January 2020
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President’s Message
New Team Member
On behalf of the Board and all the CCR Team Members,
here’s wishing you a healthy and happy new year!
Rick Krucker joins the
team of Canada Creek
Ranch as Property and
Maintenance Manager. He
was born and raised in
Warren,
Michigan.
Starting in high school
sweeping floors, Rick
worked his way through
the shop into the sales
office
at
Welform
Electrodes, a resistance
welding manufacturing
company. After 14 years,
he left to work at
Werthwhile Renovations
doing construction and home remodeling. A few years
after marrying his wife of 19 years they moved to the
thumb area where he was the Facilities Manager for
a non-profit youth summer camp.
For the last 15 years Rick’s main responsibilities
included managing the five properties and the 100
buildings, overseeing day to day maintenance
operations and capital improvements, managing
seasonal
maintenance
and cleaning
staff amongst
other resp–
onsibilities.
When
not
working, he
enjoys
his
favorite
o u t d o o r
activities of
hunting and
fishing.
We start the new year with two new Board members and
a new slate of Officers, so our first focus is to build
ourselves into an effective team. We’ll begin that effort
with our January Board Training event.
The rest of this month’s message has two purposes:
• Point out some of the main challenges we’ll face this
year, and
• Highlight the important role you as a member play in
making the Club stronger
The first financial challenge we face is operating without
gas royalties. We’ve counted on those royalties to keep
our dues and fees much lower than other similar clubs,
but those royalties have practically dried up.
The Board realizes it is important to keep membership
dues low. We also realize that future revenues will rely
less and less on income other than member dues and user
fees. So, we’ll have to structure our future revenues with
these goals in mind:
1. Keep membership dues low. This will encourage
people to continue their memberships.
2. Generate enough overall revenue to support the
facilities, programs, and services that members
have come to expect. This includes strengthening
the Capital Fund so we can maintain and replace
capital assets (roads, vehicles, buildings, etc.) as
they age and wear.
3. Establish user fees that reflect our guests’ impact
on Club facilities and resources.
4. Encourage potential members to join the Club.
Other financial challenges: the cost of both contracted and
employed labor is rising due to a stronger economy and
very low unemployment. Also, the cost of purchased
materials has risen across the board.
While dealing with these challenges, we must continue to
provide the facilities and services important to our current
members. And we must deepen our understanding of the
Club’s future members and what will attract them to join
our ranks.
As members it is important to understand CCR is funded
differently than most private clubs – in most clubs a simple
action of the Board sets dues.
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