VILLAGE OF OAKCREEK ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Steve Nelson, President
My wife, Linda, and I have been married 40 years during which we lived in California raising our three children. In 2004, we relocated to Arizona so that we could be closer to our kids and grand kids (up to 8 now) who lived in the Phoenix area. As we have always loved the Sedona area and I like to play golf (although it doesn’t always like me), VOCA was a natural destination for us. Since moving here, I have been a member of the Men’s Golf Club, chairman of VOCA’s Architectural Review Committee, appointed VOCA Director for the past year and active member with leadership roles at the Sedona United Methodist Church.
Prior to our relocation to VOCA, we had resided in San Gabriel, California. I graduated from San Gabriel High School, received my BS from Graduate School of Business at UCLA and completed an Executive Banking School Program at Stanford University. My entire business career had been in banking, working for 24 years with Security Pacific National Bank and then an additional 10 years with Bank of America after its acquisition. I retired in 2002 as Senior Vice President and Market Executive in charge of Commercial Lending for the eastern portion of Los Angeles County. For two years, I subsequently worked in a similar capacity for Comerica Bank retiring in 2004. Activities included being a director for the City of Industry Manufacturers Council, involvement in school and civic activities in our city and various leadership roles at the San Gabriel United Methodist Church.
I feel that my work and life experiences in finance, personnel and management provide the basis for sound business decision making for the benefit of all VOCA’s members. I have enjoyed this past year’s experience on the Board and I look forward to the opportunity to serve the community for the next three years.
TERRY SIDWELL , Treasurer
Currently Mr. Sidwell sits on the board as an appointed director and for the past two years has served on the VOCA Finance Committee. He is the only one who was on the original April slate of board candidates (the other two dropped out of the race).
Terry says he is an advocate of aggressive budgeting, sound fiscal policies and reasonable capital improvements.
Terry has a graduate degree from the University of Washington, Pacific Coast Banking School, Masters of Banking, 1984; and a Bachelor of Science, Finance, Arizona State University. He has 29 years centered around banking and six years as a franchised finance business owner. He also served on two home owner association boards. Following retirement, he was recruited by Penske Truck Leasing and hired as a senior credit analyst, packaging truck leases for many Fortune 500 companies.
From Southern California, Sidwell and wife, Gerrie, have been VOCA members since 1988 and permanent residents since 2004.
Mr. Sidwell believes his financial background will benefit VOCA. “With many years of business experience as a banker, manager and entrepreneur, I will rely on my diverse background to guide and direct those policies and procedures for the betterment of the community.”
You can email Terry at tsidwell@vocaonline.com
JIM FISCHER
A Midwesterner, Jim is a college graduate who is a former sales representative, supervisor, and vice president of marketing.
As a young man, after returning from the service as a paratrooper sergeant and then completing college, Jim immediately went to work for Caterpillar Tractor Company. He was trained in their college graduate’s training program and sent on to Geneva, Switzerland as a sales rep followed by time in Munich, Germany. Back in the states, in Boise, Idaho, he became a district representative.
The next 15 years, Jim went with Wheeler Machinery Company in sales and sales management. He then accepted a position as vice president of marketing with Jack B. Parson Companies (heavy/highway contractor) for eight years. Wheeler asked him back; he accepted and supervised for five years for the introduction of their new products.
Attempting to retire in 2001, he spent a few months as a security specialist for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
He, wife, Penny, and daughter, Stefanie, moved to the Village of Oak Creek in 2003 to avoid any more Utah winters. They are all avid golfers and members of the Oakcreek Country Club.
Mr. Fischer has been a member of the Board of the Village of Oakcreek for two years and has two more years to serve in his current term. He has been the Board representative on the Greens Committee for the past two years. Jim’s area of experience is in construction, grading, land forming and drainage, so the Greens Committee is a natural fit.
You can email Jim at pennyfischer3@msn.com
Joe Maza, Secretary
A longtime VOCA member with more than nine years as a resident, Mr. Mazza spent 40 years in management and underwriting in the title insurance industry.
His profession, he says, provided him with special skills in staffing, budgeting for operations, personnel management, and close work with department heads.
He was provided the opportunity to communicate with all types of real-estate professionals, attorneys, bankers and with many customers of his company.
He also assisted in forming a homeowners association in a new development where he lived and served as vice president on the board for two years.
He and wife, Sharon, always participated in VOCA elections dating back to 1988, as absentee owners , having judiciously followed the political process through local papers and conversations with residents with whom he had developed a close friendship. He says that by those means he developed a deep understanding of the Village and VOCA.
The couple moved here in 2000.
Mr. Mazza has served on the Board for two years, the last year as Board Secretary and says that ”he is happy to be part of a Board that has worked so hard and accomplished so much for the benefit of VOCA”.
Although much remains to be done, I feel that I have accomplished many of my stated goals of helping to bring stability, openness and common sense to the operation of the Board and I look forward to another successful year of representing VOCA as part of such a dynamic Board”.
You can email Joe at jmazza@vocaonline.com
Greg Lanzoni , Director
Greg was elected a to a three year term of the VOCA Board in April of 2008. Prior to that he served on VOCA election committees, the Strategic Planning Coordinating Committee and chaired the House & Grounds Committee. Currently he is the VOCA Board liaison to the House and Grounds Committee, the Big Park Wastewater Improvement District and a member/liaison to the Greens Committee.
Greg hails from upstate New York where he attended High School, college, and graduate school. He spent 33 years in the field of education as a classroom teacher, program/curriculum specialist and administrator. He also served as an officer on various parent teacher organizations and an officer of a homeowners association where he lived and worked in New Windsor, New York located in the lower Hudson Valley.
He and his wife Beth, also an educator and an active community volunteer, decided to buy property here in 2000 and upon retiring moved here in 2002. They chose the “Village” for its small town feeling and specifically VOCA for the value it offered and an HOA organization dedicated to maintaining a high quality of life.
Greg is delighted to have the opportunity to serve his community and is confident that with his communication skills he will continue to represent the VOCA community in an exemplary manner.
Greg is especially proud to have served for the past year as a Board member with Gary Kincaid who has been a tireless worker in guiding VOCA through much needed financial and organizational changes. “A highly positive, respectful, and working climate among Board members has been established that is certain to prevail for years/terms to come and I look forward to continuing my service to the community.”
Photographs and biographies Courtesy of the Villager
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