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Architectural Review Committee
June 2 | 10:30am
Strategic Planning Committee
June 3 | 2:30pm
Infrastructure/Landscape Committee
June 4 & 18 | 1pm
Social Events Committee
June 9 | 1pm
Communications Committee
June 15 | 2pm
Finance Committee
June 17 | 1pm
Board of Directors Meeting
June 25 | 2pm
Please check the ourdovemountain.net website for any meeting changes and the Zoom information.
Board of Directors Meeting Review
If you were unable to attend the monthly Board Meeting, just click below on the underlined links to review in the format that is easiest for you. You will need to log in to the website as a resident to review.
Video Link – this is the complete recording of the Board Meeting that includes everything that was spoken from the Board of Directors, Management and anyone in the room.
Meeting Minutes – the official report of the prior monthly meeting for the Board of Directors and actions taken.
Finance Report – the monthly finances of the Del Webb at Dove Mountain Community Association.
Community Mission Statement
Larkin Hohnke President president@ourdovemountain.net
Architectural Review Committee Chair & Security Task Force Liaison Board of Directors
Deborah Curran Vice President vicepresident@ourdovemountain.net
Communications Committee & Strategic Planning Committee Liaison
Mark Johnson Secretary secretary@ourdovemountain.net
Arbitration Committee & Infrastructure Landscape Committee Chair
ourdovemountain.net
Paul Hedquist Treasurer treasurer@ourdovemountain.net
Finance Committee Liaison
Mark Gallardo Director at Large director1@ourdovemountain.net
Social Events Committee Liaison
Selling Your Home?
The ourdovemountain website has the information you need! No need to login to find either. Just go to Helpful Contacts > Sellers-Resale Information
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Del Webb at Dove Mountain is a community committed to enriching wellness of both mind and body by providing and enhancing amenities, activities and social interaction.
We strengthen our community through effective, transparent, and responsible management. We value initiatives that drive continuous improvement which benefit the community and its Residents.
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Building Fiscal Responsibility and Community Value
Submitted by the Finance Committee
Guiding Principle
The Finance Committee is committed to responsible stewardship of Association resources while preserving and enhancing the long-term value, desirability and financial health of the community. Our goal is not simply to minimize costs, but to ensure that every dollar spent delivers tangible benefit to homeowners - either through asset preservation, quality of life improvements or risk reduction.
Strategic Objectives
1. Align Spending with Community Value
The Association’s financial decisions should reflect both immediate operating needs and long-term community priorities. This includes:
• Prioritizing expenditures that protect critical infrastructure and shared assets.
• Evaluating projects based on life-cycle cost, not just upfront expense.
• Balancing operational efficiency with aesthetics, safety and homeowner satisfaction.
The Finance Committee will work closely with the Board and other committees to ensure that financial choices reinforce agreed upon community values and strategic goals.
2. Ensure Sustainable and Predictable Funding
Financial stability is essential to avoiding special assessments and unexpected fee increases. The Committee will:
• Maintain adequate operating and reserve balances consistent with professional reserve studies.
• Review reserve contributions annually to ensure alignment with projected capital needs.
• Encourage gradual, predictable assessment adjustments rather than deferred funding followed by large increases.
This approach helps homeowners plan financially while protecting the Association from deferred maintenance risks.
3. Exercise Cost Discipline Without Deferred Maintenance
While cost control remains a priority, the Committee recognizes that chronic underinvestment can erode property values and increase long-term expenses.
Strategic actions include:
• Actively reviewing vendor contracts for competitiveness, performance and value.
• Exploring preventative maintenance strategies that reduce total cost of ownership.
• Avoiding “false savings” that compromise quality, safety or asset life.
Where appropriate, the Committee will recommend investing slightly more today to reduce repair, replacement or liability costs in the future.
4. Improve Financial Transparency and Communication
Trust and alignment with homeowners depend on clarity and openness. The Finance Committee will:
• Present budgets and financial reports in a clear, understandable format.
