The Treasurer will be selling tickets in the near future.
The tickets this year will cost $ 50.00 per person. We have to pay for a minmum of 50 people.
Again the Banquet is 7 weeks away so if you are on a budget start putting $ 10.00 per week in the jar per person, which will pay for your ticket and leave enough for cocktails.
I know that there were complaints about the cost last year, but it was the best deal for what we wanted. I understand that some of our members do not have the means like others more fortunate. The bottom line is the cost is the cost and the Club cannot afford to subsdize your ticket. The free Pig Roast in July was the extent of our disposable Club income this year, and 70% was funded by the gun raffle that Bubba hosted. Everyone in the Club pays the same for their membership but don't get the same benefit.
If you can't afford to go I understand, but please try to look at it as it is offered to everyone in the Club, and it is you making the choice not to go.
The initial reason for the Banquet established long before I became a member, has lost some of it's purpose over the years. If I am still President next year, I will entertain changing the bylaws for 2012 lifting the mandate to have the Banquet. Personally, I would like to see our addition finished and the existing meeting room overhauled and just have a party at the Clubhouse.
Jim
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