Dear Alice
Just to clarify one or two points.
The block fee proposed by the Sailing Club is £100 less than the fee paid last
year. The idea of a block fee (in line with section 3b of the SC Constitution)
was proposed by the Adies as one of the points in their memo to the Sailing
Club AGM. This was not opposed by any of the Coastal Rowers present at the AGM.
It is not up to the Coastal Rowing Club committee to set the membership fees -
any recommendations they make will have to be agreed by the members at the AGM
in April. (10.1 of the Rowers’ Constitution). Until the AGM we cannot say
whether family members will be worse off and that fees will be the same whether
or not members are also members of the Sailing Club. Of course if the Sailing
Club members do pay a full rowing subscription this will result in a
substantial increase in income for the Coastal Rowing Club.
I have already agreed with some rowers that were members of both clubs to hold
off their membership subscription to the Sailing Club until after all this is
sorted out (presumably till after the Coastal Rowers’ AGM).
Yours
Ann
Ann Morrison, Membership Secretary, St Andrews Sailing Club.
ann.morrison150@xxxxxxxxx
On 11 Mar 2016, at 10:31, Alice Belcher (Staff) <c.a.belcher@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear Members,
You will, maybe, remember that last year the Sailing Club set the Coastal
Rowing Club affiliation fee using a formula that meant family membership of
the Sailing Club proved to be a financially advantageous way of securing
Rowing Club membership for couples and families. This will not be the case
for the coming year.
The Rowing Club Committee received a draft affiliation document from the
Sailing Club this week. The terms of the proposed agreement include a "block"
fee to be levied on the Rowing Club. This fee depends neither on Rowing Club
membership numbers nor on the "Sailing Club Member/not" status of Rowing Club
members.
The Rowing Club Committee is in the process of clarifying several of the
terms of the affiliation agreement, but we wanted to alert you to the fact
that your purchase of Sailing Club membership for the coming year will not
lower our Sailing Club "bill". Therefore, Rowing Club membership fees for
the coming year will be the same for our members who are and are not Sailing
Club members.
I am sorry that the Committee has not yet been able to set fees for the
coming year, but the Sailing Club draft affiliation document was only
received a few days ago, and the Committee will need several of its terms to
be clarified before we can estimate the costs for running the Club in the
coming year.
Members affected by the information in this message could, perhaps, ask the
Sailing Club for extra time before deciding on whether to renew their Sailing
Club membership, or ask the Sailing Club treasurer not to bank their cheques
yet. This really only applies to rowers who kept up Sailing Club membership
solely in order to obtain cheaper access to the Rowing Club last year.
Yours
Alice Belcher (Treasurer)
The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096
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