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Green Committee Finance Report

Everyone is anxiously waiting for a In December, the Board had an
break in the weather. It will come soon. afternoon session to discuss the Long-
Scott has 2 staff and 2 dogs during the Term Plan and in particular the goals of
winter months and is busy with day to that Plan which we should orient our
day play, clean up and daily activities toward. In past Plan’s there
maintenance. He has enough debris on has been a number of goals outlined
the course to keep him busy till spring. Let’s hope the focusing on course conditions, culture, and financial
winds die down over the next few months. He reports that viability with several concomitant objectives under each
we lost the large Garry Oak behind #16 green. of those goals.
Yellow Tees: The yellow tees are gaining in For the current Plan and goals the Board has decided
popularity. The new tees will be open for play in the to become much more specific and focused – over the next
spring. The exception will be #1, which is being revisited. 3 years the goal is to increase the Club’s revenue by
One offshoot of building the yellow tees is that more $600,000. This means, that annual revenues will grow
members are moving up to play the green tees. from this year’s $2,305,000 to $2,905,000.
Audubon Certification: Ruby and Patrick organized To accomplish this goal the Board is focused on
the display for the Audubon Society in the entrance to the increasing revenue from three areas: 1) increasing the
clubhouse. Check it out. number of members; 2) increased green fee play; and, 3)
Gardens: A special thanks goes out to Bill McMillan, increased dues and fees from existing members.
Gary Moser and Bill Barber for tending to the gardens The rationale for this is very simple. As members will
around the clubhouse, the ladies committee for working on know, the Club has faced a difficult financial situation for
the gardens by the corner of Tillicum and Admirals in a number of years and the Board and Management have
front of the stone wall and the Juniors for maintaining the spent a lot of time and effort on improving our finances.
gardens on hole #’s 2 and 5. With a small surplus in the financial results last year,
Any members who have the gardening urge may adopt conditions have definitely improved. However, it is
a garden. Just contact the office. important to understand two things:
Winter Cart Paths: Members are encouraged to • The financial improvement has been on the operating
think about where they park their power cart while on the budget and not the balance sheet. This is important
cart paths, especially during the winter months when going because while the Club has improved its yearly
off the cart path to pass a cart can cause a lot of damage. operating results there has not been an improvement
Where possible, park where the cart path is the widest so in the balance sheet. In particular we have not been
other carts can pass. This is especially important to the able to set aside sufficient reserves to pay for future
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left of 1 and beside the 18 green. capital requirements such as replacing old equipment,
See you on the course. course improvements (bunkers, irrigation, etc.) or
Murray McAllindon buildings maintenance.
Green Committee • Second, the improvement in the operating budget has
come from expense control rather than revenues.

While the expense control has been very successful
in reducing the deficits it has not allowed us to build
up the needed reserves for capital requirements; nor

Welcome New Members! will it ever do so. In addition, there is also a negative
impact of reducing expenses in the course conditions,
Conor Leentvaar Int Feb service levels, and maintenance standards. It is now
very clear that everything that can be done on the

Roger Lundberg Social Feb expense side has been done and the Club must now
focus on increasing revenues.
Cash Reumkens Int Jan As raising revenues is the foremost issue that the Club
faces the Board deemed it crucial that the Long-Term
Kirk Handrahan Social Jan Plan’s objectives reflect this, which is why we have set the

Sean McCullough Int Jan 3-year/$600,000 annual revenue increase as our singular
target.
Jaylen Ormiston Jr/Jr Jan Over the next few months members will see a number
of initiatives and proposals come forward some of which
will require your approval. As you consider these
understand that in order to maintain the viability of the
Golf Club we need to ensure that we can replace aging