CERALAND

ACM Info

Program Benefits

Cummins Employee's Recreation Association (CERA) has been servicing the leisure and recreational needs of employees in and around Columbus for over 40 years. Our nationally recognized not-for-profit association (Ceraland Park) is dedicated to providing unique parks, recreation facilities, educational and self improvement services and programs. Our professional staff specialize in enhancing your health, improving your mental outlook and increasing your zest for life.

Benefits to the Company: How Can Ceraland Benefit My Company?
A good recreational experience can benefit a company in many ways. Not only is it a valuable "Perk" for attracting and retaining employees; it can also be cost effective. Independent studies have shown that through participation in recreational and fitness activities such programs can reduce absenteeism, health care costs, injury claims while boosting morale, motivation and increasing productivity, and that's good for business. It can also enhance employee camaraderie and interaction away from the workplace by holding meetings, picnics and other gatherings at Ceraland.

Additional Benefits to the Company: How Much Is It Going To Cost My Company?
Absolutely NOTHING! That’s the best part. There is no direct cost to the company with the exception of providing a contact person from the company to administer the program by occasionally passing out information and answering employee questions.

Benefits to the Employee:
What Does My Employee Benefit From a Ceraland Membership?
Ceraland Park offers a wide range of facilities, discount programs and services for your employees and their family members. Employees and families can participate in our nationally recognized facility featuring 345 acres of park and camping areas complete with all the indoor and outdoor facilities a family can enjoy. Individuals may enroll in our on-going dynamic recreation program catering to both active and passive recreation interests. CERA’s trained, experienced, qualified staff will administer the program FOR your company TO your employees!

The Affiliate Program: How Does It Work?
Your company can obtain membership opportunities for your employees that otherwise would not have these unique facilities and services available to them since CERA is a semi-private facility and is not open to the public. Memberships are available to your employees, retirees and their immediate family members for a 12-month period and entitle members full participation privileges to all CERA facilities and programs. There is a minimum of five (5) employee memberships required to get the program started.

Membership Fees: What Is The Annual Fee?
CERA's complete corporate recreation service is available all year round for only $200 per year or $18 monthly for 12 months and that’s for the entire family or an individual! Fees may be paid in full at the time of enrollment, invoiced monthly to the company or individual employees may use the CERA EFT Payment Plan. Volume discount rates are also available if more than 75 employees enroll.

Membership Enrollment: How Do We Join?
Enrollment is easy, and CERA handles every aspect of the program for you.

1. Company submits a letter to CERA indicating it’s interest in becoming an ACM with the following information:

• Your interest in making CERA available to your employees
• Approximate number of employees
• Which payment program you would like to utilize (annual, monthly to the company or monthly EFT from the employees)
• If your company will allow Membership Upgrades (Gold, Gold+ or Sports & Fitness Center Options) to be included
• Whether the company will be contributing toward the membership fees for each employee. If so, state amount
• The name of the company representative, email address and phone number

2. Once CERA receives a letter of intent from the company, CERA will supply the company representative with:

• ACM Agreement for management’s signature
• Enrollment forms for employees to complete
• Flyers to post to communicate program to employees
• Any other supplies the company may need to provide maximum participation

3. Your company representative would then:

• Return the signed ACM Agreement
• Fax or mail all completed and signed enrollment forms initialed by company representative
• Payment in full, first month’s dues per number of enrollees or signed EFT forms from each enrollee

4. CERA provides to Company representative:

• Receipt for paid memberships and signed Agreement
• Membership cards for all enrolled employees and their family members

5. Employees are now ready to enjoy all of the facilities, services and programs that CERA has to offer.

For additional information or questions, please call Beth Dawson, Marketing / Business Manager at (812) 377-6401, email ceraland@ceraland.org.

Membership Information

• All memberships must be "sponsored" by the Affiliate Corporation
• Memberships must be valid for twelve (12) months from the date joined
• Minimum of five (5) employee memberships are required to get started
• Membership fees are to be paid to CERA by the sponsoring company
  Sorry, no individual employee payment without representative handling
• Employee memberships are effective upon delivery and distribution of CERA membership IDs

Membership Eligibility
Those persons eligible through your company membership are current, active employees and retired employees fully vested and their immediate eligible family members. This may include a spouse (or recognized domestic partner approved by your company) and/or children living in your household on a permanent basis, 20 years of age and under (not married) or children over 21 years of age (not married) with a college student status or ID.

Membership Representation

• Each Affiliate Company will designate a company representative
• To ensure a smooth membership process, CERA will communicate membership information through the company representative
• Company representative may:
  • Distribute Affiliate Corporate Membership Applications and ID cards to employees
  • Give written correspondence regarding additions and deletions to membership
  • Distribute general information to employees provided by CERA

Membership Fees & Upgrades

Regular
Admission to park, use of all facilities, classes, and leagues. Member and immediate eligible family members will pay per use for those activities, classes, and leagues designated with individual fees.
Fee: $200 annual or $18 monthly (single/family) for 12 months using the CERA EFT Payment Plan

Gold Card Pass
Admission to park and use of all facilities, classes, and leagues. Member and immediate eligible family members will have unlimited usage of the miniature golf course, aquatic center, boat dock facility, disc golf course, go-kart track, and rifle range at no additional fee per usage for entire membership period.
Single or Family Fee: $325 annual or $28 monthly for 12 months using the CERA EFT Payment Plan

Gold Card + Pass
Admission to park and use of all facilities, classes, and leagues. Member and immediate eligible family members will have unlimited usage of the miniature golf course, aquatic center, boat dock facility, disc golf course, go-kart track, rifle range, and Sports & Fitness Center at no additional fee per usage for entire membership period.

