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HomeMy Public PortalAboutGolf Department Report October 2019Monthly Department Report – Golf Course 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.