2025-02-19T23:51:34Z 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 650989382 SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC SARA 6309474774 1715 S School Ave Sarasota FL 34239 Theodore Beilman Board Treasurer 6309474774 2025-02-19 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://www.sarasotalawnbowlingclub.com X X 69724 X 58284 344 10146 870 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 80 0 80 0 69724 0 0 0 5336 15362 324 37790 58812 10912 31252 42164 31252 42164 0 0 0 0 31252 42164 0 0 31252 42164 The Sarasota Lawn Bowling Club (SLBC) welcomes lawn bowlers of all skill levels - including beginners - who live in or visit Sarasota from all over the world during our Winter months. We especially welcome new lawn bowlers and provide formal beginner training as well as ongoing "technique" instruction. We offer informal 'jitneys" (i.e. games) for players of all skill levels, club tournament opportunities, and open tournament opportunities which include teams from the Southern Gulf Coast region of Florida. We maintain an inventory of bowls for players who do not own their own bowls. Modern Lawn Bowling began in the 1830's in England, but it is truly a 21st century sport. Women compete equally with men, seniors compete equally with far younger bowlers, bowlers of different skill levels can play together in the same game at the same time, and handicapped players play at competitive levels. MAINTAINING OUR GREEN FOR YEAR- ROUND PLAY BY NEW AND VETERAN BOWLERS. Informal 'jitneys" (games) began again in December 2024during the day ... M, W, F, Sat. T and Th evening bowling begain in mid February. Formal training classes for new and returning bowlers began in January of 2025. We have 58 members and approximately 15 bowlers who pay a daily rate when they do chose to play 0 20698 SPONSOR TOURNAMENTS FOR COMPETITIVE PLAY. During January and February of 2024 the nearby Clearwater Lawnballs Club graciously allowed us to run two or our annual tounaments at their facility. 1 in January 2024 and 1 in February 2024. Teams from Sarasota, Clearwater, Sun City and Lakeland participated. 0 250 INTRODUCING THE SPORT TO NEW BOWLERS. During 2023 and much of 2024 our club activities went on hiatus as the City of Sarasota moved our playing venue to a new location in the city golf course complex. Construction of the new green was completed in early November and we resumed activities for the first time in approximately 2 years in late November of 2024. Classes for new and returning lawn bowlers started up again in January of 2025 0 0 20948 Ted Beilman Treasurer 25.00 0 0 0 Sally Mills President 30.00 0 0 0 Jeri Spann Education Director 25.00 0 0 0 Jim Sparrow Director of Grounds 35.00 0 0 0 John Garton Membership Director 25.00 0 0 0 Ilona Vrba Secretary 25.00 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false FL Ted Beilman Board Treasurer 1715 S School Ave Sarasota FL 34239 6309474774 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE 0 true X 0 20194 29729 10842 30452 91217 0 4308 5785 1265 424 11782 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24502 35514 12107 30876 102999 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 102999 2 1 700 870 1573 0 0 0 0 2 1 700 870 1573 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37977 37977 0 24504 35515 12807 69723 142549 0.72260 0.99030 0.01100 0.00970 X Part III, Line 12 Line 12 Other Income is the amount of reimbursement, that SLBC received from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, of preopening expenses SLBC incurred to make our new lawn bowling venue operable/playable. These reimbursed expenses included the cost of tree removal and purchases of new trees and shrubs, electrical work to connect power from Florida Power and Light to a service box that services our venue's stadium lights, and payments to a greens maintenance firm specializing in caring for the variety of bermuda grass used on our lawn bowling green (and also on local golf course putting greens) during the grow-in period. Part I, Line 16 Line 16 Other Expenses includes the preopening expenses that the Sarasota Lawn Bowling Club incurred to complete our new venue and bring in to playable condition. These expenses were reimbursed by the Gulf Coast Community Foundation as called out in our Line 1 Contributions commentary above. The largest items were (i) the cost to remove problematic trees on the property and purchase replacement trees and shrubs, and (ii) run electrical service from the Florida Power and Light junction box at the edge of our venue to our service box which powers the stadium lights used for evening lawn bowling. Part I, Line 8 Line 1 Contributions, Grants, Gifts includes (i) $13,880 in donations and matching grants from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County's Giving Challenge which occurs in even numbered calendar years, (ii) $4,800 in contributions to our club's Go Fund Me page, and (iii) $37,700 in reimbursements by the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of certain pre-opening expenses that the Sarasota Lawn Bowling Club incurred complete our new venue and bring the green to playable condition.