Fee changes

[Tom Brown]

[Posting to sfuwh-announcements. There are some replies at http://groups.google.com/group/sfuwh/t/1267ed9b38ca3678 .]

Hi Sea Lions- We’ve got big news, our hockey practices at King will
cost us more starting June 1. We will raise pool fees to $8 (prepaid)
and $10 (one time) on Monday April 18. We will raise them further in
June. Please read on.

The city will start charging a per hour fee, no matter how many people
show up. It’s a special fee for “Public Benefit” groups that we should
be thankful for: $47/hour of building use. That comes up to $141 for
Monday practice and $125 for Thursday.

Considering a whole year and holidays and stuff it comes out to
approximately $1,020/month. Right now we pay approximately $400 a
month.

On top of this, the city required that the swim coach on deck becomes
a certified lifeguard. They accepted the fact that we don’t have any
coach on deck, but we still have to have one certified lifeguard in
every practice. They offered to train as many of our players as needed
for no charge. We will need many of you to take the certification
class, which takes 40 (forty) hours.

Now how we will pay for this 2.5 times increase in fees?

Ways we can raise ~$1020/month starting June 1.

Option 1. Increase rate to $11 per practice

We'd rather go with one of the two options below that implement a
monthly membership fee system, with either reduced or zero payment per
practice. Such system encourages regular attendance and ensures that
we have enough money to pay for practices. Drop in rates for
non-members would be high enough to encourage membership.

The numbers shown will bring the amount of money we need. They are
also our best estimate based on attendance in recent months.

  2. Monthly fee for members ($50 * 20 members) + Drop in rate ($15)

  3. Monthly fee for members ($21 * 20 members) + member practice
rate ($6) + drop in rate ($15)

Based on what we know about you guys, maybe 3 is the system that fit
this group the best, but both works just fine. The key is that we need
20 members. 19 works, but that’s it. So you have to commit or we have
to figure something else out.

We will set a credit card - paypal sign up system that will charge the
membership fee every month.

We anticipate that it will take some time to get all 20 members
committed. To buy some time and get some cushion in the bank we will
increase the practice fee starting next Monday April 18. The new rates
are $8 (prepaid) and $10 (one time).

We propose a meeting to discuss these changes on April 25 at Zante’s
after practice. We’ll shorten practice to make it work, so we’ll get
out of the water at 8:45 pm.
Please plan to come.

At the meeting we’ll discuss all the options and the accounting behind
them and will answer all questions.

Before the meeting find us at practice to ask questions or email us at
our individual accounts.

This is it. Big change, and sucks to pay so much more. It’s not a
whole lot though, at $47/hour. We’ve been paying very little compared
to pool costs.

Let’s get this setup soon and get over it so we can go back to having
fun and putting together great teams for Nationals!

Yours truly,

Roxanne, Gus, Tom
roxru...@gmail.com, gpe...@gmail.com, thec...@gmail.com