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Stay out there a little bit. It's fixing to dump.
I think we got plenty the other day. Yeah, I think we did. Texas closed I guess right
okay I guess we'll call the meeting to order [clears throat] first thing on the
agenda announcements any announcements no the only thing I'd really is our junior golf program summer
programs are full force right now. We're in the this week was our third week of the junior golf
foundation on Monday and Tuesday um days um full if you've been to any of the courses during that
time. There's 8,000 kids. It's awesome. Um first increased their programming so they got more kids.
We're doing um we did the hook kid snag classes are going the um uh summer of discovery where we
bring different kids from our rec centers that they come and visit of course [clears throat] um
so we've got those going at text today we had a few at uh math last week so uh junior golf
is definitely very strong in full force right now we're looking to probably have about 1,800
kids come through our program a different various programs so that's Good. That's fun. Fun. That's
good. Uh, next thing we have is public comments. Oh, yeah. Okay. Got several several questions
here. Would you mind just so the microphones pick you up? Maybe you can set here if you
want. Yeah. Just I want to make sure you you're clear on the recording. Thank you. Excuse me.
[clears throat]
You like to state your name? Was Mark Adams? I'm a member of a Dirty Dozen golf group. Forgotten,
I guess. Um, Jesse answered my first two questions today. Um, I was at text the
other day talking with Steve and he showed me on his computer how when one selects a tea time,
there's a little box, you can X to get the second T time reserved for you. Of course,
I saw it and he showed me how it worked on the computer, but I've got an Apple
and a Windows side by side and I can't get it to work on mine. And speaking of that,
the program does not work on the Windows at all, as I'm sure you all know. Uh, golf witch program
won't even download on a Windows program. So, if you've got a Windows at home and not an Apple,
you can't get into the program. Got Windows here. We got something in some something's
wrong there. I've got nothing. I've got five guys that can't download work on computer. What
do you It's there's nothing to download. You just apply other than the app somewhere. Well,
the app is for a phone. The app is designed strictly for a phone. Either Android or
iPhone. Okay. What do you have for the for the computers? Now, we just go to the website. It's
a website. So there's no there's nothing to download. You just go to golfwitchto.com.
Okay. [clears throat] I'll pass that on to my guys. I've got it on my phone and I've got it
on my iPad. No problem. Yeah. Any any device will work, but it's not meant for a desktop or laptop.
Answer some of those questions.
Exactly what groups are allowed multiple key times at each golf course. I know there's a men's club
at each course that's allowed and a women's club is allowed. What else is allowed? There's each
club if they have the participation, it has one men's club, one ladies club, one couple's league,
and one senior league. So those those clubs are allowed two days at their designated course,
not a rotation. So if Auburn has men's club, they their days are at Auburn Hills. assume
men's leave. Their days are at 7, but they're designated. They're open to they're they are
the designated leads, not groups leads for those courses and they are anyone can sign up. That's
the the kind of the policy with that. Anyone can sign up for those. We have a contact on the
website for those leagues where they can sign up. So, um it's not just a group that play together.
It's actual organized leagues that the course has designated as official leagues. the groups the the
groups that can book multiple tea times go through your the you got to register right I think that's
what he's the leagues are established for the for the year the groups you got to go through so yeah
so the leagues they can book in advance we we'll set the calendar out for the whole year because we
have league days the groups are have the ability to book multiple tubs uh which is what you guys
will qualify qualify as So you can I mean I've got a ton of groups that do it. So we need to
sit down and figure out what the issue is there. I've got a lot of groups that do it without issue.
So I mean I've been working with you for what it's almost two years now and u and now with the once
the new program came online we can't get squat. So I'll get with you on that. Yeah. I don't know
what the you saying you can't do it. What's the reason you can't do it? That'd be nice to know.
No I'm asking what is it? What happens? there's not a place to do it or you can't you can't find
tea times or there's something a tea time here and a tea time there. We can't get tea times together
and we're really consistent. We play Monday, Wednesday, Friday have been for over 20 years. So,
I know we've talked, but let me back up just for a second and tell you where this came from is the
massive amount of complaints we had from so many people saying that there are groups that get tea
times in advance all year. I understand and we have individuals that can never find a ton and
you pay the same amount for the same membership. So what we're doing is making sure it's everyone
is is equal and you have the same the same access to those tons. you go through the same process,
but you would have the ability to book multiple team times when available,
which when you play it's I mean we play Monday, winter, Friday, we try to get around 9 between 9,
the early days. Well, it's odd to me that you can't find tea times back to back at that time
during the week. I can go online. We have to get up at 5 in the morning 4:58 in the morning.
So 5:00 we can get it. And by the time we hit the first one and and Steve was trying to show me the
other day, there's a little box, but I can't find it on mine. But uh by the time you hit the first
one, they're gone. The rest of them are gone. And you can't get to back to back. Sometimes I'll get
one with a tea time in between, I don't have a problem with that. We get to the golf course, we
get to the guys in between us and say, "Hey, you want to go you want to go early? That way you can
get us back together." that works even even two tea times separate will work for us but sometimes
I get the one tea time and they're nothing that thing fills up so fast it's ridiculous and and
that's good for you not for us we need to maybe what do you have a laptop what do you use to book
times what kind of demotion kind of on my iPad so if you could bring your iPad and let's sit down
and look because there there's something you're not seeing it Are you set up as a group? Your guys
group? We were, but because I had two, we had um Dirty Dozen and my one my email address and hasn't
been for 30 years is golfing the fool at Cox.net. For a while, we had no problem getting on as
um the dirty dozen. But for some reason, and and you know, Jesse explained it to me a little
bit earlier that maybe with this new program because we have the same you can't use the same
email for two different accounts. We can only So we don't have 8,000 duplicate accounts like
we had 52,000 accounts and only 17,000 were legit. Yeah. And I understand that. I just
I wasn't aware of that. I understand that prop. So now and most of you may know if you had Cox,
it's now Yahoo. and I'll just get a yellow email and see if that works or not. So, right now he
can put them in his name. That's how it set up. So, you have you can you can book them. It would
just be your name. But if you want a group account so that the same one, they can log in and do that.
We can we can set that up. Right now, we've got three of us that get up and I get up on Mondays,
Russell on Wednesdays, and Daryl on the Fridays to get the tea times. But when we can't, our backup
is always Cheney or Sand Creek. Like Monday, I'm playing at Cheney because we're playing at Cheney
because all the courses are shut down in the morning for something next Monday. The groups,
don't they identify one person as the the the tea time getter? Yeah. So So having three guys trying
to get off of Monday, Wednesday, Friday, that could be Could that be part of the problem? No,
use different names. So he's Monday on Monday. And I understand, but your group is supposed to only
have one person who can get multiple tea times. We don't have a group now, dear. They knocked us
out. We We have not talked you out. No, we've not because the email is not your fault. It's because
the email would no longer happen. No, your group is there. You're saying he's saying the account
of called Dirty Dozen instead of his name is not there. Yeah. So we we signed in under, you know,
my name on Mondays, a different name on Wednesdays and a different name on Fridays. I'm old. Yeah,
this get over 458 in one and hoping to get a tea time, but that's not not to say it wrong,
but that's the same issue that everybody's got it. Hundreds of people complained about last year and
now a lot of the groups are having to do that and they are understanding, but also obviously
obviously no one likes it. No one likes So yeah, I I was with one of the pros um last week and
this he was trying to find out what tea times I had for that week. And then we look in there and
we see one group on Saturday has got nine tea times. Now, with the exception of tournaments,
what's the justification of one group having one group having nine tea types? It's probably
a league. Who where we at? Oh, this was at Arvin Hills on Saturday morning. That's the
men's league. That's not They don't play during the week. We play Wednesday and Saturday. Every
other Saturday, not every Saturday. 19 times on Wednesdays and 19 times on Saturdays.
But that is a league. That's not a group. that's uh open to anyone can
join. It's what we were talking about. It's the designated league for Auburn.
Saturday morning, I mean, we went back and forth on that. Um we we did it every other
Saturday instead of every Saturday at this time. Well, I I [clears throat] I appreciate
that. But [snorts] the reason we don't play on Saturday is because we let the we leave the tea
times to the people who have to work all week. They got a league on on sat on Saturday morning
taking nine tea times. I would hope that most of those people have jobs during the week and
that's the only time they can back. But that that seemed awful curious. Nine tea times on
Wednesday morning the senior league here has probably more than that. Senior league here
is 110 people. Yeah. It's you know again that's different than a group. that's a an actual link
that run by the course and they can sign up and it's open to anybody. So it's that's the
the difference there. One thing I've noticed and this is just beside anything else. You know when I
see a group of guys out there playing they're all over that dog golf course but you get ladies out
there playing they're rather organized but none of this all over. No it's just golf that's why.
Mhm. That's every aspect of life in my opinion. That's not just golf. No, you're right. Um,
you're right. 55,000 rounds a year on a public golf course. So, I understand
what you're saying. This morning, 5:00 to make a te time for next Tuesday. I got in,
first one I could get was 750. I went back to get another one. The next one I could get
was 950. Yeah. It was like like that. They're gone. They just go so fast. I I mean I don't
know there's a perfect answer for it. I'm just But I I I feel what you're saying and
I I totally understand it to me. The only It's not perfect. The only answer is make sure it's
the same for every person. Yeah. That's the only I mean yeah which is what for everybody
that's we've lost four golf club four golf courses in the last decade I guess it is
now. [clears throat] And uh that's really really clogged us up. We lost McConnell, we lost Clap,
we lost WSU, we lost Ego Hills. Call it Ego Hills because it was so easy. But still there
four courses in the immediate area. I just got to live with this stuff. And the last thing
I guess we've already covered it is that our groups existed in one form or another for 20 years
and the only reason somebody leaves our group is because they die or they get disease and to get
in my group you have to be 65 and you have to be retired and you have to play two or three times
and see if we like your personality. you you throw the golf clubs, you're not going to join us and
want you. But it's just so pretty. All right, you need to teach. But I'm I'm done. I've been just
whining right now. I feel like I'm whining instead of just giving something y'all can address. Well,
let's uh let's take a time and sit down. You and I bring your iPad so we can make sure there's
nothing on the website technology side that's holding you back. [clears throat] I don't I don't
want that to be part of the issue. Let's make sure everything's the way it's supposed to be and then
hopefully they'll I meant to bring it today,
but I'm just too busy trying to print the stuff out. Forgot it.
