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Sources inside the club say that Andromeda has formulated a three-pronged approach to dealing with the financial questions which have been dogging the team this Spring.
According to a director who asked to remain anonymous at this point, "Our first concern is to get the coaches paid. To provide some immediate relief, we are going to bring their salaries up to date with our own Andromeda "Soccer-Dollars". These are going out immediately, and the coaches will be able to use them to buy ANY team merchandise at 10% off." Said well-known coach M. Leite, "This is great news! I had been planning to use most of my salary this year to purchase fine quality Andromeda Spirit Wear anyway, and the 10% discount is just frosting on the cake!"
Second, Andromeda plans to announce the acquisition of another set of fields In either Highland Park or Oak Cliff. "We are not going to let the tough economy slow us down, we're moving ahead with expansion plans. These fields will be the envy of the local club world, wait and see." The club plans a formal announcement of the expansion in early June, so that kids and parents will be able to take the good news into account as they look for a club to commit to for next year. Asked how the club anticipated paying for yet more fields, representatives said the third prong of the new plan will be the answer.
"We've been blessed with an inventive, proactive Board and some great parents. One of our Board members was brainstorming and saw that we needed a club stimulus. Then he realized that when our great nation, the US of A, needed a stimulus, our leaders printed money! It was right in front of us all along! He just happened to be talking to one of our parents who owns a printing company, and now we're just waiting for the right paper to come in. We ran it all by another team parent who is an accountant - he used to work for a big firm named Arthur Andersen I think - and he signed off on the idea. We'll have everything paid off soon."
According to a director who asked to remain anonymous at this point, "Our first concern is to get the coaches paid. To provide some immediate relief, we are going to bring their salaries up to date with our own Andromeda "Soccer-Dollars". These are going out immediately, and the coaches will be able to use them to buy ANY team merchandise at 10% off." Said well-known coach M. Leite, "This is great news! I had been planning to use most of my salary this year to purchase fine quality Andromeda Spirit Wear anyway, and the 10% discount is just frosting on the cake!"
Second, Andromeda plans to announce the acquisition of another set of fields In either Highland Park or Oak Cliff. "We are not going to let the tough economy slow us down, we're moving ahead with expansion plans. These fields will be the envy of the local club world, wait and see." The club plans a formal announcement of the expansion in early June, so that kids and parents will be able to take the good news into account as they look for a club to commit to for next year. Asked how the club anticipated paying for yet more fields, representatives said the third prong of the new plan will be the answer.
"We've been blessed with an inventive, proactive Board and some great parents. One of our Board members was brainstorming and saw that we needed a club stimulus. Then he realized that when our great nation, the US of A, needed a stimulus, our leaders printed money! It was right in front of us all along! He just happened to be talking to one of our parents who owns a printing company, and now we're just waiting for the right paper to come in. We ran it all by another team parent who is an accountant - he used to work for a big firm named Arthur Andersen I think - and he signed off on the idea. We'll have everything paid off soon."
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