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Originally Posted by chuckster
How did you arrive at 1.9 million rt?? Sounds like a stretch since not every household uses villages.net. The solution is easy. Don't buy/use it. You make a bigger impact by not spending your dollars. Personally I like the convenience and ease of .net for the t-time system and will continue to use it. Remember, there are choices.
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Chuck, here's the article from the POA bulletin. You may remember that I've never been a POA fan, but I get the impression they are changing a bit. As to the numbers, they may be swags, but they provide a good baseline. I tend to agree with their argument, but like you, I'll likely pay up and play/.
Golf Tee Time System
Comcast users are scheduled to pay $8.00
per month to use the developer’s Tee Time
System on computers starting June 1, 2009.
Out of about 30,000 homes, there probably
are close to 20,000 subscribers that use
the computer Tee Time System. This would
yield $160,000 a month to run the Tee Time
System at $8.00 per month per account, or
$1.9 million a year.
Something is funny here. A fee of $8.00 a
month and $1.9 million a year seems unusually
high just to make golf reservations. We
get the feeling that the developer is trying to
take advantage of the residents on this issue.
As an alternative, why not charge residents
$1.00 per month (billed annually) to
access the Villages.net system for only the
tee time system? This seems more reasonable
and would generate $240,000 annually
to pay for operating the system. Surely, the
developer can operate the system for less
than that.
We think the Amenity Authority Committee
should research the feasibility of having
our amenity fees pay for the Tee Time System.
If there are no funds for that, then
$240,000 a year is a reasonable compromise
that should be able to keep everybody happy.
We would ask the AAC to take the lead in
negotiating an arrangement. □