Your City has responded and your ASGA Board met via Zoom Thursday, August 20. The meeting resulted in many new plans for the future.
The Mayor's office finally was able to follow up with me and the
result is that we are developing a new program to be presented to Parks and
Recreation within the next few days. The objective is to develop a
program to comply with the current Covid-19 Risk-Based Guidelines and city golf
course protocol seamlessly. If our program is approved the very earliest
we can return to playing our Tuesday events will be 9/15. Originally that date
would have been for Jimmy Clay and have been the first day of our Annual
Tournament. Since traditional tournaments are currently not authorized we have
decided to cancel the Annual Tournament. We are also canceling 9/08 at
Morris Williams and the second date scheduled for the annual
tournament 9/17. Shawn Higgins is working on the schedule from 9/15 for the
balance of the year. He will update our website when he has it completed. We of
course will advise you when we can officially resume in time to plan and make
your tee times.
Your
Board took the following actions:
1.
At this point we have cancelled both annuals, so we are extending every current
member at the end of this fiscal year for another year of membership at no
cost.
2.
The Grand Prix for 2020 will still be awarded. Should we not get to return to
playing, the current standings will be the final standings. However, should we
resume at some point the new points will be added as played. In either event
the final tournament to count this year will be October 20. After that points
will start accumulating for 2021 and on October 27 or soon thereafter we will
announce the final standings for the 2020 Grand Prix.
3. Due to the group gathering rules currently in place for "banquets" and other meetings we will not attempt to schedule our annual meeting which also serves as our election on October 27. We will cancel it and replace with a digital vote as outlined in 4. below.
4. Your officers and directors have mostly met on-line this year and a couple have served much less than a year so did not get to gain experience for future roles. We were not able to pursue two out of three of our goals. We were successful in developing and launching our on-line Tee Time Registration System, but could not pursue new memberships to grow our membership or create a new golf event involving young people. It is with this in mind that several members recommended that the officers and directors also have their roles extended for another year. The Board all agreed with the members blessing that they would so serve.
What action do Members need
to take:
The Board via our group email system will be sending an email asking for you to vote by return email either yes or no to extend the terms. If the total vote approves you will have authorized the waiving of normal procedure and give us an experienced board to continue to guide us through this pandemic and hopefully to more normal times next year. Please Vote As Soon as you receive the email outlining the voting procedure. You will have a limited time to vote.
We did not plan
on having a pandemic, but together we have worked our way through it. Keep
positive thoughts flowing while keeping safe and happy.
On behalf of the ASGA Board of Directors
Travis McWhorter
