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Home My WebLink About09-18-2002 GOLF MINUTES � I •� CALDWELL GOLF BOARD • Advisory Board Meeting September 18, 2002 City Council aoom MEMBERS ATTEN�tNG Boyd Cooper Chairman Shirley Akagi Vice Chairman Fran Craeger Women's Association Representative Shannon Ozuna Council Representative Loraine Navis Larry Rick Men's Association Representative Jeff Osgood Dan Rowell Elvin Simpson MEMBERS UNABLE TO ATTEND STAFF ATTENDIPIG John Watson Purple Sage Pro �enny Stroup Fairview Golf Pro • STAFF UNABLE TO ATTEND Ron Wrest Golf Course Superintendent GUESTS Pat Inglis AGENDA 1) Chairman's report 2) Report from John Watson 3) Report frorn Lenny Stroup 4) report fram Ron Wrest 5) New or old business Chairman Cooper called the meeting to order and tonk the roll call. 1} CHAIRMAN'S REPORT Cooper noted that Ron Wrest was absent. John Wa#son said they are punching the greens today at Purple Sage and this could be the reason he is not here. Cooper informed the board that the cantracts for John Watson and Lenny Stroup are up for • renewal. They are now negotiating with the city for new contracts. Cooper noted that John has been here sixteen years and Lenny has been here for eleven years. Cooper praised the • two pros for their years of service. Caoper said he would like to see the city treat them fairly in the working aut a new con#ract and come up with a good working agreemertt. We da not want to be iooking for new pros when we have these fine experienced people already in place. Larry Rick and severai other board members spoke in praise of the two golf pros. 2) REPaRT FRQM JQHN WA7SON John thanked the board far their suport in the matter of the new contracts. John said he ioves working in Caldwell. Jahn said that we are running neck and neck in revenue against last year. He said that many of the courses in the valley are down qui#e a bit from last year. John told the board that Bryan Culbertson is playing in the Boise Buy.com open tourney. Jahn urged people to c4me out and watch Bryan play. Jahn said our Labor Qay Tourney is now one of the premier events of the state. John has a letter from people of the Middleton community who would like to honor Cody Hayes v�rith a memorial tree and a stone bench beside it. They would like to do this on the corner o# Purple Sage Road and EI Paso Road. Larry Rick made a motion, seconded by Shirley Akagi, that we give permission for a memorial tree and stone bertch to be placed in an appropriate place at Purple Sage to honor Cody Hayes. The motion passed unanimously. • 3} REPORT FROM LENNY STROUP Lenny said that he, like John, appreciated the support from the board in the matter of the new contracts. He said he would like to work in Caldwell unti! retirement. He said he loves working with kids in his junior golf program. Lenny reports his year-#o-date- revenue is ciose to last years. Lenny said his number one marshall at Fairview quit. Lenny said Wayne was a very good employee. Lenny said he is going to work at the Boise Buy.com tourney. Loraine Navis said that she thought the abundance of mosquitoes had probably hurt play at Fairview. Pat Inglis asked how many season passes were sofd this year as compared to last year. Shirley Akagi said that the list she was shown is 145 less than last year, but she didn't think it was very accurate. A discussion was held on the system the city has far selling the season tickets. Cooper said he thought the drop off in ticket sales is probably a result of the higher cost for buying a spouse add-on ticket. Lenny said that the ladies who play a# Fairview would like to do something for Leona Rodwell. Probably a tree or samething like was done at Purple Sage. 4) REPORT FROM RON WREST � Absent-no report � 5) NEW OR OLD BUSINESS Dan Roweff said that some of the golfers at Purple Sage have been loud and boisterous on the deck at Purple Sage and that some players on the number nine green have complained about the noise. Larry Rick said that the men's association would handle this probfem. Cooper said he had put a team together and played in #he Mayor's scholarship goif tourney, and that he �nras disappointed that there weren't more teams in the event. He said that next year he would like to see the board get behind this event and try #o get more participation. Cooper told Elvin Simpson that he and the entire golf board were sarry for the death of Romelle, who was a great friend to everyone and a great advocate of gol# in CaldwelL No more business. Meeting adjourned • •