• Explain the rationale behind major expenditures and Reserve funding decisions.
• Support proactive communication about how assessments are used to protect community value.
Well informed homeowners are more likely to support responsible financial planning and long-term investments.
5. Risk Management and Financial Resilience
Sound financial planning must anticipate uncertainty. The Committee will:
• Maintain appropriate insurance coverage and review policies regularly.
• Build contingency capacity into financial planning for unforeseen events.
• Monitor economic trends (inflation, labor costs, utility rates) that could impact future budgets.
This proactive approach reduces financial volatility and protects the Association during adverse conditions.
Measures of Success
The Finance Committee will evaluate progress through:
• Stable or slowly increasing assessments aligned with Reserve Study projections.
• Strong reserve funding percentages relative to peer communities.
• Minimal reliance on special assessments
• Preservation or improvement of property values and curb appeal.
• Positive homeowner feedback regarding financial transparency and stewardship.
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Homeowner Reminder:
Draining your Pool or Spa
Reprinted from the July 2024 Newsletter
Have you ever wondered about the rules regarding draining your pool and/or spa? The DWDMCA CC&Rs Exhibit C, page 6-7 only stipulate that homeowners are responsible for maintaining their pools in compliance with applicable local government pool ordinances. Both Pima County and the Town of Marana have recommendations for homeowners and pool contractors to know before they start to dump large amounts of water out of any pool or spa. Copies of these guidelines can be found by clicking the links below for the copies on the ourdovemountain.net website or you can pick up a paper copy at the Saguaro Center for you to review your choices.
Pima County has prepared a pamphlet called Draining Your Swimming Pool & Spa Guidelines, outlining why you should properly discharge your pool/spa water, process steps and options. This pamphlet is available in the Saguaro Center, or click here: How to Drain Your Pool to read with all the details.
The Town of Marana has also prepared a document that may help you plan how you manage backwash water and draining your pool or spa. This document is also saved on the ourdovemountain.net website, look for it under Community Documents > Maps & Community Information > Other Community Documents or just click on: Marana Pool Discharge Recommendations.
Why is draining to the proper location important?
To protect surface waters and washes that carry runoff after a rain.
Large volumes of pool or spa water infused with chemicals such as chlorine, bromine, algaecides, biocides, water conditioners and stabilizers are toxic to desert aquatic wildlife.
Erosion of soil can cause loss of property as well as clog storm drainage pipelines.
What are the proper locations for draining? What are some important considerations?
There are 3 options for discharge location as discussed in the Pima County brochure:
1) Directly to your landscaping
2) Paved road with a curb
3) Sanitary sewer
For each of these options there are critical guidelines. The pamphlet carefully outlines which locations are acceptable based on the type of pool chemicals (salt water vs. chlorine, etc). Most importantly, pool or spa water must be dechlorinated or dibrominated before being released from the property
Important considerations: If you discharge to your landscaping, or a paved road, be sure that the water does not flow on to a neighbor’s property, be sure that water does not cause any erosion of drainage channels or washes and that water is non-toxic to the environment. If you plan to discharge your water in your landscaping, then you may want to check out the information prepared by the City of Tucson regarding salt sensitivity of some plants. Be aware that any salt discharge may not be tolerated by plants in or around your yard.
If you discharge to the sanitary sewer, then you have fewer restrictions on pH and there are some benefits as this water eventually is added to the treated effluent which becomes reclaimed water that can then be used to irrigate some landscapes, like golf courses, which also conserves drinking water.
Want to learn more about what is going on in and around the Town of Marana?
Click here to read what your town is up to now and in the future.
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HEALTH & WELLNESS
Why Walking Alone Isn’t Enough After 60
If you ask older adults what they do to stay healthy, one of the most common answers is: “I walk every day.”
That is excellent.
Walking supports heart health, improves circulation, boosts mood, and helps keep the body moving. It is one of the most accessible forms of exercise available.
