The Board of Trustees shall fix from time to time the dues and propose assessments to be paid by the members in each class,
and the terms and conditions of payments.
Dues may be revised and amended at the discretion of the Board of Trustees.
Dues, when approved by the Board, and assessments, when approved by the membership, shall accrue on all classes of membership
until the end of the month in which written resignation is received by the Board of Trustees.
Article I, Section 6
(a) Generally; Billing Period. Except as otherwise provided by the Bylaws or the Board, members are required to pay monthly dues and assessments. Dues and assessments are billed monthly in advance for Resident members and are due and payable as described in Section 3 below. Dues and assessments are billed annually in advance for Nonresident members for each calendar year; Nonresident dues and assessments are billed at the end of December and are due and payable at the end of January.
Transition: Because Nonresident members were previously billed for the August-July period rather than calendar years, at the end of July 2025 Nonresident members shall be billed for dues and assessments for the 5-month period from August through December 2025, then billed again at the end of December 2025 for calendar year 2026.
2/27/25: Changed to calendar year billing for Nonresident dues and assessments. Formerly they were billed for each 12-month period from August through July.
(b) Nonresident Dues Refund. Upon the resignation (or death) of a Nonresident member, the Club shall, on request, refund dues paid for months after the month in which written resignation is received by the Board of Trustees (or after the month in which death occurred).
(c) Effective Date of Dues Changes. Each change in dues shall take effect at such time as the Board shall determine, provided that the Board shall not make a dues increase effective before it is announced to the members. A dues change typically takes effect on January 1. If there is a dues increase that takes effect at another time, Nonresident members may be billed for the incremental amount payable as a result of the increase from the effective date through the end of the then-current year. In the absence of a specific statement by the Board of the effective date of a dues change, such change shall take effect as described in the preceding sentence.
The current amounts of monthly dues, assessments and various other fees and charges are shown in Chapter 110.
2. Minimum Food Charge. Each Joint Resident Active and Social membership, and each Single Resident Active and Social membership, is obligated to incur a minimum amount of Food Charges (as defined below) each quarter. Any membership that fails to do so at the end of a quarter shall be billed for, and shall pay, the shortfall. The minimums are set forth in Chapter 110.
"Food Charges" include all food – and coffee, tea and milk – purchased at the Club, including at Club-sponsored and member-sponsored special functions but do not include: (a) sales taxes or (b) any purchase paid for with a credit card.
For the purpose of the minimum food charge, members are assigned to quarters beginning with different months. Each month, on each member's statement, an entry will show the unused amount of such member's quarterly minimum to date and the deadline for that member's current quarter.
1993: Adopted Rule 2, minimum food charge; 9/02: Modified to eliminate credit card charges.
Covid-19 Response:
- Minimum food charges suspended until such time as the Board determines to reinstate them. [3/18/20]
- Minimum food charges reinstated effective July 1, 2021. [6/24/21]
3. Billing Cycle. Ordinary member charges are billed monthly. Each statement includes charges processed during a calendar month, and is due and payable by the last day of the following month.
A payment will be treated as received by the last day of a month (on time) if it is made by: a good check delivered to the Club on the last day of that month, an online payment via the payment processor accessible from the Club's website initiated on or before the last day of that month, a funds transfer credited to the Club's account on or before the last day of that month, or a good check mailed and postmarked on or before the last day of that month.
(a) Late and NSF Fees. See Chapter 110. The General Manager has discretion to waive late fees. Other staff may waive one late fee per member account per calendar year without approval of the General Manager or Board of Trustees.
9/22/22: NSF fee approved by the Board; 2/23/23: Added detail regarding staff discretion to waive late fees.
(b) Disciplinary Action. Continued failure to pay may result in member discipline: see Chapter 241.
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7/28/22: Chapter 115 approved by the Board.