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Mike Kosor - owner elected board incumbent

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Qualifications:  A retired USAF Colonel and former hospital CEO. I have led in combat, guided numerous large complex organizations, served one term* on our Master Association Board, and served three terms as a director on the Christopher Communities HOA in Southern Highlands. For years I have advocated for owners before the County Commission (here) and Nevada Legislature. I fought and prevailed in a landmark Nevada Supreme Court case (Kosor v Olympia Co.'s LLC) defending HOA owner rights. I have lived in Southern Highlands for over 12 years.

 

*OWNERS HAVE BEEN DISENFRANCHISED by our board. In May, as part of a long running effort to conceal records and preserve the status quo, without authority and without notice to owners, the board “deemed nullified” my election as your owner representative. How can we as Americans not think this is wrong?

 

I wish to serve on the SHCA board because, while we live in one of the finest communities in Las Vegas:

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• We cannot trust our board. This unfortunate assessment if based on my experience dealing with our board and serving as a director.  I BELIEVE THE THREE APPOINTED DIRECTORS ILLEGITIMATE. You will find a far more expansive list here. With your support and vote I will work to ensure board legitimacy, integrity, and transparency.

 

• Owners should control HOAs- not developers.  After 23 years, one developer continues to exercise control over Southern Highlands appointing 3 of 5 SHCA board members. The board acknowledges nearly 80% of the allowed units are conveyed. Developer control ends at 75% (more information can be found here). In March 2021 Mr. Goett committed to me he would relinquish his control of SHCA “in 6 to 12 months.” He soon after withdrew that commitment.

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• The developer wholly owns our management company and continues to appoint the majority of our board. This interlocking relationship and span of control by one man is too encompassing. It threatens owner fiduciary representations. It removes necessary checks and balances. Inevitably, developer interests will differ from those of owners. If elected, I’d continue my efforts to end this.

   

• Should the SHCA Board have repeatedly renewed Olympia Management Services' (OMS) $1.8M/year contract and other large agreements without soliciting bids? No, is my answer and I will work to effect change. (more information can be found here and here)

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• Was it appropriate for the SHCA board to agree to pay Olympia Company $475K for a landscape parcel Olympia received a few months earlier from Clark County for $1? (more information can be found here)

 

• Owners should not fear reprisal by their developer, a community management company or governing board, for encouraging accountability, transparency, and fostering public debate. We should be able to disagree without being disagreeable. Owners cannot allow our freedom of speech to be “chilled” and the governance of their community conducted in secret.

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• Parks and low crime rate are critical to our community. We need more green spaces and more public services funding. We should not be forced to assume the huge liability of operating “public” parks open to the entire county nor should we pay for more private security. This is the wrong approach (read more here).

 

• The community needs to use its collective voice of 9,000 households (over 20,000+ voters) to:

• End Clark County’s systematic underfunding of public infrastructure improving builder margins. The County has failed to ensure those benefiting from growth, equitably pay for the growth. ​​​

• Curb the massive levels of high-density housing being approved around Southern Highlands.

• Obtain the original, far more expansive Sports Park promised by the developer and County. (see here and here)

• Retract and/or modify LVVWD’s excessive (water) usage charges. Once again, the wrong approach.

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Learn more about my qualifications, experience, issues listed on this website. Your investment in your home, your family’s safety, and our community are at stake- VOTE.

 

Full disclosure: Mr Goett and Olympia Companies have since 2017, engaged me in litigation. I filed an action with another owner in 2020 seeking an end to developer control.  I successfully defended against a recent frivolous action by the SHCA Board. I anticipate additional action will be needed related to my unlawful board ouster if Olympia continues its inappropriate control.