MEMBERSHIP:

The current OSDA Membership year runs from 06/01/23 through 05/31/24.  A committee including Terry Saunders, Steve Saunders, Bob Lehtinen, Cindy Lehtinen, Laura Puopolo, Paul Smith and Anne Prior folded, stuffed, affixed labels and postage late April 2023.

Membership renewal letters and the Presidents May 2023 letter was sent to 294 members and past members on 05/01/23.  Our membership count at the end of 2022 was 226 members.  The remaining 68 were members who were previously ‘paid up’ at any point during the past 4 years.  Reminder emails were sent to several hundred on the Presidents Email list in June.

As of 08/13/23 we had 214 members.  Several of the current members had not renewed last year but chose to renew this year.  A few members had moved and a few passed during the past year.  There were 35 members who paid in 2022 but not in 2023.  We hope that those that haven’t renewed yet will do so now.

During the year, the house sales in the Falmouth Enterprise are reviewed each Friday and those sales in our neighborhood will have an application and a letter showing our accomplishments the previous year and our plans for the coming year dropped off at their home.  This spring several members also reached out to their neighbors who had not previously joined and we were able to get 13 new members with this effort.

DIRECTORY:

Jessica Fox Dougherty at Main Street Gallery and Real Estate reached out to local businesses who previously advertised in the directory.  These advertisers helped offset a good portion of the cost to produce the directories.  Terry Saunders prepared the mailing labels and she along with Steve Saunders stuffed the envelopes and affixed the labels and postage.

All renewing members who wanted to be included in the 2023-2024 directory and were paid up by mid-July were included.  This totaled 197 members who will get a copy of the directory (17 or so did not want their info shared).  Members who paid after mid-July when the spreadsheet was remitted to the printer were not included in the directory (apologies).  They will however receive a copy of the directory.  Members who attended the Annual Meeting & Summer Social on 08/13/23 received their directories at the meeting.  A few were hand delivered the following week and the remainder were mailed to each members mailing address on Tuesday 08/15/23.

Terry Saunders, Membership Chair