From your Club Treasurer
Bills for the next fiscal year will be going out in less than 2 weeks. Bills can be paid in a single payment, semi-annually, quarterly, or monthly if you set up an automatic payment program with your bank. I can accept payment by credit card. If you catch me at a meeting, I can swipe your card. Also, I can charge manually if you give me your card number, expiration date, CVV code, billing zip code, and the amount to pay, either by phone or email. It is important that you make some payment by July 1 indicating your intent to remain a member of the club for the coming year. Otherwise we end up paying RI and District dues for members who drop their membership but don’t let us know.
You will notice a change in this coming year’s dues, which have been increased to $292. The reason for this is that our lunch charge was not covering the cost of lunches. Previously, we were charging $13/lunch, which was to cover the actual cost of the meal, $11.50, plus the cost of the room. The room costs $104 per meeting, with an average of 40 members attending each lunch, so the cost per attending member of $2.50 was leaving us a dollar short. The Board decided, therefore, to add $57/member to the dues to cover the fixed cost of the room. To make up for that, the lunch charge has been reduced to $12, the actual cost of meals next year. For regular members, or seniors who attend each week, the net effect is only a $5 difference.
Thank you for your cooperation. George Stern, Club Treasurer