Yeah. I mean, it comes up it comes up almost every meeting. The demand is just bananas. And
I mean that's at that's at every public course. at every private course in the area. I mean,
it's it's crazy. The country clubs, sand creek, bikini, everywhere. It's took off. Boom. It's
just I had someone last right before left on vacation, but had the thought, the belief that
one person complained and that's what triggered this whole deal. They generally thought it was
only one complaint. And I tried to explain like I had to go in front of city council numerous times
because they were getting so many complaints. That's not because I volunteered to go and talk
to city council. I promise. I'm a firm believer of the place where the complaints is right here,
not the city council. What? Anything that seems with something you can work with,
you have to take it to them. And I always never could understand back to my whiny
cloud park was my favorite was my favorite park. My buddies always live in the ditch.
I never did. They had just redesigned it and re refurbished the clubhouse and
gotten bathrooms with three toilets in it. This one's got one. This is supposed to premier be
the premier course in town or public courses and it's got one. I can't tell you how many
times Jerry has snuck into the ladies. [clears throat] He's gonna get caught today. [laughter]
But I I understand there is one downstairs in the basement, but u there's room in there. I
know there's cost, but there's room in that men's bathroom to put in two more stalls. And I don't
know how you survive when it's a tournament out here. You only got one toilet in there.
I I agree. It's terrible design. I think yeah, the cost is substantial and then trying to
prioritize. It's we we've got it on a list. It's just trying to Where does that fit in as
far as priorities when we're trying to spend all these everything that cost $50,000 a pop,
which is everything. I know you're spending a million plus doing the aerations on the the
Thank you. I know you're doing that and everybody is maintaining the
courses a lot better than they used to be. It's just
blind enough. I'll go back to my chair and be quiet. [clears throat] Well,
are you going to stick around for the meeting? I'll get with you before I leave. Figure out.
Um I I leave about five minutes. I'll go get my iPad and come back house now. You want to wait?
Uh, you're gonna be until 6. Till we'll be in the meeting till 6, but I'm gonna have to leave
pretty quick after that. Okay. But I can do it. Let me know when to see you. I can find a time
tomorrow. No problem. Okay. Tomorrow. What time? I'd have to let me get through this. I do have a
tea time tomorrow. Where am I playing tomorrow? Let's Let's figure this out after the after the
meeting. Tomorrow. And Steve might kick us off the course, but I'm going to text tomorrow. Thank you.
Okay, next thing on the agenda is uh approval of the minutes. Did everybody have an opportunity
to go through? I think we had a couple of months worth there. Yeah. And I actually forgot to put
one of them on the agenda. We had um March 17th the meeting. No, it was March, April,
and then the special meeting. I sent them all three to you. these on. Yeah, I have an
opportunity to glance through them and but as far as I can see entertain a motion to approve those
second. Okay. All those in favor I motion car heard from Yeah. So I can I saw him about a
week and a half ago playing but I haven't heard he said he wasn't going to be able
okay do we have a we
next thing financial
have the copy of the financial front here from the city. Um,
go through this and then we'll see if you have any questions.
Okay, let's see if this works here. So, this goes through May. I think we're good.
Right. Um looking at rounds, we're um from last year we're up about 10,000 or 9,000 rounds. Um
mainly do we're really close to where we're at 24 and that's mainly because last year
the the weather was so bad during the winter months. So uh really strong strong start to
the year. May alone we're we had a little more rain than last year this time of the year. So
u 20 20,000 just over 20,000 rounds um in May. Um, last year we had a couple thousand more,
but I don't think we had much right at all in May. I think it was April. Anyway,
u, so strong month there. The, uh, cart rentals are way up this year,
up $110,000 this year in cart rentals with the extra rounds that were done overall. And just stop
me at any point if you have any questions. Uh, food and beverage is up a little up what 25,000
um, over last year. So just small increases every year. Uh my goal this year is to try to get 50,000
up over what we did last year for that community here. So we're on a pretty good pace for that.
Pretty happy to get there. Jesse, on the food and beverage, do we do computations like um average
average expenditure per round kind of thing? Yeah, I can get you all that. I don't have it off the
top of my head. It could be next time even. It doesn't be this. I would just be interested to
see the rounds are up as well. So, I'm wondering if the dollar amount spent per person is up. Um,
yeah, and figure that out. I could I could do that math if I wanted to. Yeah, I could do it.
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to the treatment. 20 26. Yeah, you got those two.
The far left palm. Yeah. 20. I need 25 and 26. Oh, you need 25 and 26.
Yeah, I got them. You got these numbers.
Pressure on. They'll have those in just a sec. All right. Driving ranges are are doing extremely
well. Um even with the rain um really Texas has been I mean you can see it's it's insane how busy
they are. Same here. Mac is up. Uh Mac is always a little bit weird with the timing because first
Steve gives us a check at the end of each month and sometimes they're after the first. So uh
kind of we're definitely up. I think we're up a little bit more than what that shows at max. So,
uh we do have a lot more first TE programming this month. So, they're they're going to when they're
doing programming, the range is closed. So, uh that's it's going to take a little bit of a hit,
but it does every year. Merchandise sales were those guys are up about 20 $21,000 for
the year. Um Steve's up 11,000. He's been doing demo days, which have been pretty well for him
with demo outside. outside. So, yeah, and I think you got another one coming up which is full. So,
uh really really good participation there. Total revenue uh we are up $350,000 this
year over last year and in the month of May alone we hit $99,000 which is a record mark
biggest month we've ever had. So, um, even with the the change in the programs and the
I think we went 12 11 days on the old program and then the rest of the month on this program,
um, there was definitely a little bit of revenue that we lost just because something wasn't working
and we aired on the on the side of the customer during some of those transactions. So, uh, really
obviously biggest month. I'm very happy with with that. What's membership look like? It's good. It's
strong. We He's getting new members like crazy. Um, yeah. No, we're we're up. I need to start
putting those back in here. We're probably the highest count we've had. I would be sick. Yeah,
I think we probably have more members right now than what we've had any time up in here. So,
okay. So, that's [clears throat] that. And then I don't know if you've had a chance to to look over
this. I sent an email, but um there's nothing really. Our expenses are up a little bit. We're
putting a little bit more. Um it's a lot of timing issues. A lot of the um chemicals and
different applications that we've bought for the course. We did a bulk order at the first of the
year which saved money but we did it all at the first of the year instead of spreading it out. So
uh they're higher now but as a year goes on that level off as we won't be buying what we
bought in the later months that we did last year. Um our flavor costs are up a little bit
which is expected and not a bad thing. We have a little bit. We're not where we want to be,
but we're closer this year than we were last year. Um, especially in maintenance. For some reason,
maintenance has had much more luck this year finding people, which is huge, obviously. So,
um, that's that's been a little better this year. Um, one thing I'm not sure of, I've tried to get
an answer today. Our fuel cost is way up this year compared to last year, and I don't know the
reason for that. It's some kind of timing or I I don't know. There's no way we're up that much. So,
I've got to figure out why this reflects that. And then one more thing to note on here on the capital
equipment. Um, we charge a couple of pieces of equipment to the general fund that will be
transferred to the the equipment fund, but it's not the debt transfer hasn't been done yet. So,
it's showing as an expense here that will be taking. Is that what the 85 is? I think
that's what cont 85,000. That's clearly not corresponding budget. That's right. Yeah. Okay.
So, all in all, pretty pretty happy where we're at. I think um with a lot of the expenses being
frontloaded this year, as we keep going, our our profit net revenue is going to going to continue
to go up a little bit quicker than what it could last year for the second half of the year. So,
banquetss and stuff been out here. I'm making a little push for that last year. Yeah,
we've honestly kind of slowed down a little bit with that push just because staffing. Yeah,
like I I don't I don't feel good about having an event and two days before the event we have
someone that's crushed us with a wedding and we have no idea how we're going to execute it because
we have two people work. So, um yeah, we've kind of slowed down a little bit on that. If these
two didn't come in and help, there would have been a couple of disasters out here this year.
Okay. Any other questions on [snorts]
to answer your question, Marcia? It was just under $125 and it's
1225 and 20. So we're about to about same a little bit higher. Thank you.
[clears throat]
Continuation of prior business open board seats. Okay. So we have the the two seats that are open.
I'll start with the kind of aronomy specialist. Uh that's as we've talked about many times, that's an
extremely difficult position to fill and I've had no applicants that really have golf course
experience. We tried to reach out and find with no interest. Um I did have an application online
u from Miss Jane Alderson. Um she plays in the business women's league at MAC. Um talked to
her on the phone. Maybe when I see her, I'll recognize her. But um she has over 20 years
experience in environmental um engineering, storm water design, all the like I feel like we we have
a good grasp on grass. Some of the stuff that she is an expert in, that's where we, you know,
we storm water drainage. That's not really our world. So um she was definitely I talked
her on the phone for a while yesterday. She's definitely extremely interested.
The issue with her is the only night she cannot come to a board meeting is Tuesday nights. So,
um she's by far in my opinion of all the applications I have for that specific position,
she's the most qualified. Uh but we would need to as a group decide if we want to try to pick
a different different day. I'm sorry. Did you say last name is Alderson? A L D R S O
N. Okay. because that was not what you asked me about. They were probably talking into it. Oh,
probably. Do you know her? Not even with the name change, but [laughter] but I but I asked a
few other people just to see if anybody knew her and nobody did under the name. Oh, yeah. Which
worried me just a little bit, but maybe they would know her under that other correct. Yep. Sorry. Um,
is there a possibility to maybe have one of our superintendants come on board because they would
know so much about the grasses and I mean in this area because they've all done this for
years and years and years and they kind of have the expertise of I think or is that I think the
point is for this board to guide the employees so that would kind of be the employees got. Okay.
Okay. I just I just was curious because they seem the most knowledgeable about Yeah. Yeah.
particular subject and yeah maybe not God but get feedback and bounce ideas off but I Yeah. I don't
um
I just curious. Yeah. um turned into a staff me pretty quick. Just get old staff on this board.
