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Dear Club Owners, At the October Board meeting, the Master Board will vote on the budget for 2024 as presented by the Finance Committee. Many hours of work have been put into the budget by department heads and our General Manager in early summer, after which, the Finance Committee spent several months fine tuning the budget to its current form. We anticipate an increase of $350 to fund the reserves, $540 for operations and no increase to bundled TV and high-speed internet for a total increase of $890. Details on the budget were presented to the Board and the Membership at the Budget Workshop in September, and that presentation, which will answer any of your budget questions, may be found on the club website under club documents. The Board continues to review Social memberships at the Club and anticipate increasing their dues significantly for the 2024 season. We also intend to give Cypress Woods homeowners 5 days advance booking for all events and have approved a new pickleball court reservation system to help alleviate any issues there. As your Board, we are tasked with trying to balance member experience with the significant income that the Social and Annual Members provide to the Club. It will never be perfect, but we will continue to make decisions that we believe make the Club a great place to live. Thanks again to all who participated in the Communications Survey. The Communication Committee will be sharing the results of the survey with the Board this month, after which we will be sharing with the membership. We hope we can use the results to better communicate with the Membership in the manner that you prefer going forward.
Don Simard,
Board President, Cypress Woods Golf and Country Club
MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER
Phone Directory PRO SHOP: 239-592-7860 RESTAURANT: 239-593-5311 ADMINISTRATION: 239-593-3392
Email Directory ADMINISTRATION: office@cypresswoodsgolf.com frontdesk@cypresswoodsgolf.com accounting@cypresswoodsgolf.com controller@cypresswoodsgolf.com
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Dear Cypress Woods Members,
RESTAURANT:
We completed our final aerification on the golf course in September so we should only have minimal interruption to play through the season. We were delighted to host the PGA Southwest Florida High School Regional Invitational for a two-day tournament at the Club in late September, and the feedback was tremendously positive. The course was, and remains, in excellent condition and the food and beverage operations did a magnificent job as usual. Hosting tournaments such as these helps expose the club to people who may never have known we existed, and show others who may have visited in the past just how great our Club really is.
fandbmanager@cypresswoodsgolf.com
We will launch a new app this month through our existing operation system, Jonas. Members will be able to make dining reservations, pickleball court reservations including guest registration, sign up for fitness classes, and link to Chelsea for tee times, all through a single app. The app will also have much of the most used items from the website including access to the club roster. There will certainly be some growing pains as we initiate the app but it will vastly improve your reservation experience at the Club and hopefully provide another step towards better communication. Our H2B team members from Jamaica will return in the middle of the month with many of the same smiling faces returning for their fourth season at Cypress Woods. We have several other in-country seasonal employees returning in November who will join our year-round team in creating a memorable member experience at the Club this season. We are already beginning to see some of our seasonal members return to Naples over the past few weeks, and we are expecting many more returning this month. Upon your return you will see new plantings and up lighting at the front of the clubhouse, fresh seal coat on the blacktop, and new furniture outside the Golf Shop, giving the Club exterior a fresh new look for the upcoming season. We also painted the Fitness Center interior and added some new furniture giving the space a bright and refreshed look as we begin our fitness classes again this month.
assistantfandb@cypresswoodsgolf.com chef@cypresswoodsgolf.com
GENERAL MANAGER: gm@cypresswoodsgolf.com
Master Board Members Don Simard, President
Bev Ricketts, Vice President Diane Tache, Treasurer Michael Latimer, Secretary Linda Kantor Phil Oreste
We look forward to seeing you at the Club soon.
Heather Perras- Nicholson
Sean Hynes, CCM, CAM
Mary Romano
General Manager
Barry Stivers