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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]its just expensive to manage a facility that has huge insurance costs, is run by a volunteer board, and was built 70 years ago.   All the area pools are dealing with similar problems.  There are a couple of different ways to structure the assessment.  When we did our renovation initially, we planned to do a similar assessment, with a smaller dues hike.  Members complained, and we switched to just increasing dues significantly, and increasing our initiation fee significantly.  Going into the renovation we had a healthy waitlist, we did run through the entire waitlist the year the increase went into effect b/c we lost so many members.  [/quote]

Having a waitlist definitely helps in a situation like this. I’ve been on our board for 17 years and we’ve never been close to having a waitlist. We’ve tried various incentives over the years, but it’s always been tough building up our membership base. We did see a nice boost in 2022 and 2023, but the numbers have dropped back again the past two years. Ten more membership families would help a lot. It’s a balancing act for sure.[/quote]

As the board, look at what’s going on as generally people leave for a reason.  We left due to the board and how it was being run.  [/quote]

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