FEBRUARY 2001 NEWSLETTER

The Club House reopens March 1 st

Theodosia Country Club, LLC
Country Club Drive
HC 5 Box 5700
Theodosia, MO 65761
417-273-4877

MEMBER DUES:
Membership fees are due March 1, 2001.
Fees are the same as last year.
TAX IS INCLUDED
Annual Membership
Family $ 637.50
Individual 425.00
Assoc. Family 425.00
Assoc. Individual 265.65
Junior 132.81
Social 159.38

Cart Storage 160.00

Semi-Annual Payment Option
Family $ 329.38
Individual 223.13

ANNUAL INVESTOR MEETING
The annual investor meeting will be held at the club on Friday February 23rd at 7:00 P. M. Investors please plan to attend. We need to elect two new board members.

THANKS
Alan Mahon wants to thank all of you for the Christmas present and for your support throughout the year.

We all wish to thank Bob and Ethal Matyska, Glen and Carolyn McNabb and the others who helped in managing the tournaments last year.

The Tournament Committee for the 2001 tournament season will be Don Gilmore, Len Ahrnsbrak, and Warren Herchenroeder. Bob Matyska will be helping until the schedule is established.

LADIES' LEAGUE PLANNING MEETING
The Ladies’ League will hold an organizational meeting at the club house on Thursday March 1st at 5:00 P. M. This is the meeting where the plans for the League for this season are determined.
League play policies and procedures are determined by the League participants, not by the Club management. If you would like to see things done any differently, this is the meeting where you need to make your feelings known. Please, if you are interested in playing in the ladies’ league, attend this important meeting. Or, if you are not familiar with League play, come to the meeting just to see what it is all about.

MEN'S LEAGUE
Planned start date will be Tuesday April 3rd at 4:00 PM The “unofficial Mens’ League” continues to play at 2:00 PM weather permitting (which hasn’t been often lately)

COUPLES LEAGUE
Start date to be announced later.

2001 SCHEDULE OF TOURNAMENTS
(Not yet available)

NEW WEB SITE and email address.
Visit our new Theodosia Country Club web site.

theodosiacc.50megs.com

See if you think it will be helpful to you and to visitors to this area. Your feedback and critiques on the web site content would be helpful.
Send email to:
theodosiacc.hotmail.com

Mailing address corrections and ideas or information for the newsletter can be submitted to Ron or Helen Beard 679-4151 or rlbeard@webound.com

Also let us know if you do not wish to receive the Newsletter mailings.

SURVEY FEEDBACK

Range Planning Committee and the Board of Directors wish to thank everyone for their responses to the Member Opinion Survey. Over 70 responses, representing 40% of potential respondents, returned a survey. That is a very encouraging response. The LRP committee and the Board have gained valuable insights to the desires of our members. We are all working hard to address as many of the issues raised as soon as possible.
There will be, and already are, visible signs of the use of this feedback to better the operation and our golf course. Among the many issues identified in the Opinion Survey were many comments about planting trees, and following rules. The Board has taken the following actions:

TREES
Early in the year the board had discussed the possibility of planting more trees around the course in the fall when they would stand a good chance of surviving and growing. The feedback on the survey reminded us that many of you wanted to see this tree planting happen.
So in October the board approved the purchase and planting of 15 trees at a cost of a little over $30 per tree. Some of you who play in the winter season have already noticed these new trees. They are a type of pear tree which is both fast growing and very attractive. By five years in the future, those that survive will have grown dramatically.
At the January Board meeting the planting effort was discussed. It was felt that the 15 trees are a good start, but upon observing the new trees, it was felt that it would be great if more could be planted in the early spring. It was felt that the 2001 budget might not be able to support additional tree planting. As a result of that discussion, several people at that meeting donated $30 each for trees to be planted in the spring.

Thank you to:
Bill Barns
Don Gilmore
Gerald Hannaford
Lynn Jones
Bob Maytyska
Joe Nash

For $180 to plant 6 additional trees in the spring. Would you also like to donate $30 for a tree to help beautify our golf course?

If so, just mail or take your donation to the club by the end of March and we will plant one tree for each $30 donation.

RULES
The survey clearly indicated dissatisfaction with enforcement of club rules regarding the 5 player limit and starting play on Tee #1.

In response, the Board of Directors wants to inform all that our club rules must be strictly followed and enforced in 2001 and beyond. Especially:
-- No more than 5 players on a hole.
-- Sign in at the Club House and start play on #1, unless another starting hole is specifically approved by the pro shop attendant.

As we grow it is more and more important that we follow club rules. Any member should feel free to report rule infractions to the pro shop attendant.
The rules are posted in the Club House. Please review them next time you are there.

LONG RANGE PLANNING REPORT The full LRP report is a 50 page report to the Board which contains a lot of details that probably are not of interest to most of you. However, if any of you would like to review the report, just ask any board member to loan you his copy. You are most welcome to read and return the report.