No. Um so yeah, I just with her background and her experience and she plays golf and
it's definitely eager to try to come on and help. Uh I think she'd be a great addition. I just the
the hurdle was the time Tuesdays would not work for her. So if this is the only time we have,
I can let her know. We can we can try to go a different way. But I wanted to float
that out and see. I know it's not easy to get seven people that all have a day
every month that works for everybody's schedule, but um I don't even know what
Monday trying to avoid. We don't know there's leagues and different things,
but if we switch to a Monday with the third Monday instead of third Tuesday,
I personally could probably Monday
or Tuesday. Yeah. [clears throat] What' you say? You better check with the boss.
You don't [clears throat] know what you can do yet. [laughter]
will be done by six. You'll be able to make it up by 10.
Anybody on the left side of that? Yeah, the the one I'm looking at strong um he's been
here several times. Kent, he's the parkboard liaison. He's the barber, but he also has an
online golf store that that he's ran for a lot. Um I'm sure you remember him talking about. Um he has
definite interest and he plays a lot of golf at all courses. So he's very familiar and sees them
all a lot. Um and he plays with JV a lot on the council which I think is a benefit. Is that the
gentleman that saw him with the park board? He he reached out immediately and asked if there was a
way he could transfer because this is really he's on park board because he wanted to be involved in
golf and that's a very small part of park board. So he he wants to be on this board. I think he's
uh think he has the knowledge in there. He he plays so much golf that he sees a lot and
talks to a lot of people familiar with how the city operates as well. Right. Right. I
I play with him text and so he didn't know I was on the board till I came. Okay. I saw
him the next time. I didn't know you were on board and I was like yeah I didn't. So
he was like I'm really trying to get over from this side to this side. names explained to me
and so yeah he's he's good guy one one thing I've taken from him that I like is even if
we've made a decision that doesn't benefit him personally he's always quick to say well that's
for everybody that's me it's not just looking out for himself which I certainly appreciate so
uh yeah so those are the two going through the application the different things through the two
that I I liked personally Um just again that that holder but if we can change it to Monday and I'll
figure out how that works. If we can change it to Mondays and everyone's okay with that, we can do
the third Monday and then I can I can let her know about them votes in the next meeting and
there's a I got to figure out council has to approval. I think I put them on a consent
consent agenda or something. I'll figure that out. Um and then the next meeting we
would need to elect officers and then probably need to get sworn in again. Uh I think we're
actually we need to we need to make sure next meeting we'll handle all that stuff.
get this one in again. Elect officers and hopefully have to board yourself
questions about seats. You said we went to third Monday, right? That's what I Yeah, let me I'll
I'll email um everyone and let me see what all who's involved in that because I don't think
there's a date or anything in the BS. So I don't think there'll be any change. Just some bubbling
on this one. We'll be good update the website for more. Okay. Moving on. Uh irrigation updates. Good
news. We um went through the RFP process with the irrigation design um firms and we selected less
hill irrigation of just outside Houston, Texas. Um I go to council on July 7th, but he's wanting to
come up even before that and go ahead and so he's gonna come up Mon Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week, spend one day he's spending Tuesday here, Wednesday at text. Um and he's going to just kind
of do what what he does and we'll we'll spend most of the days on those two portions and then
uh he's going to go back and get started on the design. And he's very eager to move this process
along so that we can meet the timelines that we need to meet to get this done. both of them. So
we we went through a long interviews with three different firms and it was unanimous that that
that's that was who everyone on the selection panel liked and that's who we're going with. So
um so far conversations have been great. Um and I'm I'm very happy that we're we're going to be
moving forward pretty quickly. So is that they large enough to handle both projects? I know
they probably simultaneously. So all he does is a design and then from there we use his design
to bid out the work. Okay. So we're going to bid those out separately so that if one firm
has the capability to handle both they can bid on both and get it or we don't want to limit to
people don't bid because they can't do that. So we'll bid those out separately. Should be pretty
clear pretty quick process and he'll part of his job is he oversees that bid process as well. So,
uh, yeah, we should be should be pretty, uh, pretty smooth hopefully from from here on out.
I think the hardest part was just getting the ball rolling and then from now it just kind of
you just follow the steps and keep keep it. So, and and Mac is completely done. Completely done.
Locked up. Yep. Buttoned up. They're out. Uh, Mac is really changed a lot over the last month. Um,
we did have some pizza parts on the greens over the past week. um while I was out there. I've got
some pictures in a minute I'm going to pull up and you'll see Mac is it's come a long way from where
it was at 3 months ago with all the work that was out there and where when we played it last time
it was not there and it's way better now. It's amazing actually how far it's came. I know you
talked about they were going to oversee with blue I got Yeah, we're talk about that too. Sorry. No,
you're good. Yeah. Um, I'm very excited about that. We'll get into that in a minute,
but yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Uh, any more questions about irrigation comments?
Good. Okay. On to automated mower mechanics. I think last time we met it was right before
I went to Waw Country Club to demo the uh the Toro, the the big mower.
um spent I don't know over an hour out there with them and it's got that
one on the right. Yep. On the top right. Um it's definitely cool. Um
there's a lot of good and bad which is true with all of them. Um the setup I think is
not the easiest thing in the world. They said once they got through the first two
months of headaches now it's working pretty good and they kind of got it figured out. Um
I don't [clears throat] I don't know that it's quite there yet for what we're trying to do. I
mean there's so many it's got to have a path to get from one spot to the other. Wtop Country Club
is so confined in that spot that it's easy. It has paths to go. When it gets to a bridge
it will not cross a bridge. So, they have to go. Basically, it sends you an alert saying,
"Hey, Dad, I'm stuck. Can you come get me? You got to go out there." Has a spot
that it pulls over. Um, once it finishes one hole, it sends you a message saying,
"I'm done with whatever number four. Am I clear to go to whatever you have program number seven,
whatever." And so, the purpose of that, they want you to drive the area prior,
make sure there's no puddles, make sure there's no winds, whatever down, which is good. Um, so
they were trying to be nice. I don't know that they were 100% thrilled with
all the work they've had to put into kind of felt like they had spent more hours than
they would have if they would have just made the fairway. But now going forward,
I think it seemed like they had a pretty good had it set up pretty well. So,
um, I don't know. I just feel like that bigger mower maybe is not quite there. And the more I've
researched and talked to various superintendents, there's a lot of frustrations with those. Uh,
so they use uh RTK technology as far as navigation and GPS satellites. Do they also have cameras and
sensors and stuff on there that will pick up objects or whatever and not? Yeah. Not golf
balls that'll just push those, but anything bigger. Yeah. I don't remember what it said.
8 in I play guitar I think is what he said. Um and it will it'll stop and it'll actually skip
that and come back and follow that same pattern. Um it is pretty neat some of the
stuff you can have the entire golf course where the mole lines are exactly within a quarter of
an inch same across the entire golf course. Pretty cool if the trick I guess. Yeah. Um,
and like when it hit a low, like it was pretty neat. It's pretty intuitive. Like it it did a
there's a lot of really cool things about it. Um, it's like a 50 or 60 inch wide slot. That is 60 I
believe. 60. It's It's the exact mower we use in the some of like the Greens Mowers and everything.
It's just the It's got the automation on the back. So, um, what kind of price are we looking at for
that one? 145,000. And like I mentioned last time, we they have that they offer in that plan where
you can rent it monthto month for 4500, I think, and then if you purchase it that every dollar you
put goes toward purchase of the machine. So, um, I just feel like you would need it at least three
months before you even knew if you liked it or not, just because it's going to take forever
to do it. Do they have any uh antennas or line of sight that's needed for this to navigate or is it
he knows it's now he said if there were big trees that it could be a problem again country close
fairly open but he said there are a couple spots even on that course that they've it's hit that
just kind of don't know what to do so you get an alert um so they again had to reprogram the route
to avoid a couple of those places. So, yeah, back with the many trees that are there. Yeah,
I'm thinking of course and saying, you know, Sim is fairly tight to where you would think it could
get from one to 10 or you know, like salmon tax would be very easy for those pretty well side to
side. There's no big ponds road nothing like that. Um, so let me show you this real quick. At Mac,
we've got the It's not one of these. The next mold, the smaller mower. This is a picture of Mac
from Thursday, I believe. Um, it's hard to see, but it does the lines and he started he's probably
put in I don't know, eight different zones now. And each he'll just take carry that to that zone,
let it loose, come back, move it to the next, whatever. ates this on a little trailer. It
takes five minutes and it he's been doing all the around the practice areas. He did the first
tea area here that's better without the slide here all around the clubhouse. I mean it's that
really that's mowing like rough, right? That's uh I mean that's a Yep. And we actually bought a
second one of these. It was delivered today. So he's going to expand. Um he's looking at
areas that are kind of close together. Four or five green 5t box that area. Um he's looking
at several different areas but does a phenomenal job. And these cost about just under $5,000. Um
definitely when you pull up and see that it looks a lot better than straight line.
What's the mode time on that one? I mean, can it go hour and a half, two hours?
Have to come back and charge. It does. Um, I've looked at some of these.
Hold on. Let's see.
Or's got another one like this, but it's got a 90 minute. Um,
it can go for 110 minutes and then it needs to charge for 90 minutes. These, I think,
are a little bit longer and it's not enough. So, with these, you actually have a charging
station out there somewhere. So you would have to have infrastructure to have electricity in
several weeks. He brings it to the shop. So when it when it needs to be charged,
it lets you know. He just brings it. He just brings them over. It's just a tiny trailer
that it fits on perfectly. Yeah. Well, I I have seen some things online about some solar powered
chargers now that they're they're getting to where we're applicable for some of this stuff to where
you don't have to have the infrastructure with, you know, electricity and stuff out everywhere.
