We are over 20,000 League players in NorCal. Imagine what we can achieve together if everyone just sends a single email to those who voted to implement the $25 tax: NorCal's Board of Directors.
Let's make our voices heard! Just go to this page, click on the president's and/or director's names and you can send an email directly to them. Let's #SaveNorCalLeagues together!
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Immediately revoke the “Facility Use” tax
Dear Board of Directors,
Dear Board of Directors,
We, the League players of Northern California, are demanding an immediate revocation of the “facility use fee.”
This tax is an outrageous abuse of the League program that goes against the core of USTA NorCal’s mission of “promoting and developing the growth of tennis as an inclusive and inviting lifetime activity.”
We demand the Board of Directors to immediately revoke this tax because
- USTA NorCal is a not-for-profit organization and does not serve to finance private clubs
- League players should not have to pay a tax to make up for your clubs’ inability to attract new members or adjust your membership models to the 2020s
- Increasing the cost of League registrations discriminates against lower income and minority communities
- You have yet to provide evidence that League teams put a financial strain on your clubs
- Your clubs can choose not to allow USTA Leagues if hosting teams truly has such a negative impact on your facility
- This fee does not grow the game of tennis in Northern California, the very core of USTA NorCal’s mission
- The Board bypassed League staff and the committee, the entities in charge of the League program, because the Board knew they would never support such an outrageous tax
This list goes on and on.
We demand that you immediately revoke the “facility use fee” and stop the abuse of USTA NorCal’s League program.
We demand that you immediately revoke the “facility use fee” and stop the abuse of USTA NorCal’s League program.
I even choke when the league fee goes up two dollars...but if it goes up $25, I will stop playing USTA. I already pay fees to my clubs to play, and $26 to USTA is plenty. This really is an irresponsible, non-inclusive, priviliged action, and you should think really carefully about what you are doing, what you are saying as the USTA. It's not pretty.
ReplyDeleteI do not support this tax, it goes against the idea that tennis is for everyone. How can you justify adding more cost to playing tennis at the league level when you ask people to pay for private clubs where we, the general public, are not allowed in unless we pay more money. This is an ugly precedent and I will no longer play USTA if this is allowed to pass.
ReplyDeleteThis is a VERY BAD IDEA! The USTA keeps raising fees for us to play while lowering service provided or the fees they already charge.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the point of raising the fee if they are just going to give it to the clubs. There is only one option from what I see: The clubs get extra revenue, and get to claim it isn't them raising their fees. I can't imagine that they would take $25 from every player and then only give the money to "Private Clubs", I can only imagine what the players at non-private clubs are going to do: Pay $25 that goes to private clubs? I don't think so. I read somewhere else that it going to just private clubs is a rumor, but I have no proof and this document is all about "goes to private clubs".
I play at a private club, but if this $25 tax is actually instated, I won't play. I know enough players are my club and many others that a fun league between "tennis facilities" could be put together and we won't have to drive to Sacramento when it is all over! :-)
Why are all tennis players subsidizing a limited number of for-profit clubs when they should be managing their business on their own? If they need money for upgrading their facilities, their members should pay, not everyone else who is never going to play at their clubs. What about teams playing at public courts - they also have fees to pay, yet there's no subsidy for them. For an organization that is based on fair play - this is NOT!
ReplyDeleteMoney grab by club owners who have overstepped their fiduciary responsibilities to line their own pockets. There sure seems to be a conflict of interest. The club owners who will be benefiting from this should recuse themselves from voting. I would like to see the specifics around this issue: budgets, salaries, expenses, where the money goes now and how this increase will be used. This all feels very corrupt and non transparent.
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