 I would like I would now like to call the January 24th 2022 golf course advisory board meeting to order. Can we start with roll call. So. Yes, Danny. And were you about to say something. No. All right, Marshall Allen. Here speaking. Hey, myself, Andrew Zenske here, John Hay. Paul Meyer. Mayor here. Mayor, sorry. Al Walden. Present. And. We'll start with Ryan Williams. Yeah, you don't have to do the staff and. Okay. If you could just recognize council liaison Tim waters is here also. Tim waters. I'm here. All right. If that's all we can get started. So. Do you want me to take it from here and. If you'd like to. Unless you just want me to go over the. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So this is order. Is nominating. A chair, correct? Correct. All right. Is there any. Nominations for chair. Don't all speak up at once. Well, if no one's speaking up, I'll be happy to do it. This is my second year, I think. But anyone else has been more go for it. All right. All right. All right. I'm going to nominate Marshall Allen. Second that nomination. All right. And vote. Does that make it official Jeff? I know if you could have a vote. All right. All right. All in favor of Marshall Allen. For chair. Hi. I think that was unanimous. Yeah. And before I hand it over to. Our new chair, Marshall Allen. I'm. I would nominate myself for vice chair. If. To make that. Quick. Well, that really needs to come from the floor. So somebody on the board needs to nominate you for advice. Technically. Procedurally. Call for the vote. All in favor of Anna's vice president vice chair. All right. Sound unanimous. And I don't have the printed copy of the agenda in the front of me. So you're going to have to help me through this since I was ill prepared to be in charge. No worries. I'll. I'll stumble through it. Today if you'd like me to. Please. All right. So next business is the. Before we move on. Let's have. Let's have Paul introduce himself since this is his first. Meeting tonight. Is it your first meeting two back in. No, I was at the fall, right? I was in one in the fall. Yes. So why don't we have Paul just introduce himself and. And then we can go from there. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, mayor. I'm a relatively recent. President of Longmont. My wife and I both of us being retired. Moved here in the fall of 2015. Being near our. One granddaughter. And her parents. And we're, we're certainly pleased that we made the move. I've been playing golf for. Let's see, probably about 68 years now. And as I said, I spent a lot of time caddying as a kid. So I spent a lot of time on golf courses. And. For a way that I might give something back to the community. I thought something golf related. The appropriate. I applied for the position. I was apparently was. A tremendous. Competition for the position, but I succeeded. And I'm pleased to be a member of the board. Forward to working with each of you. Look forward to meeting you in person. And hope that I will be able to make some contribution. Thank you. Well, Paul, I'm glad that you were able to survive all the competition. Welcome to the board. Thank you. Thanks, Marsha. And since you've got the agenda. Next order as a proof. Proval of. Is it approval of the agenda? Yes. Which everyone should have gotten a copy of. And we as staff don't have any. I didn't hear what that said. I didn't hear it either. So I have no changes for the. The agenda. So unless the board has any. We would need a motion to approve the agenda. We would entertain a motion to approve the agenda, please. I make it so. I make a motion to approve the agenda. Off of the road, please. All in favor of proving the agenda. Hi. Hi unanimous. Moving on. All right. All right. Now we need the approval of previous. Meeting minutes, which was October 25th, 2021. I recommend we approve the minutes of the previous meeting. All in favor. Hi. Unanimous again. Thank you. All right. Next item is the public is invited to be heard. And we don't have any public here. So. Yeah. Danny. Let's just, Danny, do we have anybody. That wanted to talk tonight? No. Okay. So we'll just move to the next item. All right. Next item is old business. And it looks like. Yeah. Old business. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The golf professional report. Reports. Anybody on, on yours, Ann. So this is, this is the time when the three golf pros kind of do their monthly summary of golf. And I'm thinking they'll talk a little bit about all of 2021. Keith, could you go first? Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the new member. Congratulations, Paul. Nice to have you aboard. As far as Twin Peaks for 2021, I would say that we set a record this year. This is probably the best year. Well, it will go down as the best year we ever had at Twin Peaks. And I think probably the best year we ever had in the golf fund as well. We came up just short of $1.3 million in revenue. And played 41,300 rounds. For the, for the year. And it just kept on going to the point that. We were actually happy to see the snow come and to see the golf course get a break. Cause we were losing between, between the geese and just, just the, the overuse of the golf course when the grass isn't growing, we were losing a lot of turf out there. So. Keith, can you point to anything which contributed to the success this season? I think Marshall, it's still