Yeah. I mean, that's one of the [snorts] one of the main issues at the port is you're going to
have to have electricity all over the course. You're going have to have stations all over
the course. uh you're bringing in unfortunately in our world potential vandalism and who knows
what see him today doing a course right around and the three of the team markers were stolen
today [snorts] got to a where are the blue T's he's like they're not there so two of both
blue team markers and one of the white markers [snorts] um so if you put a $5,000 machine I'm
guessing it's probably going to get stolen too or kicked or broken or busted or who knows what
Yeah. Tag on them or something. Yeah. And they have um GPS tracking built into them. So we we
would know where it's at. But we I know there's a story I think we've talked about in it here.
It just they tracked it to the department, but the police were like, we can't we know it's in there,
but good luck. Can't do anything about it. So, um does make a nice line. Yeah. I mean, I don't know,
honestly, probably five of these. We could It does a lot. It does a big area pretty quick,
a lot quicker than what you think. Like, you watch it and then you quit paying attention
for 10 minutes and come back and it's knocked out a huge section. Just non-stop goes. So,
so just have those little 6 in blades like the crest thing.
You said five maybe. Did you get that idea for the areas that we There's some areas that it's
not going to do great. So, we'd still mow a lot of the areas, but we could have the zones that we've
kind of identified that this would be good at. We could probably add five of these and it would do
almost half the golf course if we know I was just surprised by that number a little bit because I
played a tournament at Reflection last week and um I know they had a lot more. I think they all 22
what I heard. Yeah, I believe that they were going constantly. Yeah. [clears throat] Yeah. How did it
look up there? I'm g try. It was beautiful. Yeah. Except we were of course commenting that the rough
was really deep um [clears throat] and tough. It was dense. Yes. And somebody said, I don't know
how much they knew that because the the clippings all down in that that's one reason their rough is
so dense because they're constantly being cut and five that is. But I do know that it was well to
get the ball out of that rough. [laughter] I played last year before they got these mowers
and it was hell to get That's true. That's true. We've been down for a long time. I was this far in
the rough like 11 hoes in a row. Yeah. And I held him with that myself. Yeah. Trying to hit over a
bunker. Good luck as well and stuff. So anyway, yeah, I think um it was in beautiful shape. I
mean, I know we've had a lot of rain and there's a lot of good things that have happened for grass
growing, but those mowers do keep it real sharp. Yeah, they're so precise. It's unfortunately you
can't you can't keep a cut to a quarter of an inch. He said, "May that's perfect." That's Yeah,
just like that guy from Chris said that one time when he was up here. I think we asked him if it
could bow us apart over here and it was a little bit taller and he said no. He said it's more of a
maintenance type mo than a cutting stuff down. Well, that's the thing. Sometimes you couldn't
tell where it had been. It was doing the up and back thing and I was like, you almost couldn't
tell where it had been. They're cutting it that frequently. Yeah. If you get a huge rain and it
some reason you can't get them out there think it's too wet in the grass where you're probably
going to have to knock it down to that level and then put them back out. So, yeah, there's they're
not you can't just 100% walk away and think you're you're done mowing rough forever. But,
they definitely do a good do a good job. So, I don't know. I said update on here. I think just
I'm I don't think those big machines are quite where they're going to end up yet. And I just
don't want to spend 150 grand to next year the one we want comes out. And I [clears throat] feel like
a lot of the little ones cost you more. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And the technology is just getting
better and better and better. It's it's going to get there where you want it, right? pretty quickly
too with the irrigation
spot that all take care of.
Yeah. Um the last two are the big two. So we'll see.
So we're on the for Mac for another 60,000,000
something like that. [clears throat] What we have left 600 600 33,600
hypothetically you can knock that one out like you did soon.
Yep.
Okay, I hope that's an option at the end of the year already discussed. [laughter] So,
where are we on these? What is the next step? Or are we still just conjuring? Yeah, still
I mean I think I want to we're going to add the second one at night tomorrow and start getting it
set up and then they do have a we have 9 in this again if I'm giving you correct information. Uh
Yeah, 9 in. They have the same mower we have in a 14 in. Um, it's just not much
more. It's a 1500 more. Um, so we're looking at probably if we expand going to that bigger unit
just so it's obviously it's going to cut the M time down and get a lot more done quicker. So,
um, yeah, I would like to Ron's all he's all in on he's got really good at setting this up
and so he a couple weeks ago he or I don't know a month ago he started working at adding zones
to the one that we currently have and he did it enough and messed up enough he figured out how
to do it pretty pretty good though. So, um I I kind of want to just turn him loose on let's get
two or three two or three of these out here and see if we like that and we can keep expanding.
I mean at some point if they really work we could go on in spend 60,000 and have several
weeks going. The thing I like about these are is that you you don't leave them on the course. We
bring them into the shop. I just don't think leave it on the course. I don't think they last a week
without some kind of problem. So this is one by four and five. Is that what you were saying? No,
that that's where he's going to add next round for right there in the corner where you pull in
to the golf course. So as you pull in, you'll have me that first impression is big and that
that would be a good spot for it and it's perfect for this thing. So Okay. Uh but yeah,
right now he's got all the practice area, the first T practice area, all up practice area
around the um clubhouse. Both practice screens. Number 10 T box behind number one T box number 17
may be all he has right now, but that's one mower at the moment. It looks
I do like the letter. Yeah, number 17. That That's a picture. I didn't pull out
right. It looks He sent me a picture when I was in Greece. It's awesome. So, yeah.
What's the brand name of these? Next. Next.
Yeah. Okay. We get them through Run Landscaping, which is their distrib.
Uh this has been ongoing for several months now. We as if you play out here, you know our bridges,
especially on three and seven. We have two that are terrible. They're falling
through. We got John Ho patch with plywood and all that. We had engineers come out.
Um of course that that front line is in a flood plane. So anything we do has to be approved. We
have that walking bridge. We can't even take that out without them approving everything.
We can't even go in and bust that out cuz we want to make sure no debris gets in the creek
that's going to float down where we don't want to make sure we're not doing anything
to the bank that's going to cause any kind of disruption to that that flood plane the land.
So it's just not the rails on that walking bridge. The substructure underneath is part
the concrete underneath the the dirt should be to the end. It's about 4 and 1/2 ft back
right now. There's just concrete suspended in there with nothing to pull it up. So,
it was as soon as that was looked at, it was immediate shut that down right now. So,
um yeah, and we're we're going to take it out. Um it would have to be completely rebuilt and
replaced anyway. So, we're going to get it cut out. Um so, I'll go to that in a second. The
cart bridges, we're going to just They did look at every the substructure, everything's fine and
just the top need to be needs to be replaced. So, we're working on getting uh contractors
Seven. Yeah, seven and uh three. The second ridge on three. Those are the two we're going
to start with. Um so, uh we're working on getting a contractor to come out and and
do that work. I have no idea what to expect on the cross yet. Um hopefully I'll have that by
the hopefully I'll have somebody out by the end of the week and hopefully next week that um have
we ever considered putting a foot bridge between three four between six and seven? Uh five and six
cut through those trees. Yeah. And people walk bridge not a cart bridge. Right. I've never seen
a lot of walking for some of the people out there. We haven't talked about that. Well,
we I mean for a new since we're city, we have to follow everything. We have to even though it's a
foot bridge, we have to have engineers and it's it's not a it turns into quite an expense. You
wouldn't think you would think something you could do for five grand ends up being 55 grand. So,
um no, I Yeah, that would cut down a lot for the walkers for sure. That impact me carving. Yeah.
Everything with the cows we have to go through engineers. Yeah. It's just Yeah. And that side
or maybe not the bridge if we put one five six but everything over there being deploy makes
it so much so much more complicated. Um so yeah we're going to get the contractors on the those
two bridge get that the top load replaced those should be fine. The walking bridge is going to
going to go. So get permanently we're not gonna we're not going to try to replace it. I'm gonna
get into that. So, I'm going to get your opinion on something. No, you're sorry. It's not clear on
here. Um I understand walking that's a long way around. So, I've got Yeah, we'll get to that in
a second. Yeah. Um I'm I'm hoping what I've come up with would be a better solution than trying to
replace that bridge where it's at current. So, I'll get your opinion. We'll get to that here
in a second. So, yeah, update on the bridge. We don't have to replace those. I was really worried
they were going to tell me the cartridges we're going to have to completely tear down and replace,
which would have been astronomical, but we're not going to have to do that. So,
that's that's good enough. It's good. Is there anything that we can replace them with that
doesn't deteriorate with weathering stuff like any type of composits or TX type material? Anything
that maybe would last longer or better? If we do that, we're replacing Well, I don't know.
is the subure underneath those all wood. Um, yeah, there's a concrete base and then
wood from there. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, that's something I'll ask the contractor
when they come out. What are our options here? Let's see. I I don't I don't want to tell you
guys. I I don't know. I don't know what how you I don't know what you need underneath that stuff
and forward it to your old. I would assume you could, but I don't know for sure. Yeah.
that track stop material would be fantastic. I'm pretty good friends with a guy that owns
it's called Lynx Bridges. They're out of Canada, but that's what they do as golf course bridges,
both walking and cart bridges. And they they're prefabricated in one piece and they come in and
set them and install them. Um they go up to 53 ft long. It's their longest bridge, but it's all that
composite attraction material. So once you put it in, you're pretty much in your lifetime again.
We're looking at this picture here. I think I jumped ahead. I think that's a
little bit big. Definitely did. Oh, don't look at that. Okay. [laughter] [clears throat] No,
that's all on the on the bridges. I'll talk about this in a This is
number seven out here. So, at Auburn. So, I'll talk about that in a second. That's
a terrible terrible. Are you just Are you sharing that right now? Yeah. Yeah. speak
said to me. Um, okay. Yeah. So, with the bridges, I guess with the I'll have a cost by the next
meeting or we may go ahead and move forward and get that done. Okay. And focusing just
on those two that you mentioned with those are the two that need immediate attention.
I think over time we can develop a plan where we we started not not just here but all of our
bridges are we did redid some at right when I started that was already in progress. Smack has
a couple that are okay. They have a couple that need repair as a bridge tag something.
I got here
walking bridge. We're thinking maybe just going away do away with that. Yeah,
I'll I'll go on that new I'll go over that plan and get your thoughts and and maybe I
got two options here. either doing away with it or moving the bridge to a different spot. So,
let me let me show you my idea to talk through. [clears throat] Okay.
