November.December 2016 Oracle

HEALTH AND FITNESS COMMITTEE Welcome to the 2016 – 2017 season!!!! Please come visit our Fitness Center and make it one of the many activities you participate in this season. We sold two more bricks for our Pathway to Fitness the end of March and the back nine golf course benches were installed the middle of April. To ensure we met the required needs of all impacted by these benches, the General Manager, the Golf Committee, and Vintage Landscaping selected the locations. The Reserves Study identified two recumbent bikes (Vision Fitness) to be replaced this season so our committee requested quotes from several suppliers and selected the Life Fitness Activate recumbent bikes as our replacement bikes. They were delivered and installed October 10. Note – we have decided to continue to use the two VF bikes until we can no longer repair them (parts are unavailable). We have invited Dr. Joseph E. Scherger to come speak at our resort on Tuesday, January 17 from 4:00 to 5:30 pm in the La Palma Clubhouse. Dr Scherger is a leader in transforming office practice and has special interests in nutrition and wellness. More information to follow. We are co-sponsoring a Health & Wellness Fair on Saturday, February 11 from 9:00 am to 12pm in the La Palma Clubhouse. We are still in the planning stages but hope to have approximately thirty vendors. Look for more information as we get closer to this event. Our Charter states we should have a membership range of five to nine members and we currently only have three (Celeste Reynolds, Dennis Dittmer, and myself). Please consider joining our committee to support our Fitness Center and other health & wellness activities.

FINANCE COMMITTEE Welcome back to all and we’re happy to see folks we haven’t had the chance to socialize with over the summer. And to those of you who aren’t here yet or that for some reason may not make it down this year, greetings and hope to see you soon. Good news - the summer financial report completing the previous fiscal year 2015-2016 showed Outdoor Resort to be in the black by $68,113, before depreciation. This was better than planned. Note that 87% of revenues are from dues; the remainder is scattered among 10 accounts, where variances tended to offset to the positive. Largest revenue variance of $25K was from Late Fees & Miscellaneous. The recent September 2016 report for the fiscal 2016-17 year showed:  September revenues were over by $4,020, or 1.1%. Expenses were under by $1,421, or 0.4%, leading to a monthly surplus of revenues over expenses of $3,132.  YTD Revenues and Expenses for the month of September were projected to be just over $1M each. Our revenues were off, but only by $4K, or 0.4%. YTD expenses were under by $72K, led by less spending on Maintenance and Admin., leading to an overall excess of revenues over expenses of $17,658, which is $76,123 better than expected  Our Reserve total was $1,877,583. Our Committee’s plan for this fiscal year is to follow our charter to:  Ensure integrity of financial reports  Provide oversight and recommendations regarding risks, cash management, IT, and internal controls  Review General Manager’s plans against Reserve funds  Conduct post-implementation analyses  Review Facilities Planning prioritizations There will be a POS (Point-of-Sale, or credit cards and cash system, for the bar) demonstration by Gary Marshall, Activities Director, and Finance Committee members in the near future. Our Committee members are Greg Farmer, Vice Chair; Bill Dietrich, Secretary; Howard Berman; Doug Folsom; Gail Pollock; and Al Reeder.

Pam Walker , Chair

November Flower- Chrysanthemum . Chrysanthemum petals can be boiled in order to make a sweet tea. It is believed that this tea has many medicinal uses including curing influenza .

Birthstone: Topaz The traditional colors for topaz are yellow with a red tint, but they also come in a variety of colors including pinky red, red-brown, light blue, and pale green .

December

Birthstone, Turquoise (Success) Persons born in this month will travel

a great deal. Much of their success comes from influential friends. They have a loving and thoughtful disposition, a fondness for outdoor sports, and a wonderful insight into the outcome of an enterprise. A tendency to mind their

Zodiac signs Scorpio Oct’ 23-Nov’ 21 Strong leaders, self motivated. Sagittarius Nov’ 22-Dec’ 21 Optimistic and known for their humor and wit .

own business marks their character, also an inclination to dominate over others. They are

careful in money matters but are never penurious, being exceedingly generous. Flower, White Rose (I am worthy of you).

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