the continued COVID run that we're having. Yeah. A lot of folks took up the game in 2020. They enjoyed the game. They had good experiences for the most part, I think, and a lot of them returned and are playing again. In 2021. So I think that. And again, there's just not a lot of things that you could do indoors for a lot of 2021. And, and it gave people an opportunity to continue to play golf and get out more. And I think that really continues to help grow the game. Sitting in my office, practicing putting gets old. But I'll bet your stroke is pure. I'm no better than when you met me 10 years ago. We got to get you back in lessons again then. I know. Truthfully. But no, I think it was a great year. I'm looking forward to this year. I think that it'll be interesting to see what happens. Haystack mountain golf course closed in the fall. And it will be interesting to see what sort of effect that has on the city of Longmont. You know, I figure. That there's probably at least 20 to 30,000 rounds of golf that were played at Haystack. And I don't know that they could move to play at Haystack. I suspect it's really full being the only public golf course in Boulder. So, you know, I think it'll have a good effect for, for a city of Longmont sunset and Twin Peaks particularly. We'll wait and see. We saw a lot of it in the, in the fall for sure. So hopefully things continue and we continue to stay really busy once we get open again. Any questions for Twin Peaks? That didn't appear to be so moving on, Jeff. You have another. Brian, why don't you go next? All right. I will. I'll echo Keith on. Basically the year that we had. 2021 was. I mean, 2020 was a great year. Considering that. Everything that happened with COVID and then 2021. Kind of. Just topped 2020. Sunset round wise, we did. 34,000. 299 rounds. Revenue wise. Came in at 575,000. And then we had, we had a lot of different things. Revenue wise. Came in at $575,417. Definitely the best round, I think on record for sunset. Keith, if you've had anything better, you tell me, because you were there well before me. But other than that, I mean, literally this is definitely. A lot of things are moving in that direction, but I am very thankful that the courses are getting that break. Like Keith said, we needed, we needed to break the courses. We're taking an absolute beating. Towards the end of December. So. But I'll keep it sweet. Short and sweet there. So. Any questions? Hearing none. Move on. Sam. Hello, everybody. Board members. Mr. Waters. Paul, welcome to the, welcome to the board. Thank you very much for. Signing up with forward to meeting you and seeing you out at the golf course here. Okay. So yeah, Keith and Ryan really just summed it up. I mean, golf. Is busy across the country. It's not just long month. It's, it's been unbelievable. And to give you an example for you Creek. The past 10 years are typical round count is 30. 32 to 35,000 rounds a year. Typical revenues are 1.2 1.3 million. This year 45,000 rounds and just shy of 1.9 million. It's, it's pretty remarkable. Golf is very, very strong. And every indication that I have seen is going to. Going into 22. We're just hoping for the same. The demand is extremely strong last month of the 18 days that we were open. We did 1,604 year rounds. I mean, when the weather is good, the phone rings off the hook, the T sheets are full and it's just been. Very nice enjoying the demand. Any questions. Thank you. Moving on. Next item, please. The next item is new business. We do not have any old business. So each January we have some. Housekeeping things that we need to do. And the first item is designating the meeting day and time. We currently meet the fourth Monday at six. If everybody's okay with that, we'd need a motion to. Accept that and, and then a vote. Yeah, we're entertained. Motion to maintain the same date and time for the meetings. All in favor. Any opposed. That hearing none. It's confirmed. All right. When we can go back to meeting in person, we will need to designate the Twin Peaks. Clubhouse as our formal meeting location. And would continue to like to do that. So we'd need a. A motion and vote on that also. All in favor of. Meeting in person at Twin Peaks when we're capable of doing so. Both. Please. Appears to be unanimous. Thank you, Jeff. Then the next item is. A motion to approve. All in favor. Any opposed. So moved. All right. And then the final thing on new under new business. Is to discuss. Our golf board calendar for 2022. In your packet was a list of. Suggested topics that we as staff and the golf pros could. Bring to you. I'll, I'll just run through them really quick. And then if we could just have. Any other suggestions that you might have. Or pick out the ones that you feel are, are the ones you want to hear. Yeah. Before we do that, could I just get a clarification, please? Yes. We approve that we would meet the fourth Monday at 6 p.m. Is that monthly? Generally it is if we have business and that's kind of what. What we're talking about. Right now. The last couple of years, the, the boards. Have agreed to meet in January and February. And then from there. Meet every other month. And based on. What we have for topics that you all want to hear about tonight will help. Drive whether we will meet every month or not. What I will do is based on the feedback you give me this evening. I'll plug that into a