But here is what many people do not realize:
After 60, walking alone is usually not enough to maintain the strength needed for long-term independence.
Walking is an endurance activity. It helps your body keep going, but it does very little to preserve or rebuild the muscle and bone strength that naturally decline with age.
And that decline matters.
Beginning as early as our 30s, we gradually begin losing muscle mass and strength. Without intentional resistance training, that loss accelerates over time. At first, the changes may be subtle.
Standing up becomes harder. Carrying groceries feels heavier. Climbing stairs requires more effort.
Recovering from a stumble feels less certain.
Many people assume this is simply what aging looks like.
Often, it is not.
It is what happens when strength is no longer being challenged.
The good news is that strength can be rebuilt at nearly any age.
But real strength gains require more than simply moving.
They require resistance that is challenging enough to tell the body: adapt, rebuild, grow stronger.
For some people, that may begin with basic bodyweight movements and stability work. But those are starting points—not the goal.
To truly build and preserve strength, most older adults eventually need to work with loads that feel genuinely challenging, with progressive increases over time.
This does not mean unsafe lifting or reckless
Julia Darrah, NETA CPT Active Aging Specialist
This does not mean unsafe lifting or reckless workouts. It means smart, supervised strength training with proper form, appropriate progression, and guidance from a qualified professional.
Done correctly, heavier resistance training helps preserve the strength needed to:
• Rise from the floor independently
• Climb stairs with confidence
• Carry what life asks you to carry
• Catch yourself when balance is challenged
• Maintain freedom of movement for years to come keeps you active.
Strength training keeps you capable. You need both.
And older adults do not need to be coddled.
Being coached intelligently toward becoming genuinely stronger better suits your needs as you age.
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Use your age as proof of experience, not as an excuse. Every year you have lived has taught you something.
You have overcome challenges. You have learned what matters. You have developed resilience. That experience is an asset.
Age should give you perspective, not permission to stop trying.
Jack LaLanne believed that growing older was not a reason to slow down. It was a reason to become even more intentional about taking care of your body.
Your muscles can still get stronger. Your balance can still improve. Your energy can still increase. The goal is not to compete with your younger self.
The goal is to become the strongest, healthiest version of who you are today.
Let your age remind you of how much you’ve learned.
Then use that wisdom to keep moving forward. Because healthy aging is not about avoiding effort.
It is about building a body strong enough to keep saying yes to life.
Here is a link to a video by Robert Linkul, MS, NSCACPT*D, CSCS*D, a leading educator in personal training for older adults. In this video, Robert helps explain the importance of strength training for older adults.
*Warning: he is passionate and may use some explicit language. Click below:
Battling Ageism - (Part 1 of 3) - In Honor of National Senior Health & Fitness Day
https://youtu.be/iyxrdVhSPJE?si=YLqVW-OdbZiMMDr0
Courtside Tips
. A friendly reminder that Homeowners are not allowed to trim or cut plants or trees outside their backyards in the community common areas. ILC has seen some of this again recently. Also no dumping plant material in the common areas. Please use the contact form: Contact: Infrastructure & Landscape Committee to address any landscaping issues or plant encroachment to your yard walls.
By Rod Dunnett, USPTA Elite Professional
To Hit a Forehand Volley
Use a continental grip and hold the racquet in front of your chest with the tip slightly above the handle, so you are ready for both sides. As your opponent hits the ball, make a small split step and move forward so you meet the ball around net height or higher, slightly in front of your body.
Turn your body about 45 degrees, but keep your chest roughly facing the ball, avoiding big shoulder rotation. Keep your elbow in front of your ribs with a laid-back, firm wrist; this creates a solid “wall”, so you do not need a swing.
Step through with your front foot and “punch” forward a few inches, guiding the racquet toward your target with a slightly open face for a bit of backspin.
Finish with your arm extended, eyes at contact, and strings still facing where you want the ball to go.
