Hide-A-Way Hills (HAH) is a private club, not a city or town, and maintains its own amenities, or everything inside the clubs boundaries. Like other private clubs, there is a new member fee to join, and like most private clubs, HAH essentially uses the new member fee to update and maintain the amenities, which have grown through the years.  50% of the new member fee goes directly to the HAH Amenities Improvement Fund, from which our volunteer committees request money each year to work on whatever amenities they oversee (Golf Committee, Lakes Committee, etc.)

The HAH new member fee is currently $3,754; the fee is based upon the current monthly assessment (now $143.94), equivalent to 2 years worth of current monthly assessments, plus whatever special assessments currently might be in force. (HAH currently has an annual $150 road fee assessment.)

Per the Clubs Code of Regulations, the current fee is:

$143.94 x 24 = $3454.56 + $300 = $3,754.56

Other special assessments in recent years included $148 for dam repairs (done in 2008), and a new swimming pool (about $240, as we recall).  Of course, todays new members do not have to specifically pay those assessments, as they are no longer in force.  But through the years, as existing members voted for increased new member fees, the reasoning was that new members should share in a portion of expenses as they would certainly benefit from them.  Again, its the sort of reasoning that private clubs in general apply to their accounting and fiscal duties.

Other fairly recent club improvements include the new playground, remodeling of the clubhouse and lodge, new temporary boat docks at the beach, new pool furniture, fencing at the stables, new boat docks at both south and north ends of the lake, aerators for the fishing lakes, fish restocking of lakes, canoe racks plus other improvements at the north park/docks, cart paths and irrigation system for the golf course, new restroom facility on the golf course (opens this spring), new shelter and parking at the golf course, additional member information signage, new parking and lighting at the lodge, and a number of various smaller projects including holiday lighting & decorations to landscaping.

40% of the new member fee goes into our General Fund, and 10% to our Roads Funds (HAH maintains 30+ miles of roads, including trucks and equipment for chip and seal along with plowing and salting; it wasn't that many years ago that HAH still had dirt roads).  Examples of recent improvements from which HAH would take General Fund monies include lodge kitchen renovations (just completed), and new security cameras.  As the Club is almost 50 years old, Hide-A-Way Hills and its membership must pay closer attention to keeping everything up and running properly.  HAH is quite solvent and maintains annual independent audits, and publishes overall budget figures in each months members newsletter.

Hope that explains things.please call with any questions. Well be happy to show you around the entire community and note various examples of where and how club funds are used. 

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