calendar. And we'll review that and make. Our final approval of our schedule for. 22 at the February meeting. Thank you. Yep. And any other questions on that? So. The first topic is for the last couple of years, we've had a lot of questions. So. The first topic is for the last several years, the maintenance staff, Ryan and Dan, as well as the pros have done presentations about the operation of the golf courses and the projects that we've worked on. I think those have been received very well. I think we've had a lot of questions about that. So. Some time in the summer, a conversation about the course conditions. We could have the golf professionals talk about the tournament schedule for the year. And explain to you all. How people get a tournament scheduled. The next item we could discuss is the sunset golf course, 100, 100 year celebration. And we're going to be talking about the golf course. As well as some of the recreation staff met last week to talk about selecting a date for that celebration. And we'd like to share more information as that's developed with you. Right now we are looking at. Thursday, August 18th. At five o'clock as our date. We're going to be talking about the golf course. We're going to be talking about the golf course. Dan and Ryan could. I'm sorry. Okay. Dan and Ryan could talk about the airification plan and, and how they do that in the spring and fall. Along with maintenance practices. We could continue to have updates on the bond project. We could have a joint maintenance facility and work. We're currently doing on the design of the irrigation system at. Twin peaks. We can talk about instructional opportunities for youth in our community. Potential of drought. And if that there will be any impact on our golf operations this year. We could talk about our five year capital projects. Staffing challenges. I think everybody's seeing that whether it's restaurants or the grocery store everybody's struggling to hire enough staff. We could talk about you creek clubhouse design. We were able to have that. Thank you Tim to have the design of the clubhouse included in this year's budget and we will be starting that work. A price second quarter of this year. And then also at the February meetings I usually talk a little bit about the golf enterprise fund, our budget and capital improvement projects and kind of how that process works. So, again, those are just suggested topics if you have any others you'd like to add to that list but would like your feedback on whether any of those interest you as board members or, or how you would like to plan for 2022. Before I call for a vote on just recommendations are there any other items board members would like to have included. I just have this is more of a question that an item you know, I play a lot of golf alone and obviously and I get, I hear comments and feedback from the public mission we have somewhere there to pass it on to the pros. I mean, I, some of it I talked to him with the counter about but some of it's just you know, like, why aren't the sprinkler heads have you already tradition distance at you creek and will we ever level off the T boxes and things like that I don't know if there's any comments from these meetings for those comments that we hear from the public. We can handle those out that way, or you certainly can call me or email me anytime we could review that and, and then depending on how it would fit into agenda we could add that. So one of those operational things I'd rather hear up front, so that rather than having to wait for another meeting that if, if possible staff and the pros could deal with that right away. I would recommend that as you hear these items complaints or compliments even that they individually get a hold of Jeff's office and turned it in as he suggests. First, a lot of them are, you know, are related to the course where I'm at I usually talk to one of the pros about it. They're pretty aware we're pretty good open dialogue with all three of them. And sometimes it's just, if I had the information maybe I could, for lack of a better term, quiet some of the comments I hear because golfers can be pretty vocal about things they don't care for, you know what I mean. That's what they've pre-putted. Right, exactly right. Yeah, okay. And as far as the agenda items, I think it's a great agenda. And I love hearing about the maintenance and the things we're doing I've learned a ton over the last year about golf and golf courses. The chair would entertain a motion that all the various arms of Jeff enumerated as appropriate be included in our, in our regularly scheduled meetings. Call for the vote. I'll second that motion. Thank you unanimous thanks Jeff. Okay, I will bring a calendar back to you in February with these items spread out through the year and we'll get your final direction at that meeting then in February. Well, according to the agenda I finally found in my trash. I don't know if it just has eaten me alive. I don't mind I think I don't some staff. Are there any additional staff related issues or items. I do not have any. Okay. I'll just say one thing about believe it or not my wife and I go to Las Vegas about four or five or six times a year and we go there we play golf. And so this last year I was really, very curious as to, you know, how they were doing on, and they were just not full. Just, and I couldn't believe it. I