Clubs have been asked to give their opinions on a remit from the Kaikorai club that would end Bowls Dunedin's hold on the old Otago Women's Bowling Association centre complex.
The Kaikorai remit states that "the incoming executive board of Bowls Dunedin should take immediate steps to initiate talks with the Dunedin City Council with the intention of permanently relinquishing the lease of the greens and buildings formerly used by the Otago Women's Bowling Association".
If clubs back the remit in their written replies, Bowls Dunedin would immediately begin talks with the Dunedin City Council.
Incoming president Robbie Thomson had no opinion on the remit.
"It's not my decision," Thomson said.
"If the clubs vote in favour of the remit the incoming executive will have to deal with it."
It costs Bowls Dunedin $20,000 a year to maintain its greens and facilities at Logan Park.
Half of this cost could be saved if the complex was relinquished and the office established at another venue.
When the two women's greens were opened at Logan Park in 1931 it was the first green complex controlled by a women's centre in New Zealand.
It was debt free and used some of the buildings built for the South Seas Exhibition of the 1920s.
The present pavilion was opened by the then Dunedin mayor, Sir Clifford Skeggs, on December 1, 1986.
It cost $118,000 to build. If the Bowls Dunedin complex is lost, Dunedin would no longer have a three-green complex.
Logan Park was added to the mix when Dunedin successfully staged the Asia and Pacific Bowls in 1995 and the New Zealand championships two years ago.
The Bowls Dunedin meeting will be held at the centre headquarters at Logan Park at 7pm.
Logan Park greensThe Kaikorai remitReasons why the Kaikorai Bowling Club wants Bowls Dunedin to relinquish ownership of its headquarters greens at Logan Park. - The high cost of maintenance on the buildings and the two greens greatly outweighs any benefits gained by retaining them.
A significant proportion of capitation fees from male bowlers go towards these costs, yet they never use the complex.
Like all major centres in New Zealand, Dunedin has a surplus of greens, and clubs would welcome more women's events on their greens.
There is no club situated at the centre and volunteers, who help with catering, marking and other duties, are increasingly difficult to recruit.
The expansion of the university and polytechnic has made car parks more difficult to find.
Bowls Dunedin would be better served by setting up an office, meeting room and storage space in a location away from the centre of the city.
