3 February 2009

Dear fellow members

Now that an exciting Australian Open is over for another year, I hope that you are fired up and ready to play tennis – heat allowing!

Your committee met last night and I thought that I would use this opportunity to share some of the key issues and decisions that we talk about at our meetings.

Membership

·        We are trialing a cap at around 225 as the available facilities appear to be stretched at peak times

·        Membership is currently on hold as the existing club capacity of 225 has been reached

·        Currently 224 members (42 family, 107 individual, 2 juniors)

·        Fees will remain the same as last year

 Organised Tennis

·        Organized tennis will take booking priority during the evening peak times.  This is to increase usage of the courts.

·        The committee discussed some proposed organized tennis guidelines which will be distributed

·        Thanks to Mike Smith for organizing Tues and Fri nights

·        Thanks to Oliver, Tim, Sue and Melanie for organizing Wed nights

·        The organized tennis relies on volunteers to be successful.  We will streamline the work as much as possible to make this a simple task when its others turn

·        Tim Heath is organizing a Thursday night comp starting at 7.30 and he will be given two courts.  This may affect some court scheduling.

Works

·        MCC are giving positive signals about a kitchen refurbishment.  They have asked us for a design and cost proposal.

·        Carmel is meeting with kitchen manufacture on site to arrange quotes and prepare submission to MCC

·        Thanks to Wayne and Paul from the committee for cleaning out the shed

Court Bookings.

·        The committee resolved that it must endorse any ‘permanent bookings’

Regards,

Michael

Your committee is Michael Bowles (President), Carmel McCormack (Vice President), Wayne Dawson (Secretary and Membership), Bruce Du (Treasurer), Alex Chan, Emily Caruso, Chris Pettit, Paul Bozzo