At the beginning of my tenure as Commodore, the Board outlined 4 focus areas that we want to work on. They are:
- Long-Term Planning
- Reducing the Barriers to Entry to Sailing
- Adding to our Social and Cruising Calendars
- Creating Ways for our Junior Members to Participate
When it comes to “Long-Term Planning,” your board members have discussed a lot of things, but the one that keeps coming back time and again is “what about a place to call our home?”
There are 2 problems associated with this question:
- Funding
- Location
The board would like to discuss the possibility of establishing a building fund. In conjunction with that, we would also like to define a range of things that this physical location might look like. We aren’t designing a building yet, but just defining a range of possibilities and the current estimated costs of those possibilities. Initially this will require some research on financial products, followed by creating a “planning document” that would be used to help define current cost estimates for building a structure.
I’d like to set the timeline for establishing the fund as the end of this Board Year, with another 6-9 months for the first copy of the “planning document” to be drafted and presented to membership.
We need a group of people that are interested in making this happen. I would like to ask anyone that is interested in helping to make this a reality to email me at Commodore@ArizonaYachtClub.org.