RCSC outlines programming phase, stakeholder interviews for Mountain View renovation
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Recreation Centers of Sun City management and board told members the Mountain View renovation has moved from visioning to a programming phase run with Triarch; stakeholder interviews, usage data and budget alignment are next steps, with conceptual drawings expected after an 8–10 week interview period.
The Recreation Centers of Sun City Inc. board and management said at an Exchange meeting that the Mountain View renovation has advanced from visioning into a programming phase and that outside consultants Triarch will begin stakeholder interviews and develop conceptual drawings.
Board President Tom Foster and Vice President Netesign presented the schedule and asked clubs and members to identify representatives for interviews. "Everything you say has counts, it matters," Vice President Netesign told the membership, urging clubs to nominate members who can participate in interviews and to collect current usage data for Triarch to review.
The board said it has completed visioning and an engineering survey and now will move to programming: Triarch will compile club and member inputs, schedule interviews with affected clubs and management groups (IT, audio-visual and others), and produce conceptual drawings. Triarch's programming phase will develop interview questions and hold stakeholder sessions; the board expects the stakeholder interviews and conceptual drawings process to run roughly 8 to 10 weeks and said programming materials will be reconciled against a project budget cap set for PIF projects.
Board members described the next public step as a programming presentation to the membership, after which the board will announce a final decision about which Mountain View buildings are renovated or rebuilt. Vice President Netesign said the board intends to avoid making decisions first and then forcing users to fit into them: the board wants needs identified before final designs.
Board and management asked club leaders to supply names of club representatives, indicate whether interviews should be virtual, hybrid or in person, and collect usage trends (for example: growth in membership) so Triarch can assess capacity needs. The board also is soliciting "tribal knowledge"—longstanding local information about site features such as pool orientation and parking—that members say may not be in written records.
Timeline: management said programming materials and concept drawings are expected to be shared with the membership before a February milestone, after which the design phase would begin. Members asked whether stakeholder sessions and larger forums would be recorded; management said larger-group sessions will be recorded and posted to the RCSC YouTube channel and that the IT/streaming upgrades the board is pursuing should increase virtual access.
The board emphasized member engagement as a condition for progress: Triarch will not finalize programming without stakeholder input, and the board said it expects member participation over the coming weeks and months to keep the Mountain View project moving.