned and all of their restaurants are open. The hotel will continue to offer $5.00 per day pool passes to homeowners in our community – however – effective April 3rd, this offer is only available Monday through Friday until further notice. They are still offering a 10% discount on food and beverages and a discount on rooms for our out of town guests. 

To access the pool and receive the discounts, a membership application is required. Let the front desk know you are an El Con Homeowner, complete the application and simply check in at the front desk after that. We can request a maximum of four wristbands per day. They highly recommend reservations for dinner at any of the restaurants – when you dine let them know that you are a member and they will apply the 10% discount to your check. See you at the pool! 

Shadows of the Ridge Annual Meeting of the Membership/ Notice 

In-Person @ 9806 N. Ridge Shadow Place Oro Valley, AZ 85704 or Via Zoom 

On November 18, 2020 members of the three (3) Pusch Ridge golf course HOAs publicly expressed their views at the Oro Valley Town Council meeting in a coordinated appeal for representation. The outcome was a surprising 6-1 council vote supporting the HOAs’ petition for a seat at the table with HSL Properties and the Town in deciding the fate of the Pusch Ridge golf course. That led to two subsequent ZOOM meetings with HOA representatives, town managers, and HSL’s president. HOA reps felt the first meeting was an unproductive and even regressive meeting with the Town Manager dismissing open discussion, claiming it was irrelevant until HSL decided on their lease option which expires Jan 31, 2021.  After Tony D’Angelo, ElCon Golf Course Committee chairman expressed strong discontent with the way the first meeting was handled on behalf of the three HOAs; the second meeting was far more productive with each party asserting they would consider a 3-way partnership to restore and resume golf operations…if and when circumstances permit.  The HOA reps feel the Town will realize their most economical and politically palatable option is the restoration of golf operations. HSL’s Omar Morales also concedes golf is the best option but says even a $40,000 contribution in 2021 is a heavy lift when losing millions across his hospitality properties. Please read the ElCon Patio Homes Proposal to force the issue by making the Town and HSL a non-binding $35,000 offer proportionally equivalent to Canada Hills’ contribution to 36-holes golf operations. The offer, which is contingent on homeowner approval by May 1, 2021, will be discussed at the Dec 17, 2021 SRA #2 Special Meeting.  At issue is whether SRA #1 and #2 HOA support this initial offer.

The Town of Oro Valley has declared Pusch Ridge a discontinued golf course, thereby forcing adjacent HOAs to face HSL properties, which now has until Jan 31, 2021 to decide if they will exercise their $10K/year lease option under the terms of the original Purchase and Sales Agreement with Town of OV.   The problem is that the GC is not profitable as currently operated, and may have lost $150K - $200K last year.  The El Conquistador Patio Homes HOA is leading the legal fight against the Town of OV and is urging our HOA and the lower Ridge Shadow Place HOA to stand in solidarity with them.   We have indicated we do but must now decide if we (a) support a legal fight against the Town of OV, (b) negotiation with HSL to subsidize the GC, or (c) do nothing and "ride this out" and hope for a favorable outcome.  Please review the top two (2) documents under "Documents/HOA Documents" for background on this dispute, and send your opinion to "niranjan.vescio@etest.com". 

The Town of Oro Valley has declared Pusch Ridge a discontinued golf course, thereby forcing adjacent HOAs to face HSL properties, which now has until Jan 31, 2021 to decide if they will exercise their $10K/year lease option under the terms of the original Purchase and Sales Agreement with Town of OV.   The problem is that the GC is not profitable as currently operated, and may have lost $150K - $200K last year.  The El Conquistador Patio Homes HOA is leading the legal fight against the Town of OV and is urging our HOA and the lower Ridge Shadow Place HOA to stand in solidarity with them.   We have indicated we do but must now decide if we (a) support a legal fight against the Town of OV, (b) negotiation with HSL to subsidize the GC, or (c) do nothing and "ride this out" and hope for a favorable outcome.  Please review the top two (2) documents under "Documents/HOA Documents" for background on this dispute, and send your opinion to "niranjan.vescio@etest.com". 

I just spoke with John Spiker at the O/V Water Dept. and he confirmed that the two culverts leading down to the main wash have been cleared of brush as previously committed to.   If anyone has questions, please contact Sandy Carter (204-4794) and I will address them with you.”  

After inspecting the area in and around the culvert, on July 21, 2020, I contacted Oro Valley Storm Water Dept. I told them that there appeared to be a substantial amount of brush, including buffle grass growing behind the drainage gates inside the actual culvert flowing both to the west and to the south.  John Spiker from Oro Valley called me to advise that their men had been up to inspect the culvert and are scheduled to remove the debris.