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What’s happening with RCSCW’s annual golf discount card?

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OPINION — This next segment of Recreation Centers of Sun City West shell game budgeting is titled “fun with numbers.”

Until the end of the fiscal year that ended on 6/30/26, golfers who purchased an annual golf discount card paid $3,900 up front, including a fee paid for the use of a credit card whether they used one or not. The fee is built into the cost of the card.

Assuming that fee was 3%, the RCSCW kept $3,783 of the $3,900, with the balance of $117 going to the credit card processor.

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