Winter aeration
The permit, insurance, electricity, diffuser hoses, and the thin-ice signage that keeps people off the open water.
Membership
Dues fund the whole operation: the aeration system, the buoys, the surveys, the permits and the consultants.
Dues for 2026
Which tier you are in depends on your relationship to the water.
$100a year
Lakeshore or creekshore
You own waterfront on Rice Lake or Elm Creek and can moor a boat on it. This tier includes the boat ramp access code.
$60a year
Lakeview or creekview
You can see the lake or the creek from your property but do not own frontage.
$25a year
Friends of Rice Lake
You are not on the water, but you want the lake looked after.
Varies
Corporate
Businesses supporting the association's work.
The current site's "Pay using PayPal" button goes to paypal.com/us/signin, PayPal's generic login page. No recipient, no amount. Someone who clicks it to pay dues lands on a login screen with nowhere to go. A working payment link belongs right here.
What dues pay for
Navigation buoys
Channel markers and hazard buoys, set and recovered by volunteers each season.
Surveys and consultants
Annual invasive plant delineations and periodic fish population surveys.
Drawdowns
Permit applications, public notices, and the coordination with the City and the DNR that a drawdown demands.
Boat ramp access
Rice Lake has no public access. The private ramp is gated, and shoreline owners who have paid their dues for the year get the access code.
Am I paid up?
The current site answers this by publishing a PDF roster of everyone who has paid, every year since 2014, listing members by name.
This mockup does not reproduce those rosters. Thirteen years of them are public today. That may well be deliberate, since in a small association a visible list is how the social pressure to pay works. It is still worth the board deciding on purpose rather than by default. A private lookup, or a roster behind the member login, does the same job without publishing names.