SaddleBrooke Two · For The Record · October 2025
SaddleBrooke Two HOA news, October 2025: new board president, CIF tie
Blaine Bond’s digest of HOA Two’s October 2025 newsletter: what the board and staff decided, in plain words, with the source linked at the end. Not the association’s own text.
The short version
What changed in October 2025
- Jeannine Grippo became HOA2 board president after an August board realignment, promising documented governance and tighter spending discipline.
- Two board seats are up: voting runs October 27 to noon November 17, with a candidate forum October 24 at DVPAC.
- A member vote to raise the Community Improvement Fund fee ended in a 1120-1120 tie, so the fee stays where it is.
- Through August the golf subsidy was $207,466, down from $831,305 a year earlier, and income before depreciation was $714,262.
- 2026 golf rates go on sale in October; fitness classes stay at $8 ($10 for SGT).
- The Preserve Fine Dining won Best Fine Dining in the 2025 AZ Daily Star Readers’ Choice awards.
What it means for buyers
The HOA is in a governance reset with a new president focused on fiscal discipline, and members just declined (by a tie) to raise the capital-improvement fee. Amenity subsidies are shrinking, which supports dues stability going into the 2026 budget. The November issue carries the 2026 assessment.
Every decision in this issue
The details, item by item
| Board realignment | At an August 2025 Special Board Meeting the board reorganized and Jeannine Grippo became President (outgoing president Larry Santora thanked). Priorities: documented governance roles, fiscal discipline across the Operating Budget, Replacement Reserves and CIF, member input before CIF spending, possible Policy Governance Model. |
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| 2025 board | Jeannine Grippo (Pres), Chuck Kill (VP), Brad Nickum (Treas), Sherri Grupe (Sec), Larry Santora, Shawne Cryderman, Matt Kambic. |
| Board election | Two seats open (Cryderman and Kambic terms); directors serve 3-year terms. Voting Monday, October 27 to noon Monday, November 17; Candidate Forum Friday October 24, 1-3 PM, DVPAC. Turnout: 47.3 % average over the last six elections, 54.4 % in 2024; HOA1 averages 58.9 %. |
| CIF increase vote tied | A recent member vote on raising the Community Improvement Fund (CIF) fee ended 1120 for, 1120 against, so it did not pass. |
| Golf 2026 rates | 2026 rates proposed to the board end of September, on sale “any day” (October). Cart gate system continues after cart-path-only lifts; overseeding under way. Staff: Mike Karpe PGA Director of Golf; Wayne Clark PGA Head Professional (2nd season, mostly at The Preserve); Mason Hage; intern Susie Gietl. Golf Town Hall Monday October 20, 2:00pm, DVPAC. |
| Fitness pricing | HOA2 classes $8 (member charge or Unlimited Monthly Fitness Class Pass); SGT classes $10, not on the pass; session-based classes priced per class. DV Fitness 520-818-1300. |
| Patrol 2 | 13 team members, three shifts a day, year-round, covering 3,200+ homes and 55 miles of roads. Sergeant Luis Elias profiled; Captain Dale Tate 520-825-7381. |
| PCSO calls, Aug 2025 | 63 total: information 7, civil/disorderly/domestic 6, dead body 2, agency assist 1, missing person 1, suicidal subject 1, traffic stop 1, violated court order 1 (rest unlabeled in the text layer). |
| Awards | The Preserve Fine Dining voted Best Fine Dining, 2025 AZ Daily Star Readers’ Choice; SaddleBrooke voted Best Retirement Community (winner or favorite since 2016) and Best Master-planned Community 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025. |
| ALC: tree pruning | Use ISA Certified Arborists, prune large branches in winter dormancy, never top a tree. |
| DVPAC | New stage lighting system installed in September. |
| Directory | HOA 2: 38735 S MountainView Blvd, 520-818-1000. COO Darren Shaw 520-770-5316; GM Ray Kuhn 520-670-3507; ALC admin 520-879-4155; Preserve chef Alex Ohayon 520-825-3028; MVBG mgr Nessa Lopez 520-825-5217; Golf 520-825-9022; Finance Terry Dempsey 520-879-4157. |
Source: SaddleBrooke HOA Two, For The Record, October 2025: read the issue. Summaries are Blaine’s; the recorded CC&Rs, HOA Two’s current Rules and a home’s resale disclosure govern.
Buying in SaddleBrooke Two?Blaine reads every issue and attends the meetings. Ask which of these items touch the home you are looking at.