AAM All Access
Single Sign On (SSO)
You can now access your account Information and association information using a single set of credentials. You can register anytime just download the AAM All Access mobile app or visit the web version: allaccess.associatedasset.com
Look for more information here in the future about projects the ILC has finished or are working on!
Bocce ball court refinishing is
Thank you, ILC Committee
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8a Cardio Tennis Rod
June Events & Fitness Schedule
8a MellowFlo Mika 11a Essentrics Celeste 8am Zumba Kate 8a Cardio Tennis Rod 9:15am Pilates Kate
8a MellowFlo Mika 11a Essentrics Celeste 8am Zumba Kate 8a Cardio Tennis Rod 9:15am Pilates
8a Cardio Tennis Rod
8a Cardio Tennis Rod
8a MellowFlo Mika 11a Essentrics Celeste
8a Cardio Tennis Rod
8a MellowFlo Mika 11a Essentrics Celeste
8a MellowFlo Mika 11a Essentrics Celeste
8am Zumba Kate 8a Cardio Tennis Rod
9:15am Pilates Kate
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Voted Best Local Entertainer by Tucson Lifestyle magazine readers. June 10 | 4-6:30pm | $12pp
Entrance is through the Terrace doors. Music will begin at 4:30pm. To register, click here
Hosted by Kristen Anderson of State Farm!
click here
Registration opens on June 17, when open click here
To register, click here
July 9 | 4:30 – 7pm | $14pp
PERSONAL CARE ITEM COLLECTION
The DWDM family is collecting personal care toiletry/hygiene items that will be shared with local charities. When traveling, pick up those travel size soaps, lotions, shampoos and more during your hotel stays. (New or unopened items only.)
These essential care items are greatly appreciated and will then be distributed to those in need here in Tucson, Sister Jose’s Homeless Shelter and the Poverello House (a men’s homeless shelter).
While at the store, see items on BOGO Sale and grab extra!
At the next dentist appointment, grab that toothbrush and toothpaste and donate those as well!
Thank you for your support. For more information, please contact Karen Gove at: govekm@gmail.com
The white collection container is behind the bar/counter inside the Saguaro Center.
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Billing Questions: (800) 354-0257 | Monday - Friday | 8:30am - 5pm
DWDMCA Management Team Dulcie, Lyn, Mich, Philip Welcome Desk Receptionists Resident and guest services, event and class
Linda Corsey, CMCA, PMP Community Manager
Liaison to the Board of Directors, Finance, Infrastructure Landscape, Election and Strategic Planning Committees. Alcohol Manager, common area and landscaping issues, association budget, reserve study, annual audit and monthly financial reporting, operational procedures, preventative maintenance, resale, liquor license compliance, website updates, e-blast communications and employment opportunities. Board meetings, vendor contracts, legal and insurance matters.
lcorsey@associatedasset.com 520-485-0200
Marquita Greene Administrative Assistant
Liaison to Architectural Review Committee. Works closely with the Community Manager. Customer service support to homeowners, compliance, website and document review, architectural submittals and Design Guidelines and Board Meeting support.
marquita.greene@associatedasset.com 520-485-3332
As you can imagine, it takes a team effort to manage the day-to-day operations at DWDMCA. Here is a brief description of our management team members’ responsibilities so you know who to contact with any questions:
Barb Truman Lifestyle Director
Liaison to the Communication and Social Event Committees. Alcohol Manager, supervise receptionists, rental and room reservations, interest groups, lifestyle events, happy hours and notary services. Sponsor advertising and marketing program, community newsletter production, weekly event e-blasts, website and reservation system updates. Also, fitness program, personal training and fitness facility oversight.
btruman@associatedasset.com 520-485-0202
Randall Shaner Maintenance Technician
Facility management and building logistics, janitorial concerns, general repair, supply inventory, maintenance of the sports courts and entrance water feature. Certified Pool Technician monitoring the pool and spa. Also, assists Community Manager with bid procurement and maintenance repair supervision, plus preventative maintenance.
rshaner@associatedasset.com
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