thought well where's this all coming from. And they just said, they said that so many people have been laid off from the hotels that that that's what they were doing was playing golf because they had nothing else to do. So it's someplace where golf is you know year around. It was just anything ever so I guess it's all over the country. It's just in this way. John is your head to Vegas if you need anyone to carry your bag, you might check with the board. We will, we're scheduled April that's our first trip this year. I've been in Florida all winter it's no different down here although might be a little more common this time of year, but I was here late November early December and it was really busy that down here also which is uncommon for that time of year. I guess it's the same everywhere in the US. The agenda I finally found we only we have no other items. Before we adjourn I might ask if there's anything we've overlooked I want to re clarify or go back and discuss in further detail. I would like to just say actually to all of the pros. I kind of would like to hear about all the social stuff that the that's going on at the golf courses like your 100 year anniversary. Like, I like golf and the social aspect of it so because I know Keith you had a concert last year that I think you said turned out well. And those kind of things. As we as we get more of those. That information we will definitely pass that along to you and feel free to reach out to me at the golf course to and on any of that stuff we have not scheduled the concert yet, but I suspect that's coming. Like I said it was success so we think we want to try it again. And those pretty widely promoted in the community. I think it was fairly well promoted. Yeah, I mean I wasn't involved in the promotion of it. So that would kind of you'd have to speak to Sam, who works down there with Jeff, and right. But yeah, I mean, for a first time doing it I think we had just the right amount of turnout. Oh, it's great. So that we were able to learn from it we're able to you know, just determine whether or not we want to go forward and do it again. Okay. And as far as the celebration at sunset and by all means reach out to Ryan because he's going to be having lots of information on that to talk to you about and Ryan to your point earlier Ryan that to my knowledge I think the best year that I remember sunset was 521 so you surpassed that last year. Good to know I didn't I didn't go that far back in the in the computer system if we really have that back when I was a kid when I was playing there right. It doesn't go that far back I think that was. If I'm not mistaken that was 97 or 98. It would have been the first year moved out here then. Yeah. And I think you'll all be interested at our next meeting of maybe having you discuss briefly some of the items that are being discussed for the celebration. And that's what I was going to mention I was going to say, you know, the next meeting will put some some some stuff together. And Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and Jeff and the rest of the group involved will sit down we'll talk about it and we'll present some stuff to let you guys know what we're planning what we're thinking and see how it goes from there. Well, like you said it was a, it's a big accomplishment or you want to state it that not many goals. Exactly. For the city. Not many public facilities for the city of Longmont are in function at 100 years. And if they are fantastic you know it's it's, it's, it's a difficult, it's difficult to keep something running for that long. I'm excited about it. I've already got hats that I've ordered I got a lot more hats, a lot more apparel coming for it so it's it's going to be good. It's going to be a good year for for golf and for just a historical side of the sunset so we're excited. Yeah, and my last note Sam, I'm really excited to learn more about the you create clubhouse design because I mean, that is, that's huge. Well, I am and and again, as, as Jeff said thank you so much Tim for making this happen. It's extremely exciting. And I'm very much looking forward to seeing what's going to happen with that it's going to be fun I mean it's long overdue. I mean, main, the main facility is getting done. Out of all of our competition. I'm not complaining we have the worst clubhouse on the northern front range of Colorado, and it needs to happen at some point. Sam, you said worse in terms of size capability, what. Yes and yes, all of the above. I mean it's, we've got indoor seating for 24 people. I mean, that's kind of says it all I mean it. It needs to happen at some point I'm glad we finally getting the, getting the wheels in motion here. Sam, for what it's worth in Jeff on my, on my to do list. First of every month is to check with Harold Dominguez on exactly where that project is. Thank you. It won't get behind schedule I can promise you. I'm really looking forward to the progress on this it's going to be fun. Any other items really quickly for re adjourn. Well, let me apologize for my shaky start I was in this prepares obviously I needed to be, and that will not happen again. I've been chair before other things so I think I know what to do I just needed to do it. I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Thank you so very much. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good night. Good night.