Happy New Year!!

Membership renewal time is here! If your membership has expired, please consider renewing soon. Your membership expiration date is printed on the newsletter that you should be receiving in the mail in the next few days. We greatly appreciate your renewal!

For the second year in a row, our revenue has exceeded our expenses and we are ending the year with a positive bottom line! Kudos to our Board, through their hard work and difficult decision-making, to have been able to make this happen.

Recapping major accomplishments and highlights that have taken place this year:

• The drill program has been restructured: some drills have been outsourced to participating clubs. We promote them but assume no financial responsibility.

• Charges for drills we retain have been modestly increased.

• The website is functioning efficiently and is processing credit cards properly.

• Boat ride for the captains was a major success.

• Joan Thomas was recipient of the Dow award presented at Annual Meeting.

• Paid advertising space is once again being promoted in newsletter and e-blast.

• Many tennis socials and clinics with great food were lots of fun.

• Group play continues as the backbone of our club. 

Since our financial situation has dramatically improved over the last two years, we are now automatically including a printed newsletter in the $30 Basic Membership. For $34, membership includes a printed roster (once a year). This reduces our current four levels of membership levels to just two.

What’s ahead for 2017? Our Long-Range Planning Committee, which Jim Handy is chairing, is looking for your input. Please contact Jim with any ideas you may have at jimlhandy@gmail.com.

Our first social event in 2017 is open for registration! Sign up now for our fun Tennis and Pizza Social on Saturday, January 28th at St. Paul Indoor Tennis Club. We are excited to be able to accommodate our “East Side” members on the St. Paul side of the river.

Good news! Our rosters for 2016 have been printed. For those of you that paid for a roster with your 2016 membership, you should have received one. In error the covers say 2017 instead of 2016. 

Happy hitting!

Linda