Membership
The association is funded entirely by annual dues. That pays for the aeration system, the buoys, the surveys, the permits and the consultants.
Dues for 2026
Which tier you're in depends on your relationship to the water.
Lakeshore / Creekshore
You own waterfront property on Rice Lake or Elm Creek and can moor a boat on it. Includes the boat ramp access code.
Lakeview / Creekview
You can see the lake or the creek from your property but don't own frontage.
Friends of Rice Lake
You're not on the water, but you want the lake looked after.
Corporate
Businesses supporting the association's work.
On the current site, the "Pay using PayPal" button goes to
paypal.com/us/signin — PayPal's generic login page. No recipient,
no amount. A member 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
Winter aeration
Permit, insurance, electricity, diffuser hoses, and the thin-ice signage that keeps people off the open water.
Navigation buoys
Channel markers and hazard buoys, deployed and recovered by volunteers each season.
Surveys & 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 requires.
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 receive 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 deliberately doesn't reproduce those rosters. Thirteen years of them are public today. That may well be intentional — in a small association, a visible list is how the social pressure to pay works — but it's worth the board deciding on purpose rather than by default. A "check my status" lookup, or a roster behind the member login, does the same job without publishing names.