Minutes
The Sun City Center Pickleball Club’s Board of Directors hold meetings as required to conduct club business. The club’s busiest time of year is from November to April. Minutes are recorded for each meeting and will be published on this page after they have been approved by the Board.
September 9, 2025
1:00 pm – meeting called to order by President John Orton
Discussion regarding the holiday party on January 30, 2026, was/ brought by Lorraine Yaghoobian, that Banquet Masters was saving the date for the SCC PBC. Lorraine gave the board options regarding the different menu options from $27/per person up to $42/ per person. Mary Taylor volunteered to purchase appetizers and desserts if we went with the three-entree option, same as last year, as there were some complaints per Lorraine that there were not enough appetizers. She also made note that Pam Stevens volunteered to make the table decorations again this year. After much discussion we tabled the catering and will revisit it at the next board meeting in October (date to be determined).
John Orton-President
- Discussed that that four directors are set up to leave the board and three will stay every year, beginning this year 2025
- He asked that we vote at the membership meeting to ask for a change to four staying for two years and three change every year. Motion passed unanimous to bring it to the membership in November
- John also discussed that Joe Norton is leading a nominating committee to solicit new members to run for the board in 2025
- Hi, Neighbor, is scheduled on December 6, 2025 from 6:30-8:30pm at the community hall. All the clubs in Sun City Center get together with a booth and showcase their activities or amenities to the community/new members. John Dresser made a motion to approve having a booth again this year and Don Chiapetta seconded, and all in favor; motion passed. We will be looking for a couple of volunteers to man the booth. Let John Orton know if you are interested
Mary Taylor-Secretary
- I will be returning to Florida on September 30, 2025 for the winter and will update the membership documents for the general membership meeting on November 17, 2025
- Thank you, John Dresser and Greg E, for getting the mail and handling the duties–I appreciate you!
Pete Cabral-Activities
- Fall Classic PBC Tournament: Peter presented a fund-raising option to sell 48 hats and 48 visors that will have a trending embroidered quality logo at the event to raise money for the club. He asked for a check to prepay the vendor for the hats/visors for the event. Motion made by Eve and seconded by John D. All in favor; motion passed
- Also noted that there would be a request to the members for raffle baskets, 50/50, and there would also be vendors
John Dresser-Treasurer
- John confirmed there is $3,500 expected contributions to the club in the form of tournaments or donations that will go into our PBC budget
- Full Treasurers’ Report to follow at the general meeting on November 17, 2025
- John has volunteered to investigate a website that can handle scheduling and membership as Trudy Donnelly is retiring from the volunteer webmaster position, and we appreciate all her efforts keeping the website up and running, and up to date
Don Chiapetta-Facilities Director
- Formal request to the CA for an overhead fan on the west end covered area near court 8
- Request for the damaged gates to be replaced and rebalanced; will check on status
- Request for lighting in other areas of courts, and to change bulbs on court 5
- Discussed new water sweeper-member concern. If demo should be required, we can demo as needed. Don reported it is working really well on the wet courts
- He also reported that the groups are working out well getting court time. There is a new group called Allstars (all members are invited). Check it out on Wednesdays on Team Reach–Group code: PB2forall is the password to sign in
- Don and John D noted that the private groups are breaking up the socialization of a large amount of the PBC; social play has almost disappeared. He noted going to the court and there wasn’t anyone there to play with, as they are playing in groups or elsewhere
- Summer open play–reported it went great, and no complaints were received
- Discussion to have scheduled activities for the members, like ladders, round robins for play levels–again needing volunteers
Motion to adjourn by John O, seconded by Mary T, all in favor.