Okay. So, that all for you know. Yeah. Okay. New items for consideration cashless in 2027. So
talking to the city, we are going to go cashless in 2027. So we're going to push out notification.
Um that's something they're wanting to do in all departments. Of course, we take other than the
water department, we probably take the most cash of anybody or most payments of of any division. So
um Tulsa's their golf division went cashless April 15th. I've talked to him. He said it was two weeks
of just getting people to know that they're cashless and then it's been great. Uh we have a
lot of issues with cash handling. Um nothing major but every day there's 10 bucks, 12 bucks, eight
bucks in it. With the city, they think everything should be exact. And some of my previous courses,
if we were off $4, they've been like, "That's awesome." Right. But the city, if we're off
a penny, they won't be spend 22 hours looking for that penny. Yeah. So, I think businesswise
it makes total sense. Yeah. We're going to have some folks like it. [clears throat] Yeah. We're
definitely going to have some folks that aren't happy. Uh we've even floated the idea. They have a
u it's called a reverse ATM. So, for the first couple of months, we could put a machine in there
where you buy basically a gift card or [clears throat] Yeah, it's a universal gift card. It's
like going to deal and buy a gift card some um and they would keep their window cost as they get the
revenue the percentage of that. Yeah. The other thing is you might think about getting ahead of
getting it now ahead of this a little bit and starting to put this out to people that it is
coming. That's why we're sorry you interrupted. That's why we're going to do it in 2027 January
1 because I want to do a minimum of a 90-day campaign. So we're going to get all that together.
We're going to start October 1st putting that out. So we have three four months of blasting
at last. Yeah. Getting used to the idea. I mean I not everybody will like it but yeah business
I think it makes sense from a business standpoint man I mean I spend so much time on cash issues. U
more than I want to. Nikki's fantastic all over her death, but we spend way more time than we
should and way too much of her time trying to find 20 bucks that was missing from last Tuesday. You
know, it happens every day. So, yeah. Um, and then the training that has to go involved the I mean,
at the end of the night, all the counting down all the three registers trying to figure out
what's what. Now, it's you put close credit cards are all integrated. You can't you can't be off
on the credit cards. Is that right? Yeah. Would there be a possibility to put uh an extra tab on
the receipt for a tip for the health or is that I know the city's not big on tips. No, they're
absolutely not possible. But but no, no, no. I've talked to Mark Manning who's the head of finance
and he is on board with it. He is his opinion is we can figure this out. [snorts] Um he's like I
don't see why we can't do that. So, we're working through that. There's a lot of I think now with
new management in the city. U that idea might be received a little better. These these kids,
they're young kids, they're not getting paid. No. Anything. And I feel bad for I tip from
giving cash. Well, we have people that get mad all the time. They try to give a tip and we can't and
they get they think I'm the one they're chosen, you know, that we can't do this. So they get mad
at me like bad. My granddaughter works at the uh [clears throat] club concession area. She gets
10 10 bucks an hour and 8% of hotel. Yeah. Yeah. I'm I definitely all for it. The only issue I've
always had with that is you got a golf course where you got whoever's outside cleaning carts
and they're busting their tail out there. They don't get they get their 10 gets 12 bucks an hour.
somebody's in here in the air conditioner reading a book and helping a customer once
they're making 18 bucks an hour because that's that's just that's the history it
would it would be fine and I'm not advocating the other way because I same I want them to
get their opportunities the accounting pay side of it would be fun but that's one of the
[laughter] The dumbest thing I've ever said,
I don't know how any of this works. The whole no tax on tips. Did that pass. So,
do you pay taxes up front on it? And then do you get a break individual when you
let me ask you how many people should
this scenario would be reported? Yeah. Yeah. So like so like terine it's member charge it's
reported on their cash but from the accounting standpoint if somebody leaves a dollar tip does $1
full dollar go on their check or is it taxed and then it goes so that they get the full dollar on
their check not No it's still taxed and then they got claim okay so the city would still
have to go through all those saying correctly. [snorts] That doesn't help. Yeah. And again,
once you go cashless and people are starting to be accustomed to that and they get there and these
these young kids need your tips, I mean you're like I don't have any cash because you guys don't
pay cash. That's been a fear of the staff with even the management how we keep anybody. Yeah,
I I think after people get used to it probably it will take a little while. The director in Tulsa,
he said took two weeks to get through some of the people complaining. He said,
"Do you know what they did? They complained and then they pulled out." But he said it's
the best thing he said. It's like 20% of my job just went away. I don't have to do it anymore.
Nobody's got until the till afterwards or Yeah, I think we said this made this comment last time,
but I think think it'll make a difference in people who want to come in and just buy a candy
bar or somebody who wants just a soda. Maybe they'll maybe they'll still be willing to do
that. So, if you do that, then you have a certain minimum amount of money you have to spend because
there's going to be a fee associated with that. When the fee is a percentage of the sales really,
it's not like a per transaction fee. It's a percentage. Um what he said he found is
I mean younger people use a card for 52 cents a trader but they some people will be like I want
to use my card for $2. Can I give me one of those and one of those sell more? Yeah. So you kind of
upsell them. So I think the other part of that is we don't have to pay guard right now. We pay
guard the cash armor truck company. We paid them a ton of money to do all of our pickups.
That's a big big expense. I get mad every time I approve those in how you spend that money. What
about if somebody wanted to come in and use their credit card but buy a gift card for their spouse
or something like that? Say, you know, I want to put $200 on a card and I want to give it to
to my wife or whatever. And then can they use the gift card as a card still? Is that people buy gift
cards just a little change and that's what someone could do is they could just a lot of people that
the reason they use cash is they can hide it from their spouse. So they they could buy a gift card
at the first year and I mean it sounds funny. [laughter] It sounds funny, [clears throat] but
you wouldn't believe how many wives think all they pay is the monthly membership and nothing else,
not knowing it's $15 for a card every day. My wife just keeps track of that. Oh,
yeah. She figures she can spend three times that. She's my old girl. Casino bingo.
[laughter] Every time I complain, she said,
"We spend the golf 450 a month. Count the cards." [laughter]
me recording. [laughter]
That's one of the few things I'm quite vocal about. She tells me to shut up. 44 years I
know when to shut up. So, you're going to start blasting that out in October time frame. Yeah,
I'm working with our treasury. We got to get the policies in place and all the, you know,
the documentation up and then we're going to start marketing information
building. Yeah. And I think, you know, word of mouth people watching. Yes. We
think everything word of mouth gets out and spreads and people will the first Facebook
post that we make the comments will be pretty entertaining. It'll be fun.
Yeah. That's uh pretty well was decided last yesterday. The final
meeting we've been we've had about five meetings about it. Not just golf,
but overall it's pretty well decided there. So that's what's going to happen.
I [clears throat] was just thinking about our our league. We do things well a little different than
other leagues. That's what I brought up too. We got guys that throw five groups that throw five
bucks in and then they go buy a gift card winners or what, however they do it. So I think there's a
few things we're have to work through. We can find a way to work. Yeah. around it. Yeah. So, anyway,
uh any more thoughts on the cash slice thing? Okay. Uh credit card requirement for online
bucket. Something I wanted to do for a long time. So, using City of Denver as an example,
they have member sports. They require a member obviously would not have to do this, but anyone
that books a Ton would have to enter a credit card. It doesn't charge them. It just it tokenizes
it. Put it on file. That way if they don't show, we can charge them for that time. Right now,
someone doesn't show we just lost a D. And that's a big complaint is I can't ever get a D time yet.
When I do, there's nobody in front of me and they think that we just didn't book it. Well, those
people just didn't show up. We have no control of that. So, we do lose a lot of money. I think
we probably about it's hard to track because it may rain one day and I'm looking at trying to get
stats and I don't know what day it rain whatever. So, but I I think probably around 12% best I can
figure times that we boo or no shows. So, would you then because example soi I don't want to book
online because I have to put my credit card on there and I'm not sure if my buddy's going to
show up and I don't want to get stuck with that. So I pick up phone and call up tea time and then
I cancel. Would you still allow people to call in or is that going to be the end of because it's
going to start circulating just call in instead of do that then you're going to start getting phone
calls out. City of Denver on their website it says call in Tetons will not be taken because of
security issues. So they're saying they don't want to manually take your card the phone. I get that.
I think the the goal is to push if you're not going to show up, you give us notice, you're
fine. But if you just don't show up, we're going to charge you. I think that would encourage people
to actually care. Say, you have three people, you put your credit card, you looking for four,
one person doesn't show up, do you still get stuck with that person? So, what we could do,
so there's different courses that do it different ways. There's that option where you just charge
them whatever. There's an option where we charge a no-show fee. So maybe it's half of your green fee
or it's a flat $15 rate per per [ __ ] whatever that is. And that's something we would determine
not tonight, but we could determine that maybe next meeting. You can set it up for whatever
you want. Um, but right now there's no penalty at all for someone that doesn't show. We lose
so much and not just the revenue side. We lose TO. We obviously value. How many times is it that they
like if they don't show up they can't they got policy book but even there the staff still has
to be consistent and then every time you do that that person calls Darius and has 12 reasons why
that happened and I would say Dary is like I've heard it before thanks for calling. [laughter]
So who's making decision and pushing the button in charge and then someone shows the
staff should do it there and then it system will suspend them after two and then if he
is to undo that suspension it'll call me and say here's the situation we can do here. So,
um, so you want 24 hours notice if someone's going to cancel, say, or approximately. Yeah, that way
you can do a 12 hour, but if they're teeing off at 10:00 in the morning, 12 hours is one o'clock
at night, you know, so 24 hours gives you that whatever time they're teeing off, they know that
time to do it for. [clears throat] And with this, does our current point of sale still have that
that feature of doing a blast when there's a time that's canled? That should be it's in one of their
next couple of updates, which they do every two weeks. So, they're they're close on that. And I
will say combination of those two would be pretty successful at keeping us Yeah. full. Yeah. I think
No, they're So, they're going to have a standby. Yeah. And by the Yeah. Right. I will say there
when they do their push out their updates every two weeks everything they've said it you get as
soon as you log in that day the screen pops up and says we've released updates click here to
see and get go through and read everything they've done there. They're pretty good. I mean everything
they've said so far has come through. So um yeah I think here in the next few weeks we'll have that
same. So did you say that it wasn't going to be for membership people or something? Yeah, if you
have a membership, we're not going to ask for your credit card like we have it. I don't know. I mean,
as typically that's not for members. That's for Greenfield players. That's who we would have taken
the money from. [snorts] You know what I mean? So, if you showed up, if you didn't show up,
we weren't expecting that money because you're a member. Not saying we didn't lose that Taton,
but members are not going to be happy. I got to give you a credit card every time I book a Ton.
