Dear Ann,
Many thanks for your points, in particular the clarification that you are
willing to hold off membership subscriptions for those people caught up in the
middle of this timing issue.
I believe it is imperative that Rowing Club members can make membership choices
based on complete information.
The Rowing Club committee has been faced late in the day with a draft
affiliation agreement that needs much clarification. Given our need for time to
clarify terms (mostly non-financial), as treasurer, I felt that our members
needed to know that their expectation of what membership of sailing club could
"buy" was very likely to be different this year from last year.
I agree that it is for the membership to agree the fee structure. I should
probably have included the word "likely" in my initial message.
As this is going to the entire membership of the Rowing Club, I would like to
emphasise that your Committee is working very hard on your behalf and working
as quickly as we can given the timing or our receipt of the affiliation
agreement. Also, as there is still much (non financial) to be discussed
Commitee to Comittee, perhaps we should all refrain from continuing this on
the Rowing Club message list.
Yours
Alice
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From: Ann Morrison <ann.morrison150@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 11 March 2016 23:09:34
To: Alice Belcher (Staff)
Cc: All Members Rowing Club
Subject: Re: [st-and.crc] A message from the Treasurer!
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<mailto:ann.morrison150@xxxxxxxxx>
On 11 Mar 2016, at 10:31, Alice Belcher (Staff)
<c.a.belcher@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto: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)
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