Board meeting adjourned at 1:24pm
May 16, 2025
3:00 pm – meeting called to order by President Greg Eisman
Mary Taylor-Secretary
- The PBC has 471 members
- I have received a few emails from members they are not getting the emails from President; I have been updating as they come in. This is mainly due to poor penmanship/typos on the application forms or emails going to spam
John Dresser-Treasurer
- Checking account has $23,512.92
- A CD for $10,518.36 just matured on 4/24/2025; it auto rolled from 4.55% to .55%
- John will investigate other options for a higher yield
Greg Eisman-President
- Discussed that the club is to raise $3,500 this year from a tournament
- Consider spending $3,000 for a court drying machine and give $2,000 to a charity
- Our court expenses, including balls, are $2,977, and we have $2,500 left
- Approximately $400 has been used to purchase pickleballs
- Discussion to contact the newspaper to promote our Charitable tournaments to get the word out; all in agreement when plans are finalized
- Bob Delmedia has asked all 120+ SCC clubs to give three horizontal digital pictures with captions, to have scrolling on the Atrium TV with only four seconds to showcase the clubs between Funfest and 4th of July activities. Greg made a motion to approve; all in favor; Peter absent; motion passed
Don Chiapetta-Facilities Director
- Don asked who is removing those who are no longer in the community from Team Reach?
- Members can remove themselves if they move; Don and Greg will investigate this
- He also asked if there were plans to buy the court drying machine; the club approved raising $3,500 in the budget to use for club purchases such as a court drying machine, balls, etc.
- He also noted that according to Sam that CA Maintenance measured the heights of the nets and they are correct, but members complain they are too high
- The members have told him the color scheme is great!
- There have been complaints of dirt on the courts, and gates not closing properly at the back of court 2
- There are plans to replace the gates. Greg will follow up with Lynn
- Dennis R is no longer doing training for Erne; Tom Walinski has offered to do training
- There was discussion about priority on the courts with groups and training sessions, and open play this summer
Eve Blazsur-Communications Director
- Discussed the PBC travel banner for $67 that Sandy Rahner had designed
- Also discussed adding the drone pictures that Stan took to add to the website and the QR code. Motion to vote by John D and seconded by Don C; vote was all in favor, Peter absent, motion passed
- Eve sent the banner PDF document to Trudy along with the last minutes of 3/5/2025 to add to the website
Greg Eisman-President
- Greg received feedback from the beginner/intermediate players who enjoyed playing with the advanced players at the socials
- Trying to make everyone happy is difficult, so the club will continue to offer social events to everyone
- Discussion vs ratings, club sanctioned play, ladders, socials, and clubs play. How to continue to time these out equally?
- Some board members feel that by allowing groups is causing segregation
- Summertime has open time only–no dedicated time to any groups
- Erne training ball machine does have priority to a court for the 1.5-hour training. If it is busy that particular day, the paddle rack should always be instituted, and everyone comes off and four players go on
- Greg also discussed the $3,500 amount needed to be raised by the SCC PBC–to be discussed with Peter
- The CA asked Greg if he would take the lead to have another event in Jan or Feb of 2026, dedicated to the new building fund, similar to the Men’s Dance review Charity event held this past year in February. Greg agreed to be the lead and work with Chairperson Renee Bray for 55+ men in SCC, Southshore Falls, Kings Point and Valencia Lakes
- Reported there were 45 people at the last social on 5/17/2025. The last cookout of the season is on June 21, 25. Pizza night is scheduled for October and changed from 10/17 to 10/14
- Reported Oct-May the Introduction to Pickleball classes had 79 people signed up; 55 graduated which created $1,500 in new memberships. These classes are held on a priority Tuesdays and Fridays from 1-3pm
- Elections are coming next year, and Mary, John O, Pete, and Eve continue
- Three officers are up for re-election in November 2025. Even years 2026 three seats up for election for four, two-year terms. To be discussed at the next board meeting
- John Dresser asked for directions regarding inter-community play and how this began. Greg reported that John Donnery asked him to have a women’s inter-community play with Kings Point, South Shore Falls, Valencia Lakes, and Medley. The CA has allowed 24 times a year for reciprocal play
- Greg asked about an ambassador that used to sit down with PBC to let them know what was available within our club. Should we consider having this again and include the intermediate players as well? We will follow up at a later meeting
- Reminder Aug 31, 2025, is the last day of open courts. The board will revisit how the summer open play worked out, without scheduled group time
- No board meetings until July or after
Motion to adjourn by John O, seconded by Mary T, all in favor.
Board meeting adjourned 4:34pm