March 2024 General Meeting

President -  Emily Van Vleet 

• Call to Order
• Roll call  --all present

Vice President - Mary Benin

• No report

Secretary - Barbara Landberg

• Approval of February 2024 Board meeting minutes
• a get well card was sent to Pamela Ovalle

Treasurer - Ken Steiner

• Monthly financial report as of 3/15/2024
  
  

  Tennis Club Report for Jan. 1, 2024  through March 17, 2024
  Summary Statement
  			Actual	Budget	Difference
  Income
  	Ball Machine		3,705.00	2,700.00	1,005.00
  	Membership Dues		4,645.00	6,900.00	-2,255.00
  	Social Events Income		2,280.00	6,000.00	-3,720.00
  	Other Income		40.00	0.00	40.00
  Total Income		10,670.00	15,600.00	-4,930.00
  Expenses
  	Operating Expenses		1,489.84	5,450.00	-3,960.16
  	Social Event Expenses		2,487.02	9,700.00	-7,212.98
  	Club Match/Tournament Expenses	111.70	1,400.00	-1,288.30
  Total Expenses		4,088.56	16,550.00	-12,461.44
  Net Income		6,581.44	-950.00	7,531.44
  	Checking Balance: 1-1-2024		$8,961.08
  	Checking Balance: 3-17-2024		$15,542.52

Tournaments - Richard Schulman

• March Wild Card Cancelled due to the weather
• The  Wild Card Tournament on April 6th Becky Reiss  and Shrey Trivedi volunteered to help run it since Richard will be away
• The VIllages visit/tournament  will be at Rossmoor on April 20th
• SEE VOLUNTEER SIGNUP SHEET AT THE MEETING FOR HELP PLANNING AND SETTING UP TOURNAMENTS FOR ALL YEAR (or contact Richard via text or email)

Social - Laura Townsend

• The 1st Saturday of the month RTC will provide food or drinks and have a theme 
• The 3rd Saturday there will be a griller but no food provided by the club
• need volunteers to grill 
• we might change the schedule if people think it is too much to have the tournaments and barbeques on the same date

Membership - Terry Quinlan

• 193 Members
• 6 new members since 1/1/24
• 70 Ball Machine Users
• New Member tournament scheduled for 6/22/24 but as of now we only have 12 new members since July 2023
• 2024 Directories all delivered by board....BIG THANK YOU!
• Discussion about ways to print the directory next year for members who are not computer literate

Facilities - David Hickey

• Net fixed on court six
• Plastic boxes for used balls replaced on all courts
• I hope to train three new ball machine members this month
• Due to rainy conditions the number of players this month was about 1,076
• On March 28th from 8 - 10 am court 2 will be used for servicing the ball machine which will cost $250.

Publicity - Linda Hague

• She would welcome ideas for news articles
• Roger Emanuel has been very helpful in submitting articles
• Shrey Trivedi has sent wonderful photos which are on the  webisite

Information Technology  

• Richard Schulman gave a demonstration on a large screen of how easy it is to use the Wild Apricot website on our phones. 

• He will check on why printing from the website comes out so small 

• Old Business

• GRF  meetings on 2024 court resurfacing project -update
• There was great concern that the resurfacing of the tennis courts is being delayed and the amount of money originally budgeted is being cut back
• It probably won't happen until the end of 2024 for courts 1-6 and not until 2025 for courts 7 and 8 
• It is VERY IMPORTANT that people show up and speak up at the Finance Committee meeting  Tues. March 26th at 9 AM at Gateway Board Room and the GRF BOARD MEETING on Thursday, March 28th at 9 AM at Peacock Hall
• We need to express our concern for safety before we have accidents on the courts

New Business

• Open forum for members- 
• need for a microphone at next meeting
• we could circulate a petitiion to show how much we need  the courts to be resurfaced  and soon
• It was suggested that we bring in a pro for coaching and teaching but we might need to check with Ann Mottola what is required
• Someone suggested that if the RTC puts in some money toward the courts GRF listens
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• RAFFLE! We had a very successful raffle with many winners.!

Next Meeting: April 15