Clubs open to employees?

[Bness]

I am a Dreammaker working at The Villages Grown and am 55 years old. Am I eligible to join in the social clubs? Specifically the deep sea fishing club.
I love fishing and relocated from the west coast this year. Need help getting to know the techniques used here.
Tight lines everyone.

[villagetinker]

OP, do you live in the villages and have a villager ID, then IMHO you should be able to join any club. If on the other hand you do not live in the villages, your options will be limited as you need the village ID card to gain entry to the rec centers.

[Mrs.Guy]

:shrug: Should be asking your H.R. Dept. maybe.

[thelegges]

:shrug: Should be asking your H.R. Dept. maybe.

HR won’t have any idea, of what clubs require resident ID. We belong to 13 clubs. 7 do not hold meetings at any developer owned property. So no ID required.

OP I would look at all the clubs you are interested in, one can either email, or some provide phone numbers. Contact them, then you will get the correct answer to your questions.

[retiredguy123]

Technically, you need to have a Villages ID or a Guest ID to participate in club activities as a member.

[thelegges]

Technically, you need to have a Villages ID or a Guest ID to participate in club activities as a member.

Only if meetings are held at a facility that requires ID to enter. For us 2 car, 2 cooking, 2 wine, 1 park club meetings do not involve any TV facility.
When we joined in 2010, our address was out of state, with a email address for contact. There are couples who live in Leesburg, and Wildwood, who were members long before us

[Kenswing]

I would contact the club you’re interested in joining and see what their requirements are.

[Mrs.Guy]

Technically, you need to have a Villages ID or a Guest ID to participate in club activities as a member.

:thumbup: All spelled out right here:

https://www.districtgov.org/images/Resident-Lifestyle-Volunteer-Guidelines.pdf?v=1808

Page 3 Section lll :popcorn:

[Mrs.Guy]

HR won’t have any idea, of what clubs require resident ID. We belong to 13 clubs. 7 do not hold meetings at any developer owned property. So no ID required.

OP I would look at all the clubs you are interested in, one can either email, or some provide phone numbers. Contact them, then you will get the correct answer to your questions.

Sorry but I still think they should get any benefit information from their H.R. not here. And I'm sure you meant DISTRICT owned property. :icon_bored:

[Bogie Shooter]

Only if meetings are held at a facility that requires ID to enter. For us 2 car, 2 cooking, 2 wine, 1 park club meetings do not involve any TV facility.
When we joined in 2010, our address was out of state, with a email address for contact. There are couples who live in Leesburg, and Wildwood, who were members long before us

As such they are not Villages Resident clubs. Right?

[thelegges]

As such they are not Villages Resident clubs. Right?

Found clubs in the Thursday rec news. Yes we hold resident ID card, some owning more than one home, A few members have relocated, but continue to remain a member.
You might consider them inappropriate meetings of Residents because of lack of use of facilities, in TV, especially the park venues club. Don’t think sea world will bring aquatic life to Seabreeze, but it would cut down on drive time, or the car club who does monthly out of the bubble day or overnight trips. Kind of boring holding that meeting in at Eisenhower.

There are times a meeting is held at one of the regional centers, but usually for a vote on next year’s venues. All clubs are full.

One seems upset that not all clubs use regional centers monthly. But will bring up your concern at the next meetings, that we should include monthly meetings just for shi*s and giggles back at regional centers.

[Bogie Shooter]

Found clubs in the Thursday rec news. Yes we hold resident ID card, some owning more than one home, A few members have relocated, but continue to remain a member.
You might consider them inappropriate meetings of Residents because of lack of use of facilities, in TV, especially the park venues club. Don’t think sea world will bring aquatic life to Seabreeze, but it would cut down on drive time, or the car club who does monthly out of the bubble day or overnight trips. Kind of boring holding that meeting in at Eisenhower.

There are times a meeting is held at one of the regional centers, but usually for a vote on next year’s venues. All clubs are full.

One seems upset that not all clubs use regional centers monthly. But will bring up your concern at the next meetings, that we should include monthly meetings just for shi*s and giggles back at regional centers.

No. You can have any club you want…but if not a resident lifestyle club…..it is not a villages club! Not inappropriate in any way. I am not up set with your club……
Kinda like a group of guys getting together to play poker once a month at their homes.
Could call it a club not a Resident Lifestyle club.


Here are the Resident Lifestyle Clubs that most likely the OP is asking about.
https://www.districtgov.org/images/documents/Clubs-Listing.pdf

[SIRE1]

Actually, some clubs do not require you to be a resident to join. We belong to the MSU Alumni Club and even though the majority of the members are Villagers, it is open to anyone, and includes some from StoneCrest and Del Webb. But because we have some non Villagers as members, our club has to pay for the use of the Rec Centers where we hold our meetings. So part of our annual dues goes to the rental of Rec Center facilities. To answer your question whether you HAVE to be a Villages Resident, it depends on the club. I do suspect, however, that the majority of the clubs advertised are Residents Only. That way they can reserve and use the Rec Center facilities for free and they can control the size of their membership. My recommendation is to contact the club(s) you are interested in and find out from them whether you are eligible to join and participate.