So I think it's just for public public times and that's who would have paid when they got
here anyway. So and is [snorts] that going to be a no human involved automatic thing or will there
be a chance for extenduating circumstances in a car wreck on the way to the course? No,
you have to you have to mark it. Yeah, you have to pay them. And that's good. Like if the system
automatically did it and it starts raining, what a nightmare that would be. That's exactly what I was
saying. We get guys that call in in the morning and say it's raining. I'm not counting that,
you know, just not bad. The rest of us are going to play that, you know, some people don't want to
play in the rain. Well, some people can't do pads. Yeah. Walking. There are definitely reasons why
that happens. No show. No show will ever Yeah, it was all that. It was 78 degrees, 5 mph wind
and we had 8,000 people cussing us because they couldn't get a ton and didn't. And now we don't
we lost the T time and we lost the money. Okay. And that's the most every golf course in this
country. We're definitely on the back side of the I like that. Yeah. and I've had to work with again
with treasury and auditing and make sure that um we're covering all the legal parts of that. So
I think it's pretty simple. The good news is even with the cashless I've got city of Tulsa and I've
got a few other cities that have done it. So I can kind of I don't have to reinvent the wheel. I can
call these guys and hey send me everything you need. We can tweak it and what worked,
what didn't work. Kind of get that advice. Same with the city of Denver. call Steve and we can
get um all the everything they've got together for their verbiage and everything for the credit card
requirement so I don't have to start from scratch what they tweaked it to fit our needs I don't
mind stealing other people's just implement this in case you know there you want to tag for the
public they didn't do anything to members either just the public okay Yeah. Okay. Makes sense.
Are we good with that? Pull up our beautiful. Okay. Path on number seven and all. All right. I
will say this picture when you're standing there, this makes a lot more sense because when I pulled
this up today trying to just get a visual for you, it it doesn't look as effective as what it
does when you're standing on the hole looking at it. So the big problem is you know this is
yeah so right now where am I at? Okay here's the tea box. So you got the black te's blue
here somewhere it's hard to see. So the look how green that grass is. [laughter] [clears throat]
Okay. Where the green bridge is. Yeah. So right now the walking bridge is right here. So
as a walker you have you go here, you cross that bridge and then you're at the green. Without the
bridge you have to go way over here. walk clear across, come around the spawn to the AT box, and
go up. It's not showing the bottom of the screen. Yeah, it's a long walk. So, what we're looking at
is potentially having the cart path right here. It would cut across between the the lot and the
old I believe it is between those two two boxes. Come here, and it would come straight down. So,
as you walked, you wouldn't you would knock out this whole portion. Again, when you're standing
there, it looks way different and it's looks way more effective than when you're doing this. So,
you would come carts and walkers would come right here and go straight to the tea box,
park their stuff on the box, walk to the green, putt, whatever, things like that. So,
knock out all this section as a walker uh without putting a bridge. The other option
is if that's still too much and we still have complaints, there's a section right
here that or right here that's a lot smaller to cross than it is over here where we're at. So,
I wish we could go out there because this looks probably doesn't even make sense to you, but
um I don't know. So, we would do away with this part of the path and then just have it come
through here, which I I like the paths that kind of cut the tea box in half. I think we don't have
any of those here. Um, just a perfect thing. But, [snorts] um, how far from the front T's? It again,
not as far over here is what it looks. It's probably right here. It would be beside those.
It would be kind beside the T- left side of the T-s as you're looking at the green. Yeah.
I almost want to get a car drive out there. So you could actually when you're there it's
like oh yeah that would be so much easier. It would cut off that whole long walk that
you have to do and then you would end up right on the next T- box where you're at anyway. Um,
if we did that without bidding a bridge, we could do that concrete work probably for
12 to 15,000 and um not have to build that bridge, which would require engineering,
everybody permits, and [snorts] 37 years of paperwork to get done. So, I hate to be dumb,
but about these kind of things. I am. So, they would just jackhammer up the old one and Yeah,
it's in, you know, it's got the seam. So you you basically pull them up in those sections
and if they break they break but yeah you just do they can tear that out Bobcat in a couple
days we just res those that are smooth out. So if you did put in that n area and you did put
walking bridge there that is almost in the line of sight with the green and yeah that's the other
thing I mean it would be a much smaller bridge but yeah I don't really you still got to have
I wouldn't put a bridge there plane that's my opinion is at least start here try to do a no
bridge and then if it's still major major complaint we could figure out some of the
To me, you're you're cutting out 40% of the the issue that's
So, you think the the red line is a shorter distance than the existing Well, without a doubt.
Yeah. And Yeah, it is. It's way shorter. Yeah. This is I don't know why this looks so different
than when you're there, but it would be way way shorter. And I'm sorry. Tell me again. Cost you
said like 15 grand. Yeah, I'm doing that in my head. I'm guessing on the yardage, but 12 to 15
grand I would think based on all the repairs that we did on the car. Really? That amazes me with
the price of concrete. I would probably found out today concrete is way cheaper than asphalt because
we're trying to concrete trying to the where the cars park on the back of decks there and there's
a fencing area. It's holes. It's a bad disaster mud and we're going to concrete that. And asphalt
was tossing as much as I mean, yeah, asphalt was tossed as much as concrete because there
is this a day worth, a week's work. What What is that? We could lay the new car path in probably
probably a week and then we'd have to take the other path out. We got to cut all those trees
out of there. No, it look down. No. What do you mean? That's perfect. Texas. So,
it's going to hug up the left side. It's going to hug up the left side inside the tree line.
Got And I only spent three hours on this. Let's be fair. I didn't spend that much time.
[clears throat] No. Um, no. Where it would go, it would there's a spot. The T boxes are a little
bit different elevation. There's flat spot. It would cut right through there. Turn along
the the tree line and closer to the T boxes on this. And you ain't the same place over there,
right? Right before the bridge. Right before the bridge shot. Yeah,
we would probably probably have a curb that on there to since you're
going toward the creek and then just have it gradually level back out. But yeah,
so when you're out there, look at this and you'll when you're standing there,
I think you'll be like, "Okay, do you need us to bless this or what?" I'd like to get feedback. I
don't think we need a vote, but I definitely would like to get thoughts and opinion and maybe we look
at it when you I give you time to put your eyes on it. I will say obviously since I walk every time
I will forever miss that whole bridge. That's true. But um from a kind of pace standpoint,
it's almost kind of nice to give that group in front of you a little bit. I mean,
fast, it's going to catch slow regardless. But especially when it I feel like for some reason
it gets stack right there pretty often. It gives a at least a little when you get done,
you get to you're like, "Oh, we're we're good." Yeah. You're not waiting. There you go. I mean,
yeah, there's always going to be logs when I know. I guess I'm just struggling with
uh just not seeing a lot of difference from point A to point B where you're trying to go. I do see
the color path as curve that's for sure. It's not but it's definitely not substantial. It it's it's
a I'm not seeing Yeah, I don't know. I would like to go out and look at it though for sure. Just
I think right now the main difference is you're going to have to walk to you're going to have to
walk here. Right now you're having to go around where you don't have to do that anymore. You're
going basically more in a straight line from A to B instead of going around to get to B. It's
going to feel a lot more efficient. I'm thinking I mean I that that without bridge it would seem
like a really long walk. Yeah, because I' I've already heard about 50 people tell me about the
bridge and can't remember the bridge. Can't bridge. Yeah. Uh, another part I just imagine
here. [laughter]
We'll leave that old path and call it Randy Alley. Yeah. A little room to land it up there.
It's a good hold up. small. You got to take the Greek out play. It's the whole thing. So,
is it is the bridge in a similar area to where it's at now? Is it just a cost
issue or a combination of cost then going through all the to do that bridge? We have
to start completely over construction. So, the the permitting, the engineering, all that stuff. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, but that does where it's at seems like one of the narrowest places in
that creek. I mean, I I understand what you're talking about, too, on up here a little ways.
It is a a little narrower there, too. Yeah. But where it's at is relatively narrow also. Yeah.
So, we don't have a a cost on redoing just redoing the walking bridge where it's at. We don't know.
I mean getting the core of engineers involved and all that. Yeah. So the engineers that we
had PEC some engineers from there they came out and they said with it being on a flood plane if
you [snorts] if you touch the wall of that bank they have to be involved and they've got to sign
off and they so it's a it's big process. So so to rebuild that bridge it would it would be a lot of
it would take a while. They they basically were like you really don't want to do this. That's what
they told me. Like it They said if you weren't a flood plane, it's nothing but you are. So
everything [snorts] they don't want you to flick a rock off the bank. They want you to come out
further and drill pylons down. Yeah. So if we were at a regular walking bridge, I would definitely
want one of those pre-fabricated, you know, he tied in 10 ft on each side. I not bother that. But
what I'm trying to say, we the risk of throwing away $15,000, but you could we could try this.
I think aesthetically it would look cool. Like I go out there just after this, just go out there
and just take a look. When you're standing there and you visualize that and then you see how much
different going this way and going this way is I pulled this up today. I was honestly almost
didn't even put it up on the screen. That's not what it looked like when you did it.
[cough and clears throat] Oh, it's Yeah, you click and then give you the benefit. That was a free
hand. [laughter] Yeah, really accidentally put a little turn. I see that little You could probably
cheat the last 40 yards of that existing cart path there. I mean, if you're going to come down the
tree line and tie in, you wouldn't have to take that entire car out. You can tie into it, right?
