HomeMy WebLinkAboutGolf Course Committee MinsCome: Motion has been made and seconded to close the Public Hearing. All those in
favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Cowie: I think, Anna, you have yow marching orders now.
Powell: Thank you, sir.
De Weerd: Mr. Mayor?
Cowie: Mrs. de Weerd.
De Weerd: I just have two questions. One is on the Wilkins Ranch, if we could get an
update under Department Reports next week on if they were going to -- what solutions
they were looking at. I know the water is flowing and -- and summer -- school is out on
Wednesday, so just wondered kind of where we are at with that. And, then, a couple of
months ago we met with the golf course and at that time the golf course committee and
its mission was going to come back to Council to either confirm or discussion what
mission is and I understand there is a committee meeting, but I wondered what the
process was on that. It's not a recognized committee yet, so --
Cowie: You want to answer that, Keith, or --
Bird: Go ahead.
Cowie: Okay. They are having a meeting tomorrow night. They had to cancel the last
one they ahd and they will be giving us a recommendation probably next week and it
would just be a -- on what they come up with. We will have to make the decision, based
upon legal terminology and everything else, so that's where it stands right now. We
should have it about either next week right afterward the meeting on the 4th and you will
see it in writtn form.
Bird: Mr. Mayor?
Cowie: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Tammy just said that it wasn't a recognized committee and seeing how I was not in
-- I was in the hospital when they set this thing up, but up I didn't realize it was not a
recognized committee, I thought it was appointed and approved by you on the --
Come: It was an ad hoc committe.
Bird: Ad hoc. Okay.
De Weerd: And I thought when we had left that meeting and stated in the minutes that it
would come back for confirmation and to state the mission, so I just went on the minutes.
Bird: I did not have --
Cowie: Okay. They weren't -- I don't believe they were a committee that was formed by
the Council, it was an ad hoc committee to give Council information that they found out.
De Weerd: Okay. So, they are not recommending any course of action?
Cowie: They just bring back what they find.
De Weerd: And just one more thing is I understand that we were going to do some
equipment sharing and I think they were -- had asked to use a sprayer.
Cowie: That's right and I refused. I'm not going to allow public money and equipment to
go to a private parry that's leasing -- that makes money off it and, besides that, I
understand that the equipment is very expensive and should be handled by the parks
crew. So -- and I made that decision myself, that I don't feel it's right to use city funds
and money and equipment on a private organization.
Bird: And I [conquer~concur] with him.
Cowie: They can go out and rent some --
Bird: If they want to help purchase some, I think that, or if it was Ward or somebody like
that, but it's another public entity that is bought through taxes, then, I think that that is
proper, but I think in something like this, unless we get a policy stated of the city, that our
hands are tied right now on something like that.
De Weerd: Well, I just thought that was the conversation.
Bird: And I definitely question whether we need one of those things in our city either,
you know, because it is a very expensive item and --
De Weerd: We are already have it.
Bird: Yeah. We already have it. I know.
Come: I hope that answers your question. I just kind of made the decision, an
administrative decision that we woudln't use public funds and equipment to --
Bird: I think on the golf course, that's the first time they have ever asked for it and I don't
have a problem with it. I think we need to make a policy on some of this, because I think
we ought to look at some -- I think it's policy that we need to make as a Council on what
we would share and do stuff like that, because you are talking about tax dollars and
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7/1/03
Dear Mayor and Council Members:
After receiving a word from Elroy Huff that we should consider using the City's sprayer for use in
controlling weeds on the City's golf course, we contacted Elroy, Doug Strong and Tammy
DeWeerd back in April to take them up on this offer. We were told that someone trained in the use
of the sprayer would have to apply the herbicide and that we could have an employee of Cherry
Lane trained to spray the course, This is understandable and we were working with the. City to
arrange a time for this training.
Then we were surprised to learn that the Mayor had decided that it would be inappropriate for the.
City to lend its Park's equipment for use on the golf course. This decision was communicated to
the council a few of weeks ago. We first learned of this decision. at the golf course committee
meeting of June 4, 2003. From what we understand, the Council discussed the use of the sprayer
and felt that City equipment should not be "loaned". We also understand that the. Council feels
there is a need to adopt a policy in connection with the use of City equipment. We appreciate this
and would encourage the City to adopt such a policy.
As you know, we have been trying to develop a closer working relationship with the City. As the
manager of the City's course, we would prefer to work more directly with the City on issues such
as this. It may he that the City will adopt a policy that allows entities like us to rent equipment
from the city. We would certainly be willing to explore this further with the City.
Sincerely,
J 'fer Lovan-Holloway, General anager
Cherry Lane Golf Club