JUNE 2023
GVREC.ORG
Report on Efficiencies Initiatives — how are we doing? Last June, the cover of the GVR Now! featured a letter to the GVR membership about my focus on efficiency. Six months later, a survey of the membership revealed the members’ top priority: pursuing greater operational efficiency to ensure members receive high value for their dollar. Some might call that serendipity.
Prioritized strategic planning initiatives
(Respondents ranked these options is order of importance, 1 through 7. The initiatives that are most important are at the top, with the lowest average rating.)
Most important
Least important
So, where are we with this endeavor one year after I started the conversation? How are we doing with our effort to pursue excellent facilities and services prudently, but effectively?
• The Glass Artists Club will have a studio this fall that
provides them with nearly the same amount of space originally planned, at half the originally projected cost.
• Three space-expansion projects are being explored
simultaneously, to maximize efficient use of resources. At West Center, if the long-discussed expansions of the Woodworker’s Shop and the Lapidary Shop can occur at the same time, GVR can bid a single project and work with a single crew, saving time and money. Lapidary expansion at West Center would allow the club to partially consolidate, closing the Desert Hills lapidary shop so the Ceramics Club can expand for a second and final time, affordably.
• Staff has identified a long-time practice that diminishes the
quality of some recreation offerings while increasing costs: maintaining nearly all meeting rooms as “multi-purpose” spaces. The same rooms where members take classes about Southwest flora and fauna are expected to serve as yoga studios and card rooms. It works, but none of the groups enjoy quality amenities designed for how they use the space. In the coming months, staff will work with an ad hoc committee to address this problem, among others. For more information on this project, see the letter from the COO on page 3. Continued on page 6