Meet the 2024 RMCA board candidates

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Get to know your candidates for RMCA board of directors. Each candidate was asked a series of questions, find their responses in their own words below. 

Jay Hamerstadt

2 yrs 10 mos

Anyone interested in serving on the Board wants to make Regency ay Montaine a better community in which to live. Personally, I want to serve on the Board because I have experienced the frustrations with developer with respect to ongoing community maintenance and drainage issues and I feel that we need to build a stronger the relationship with Toll. That takes an understanding of the development side of the construction business as well as the interpersonal skills developed over my banking and construction career since 1974.

I spent 10 years as a Board Member of our townhome community in Breckenridge. Although the community was comprised of a different composition of owners, it provide me with an understanding of the responsibilities that a Board Member undertakes. Our Board worked closely with our local management company as well as our counsel to resolve issues within the community.

I spent 35 years in the banking industry, 5 years in the construction industry and the last 10 years working for a company that works with agencies of the federal government. More specifically, finance and banking, i.e., FDIC, SBA and HUD. In addition, I started my construction inspection company 8 years ago. I work with title companies, banks and credit unions to review and manage their construction projects. My undergraduate degree is in finance and marketing. As previously mentioned, I worked for 5 years in the construction industry. In 2000, I graduated from University of Denver with a Masters in Real Estate and Construction Management. I was hired by Turner Construction, the general contractor on the Denver Broncos Football Stadium, as a Field Engineer. My responsibilities included the scheduling the work with the sub-contractors, make sure the work was completed in time and per the scope of the contract and approve the sub-contractors pay applications.

I ended my banking career as a Regional President of a community bank with 20 branches located along the Front Range. In addition, I served on the volunteer Board of Big Brother of Metro Denver (8 years) and was a Big Brother for 18 years. I was a graduate of Leadership Aurora and served on the Board of the largest youth hockey program in Colorado, Littleton Hockey Association. My final year I served as Board President.

All with a few exceptions as I was out of town.

As our community grows, the number one challenge facing the RMCA is preparing for the turnover of the Board responsibilities to the homeowners once the community has reached 70% sales. Although its projected that won't be reached for 3-4 years, it is vital that the Board manage the RMCA with that in mind.

Bill Cirkus

My wife Michele and I moved to Regency in August 2021

I’m interested in continuing what I promised last year, when I ran, to pull back the curtain of how our HOA functions, holding Toll and management accountable for providing what they are obligated to do, and to the extent it’s received, providing guidance to them on governance, financial and operational issues. I do feel I have more work to do on the communication side, as the primary venue I have available is the homeowner managed Facebook group, which I suspect only reaches 50-60% of homeowners. I’m continuing to push for more Neighborhood Cafes (aka Town Halls) and more informative eBlasts and Newsletters, as well as encouraging more to join the Facebook group.

I believe I’m uniquely qualified for this position because of my educational, work, and personal experiences. I have been in the shoes of a property management company CEO managing communities like Regency; in the shoes of a developer, as CFO handling their finances and accounting; as well as the Sponsor representative on the Board of numerous communities; in the shoes of a homeowner on the Finance Committee of a developer controlled HOA; and here at Regency as the first elected homeowner and Treasurer for the past year. Having been trained as an auditor has also given me a mindset to evaluate financial records differently than most.

I graduated from American University in 1974 with a BSBA with a concentration in Accounting. I worked as an senior auditor for an international accounting firm in Washington DC, and then as the CFO for a subsidiary of an international developer, building large scale condominium projects in DC. In 1979 I moved back to NJ and founded and operated as CEO a property management company concentrating on condos, coops, HOAs and rental apartments. With partners, we converted approximately 100 apartment buildings to condominium or cooperative ownership and was the Sponsor member on the Board for many of those conversions. I sold my business in 2016 and retired that year. I held a CPA license and Real Estate Salesman license, which I relinquished as well. I continue to be involved in commercial real estate investments, and am a part owner with my son of a property management company in Colorado Springs that he operates, performing 3rd party management for investors of single family homes and condos in that general area.

My leadership positions include for 37 years as CEO of a property management company I founded, managing partner of numerous real estate investment entities, and as a Board member and Treasurer here at Regency for the past year.

I have attended all Board meetings during my term as Board member, and most prior to my election.

I believe the biggest challenge we face is to strive to be a community that is respectful and welcoming to all residents, and not what we read about as horror stories in other communities across the country of overbearing boards. To find that happy medium between strict rules enforcement and “live and let live” would be the holy grail in my eyes. We need to remember why we all decided to move to a community like this.

Ken Lisk

1 1/2 years

To be a voice and help the community

My background in both finance and construction

Mechanical Engineering degree and 30 years in finance.

Have been a manager for large teams for 24 years.

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Hard to say until I am involved in the meetings, but I believe finance is one challenge.
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