President's Message
March 5, 2021
We are excited to tell you about two major developments here at the Club Donatello this week:
1. Restrictions Removed. The City of San Francisco has removed its restrictions on hotel occupancy which now permits us to make all our rooms available to Owners and guests.. For your safety we will continue to maintain our COVID-19 protocols for wearing masks and social distancing in the building as well as staggering usage and cleaning our rooms so long as the pandemic impacts our lives.
Additionally, the City has loosened its restrictions on other activities. Indoor dining will be permitted with limitations on the number of diners. The City is slowly but inevitably returning to normal.
2. Extensions of Owner's Time Which Expired During the Time We Have Been Shutdown. We have been sensitive to the fact that all our Owners have not been able to use their time at the Club Donatello after payment of the Annual Assessments for their 2019-20 and 2020-21 Years. How to best handle the situation and treat our Owners fairly and correctly has been the subject of many deliberations and considerations by our Management Team and the many Owners who volunteer on our Committees and the Board of Directors.
At the Board meeting on February 24, the Board granted to all Owners in good standing, limited extensions of the expiration of their Anniversary Dates for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 usage years to enable Owners to fully use their Owner’s Time of seven (7) nights in those years.
Extensions will be based on the Anniversary Date for each owned Unit and will expire if not used before the extended date. Owners who have unused nights from the 2019-20 year with existing March to December Anniversary Dates will have their Anniversary Date for that year and Owner’s Time use extended to December 31, 2021. Owners who have unused nights from the 2020-21 year will have their existing Anniversary Date for that year and Owner’s Time use extended to December 31, 2022. (Extension Schedule)
Our Management Team is preparing a separate statement for each owned Unit which details the number of nights used by the Owner in each year and the remaining unused nights available for occupancy or exchange under each extended period. You will receive those statements shortly.
Presently the total of the Owner’s accrued and shutdown caused unused nights nearly equals the total number of nights available to our Owners in a normal year. By extending for twenty two (22) months the time for our Owners to use their extended nights along with current year usage we believe that should allow sufficient time for our Owners to use their previously assessed and paid lost nights. In order to accommodate as many Owners as possible with extended nights there will be a limit on extended time of five (5) rooms per night per Owner regardless of the number of Units owned by an Owner. All extended time is subject to room availability. Owners must be current in payment of their 2021-22 Assessment to be entitled to extensions of their 2019-20 and 2020-21 Anniversary Dates.
Now that we are open for business and have granted these extensions, we urge you to make your reservations as soon as you can. The City is permitting indoor dining and other indoor activities initially on a limited basis; slowly we will be returning to normal.
Our Reservations Team is standing by to make your reservations. Please email them at Reservations@clubdonatello.org or you may use the Owner Reservation request form on our website with your requested reservations dates and you will receive a prompt email reply.
We look forward to welcoming you back.
MICHAEL A. MILNES
President and CEO
We are excited to tell you about two major developments here at the Club Donatello this week:
1. Restrictions Removed. The City of San Francisco has removed its restrictions on hotel occupancy which now permits us to make all our rooms available to Owners and guests.. For your safety we will continue to maintain our COVID-19 protocols for wearing masks and social distancing in the building as well as staggering usage and cleaning our rooms so long as the pandemic impacts our lives.
Additionally, the City has loosened its restrictions on other activities. Indoor dining will be permitted with limitations on the number of diners. The City is slowly but inevitably returning to normal.
2. Extensions of Owner's Time Which Expired During the Time We Have Been Shutdown. We have been sensitive to the fact that all our Owners have not been able to use their time at the Club Donatello after payment of the Annual Assessments for their 2019-20 and 2020-21 Years. How to best handle the situation and treat our Owners fairly and correctly has been the subject of many deliberations and considerations by our Management Team and the many Owners who volunteer on our Committees and the Board of Directors.
At the Board meeting on February 24, the Board granted to all Owners in good standing, limited extensions of the expiration of their Anniversary Dates for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 usage years to enable Owners to fully use their Owner’s Time of seven (7) nights in those years.
Extensions will be based on the Anniversary Date for each owned Unit and will expire if not used before the extended date. Owners who have unused nights from the 2019-20 year with existing March to December Anniversary Dates will have their Anniversary Date for that year and Owner’s Time use extended to December 31, 2021. Owners who have unused nights from the 2020-21 year will have their existing Anniversary Date for that year and Owner’s Time use extended to December 31, 2022. (Extension Schedule)
Our Management Team is preparing a separate statement for each owned Unit which details the number of nights used by the Owner in each year and the remaining unused nights available for occupancy or exchange under each extended period. You will receive those statements shortly.
Presently the total of the Owner’s accrued and shutdown caused unused nights nearly equals the total number of nights available to our Owners in a normal year. By extending for twenty two (22) months the time for our Owners to use their extended nights along with current year usage we believe that should allow sufficient time for our Owners to use their previously assessed and paid lost nights. In order to accommodate as many Owners as possible with extended nights there will be a limit on extended time of five (5) rooms per night per Owner regardless of the number of Units owned by an Owner. All extended time is subject to room availability. Owners must be current in payment of their 2021-22 Assessment to be entitled to extensions of their 2019-20 and 2020-21 Anniversary Dates.
Now that we are open for business and have granted these extensions, we urge you to make your reservations as soon as you can. The City is permitting indoor dining and other indoor activities initially on a limited basis; slowly we will be returning to normal.
Our Reservations Team is standing by to make your reservations. Please email them at Reservations@clubdonatello.org or you may use the Owner Reservation request form on our website with your requested reservations dates and you will receive a prompt email reply.
We look forward to welcoming you back.
MICHAEL A. MILNES
President and CEO
