HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007-03-13 Board of Selectmen HandoutFRIENDS OF READING TENNIS
❖ Established 1991, Incorporated 2006.
❖ Founded and operates the Reading Tennis Open, since 1991.
Financial support to the RMHS varsity tennis teams... uniforms,
practice balls, ball machine, scorecards, future equipment needs.
❖ Financial support of Reading Recreation tennis programming.
❖ Formed Friends of Reading Tennis Task Force (FRTTF) 2006.
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At the Birch Meadow ecreco mial
Current Offerings
Reading Recreation Tennis Programs
✓ Kids clinics, lesson, ladder play, round robins, travel teams.
✓ Adult clinics, lessons, ladder play, round robins.
Reading Tennis Open
✓ Provides competitive tournament play to more than 250
metropolitan area tennis players.
Program Expansion
Challenger Tennis: offered to all children with special needs.
RMHS tennis players will serve as "buddies."
Wheelchair Tennis: offered to physically handicapped players.
Will be one of few facilities in New England to offer this USIA
sanctioned program.
Eastern Middlesex Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC):
weekly clinics offered to all members of ARC.
USTA Tournaments: if awarded USTA grant, may host
sanctioned USTA tournaments at this facility.
WWW.Friendsof KeadingTennis.org
FRIENDS OF READING TENNIS
The Goal To bring a "State-of-the-Reading" tennis facility to
the Birch Meadow Recreational Complex.
Build 6 new courts, including: new playing surfaces,
The Project lights, fencing, drainage system.
Estimated Project cost: $3509000
Projected Source of Funds:
❖ Town of Reading:
$2009000
Grant Awards:
✓ Massachusetts Urban Self Help
$50,000
✓ USTA
$35,000
✓ Babson Foundation
$51,000
❖ Corporate Sponsors:
$0000
❖ Individual Donors and FRT Fundraisers $C000
Total Funds
$350'000
Gift Recognition .
Court Naming $ 10,000
Viewing j)ench with Plague $5,000
Display Fla9ue Levels:
➢ "Match roint" $2,500
➢ "Ace" $ 1,000
➢ "Love" $500
brick $ 200