Again, yeah. Yeah. Most walkers are going to walk a straight anyway. They're not going to
stay in the car path. Every time I got guys here walking, they take a straight
line since that bridge is out. It's hard to do here because you get close to those trees,
it's like rain and it's there's rough over there. It's I don't know maybe
[snorts] next meeting with me and we go out and look at what next meeting
we go out and attend. Yeah, I I need to figure something out
fairly quick. We got a lot of people like you saying I get it every day.
Yeah, I I got a hammer out there, so I can come fix it up. Please stay away. [snorts]
This course already has a reputation that they don't want walkers. It's not a walking
friendly course. And I don't know that that's I don't know that's a big deal,
but that people feel that way. We got a lot of walkers here. I think there's more walkers here.
Well, maybe it's more women who feel like it's not a very walkend course. Is that certain? It's
probably the hardest walk, but I think we have the most walkers here probably, you know. I mean,
everybody sees the handrail and they think it's the handrail. I said, "No, it's not the handrail.
It's the sub structures problem." Yeah. If you crawl down, if you crawl down there, it's it's
amazing. That thing hasn't fallen in the concrete. I'm not kidding. There's the piece that's holding
it up is just suspended to where it's supposed to be packed and it's just suspended like this. Hold
it. I don't know how it hasn't broke off. And that giant tree is about to fall in too. It's Yeah.
And the roots of that tree or what are probably holding the rest of that bank up right now. Oh,
and that's another thing. If that bank eros, it's right against the cart path in that one spot. And
now our cart path is going to be hanging over the doing nothing. Yeah. Uh I will make a point to let
them close right tomorrow. That's almost That's almost killing. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz that's going to be
an issue fairly soon. Yeah, that bank is. [snorts] Yeah. We We he put some rock just to kind of test
and see some rip wrap along the bank to see. And the engineers are like, "That's cute. That's they
basically like that'll help, but that's not your solution. That's a this is a lot bigger problem."
But on number two, we've got a homeowner that if you're teeing off on two, that pond to the left
in front of the T box is that side of that pond that's against the house is that bank is we can't
really mow it because all those little trees are what's holding the bank up. We knocked all those
down. We are going to come in and knock the top of all that down soon as it dries enough. We can get
the forestry has a big machine that's knocking off work. I don't know what it's called. Huh? That's
not going to work. Myself and my neighbor Daryl have twice over the years taken every tree down
on the on the golf course side of that little pond. And you know we had commission we talked
to commission we work for almost eight days the first time about five days a second taking every
tree down to their root. They're going to keep growing because one we're not allowed to kill
kill the root. All we do is take it down. And there's one tree at the end. Uh all those with
the thorns on it are spawn from that one tree. And that tree needs to come down. If it does,
you will not have that problem with those five and six foot little trees with the thorns 3 ft
long. What it feels like when you're coming down. So no, we clean it out twice to bare ground and
then the golf course lets you come back. Went up and I do it again. too old. Unfortunately,
he's wearing I can't think what the machine was called. It's that job machine that basically just
I mean he it'll take them that one tree down at the end of that little overflow.
If you don't take that down, they're going to just going to keep spawning those those trees.
Part part of that tree has died now. uh one small part of that tree that's causing all
this problem but uh it's still living longer that's going to grow back like that after 3
years [snorts] still living so I mean what we were talking about the engineers said don't
take those out cuz that is going to collapse if you do that to what's holding it so they
recommended are you are you talking about the the actual pond itself or the overflow the pond
left at number 10 the one all the beavers took the trees down on the back side of
on the on the outside of that pond. Yeah. Beavers tore that up. Yeah. Well, they didn't turn enough.
I wish they'd keep turning. They took so many of them now. It's ridiculous. They have more problem.
Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of a lot of trees that they're going to We stood out there with the
engineers and they said, "Don't don't take them out because that's why it's on the debate until
you have a permanent solution on how to shore up that bait. Don't take those trees out." They said,
"Some trees already fell in the bank with them." Yeah. And there's no landing there. Yeah. So that
machine they can go down through there in 20 minutes and 20. So we'll do it several times
a year. I'm glad we watch that. Yeah. Yeah. We were going to do it last Tuesday in the rain.
So we had scheduled. Now it's raining raining and you know how wet how long that takes. So
yeah, [clears throat] my house rain. So yeah, just look at that when you're when you're out there
next time. I'm just I'm trying to get my bearings on it. So, where the red line is to the right up
at the top of that red line up there to the right of that there's like a little brown spot right
there. That would be the That'd be the white box. Yes. Right. Yeah. Right there. That's what So,
that would be the white. Black, blue, white. Yeah. And it may actually be here. I think
it is actually. I did that wrong. It's here. So, sorry. Yeah. You're talking about inside
the tree line. Yeah. And those trees look like they're a lot farther out cuz you're looking at
the top. There's room like where you Yeah. go through there easily. E easily. And there was
eight people out there that day and everybody was We were talking about if we did that,
how much space that would save walking. Everybody was when you're standing there, it's like,
"Oh yeah, that would make it way easier." And then I pull this up and I'm like, "That looks stupid.
Okay. Okay.
Conversion at S. Okay. This is what we were talking about earlier. So with the fairways
uh at Sam of course we've got Bermuda which in the winter is gets really thin and um you really only
have good grass half the year. So there's a lot of courses in the area. Wellington's one um some
in Joplin, some in Springfield that has switched to this blue muda which is a mix of blueg grass
and bermuda. You overseed the Bermuda with blue grass. There's nothing else you need to do other
than keep it really wet. um put the seed down and it it [clears throat] takes so half the year the
blueg grass throws, half the year the mut thrones and somehow these two strands don't fight each
other they they stay. So don't choke that out. So I can't explain it but yeah it's a it's a very
common becoming more and more common in this area. Um [snorts] Wellington went and played there just
to see what it was like. I think that was before the last meeting. We already talked about it. It's
their fairways are perfect right now. Um and uh talked to like the tour rep. He's he he was going
on and on about he used to be a superintendent. He was going on and on. He played of course in Joplin
and of course at Lake of the Ozarks that did it and they're absolutely perfect. So I'm really
you know fairways are especially at sim are are always kind of a challenge. Um, we've got the got
it priced out. [clears throat] The seed alone would be about $30,000 to do all the forever
in that course. Um, and that there's a cheaper seed, but the it's got a price for 21,000. The
$30,000 seed is coated with undecided like a water retention thing. So, it comes where you don't have
to buy like the chemicals after the fact because it the seed, however they do that, comes coated
with that already. So, you're saving money. Yeah. I think you have a lot better chance of it of it
taking and then um you know put as much chemical and different applications [clears throat] on
it after the fact. Fertilizer, the starter fertilizer, we would do this September 1st.
That's when you do this time of the year. Um we do a September application and an October
application. Um they it would be about $5,000 for both of those to to get that starter fertilizer to
get it to really take off. Um, [clears throat] and then we also want to make sure we protect
the bermita for the winter as we're trying to get the other grass to grow process that we've done.
The only thing we haven't priced out the rope and stakes and we would need those because for
at least two weeks, probably the entire month of September, we would keep carts off the fairways.
And to make sure that's completely done, we want to rope that off. We don't want to do all this
money and then people just ignore it and drop on the fairways. So you we would rope and stake the
fairways. Um, so from September 1st basically to October 1st, October 10th, we would have
um would be off the bat or it'd be carts on path home week. The we wouldn't really have to we might
close for two days just to get it get it done. Um shouldn't be a big u disruption of play other
than the carts and the fairways have to be really wet for a couple of weeks to get those started. So
um we just had to keep a lot more water than usual. Uh, but you do this once and then it's it's
done. But I think I really obviously not here, but I think at sim and then if that works really good,
I like to do that back as well. Those two courses at Texas and ways are awesome right now. So I'm
okay there. But I think text and and I'm sorry back would really benefit from this this process.
I think Texas too. I mean if you play tax in January, February and that dual I think again.
Mhm. So the 30,000 covers both applications that you want to do for the seed for the seed. No. No.
It would cover the seed and then it's about 5,000 for this for the 30 $35,000 plus the work and you
this gets drilled in. Yeah, we'll do a double slit cross slit and then you you lay the seed uh and
then you'll push them in and let it grow. So, it's not not that big of a I mean it's a big project.
I think uh
I don't know. I I was very impressed with with volat and talked to several people
that play there is on course he's down there Harrison he's a good player he uh he's the
one who told me he was like come come with me you need to look at these yeah that's proof in
the winter time now you can actually see what blueg grass actually does come in
right now for me always should be end of April. So, Maria was coming out,
but it wasn't like it is now. So, it was actually when we were before all the rain
when it was dry as heck all the rain. That's I was there and it was Yeah. And it was awesome.
I think that's a great idea. I like that. I think people would be very happy that we're
doing something. I mean, there's going to be people not happy that they have seen on the path,
but also they're going to be happy that we're doing something that long term is going to make
that course much much better. Yeah. Probably be great to take some before and afters, too. Yeah.
Just show the difference. This is I know you have been able to play, but have you talked to
any of the ladies that play it soon right now? I'm sorry. Have you talked to the ladies that play it
soon? I actually played. Oh, you did? Oh, okay. Yeah. More than I was supposed to. [laughter]
You go and stop your I did. Yeah. And kind of reinjured a little bit, but that's okay. Um
uh yeah, I played it for the state senior. We played it two days in a row. And when was that?
Uh last Tuesday and Wednesday. Okay. Wednesday and Thursday. Um yeah, I mean I think everybody
felt like it was certainly improved from where it's been the last three or four years. For sure.
There were a lot of people older ones like me reminiscing about how good it used to be,
right? and wishing it could get there. So, I don't think anybody pushed back about playing
like this to to improve. I think the greens right now are really good. We do have our
club championship the first week of September. There'll be a little push back on that. I mean,
our club is our ladies club is old. What what days? 8 n [snorts]
going first and second, you think? Maybe if I go back to him with this maybe. Let's
let's talk about that. We did first start the next Monday. Yeah. Let me see what I
can do on that. And I don't they may have something to start to figure out. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean cart pass only. There's a lot of people who drop out but it's car pass
only just because they physically can't do it. Yeah. Let's see if we can something up.
Unfortunately, that this time of year, it's when you pretty well have to do this.
There's not It's not that we're just picking that time to make a meeting.