Sports & Fitness Center Season Pass
This pass entitles members to unlimited usage of CERA Sports & Fitness Center (league nights included) without paying individual admission fees. Valid entire membership period.

Membership Funding
Companies may structure the collection of fees as the examples below indicate:

• The company pays the full membership fee
• Partial payment by company and partial payment by employee (subsidized). Employee's share may be offset through partial company subsidy, partial employee payment and partially refunded through company in-house vending commissions
• Total payment by the employee (options of annual full pay or monthly EFT payments).

 Volume Discounts

Company must approve both programs in order to receive discount.
NOTE: In order to receive group discount, employees must be enrolled at the beginning of the twelve (12) month membership period.

ACM Monthly Payment Plans

To activate ACM membership privileges the company will:

• Authorize a minimum twelve (12) month agreement to be billed monthly
• First month dues paid upon execution of membership

Monthly payments (billed to company)

• Fee will be assessed at $16.66 per month per employee for 12 consecutive months
• Invoiced prior to the first of the month, net due upon receipt for that month's membership privileges 

Monthly payments (Electronically drawn from employee's personal account)

• Fee will be assessed on a monthly basis dependant upon the membership program selected by the employee
• A signed EFT Authorization Agreement form must be received by each employee along with a voided check or deposit slip
• A minimum of 12 monthly payments will be drawn from the employee's account

Adding employees - It's easy

• In order for companies to provide this benefit to all employees, new employees may be added to the company membership at any time given company representative authorization. Company representative may add employees by simply submitting a completed Affiliate Corporate Membership Application
• The following month's invoice will reflect the addition of the new member or a new EFT account will be set up
• Added memberships must remain in force through the initial 12-month membership period.  If less than 7 months remain in the membership period, the added memberships will remain in force for the remainder of the membership period plus an additional 12 months
• Fees are not refundable after CERA ID distribution

ACM Annual Payment Plan
To activate ACM membership privileges the company will:

• Authorize a minimum twelve (12) month agreement to be billed annually
• Entire annual membership fee to be paid upon execution of membership

 Annual payments

• Company should submit payment to CERA in full with Affiliate Corporate Membership Applications as employees are added.
• At renewal, company will be invoiced for total number of memberships collected following renewal date
• Fees are not refundable after CERA ID distribution

Adding or Deleting Employees

Adding New Employees - It's Easy:

• New employees may be added at any time given company representative authorization
• Company representative may add an employee by simply submitting a completed Affiliate Corporate Membership Application and payment
• Membership expiration date for added employees would be the same as the original company enrollment date
• Employee memberships are not transferable and therefore no refund of fees after ID distribution

Prorated Schedule Paid-in-full Memberships:
It's easy to add new employees to your Ceraland Affiliate Corporate Membership. Ceraland offers a prorated Affiliate Membership rate for employees of your company enrolling after the original company activation date. Their prorated membership fee will be reduced by approximately $17 per month (after the 15th) for the first five months after the original membership registration date. Added employee expiration date will be the same as your company's expiration date. Simply send the completed Affiliate Corporate Membership Application initialed by the company representative and prorated payment to Ceraland Park. Within a few days, their membership ID cards will be sent to you for distribution.

Affiliate Corporate Membership Prorated Schedule

**If membership is started when less than 7 months remain in the membership period, the added membership will remain in force for the remainder of the membership period plus an additional 12 months. Must pay prorated amount plus following years membership fee.

Deleting Employees:

• Companies may delete individual employees from their affiliate membership only due to termination of employment. All of the member ID cards must be returned immediately to CERA with a letter giving the effective date of termination.
• Employees may be deleted by using one of the following methods:
  • Replace deleted employee with a new employee member. Submit deleted employees ID card(s) and new added employees completed Membership Application to CERA.  Added employee will assume remaining membership through company expiration date.
  • At company's option, terminating employees may retain their membership eligibility through the end of the 12-month membership period. Terminated employees will not be eligible for membership renewal.

Note: Companies will continue to be billed on a monthly or annual basis if deleting employees ID card(s), including all immediate eligible family members, are not returned to CERA.

Renewal & Concellation Process

Membership renewal

• After the initial twelve (12) month membership period, the CERA membership representative will contact the company representative 30 days prior to renewal date
• All employees (new or renewal) must fill out new Affiliate Corporate Membership Applications at each renewal.
• Company may collect these forms and return them to CERA for processing or may elect to have CERA membership representative conduct a membership renewal drive on site
• Forms may be faxed or mailed, but must be submitted together prior to expiration date
• Once forms are received by CERA, ID cards will be processed and returned to company representative for distribution

NOTE: Any Affiliate Corporate Membership Applications received 30 days after the renewal date (with the exception of new employees) will be assessed a late fee in the amount of $25.

Cancellation of membership program
A company may cancel their membership after the initial twelve (12) month period by notifying CERA in writing 30 days in advance.

Affiliate Corporate List

Ceraland is pleased to offer memberships to all employees of the following companies and businesses. If your company is not currently a member and you are interested in membership, please refer to How Do We Join?