[Bness]

Thank you all for the info. I guess I'll try to contact the club. Unfortunately I have to go to a meeting at a recent center to see if I can get in to join. Thank you all again.

[LAFwUs]

Thank you all for the info. I guess I'll try to contact the club. Unfortunately I have to go to a meeting at a recent center to see if I can get in to join. Thank you all again.
If your prospective clubs do allow you in as an employee OP,
be sure to then ask if they are either "full" or have a "wait list".
(learned this lesson)
There are certain clubs here that have substantially long wait list...like the wood shop/club for example, where prospective members have waited 7, 8, 9 + years and never moved up on the "list" enough to ever get in, within their remaining lifetime.
This small yet important detail isn't exactly advertised in the nice color brochure however. :mad:

[thelegges]

No. You can have any club you want…but if not a resident lifestyle club…..it is not a villages club! Not inappropriate in any way. I am not up set with your club……
Kinda like a group of guys getting together to play poker once a month at their homes.
Could call it a club not a Resident Lifestyle club.


Here are the Resident Lifestyle Clubs that most likely the OP is asking about.
https://www.districtgov.org/images/documents/Clubs-Listing.pdf

Sorry to disappoint but, 5 of the clubs I speak of,(didn’t waste any more time on the last 2), are on the Resident Lifestyle Clubs website. I think you missed the point that the Clubs of which I speak of were listed on the very site you quoted. One can can put notice in the paper for a new club, call it

“Useless Needless Information club”,

and as long as you fulfill requirements the club will be on the “Resident Lifestyle Club”. It’s not as hard to start a Resident Lifestyle Club, just need a ID, the form, and interest. So that poker gathering could be a lifestyle club, if they so choose.

On-site meetings requires a ID to enter, however the same “Resident Lifestyle Club” can also bring guests to any outside venues. So in answer to OP’s question, yes a “Resident Lifestyle Club” may allow a person to join a “Deep water fishing club”, as long as they don’t try to use Seabreeze sport pool to fish in, (there may be big fish in the pool, but you have to throw them back).
The same applies it is a choice of any “Resident Lifestyle Club” to not take any new members, therefore could be considered as a closed club.

[Fastskiguy]

What is a dream maker?

[Veracity]

I am a Dreammaker working at The Villages Grown and am 55 years old. Am I eligible to join in the social clubs? Specifically the deep sea fishing club.
I love fishing and relocated from the west coast this year. Need help getting to know the techniques used here.
Tight lines everyone.

To get the answer to your question....
Go to the Deep Sea Fishing Club's website:
DSFC - Home (http://www.deepseafishingclub.org)
or
Contact their President:
Kenneth Jagodzinski
kenjag3@aim.com
(386) 986-7655

Good Luck....Sounds like a great club!

[Daxdog]

I am a Dreammaker working at The Villages Grown and am 55 years old. Am I eligible to join in the social clubs? Specifically the deep sea fishing club.
I love fishing and relocated from the west coast this year. Need help getting to know the techniques used here.
Tight lines everyone.

Depends on the club, some have rules yo7 have to live in TV, some don’t. Just contact the club you want and ask.

[srswans]

What is a dream maker?

A Villages employee

[Maker]

There are certain clubs here that have substantially long wait list...like the wood shop/club for example, where prospective members have waited 7, 8, 9 + years and never moved up on the "list" enough to ever get in, within their remaining lifetime.
That is not correct. Please stop repeating false information.
The wood shop is nearly caught up with new member requests. Last I heard, it was a couple months wait. It was never as long as you said.
Woodshop is $200 to join. Then $75 per year. Those funds are only used to pay for shop expenses (no parties or freebies). New members also must take a safety training class before allowed entry. Also requires members to donate time as a shop monitor (3 shifts/year), or help in some alternate ways. It's all run volunteers.

[Villages Kahuna]

In a word… No

[Fastskiguy]

That is not correct. Please stop repeating false information.
The wood shop is nearly caught up with new member requests. Last I heard, it was a couple months wait. It was never as long as you said.
Woodshop is $200 to join. Then $75 per year. Those funds are only used to pay for shop expenses (no parties or freebies). New members also must take a safety training class before allowed entry. Also requires members to donate time as a shop monitor (3 shifts/year), or help in some alternate ways. It's all run volunteers.

