President's Message from Scott

With all the activity in January, we skipped our January Tom Tom. This month’s edition is a combined edition of both January and February.Given the ground to cover, I’ll provide a bullet-point approach for brevity.

First, I thought I’d give a quick breakdown of our current governance model Each year, three new Directors are elected to the Board. The Board (comprised of 9 Directors) acts in the best interests of the membership to drive strategy, governance, financial direction, and the future of the club. One of our functions is to appoint Chairs for each Sahalee Committee. By design of our bylaws, committees govern their areas of responsibility, and make recommendations to the Board for consideration and an ultimate decision. It’s an approach that is designed to be a ‘representative’ form of governance, where Board members and Committees represent the membership at large

Because this letter represents two months’ of activity, I think you will see just how much work has gone on so far between the committees and the Board. We try hard to communicate all our activities:

December Past Business

Board approved selections for Sahalee’s 2023 Officers:

Vice President: Mr Tyler Dion; Treasurer: Mr Tom DiMeco; Secretary: Ms Maryle Tracy

Approved the Golf Committee’s golf calendar recommendation which has now been shared with all members. In total, we have the same number of SMD / SWD events as 2022. There are a few additional outside events including Sahalee hosting the MLB All-Star Golf Outing (July 10th) and the Seattle Player’s Championship (Sept 9th and 10th). Both should be lots of fun.

Directionally approved an update to the Sahalee on-course dress code Language and communications to be finalized by Director of Golf, Mr Nicholson

Approved Greens Committee recommendation around the alteration to the front-left bunker on one North. This work is just now being completed and the water’s edge looks stunning!

Approved a recommendation from the Golf Committee to change the “draw process” for the Men’s Invitational. This included two aspects:

Provide each membership class a pro-rata portion of the available potential spots The Men’s Division and Board wanted to enhance the value of Proprietary memberships

Enhance the odds of being selected based on club participation (e.g., tenure, prior year’s SMD participation). The BOD suggested the Golf Committee consider additional factors such as volunteer service on this second aspect.

·hanks to valuable input from members, we decided to post potential bylaw changes for an open comment period. More to come this spring on the recommended changes

Approved the 2023 operating budget as recommended from the Finance Committee

As we closed out 2022, it came to the Board’s attention that there were a few members who were kindly serving on Committees but had also placed their name on the “to leave” list. While the Board appreciates the volunteer time and contributions, we felt there could be potential conflicts of interest if a member was making important recommendations to the Board and was also in the process of leaving Sahalee. Thus, the BOD approved a policy whereby Committee Members cannot concurrently be on the ‘For Sale’ list and serve as a member or Chair of a Committee Individual conversations have taken place to inform any affected members