Membership Package 1996

Membership information for the 1995-1996 membership year.

Webmaster's Note:

We keep track of things at the club based on calendar years, fiscal years and membership years. No two of them start on the same day.

We all know about the Calendar year, however, there are two other 12 month periods that affect the club and it's members financially.

Our Fiscal Year goes from July 1 to June 30. This is the 12 month period that governs our budget and the term of office for our board members. Our tax returns are also filed for this period of time.

Then there is the United States Figure Skating Association's membership year. This period goes from October 1, to September 30 of the following calendar year.

USFSA membership is not pro-rated. In other words, if you join the USFSA half way through the skating year, you must still pay full price. It also complicates things, because the school year starts sometime between late August and early September, depending on the school, and we need to begin our school programs immediately. So here's the basic policy of this club governing membership dues.

• If you are currently a member, you don't need to have your membership paid until October 1 to be involved in club sessions. Even if you are not planning to renew your membership, it is still in effect through September 30
• If you are planning to enter an event that will be held after October 1, whose registration deadline is prior to October 1, you must pay your 95-96 membership before the application can be signed.
• Between September 1 and October 1 skaters participating in fall program activities requiring club membership are required to join in advance.
• Skaters joining as a full member between October 1 and August 31 are required to pay full membership.
• The board often approves special limited membership programs to allow non members access to classes during the last three months of the school year.

Santa Rosa Figure Skating Club tries to keep dues as low as possible. We do this by collecting only funds needed to cover expenses like USFSA dues, "Skating" magazine subscriptions, the club newsletter, insurance, and other membership related administrative expenses in the dues. We cover our club programs like club ice, lessons, club shows, competitions, etc. through a combination of fund raisers and participant fees.

All members should have received their membership packets by now, If you haven't, please contact Beverly Salaz

Fees for 95-96 are as follows...

First skating member or professional, $51.00

Additional skating or non skating member, $31.00

Associate member, $31.00

In addition, the board has passed a resolution requiring 25 hours volunteer time, or a $100 additional per family using club certain qualifying club services. If you do not use any of the these services, this requirement is waived.

Fees for additional skating & non-skating members are the same (non-skaters paid a little less in years past) because we invariably had situations where a parent would step out on the ice, or need to be backstage where the wet surface of the floor, from skaters going on and off the ice, made life a little more hazardous for those in shoes, so last year we decided it would be best to insure all members. If a non-skater decides to start skating, they do not have to upgrade their membership as they did in the past.

MEMBERSHIP PACKAGE 1996

The Santa Rosa Figure Skating Club is happy to welcome you to its 1995,96 season. We have an exciting year ahead. In this your membership package is all the information that you will need to get your skating year started. This package contains the 1995-96 membership card, the USFSA NCR forms and the club sessions schedule. Please remember that the NCR forms must bet completely filled out and signed before you or your child can skate. Also that a parent must sign one of the forms and return it with the child's form

Our first Wednesday session will be September 6, 1995. Our first Monday session will be September 11, 1995. The sessions themselves are the same as last year. Prices have slightly increased for all sessions. This reflects a raise in our ice costs.

As usual you can sign up for sessions on Wednesday afternoons. Carol Maloy, our Session Chairman, will be at the arena to sign all the skaters up for sessions. Sessions are on a first come basis. Terrie Gershman, President of the club, will also be there on Wednesday to answer any and all questions you may have.

This year we will. be hosting several ice skating events. The OktoberDanceFest ice dancing competition will be held October 15, 1995. The Crystalline Classic showcase competition will be held in late March or early April of 1996. The Santa Rosa Figure Skating Club will be co-hosting the Pacific Coast Precision Team Championships, in Berkeley, in late February 1996. The club ice show dates are not set yet but we anticipate will be held in mid to late May of 1996. The Redwood Classic freestyle competition will again be held in mid August 1996. So you can see we have a very full year ahead.

We look forward to seeing all of you and to your participation in as many of our events as possible. Welcome to a great skating year.

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