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Memo
To: City Council
From: Eric McCormick, Golf Course Superintendent
CC: Anette Spickard, City Manager
Date: 10/30/2019
Re: Monthly Department Report – October 2019
1. Weather:
Winter arrived early in October. It was much cooler and wet plus multiple snow storms.
2. Staff:
Finishing out October with three full time employees and seven seasonal employees of which
four are part time. We also have one community service person putting the roof on the
maintenance building. Billy Romero and I both took a few vacation days the end of the month as
we were starting to lose vacation time.
3. Greens:
The greens went through October in good shape. We were able to able to Hydroject all the greens
before staff blew out the irrigation. The Hydroject is 24 years old and still use it. This is a process
where high pressure water is blasted through the turf leaving small holes that help with air
movement and drainage in the soil. I was able to get the snow mold fungicide application on
before the end of the month. The first part of November, staff are scheduled to put the covers on
12 greens. Because the ground has frozen already, nails will have to be applied to hold the covers
down as the staples normally used will bend.
4. Trees:
Staff utilized the wet weather to work on the trees. It was necessary to remove 43 trees that were
either dead or dying. The best of the removed trees were cut into log lengths to use later in
construction projects and others chopped for fire wood for the maintenance building and club
house. Everything else was put through the chipper.
5. Maintenance Building:
Staff is pre-staining siding for the maintenance building to have it ready to install in November.
The siding was milled from logs that were removed from the golf course. The recycled metal
roofing was donated by two housing project and being installed by a roofer doing community
service. It’s not the prettiest but will keep us dry. Staff plan on painting the roofing once installed.
Monthly Department Report – Golf Course
Other than the paint and some trim and screws, the roof cost the department nothing. Staff have
also been re-arranging the back room of the building to have things better organized and make
room for lockers.
6. Equipment Maintenance:
Having some staff with typing skills has been a huge benefit this year. One of my part time
employees used to own a parts store and has been helping the mechanic organize and inventory
parts. They are also putting all the parts in My Turf, which is the parts management program that
came with the leased equipment. This will make knowing what is in inventory and make
reordering easy.
7. Restaurant:
The restaurant is now back to its winter hours/days which is Thursday open at 4:00 p.m.,
Friday and Saturday 11:00-8:00 p.m., and Sunday 11:00-2:00 p.m. Thursday is Steak Night
and Saturday is Prime Rib Night.
8. Golf Course Closed Early:
When it snowed on the 19th and hadn’t melted on Monday the 21st, the Golf Pro Allan Morrison
and the Golf Course Superintendent discussed whether to keep the course open or not. Taking
into consideration the long-range weather forecast, the fact there were more dog walkers than
golfers, the lack of revenue and cost of staff in both the Proshop and restaurant, it was decided to
pull the plug and close the course for the season. This allowed staff time to finish most of the
work before winter set in. This turned out to be a good decision as the weather dropped to single
digits the end of the month. The dog stations are all up and the paths have been busy with walkers
ever since.
9. Irrigation:
Staff was able to blow out the irrigation before the temperature hit its coldest however, because
of compressor problems with the rented compressor, it took longer than planned. When it froze
hard, the crew was able to get into one of the irrigation ponds and clean it out with use of the
Parks new mini excavator. This will give the course more water storage in the summer and the
material pulled out is stockpiled and will be used for construction projects in the future.