SUN CITY – After a nationwide search, Lauren Lee is the Sun City Community Association’s new executive director. She will begin her new work in Huntley on Nov. 18. She will direct an 80-member staff that coordinates and oversees more than 75 organizations and hundreds of entertainment, recreational, and business events annually.
The nationwide search to fill this vacant position was coordinated by Stephen Doran, vice president of compliance for First Service Residential, the company that manages the Sun City property. More than 50 candidates responded to national advertising initiatives that were sent to national-based executive-level headhunters, the Community Association Institute, and Chicago-area media.
Eight candidates were presented to the Sun City Community Association Board of Directors for interviews, and Lee was announced as the new executive director at the board meeting on Nov. 13.
Lee succeeds Bill Pennock, who left the FSR staff last September. Lee is the second woman to serve as executive director; Julie Julison was the first, serving in the early years of Sun City. Lee is also the sixth executive director to serve in Huntley since it opened in 1998. She comes here after serving the last six years as executive director of Westbrook Village, a similar retirement community in Peoria, Ariz.
Dave Osborn, director of facility maintenance, and the longest serving employee in Sun City since it opened in 1998, served for the last two months as interim executive director.
In another part of this top-level change, Board President Bonnie Bayser said last week that the board is realigning and reorganizing some of the relationships and staff liaisons to advisory committees that report to the executive director and board. These include the Communications and Technology, Covenants and Compliance, Elections, Facility, Finance, Fitness/Wellness, Golf, Lifestyles/Event, Modifications, and Neighborhood Advisory Committees, and the Neighborhood Advisory Council.
