With Spring just around the corner, there are several Club issues to resolve the impact all of us. Santa Teresa Sea Otters will be encouraging families to enroll and help maintain our reputation of having one of the best current and future Cabana Swim Teams in our league. All swimmers, even with minimal skills, are encouraged to sign up and develop into future stars! Our budget is being scrutinized for realistic goals and will be fine tuned to meet our on-going needs. Contract employees and seasonal staff have to be secured to enable us to provide operational support for the Club Season. Club maintenance projects have to be evaluated and committed to prior to Club opening to ensure that there will be little impact for Club use, Many activities and social requests for special meetings, to have forum discussions on a variety of issues that involve all of us. Hopefully, we can consolidate the requests into a single session for our Annual Spring Membership Meeting (tentatively slated for Sunday, March 26th at 7:00 PM). We will make every attempt to keep all of you apprised of these meetings, so that you will have an opportunity to participate. As usual, the Board of Directors is committed to providing what is deemed most suitable for the operation of the Club, at reasonable cost, with accountability! Not everyone will be happy with results; but, as usual, it is the majority vote, whether the Board or the membership, that will ultimately prevail! In order for the best interests to be produced, it is imperative that all eligible member households participate. Don't allow the special interest groups determine issues that you may not agree with!

It has been brought to my attention, on more than one occasion, than certain newsletter articles provided as "interest" are considered "opinion only" and should not be included. The newsletter promotes any article that brings about positive consciousness of issues that impact our neighborhood. There's a real world out there, folks, and we occupy only a little portion of it - so , if there's information that affects us, what better way than through the Newsletter! Which brings up another issue - my offering my own opinion. If not my opinion, then what's the President's Message about? If I erred, it is by not stating that the representation if for the majority of the membership. I make every effort to promote a positive image of the Board of Directors doing the best that we can to provide for you the membership, a safe and well maintained Club facility and operation. If there are those that feel differently, and that have to disseminate "information" that is conjecture, innuendo, suspicion, and without basis of fact, then I feel it is necessary to have to express myself! It is the most daunting and time-consuming job this Board has had to fact - continually being on the defensive and being ineffective in trying to conduct business! Your encouraging support of the majority of Board of Directors is most welcome (and necessary!) See you around the Neighborhood...
Ty Chew, President