Standing Business

June, July, and August 2007 minutes approved

Swim: No new business.

Tennis: Dee Perry will set up meeting with Doug Kazarosian to outline League Coordinator position.

Meadow’s Open deemed a large success with over 315 participants, up from 268 in 2006.

Club tournament perceived as having lower turnout each year. Need to get specific numbers on participants, but could be related to the timing of the event. Too close to first days of school and people are too busy to participate.

General Business:

Currently there are 260 familiesy, 50 junior and 50 single memberships. Wait list is 164 families, highest ever.

Audrey Irwin will add the application to the website for download as a PDF.

The Club is showing a profit of $25,000 2007 CYTD.

The list of potential year-end capital outlays consists of $10K for a Tennis shelter, $20-40K for dredging the pond, new grills, ball machine, fence repair, and new furniture for the Clubhouse.

Platform tennis: The City has the potential to ask that all court lighting at the Meadows be reduced to 30 foot candles if the Club seeks changes where the cost of the changes exceeds 25% of the assessed value of the Club’s structures. The Club’s structures are valued at over seven hundred thousand dollars by the Boulder County Assessor’s office , so the Club can avoid triggering this threshold as it pursues a second platform court or the lighting for same.

It is the Board’s understanding that without a variance to the City light ordinance, that the Club would not be able to satisfactorily light courts 9, 10 & 11. The City has given the Board the sense that it isn’t ~~likey~~likely that the Club will be able to obtain a variance. Therefore, the Board approved removing the item for lighting courts 9,10 & 11 from the Club’s application to the city The Club will continue to move forward with the application to the city for an additional platform court, lights for both and a warming hut.

Strategic planning update; Richard Leddon prepared a high level review of Club financials from 1997-2006. Hard copy was distributed to the Board members for review and questions prior to the next meeting. A strategic planning “summit” will be scheduled for the Board in November to plan for 2008.

Dee Perry is leading the General Manager hiring process and gave the following update.

The search committee consists of Dee Perry, Laura Steele, Louis Beaupre, and Richard Leddon. The Job is defined and posted on Yahoo jobs, Craigslist, and Athletic Professional Association of America websites. There was a meeting with Shane Mood to discuss the hiring process on September 25^th.

The Tribute to Dale Mood party is scheduled for November 3, 2007 at Spice of Life Center. Invitations will go out via email and hard copy with the newsletter this week .

The board approved allocating a $3000 budget to cover expenses at the party.

The board approved commissioning a plaque recognizing Dale Mood’s service to the Club and naming the pool the “Dale P. Mood Pool.” Approved budget is up to and not to exceed $500 for the plaque. So far, the Board has not been successful in seeking to have the Boulder Daily Camera run an article about Dale Moood’s tenure at and retirement from the Meadows. Sara Oclassen will make an attempt for such an article.

Miscellaneous:

Annual meeting is scheduled for October 30^th at 7pm at the Meadows Club. Audrey Irwin will send out an announcement to the membership regarding the meeting.

Next Board Meeting

Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 6:00pm at Meadow’s Club.