It's a timing. Yeah. Sure. And and I mean, [clears throat] they'll understand that if
we can if there's room on the calendar, we'll see if we can just accommodate.
Yep. [clears throat] Any other questions, comments? Uh course updates.
I think all the course conditions are have been around pretty good. Um we had some issues at Mac
on a couple of dry spots on the green this past week. Obviously had eight of rain since
then. So I think that took care of that. But um we're going to work on work on a better plan on
how we handle that. It's obviously grease. I was getting a bunch of pictures in pictures of the
course and it looked great. And then I get back and they were like, "Yeah, everything's awesome
except for the hot spots on the green burning up." So, getting used to having the resources
to take care of that now that we didn't have in the past and actually utilizing them. So,
um but no, I I haven't played in 3 weeks, so I don't know what here. I haven't heard any
complaints at all. I think the course is No, I haven't heard any complaints here at all.
I'm sorry. I was going to say since they took the airway over the fairways and punched holes again,
I think some of the spots are starting to even fill in more and get better, especially with the
moisture we've had and stuff. So, I don't know if he threw fertilizer down with that
or if he was just broken in. Yeah. Uh, and I've heard nothing but comments about the new super.
everybody that says he's doing a fantastic job. So, good. That's good to hear. Um, yeah, I did the
rar today definitely improve. There's still a lot to be done, but it's I think things are definitely
going and he when when he started, I mean, he pretty well laid out what issues he saw, what
his important things were. One of them was the root system on the greens was that deep, but now
it's this deep. So, he's really done everything he's hoping to do. It's a process. cuz we had so
many windy days in the spring. You couldn't spray like you wanted to. Um so there's kind of those
spotty places that they are spotty. Yeah, that that's the main thing right now. Um but overall
pretty good about what I was seeing at Slim Matt now that all the equipment's off the course and he
has access to everything. He's came along and then text today six or five or six totals. I
don't know when last time he played there, but it was it was awesome today. I don't think there's a
weed or blade of anything that's not supposed to be there. I mean, it's it's Edward. There were
two comments made by the women who came and played the city senior over there at S. Um, one was the
bunker on 16 is still pretty darn rough. I don't know if there's anything else planned to be done
about that winter project. We're going to fill that up. It's not going to grow the way it is.
And we also still need to get the air flow there is terrible. trying to get grass to establish and
that's why it is very difficult to do. Okay. I could just tell people it's in the plant.
Um and then the the pure dirt place is still in mostly in the rough. Um I I assume those this
overseating thing may help with that or is that primarily fair race? This will be fair. Yeah. Um
yeah. Oh, this would this this that we needed would just be the fur away. So,
it's something we we need to address and figure out. There's some pretty good patches of just
pure dirt. And so, for the tournament, we had to tell them they could take that as ground under
repair and take relief from. I mean, because it's hard pan dirt. Yeah, we were looking at
especially you're talking about the rough around the car path today. We're looking at trying to saw
a ton of the places around the path or widening path, one of the two because there's right this
much dirt on both sides. Exactly. And then in the rough, we just need [clears throat] to figure out
each area is kind of its own animal. What's the cause? Is it because it's no sun all day? Well,
you know, what is it? It's a water outreach. You start to type. A lot of what we saw was
the dirt around the paths. And I'm sure that's from people driving off the path. Today we saw
I mean seven carts in a row. You pull it. Path is here. You pull up to the green. For some reason,
you pull your cart here. I've never understood that. Just parking the path. Yeah. Or there's one
today. Guy got to the end of the path and he just drove off at the end and parked. just one two one
step difference but it just killed it all there. I don't know. Um and then the last thing at Sam
is what's the story on the ceiling in the lady's restroom. There's still there's still a big hole
there. So I didn't go last time I was there I was not there. I was there last I holy cow. I
was there probably two weeks ago. So the air conditioning unit it's in that ceiling and
it's above this. So when it free, you know what they do the constant drip. I know last when I
was there I was there for the city that was two week it was 10 days ago or something and that
tile ceiling. Yeah. Yeah. We can replace the tile. I figure out the cost. I don't
know. I'm telling you our budget 80% of our expenses go to the air conditioner companies.
It's I've never every golf course I've ever worked at club house is just air conditioners don't work.
I don't understand it. They've been here 87 times and every time they leave it's fixed. The next
day we get here and it's 82 degrees. It's not today. Have you worked out? It's cold out there.
They were here. Yes. I think. Yeah. So wait till 30. Okay. Thank you. No. I'll I'll see what the
I don't know the ladies restroom that much. So start. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. They've done a big
improvement on the bathroom and back out the middle there. They [snorts] painted
it nice cleaner than it used to be. What do you mean they [laughter] outstanding? Well,
what you forgot to do was kill that big black widow that hangs around behind the toilet. Tommy.
Yeah. Tommy. Tommy. Yeah, get rid of Tommy. He scared me out of there twice. Chased me once.
That's awesome. I want to feed him. There's a big group of bushes right in front of the bathroom.
Okay. La [laughter] think about it. No, he just means to relocate Tommy. That's all. If you Tommy,
I appreciate it. Okay. I know at least one of my guys is death and would appreciate it.
I think he didn't go off the toilet. He looked down there looking at him.
Okay. No, I'll look at that lady's crowd. I didn't know it was there. So, all
right. Okay. Um, marketing and customer service updates. Anything bad to add stuff? Yeah. So,
I'm just going to share a little bit of what we did last week or not last week, the beginning
of June. It was June 1 through the 5th. It was our golfer appreciation week. We blasted
it everywhere, but if you didn't know, this is kind of the day say themes maybe. Um, overall,
I think people took a great, you know, they came out, they supported us when they could. Um, the
only real spotty day we had was our June 4th day. It was a range day and we had rain. So besides
that that the entire week was great. Obviously um we want to give back to our golf ballers but
at the same time we used it to encourage engage encourage engagement on our social media platforms
and also get people to follow so they know what's going on. Um so I just threw up a few pictures. We
got the donuts in the bottom left of gratitude on the right there. A part of the week we did
like trivia asking questions about golf courses different things like that. So we had a great
time doing that. Um, then this is a clip from our snack stop day. This was unpromptu. We had
uh what what did we have all that day? We had ice cream. We had popcorn. Ice cream truck.
Yeah. With me Hamilton and snow cones. And snow cones. Yes. So every hour for three hours we
had different stuff. So this is just a clip from the day that we thought was pretty cool.
It was moments like this all week that was great. Sydney and I were at all the different courses
talking to people, asking them questions. It was it was a good time overall. Good for you guys.
Let me make sure I say this. They did. They ever been to the sports.
I was stuck downtown pretty much that whole week before and that week. So,
I was trying to make it as I could. They did everything. They did everything. Thank you,
guys. Yeah. And then this is just a short little clip of our final day. We gave away
tons of prizes. We had competitions. It was wellreceived. We had a couple league that was
out here that came out and supported. WBC was out. They had some samples to try. On the first mat,
we were seeing who could hit the greens that are out there. And if they did,
they would get prize. And just by chance, there was a guy, a drone operator. He's like, "Can I
fly my drone around?" I was like, "Yeah, man. Get it up." But that was kind of the finale for it all
TV. Um, Bench went Ben. I posted that video of all the winners on Facebook. I didn't want to include
everything and we would have been here for half an hour watching stuff. something. And then finally,
um this is kind of the views, engagement, that kind of stuff, that kind of stuff from uh the
first, you know, three weeks of June. Um uh so here is kind of this first week was kind
of where we were pushing really hard. And you can kind of see how when we're more active,
you know, in the community and stuff like that, they'll show that through engagement.
um kind of dropped off a little bit more as we get to the end of June because obviously
we're not pushing social campaigns as hard, but it's been great. You can see all the numbers are
plus percentages for this. So, this this is the against this time last year. So,
pretty comparable. We're happy with the results and I think our golfers really enjoyed this
little games and prizes and contests that we had going on throughout the week. So, all in all,
I think it was pretty pretty successful. I don't know, leave that screen up for a second. I don't
know much about social media but 130,000 views that week up 60% 18 up 148% and watch time.
Define watch time for me. What does that mean? Total watch time that anybody was logged in.
Yeah. So anybody that's logged in has the video up on their on their phone. You know how you're
scrolling through even if it's halfway on your screen and still playing it it records that
screen time. Okay. And so that's a combination of everybody. Gotcha. [clears throat] Yeah. So,
I don't know what I don't know I don't know what to expect, but just looking at the how far up the
percentages are, it looks like some pretty big numbers to me. So, really it's a great job you
guys. Good job. Thank you. Thank you. And that was it for for me. I will say we we had no idea how
this is going to work. people are going to care if people how many people are. The first day I've got
Steve call me and he was like, "Hey, I got guys here asking about when they need to be here for
this or this." Awesome. Time to donuts arrive. Before before us, I wish the shots we'd stay.
We had we there was a huge storm coming. Everyone knew it was on the way. So, I had several people
telling me I was going to come out, but it's going to rain. And we had about maybe an hour. There was
they had a DJ out there playing music. It was so fun. Yeah. It would have been awesome. It
would have been cool. But we'll try again. Yeah. With shot suite. I don't really have too much of
just backpacking off of Trevor. Other than that, I've just been I've had a few more orientations.
We're doing good. Lots of awesome new hires, new people were getting in. And then um it seems like
it was just yesterday that we started corporate members, but it's been a whole year since we got
our first one, Clausmire Construction, and they are renewing tomorrow for another year. So Scott
is a cool thing wanted to share with you guys. But in there today, she was talking to you basically
were saying like, "Yeah, this is awesome. Come get a check tomorrow." Yep. Like was that
south like south of the airport? a little bit like if you were to
go on Tyler Road like past Tex and keep going south, [snorts] you would
run like is that K42? I don't know. Go past K42. They're on the other side.
Different effects a lot. Yeah. But yeah, that's all I had. Anybody
else have anything you want to bring up talk about real quick
and we'll do it again next month.
Good to see everybody. I may uh I may try to switch that to Monday if that figure out
how that works. Oh, you'll get emailed but know there's a chance it might go to Monday.
Is it always this empty? Nobody developers or anything? Um, unless we are raising
it. Now he's