100% fact ^^

[blueash]

The Deep Sea Fishing Club AKA The Villages Deep Sea Fishing Club is an official Villages Club which meets monthly in a Rec Center. It says very clearly on its website that members MUST have a Villages ID.

You cannot be a member of the club as an employee only. This is true of every club which uses the rec centers for any purpose for free. [some exceptions for disease related clubs]

"Come to our meetings to join the Club. Membership is open to Villages residents only. Remember to bring your Village ID with you. It is required to get into the Everglades Recreation Center meeting and to join the club."

[Mrs.Guy]

What is a dream maker?

It is a card (with photo) issued to employees of The Villages and The District Government which gives them certain discounts and benefits. Called a Dream Maker Card or Dream Maker Pass. Discounts are from The Developer and some other businesses.

[LAFwUs]

That is not correct. Please stop repeating false information.

False information ..??

**...Its literally been reported in the news paper and discussed on this forum and facebook repeatedly.

**...There have been attempted court cases/lawsuits over it.

Its been that way for years.
They didn't build a 2nd shop if the existing shop was meeting demand of all the would be members...and it filled up too.
The last I checked (earlier this year), I was directly informed that the wood shop(s) still had hundreds of people on a wait list that were years away from getting in.

The woodshops own webpage states they had (full) "membership of 1300 and a waitlist of 500 at the end of 2021".
>"The club currently has a waiting list for new members. To join the list, call Borfitz at 352-205-7630."

So, that "false" info came directly from the source at the wood shops main office, not something I "heard" which by your own admission, is where your info comes from!

If that info has changed due a revision in the wood shop time slot policy that now allows new members in, I will concede to that detail, yet that does not make the previously gathered & reported info - which was accurate at that time - false!
But nice try though.

More to the point, there are in fact hundreds of clubs here, not just the wood shop, that have very long wait list to get in, some are even closed to new members, as indicated on their individual webpages.
That's also been discussed on here and elsewhere. That's also not false info.

(edit) I am not allowed to link to the several newspaper articles directly on this subject, but feel free to google "the villages wood shop wait list purgatory" as 1 example.

Heres more from this forum-->
https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/villages-florida-general-discussion-73/waiting-list-woodworking-shop-282369/

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/clubs-villages-76/waiting-list-popular-clubs-306169/

[3105boy]

I am a Dreammaker working at The Villages Grown and am 55 years old. Am I eligible to join in the social clubs? Specifically the deep sea fishing club.
I love fishing and relocated from the west coast this year. Need help getting to know the techniques used here.
Tight lines everyone.
Yes, talk to Ken J. He should tell you that guests are allowed to join trips with unfilled seats. You can see all trips online. No need to attend the meetings. Call Jim Scheer. He’s a former Californian and has the most trips available. Enjoy!

[Maker]

False information ..??

**...Its literally been reported in the news paper and discussed on this forum and facebook repeatedly.

**...There have been attempted court cases/lawsuits over it.

Its been that way for years.
They didn't build a 2nd shop if the existing shop was meeting demand of all the would be members...and it filled up too.
The last I checked (earlier this year), I was directly informed that the wood shop(s) still had hundreds of people on a wait list that were years away from getting in.

The woodshops own webpage states they had (full) "membership of 1300 and a waitlist of 500 at the end of 2021".
>"The club currently has a waiting list for new members. To join the list, call Borfitz at 352-205-7630."

So, that "false" info came directly from the source at the wood shops main office, not something I "heard" which by your own admission, is where your info comes from!

If that info has changed due a revision in the wood shop time slot policy that now allows new members in, I will concede to that detail, yet that does not make the previously gathered & reported info - which was accurate at that time - false!
But nice try though.

More to the point, there are in fact hundreds of clubs here, not just the wood shop, that have very long wait list to get in, some are even closed to new members, as indicated on their individual webpages.
That's also been discussed on here and elsewhere. That's also not false info.

(edit) I am not allowed to link to the several newspaper articles directly on this subject, but feel free to google "the villages wood shop wait list purgatory" as 1 example.

Heres more from this forum-->
https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/villages-florida-general-discussion-73/waiting-list-woodworking-shop-282369/

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/clubs-villages-76/waiting-list-popular-clubs-306169/

The current wait time is a couple months. The volunteer trainers there have been trying very hard to get through the backlog this year, and have had great success. Other information you mention is obsolete and WRONG.
Please stop posting false information.

[justjim]

I would contact the club you’re interested in joining and see what their requirements are.

Finally a good answer.

[thelegges]

Yes, talk to Ken J. He should tell you that guests are allowed to join trips with unfilled seats. You can see all trips online. No need to attend the meetings. Call Jim Scheer. He’s a former Californian and has the most trips available. Enjoy!

And there it is..a guest may be allowed to join trips, that are not full, no attending meeting needed