 The first thing I need to do is do a rope call and sort of like this, here, here, um, march along the hole, here, uh, and like this, here, follow my hand, here, till the start from here, here, and I think we're going to have a missing now on Walton. He's not going to be. Okay, so, what's this? Okay, he approves the agenda. Does anybody want to add or change the agenda as to this? I'm going to be approved, Mr. President. In a second. Seconds. I accept the agenda as a witness to the item. I'll vote. We approve of the last meeting's minutes. Anybody want to make any changes to the last meeting's minutes? If not, any motions? Motion to the best. Second, please. All in favor, do we accept the agenda as a witness to the item? Aye. All in favor, do we accept the agenda as a witness to the item? Aye. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. We have a, uh, fantastic month of April. Like, best on record. The best on record we've ever had was in 2022, where we got to, I think, 1, 4, and 9. We went ahead and beat that by $25,000. So it was, I'm sure Sam and Ryan can say this, but when the weather is just halfway decent, it doesn't have to be nice. It's just halfway decent. We are busy. I mean, we had no place to put people yesterday, all day long from 7 a.m. straight through until I was a bull by 30, and there were still online bookings coming in for the same day. I couldn't believe it. So it's really good. So yeah, 174 projected at 91, so we will take the win there. And round wise, what are we out here? We're still learning the new things. Straight ahead. Yeah, straight down. Actual is $33.02, so $33.02, and great. We're down 100 rounds and yet we're making more money. So we played a few less rounds and we're making more money, guys. That works out good. And they are shaping up to be really good as well. So hopefully it finishes strong. We've got a good week ahead of us. We always like when Memorial Day falls on Monday the 29th. And then we get to full weekend, Friday's better than Sunday and Monday. That's good for reference. Of course it's coming along real good. Ryan is doing a great job getting this out of all the winter mess here. Mother naked is helping a lot too. Obviously, all the free water. A lot of golf course that kind of suffered during the winter is coming back real fast. Ryan is super proactive on getting out from things and saving things. So any questions for the two of you? All right? All right? All right. I wouldn't have to say the same thing. I wouldn't have to say when it's decent or busy, when it's extremely nice out, it's unbelievable. But Sunset April projected for $48,000. We came into revenue at $77,000. About $22,000 in the last few years. April first. Round wise, projected for $31,77. Actual rounds came in at $32,45. Overall, we are now up in rounds for the year. 68 rounds ahead and 2.1% ahead of last year. I have to say I've never truly had to turn people away until this year so far. And I tell my staff to put squeezes in and add squeezes, but when we don't have enough space, and we know that the pace of play is going to be at almost a three hour round out on Saturday Sunday, we have to start turning them away unfortunately. But it's been crazy. And I'm happy. I argue with them. Really? Any questions for the two of you? Well, Dick pretty much said it all. The man for golf is truly amazing. It's, you know, prior to 20, some of all these great ideas, dynamic pricing for us, we have to work to create demand. We're in place now. They're the same event. And it's just been really something. Like Keith mentioned this past weekend, we filled every D9, 6 o'clock until close to 5 o'clock in a little bit. Every season. We're with a few squeezes as well. We have 10 people wide. We have 10 men and 10 animals. Because it's the opportunity to actually do that. So we fill in a few extra squeezes here and there. And it's 262 rounds on Saturday and 280 more on Sunday, which is really, really amazing. It's been great. Really fun. I ran it with, you know, one of the kind of stuff this month, I was able to weather operate this great, but I ran the report once today. We're at like 197,000. On May, last year, we were at 261. So we're about 64,000 behind. Well, 64,000 to go. I think we'll get there. I believe it still needs to bang. And then the weather operates. I think there's no problem of achieving priority numbers. Not only is the demand for this record playing good, but tournaments as well might be the first year that I've actually turned this away. And just, we have 23 tournaments there. Besides our next one. And corporate and fundraising events, 23. It's really unbelievable. And there's just been a few where it didn't quite make sense. I figure with the demand we have, all of these tournaments have been good. Any questions? Okay. So we were going to cover this last month and had challenges. So we'll cover it this month. And if anybody has questions, please interrupt. So the golf fund, if you could go to the next slide. The golf courses are an enterprise fund. All of the revenues and expenditures that come in golf are under this fund. The only tax support that golf receives is for the bond election that was passed in 2018 to build the Yucrepe Catamaran facility to replace irrigation here at Twin Peaks and at Sunset. Otherwise, everything that we can spend has to be generated through our fees and charges. Next slide. Quick overview of staffing. We have in golf a total of 11.15 staff. 0.4 of my salary as Recreation and Culture Director is under golf. The other is in recreation. Danny Cherinobu works three-quarter times. Salary is in here. And then everybody else that works in golf in the maintenance side, which those staff work for Ryan or for Dan. And then we also have the three contracts that we manage with the golf pros. They're listed here just to demonstrate that they're part of golf but they are not employees of the city. They are off-contracted. Many of the people that you see working at the front counters or out with the carts are either employees of the golf pros or they're volunteers that volunteer for Ryan, Keith and Sam. We have a total of 31 seasonal or temporary people that help our staff that take care of the golf courses. Ryan, how many acres is Twin Peaks? Twin Peaks is 100 total acres and the sunset is 42 total acres. And Dan? We're about 250 including the native and everything. And we spread out quite a ways. So a lot to take care of with really a limited staff. And then they also take care of the clubhouses as well and the parking lots. Next slide. So golf operations for 2023. We have budgeted revenue of almost 2.9 million. We have expenditures of 3.3 plus in the three golf courses. This is for the operational budget. It does not include any of our capital replacement or capital projects that we work on. That number for revenue is very conservative. Last year if you look at the report that the pros just went through we had revenue in 2022 of just about 3.8 million dollars. We really anticipate that that money, that revenue will come in at least at 3.5 million this year. And if golf continues like it is, it could beat the 3.8 million. If again, the bank continues like it has been. So what's the advantage of such a conservative project? If all of a sudden it rains all of June and July it protects us from being overly aggressive. That money can only go to golf. So if we shoot the 3.8 million like we did last year that just goes into the golf fund. It cannot be used anywhere else. Next slide. And we'll talk a little bit more towards the end. But these are the projects that were approved in 2018. Maintenance facility, irrigation, and rehab of satellites out at New Creek. We'll come back to that. Please remember that 5.7 number as we move forward. We might come back to that. Go ahead. For capital for this year, we have $15,000 budgeted to work on cart pass. We'll probably do work at New Creek on number 11 right now to finish some of the work we began earlier. 204,616 as part of the golf building's rehab. The biggest part of that number, which was $130,000 was to help repair the retaining wall off of Pace Avenue, or Pace Street, excuse me, that are passed by 11. 11 as well. And that was failing. Fortunately, public works went in and did work on that last fall. That work has been pulling very well. And there's a good possibility that we won't need to spend that money on the Pace project. And that will come back to be able to do projects within golf itself. And then $1.6 million in irrigation. That is money that's coming from the Public Improvement Fund to go towards the irrigation projects. If you could go back to the bomb projects and Ryan and Dan jump in here. Last year when we went to bid for the irrigation here at Twin Peaks, we were $1.6 million over budget just for Twin Peaks. We went back out hoping that we would get some savings by doing two projects at once and being able to have that company stand rather than relocating and having to come back to do Sunset. So again, we added $1.6 million. So we have for Twin Peaks irrigation, $4.7 in ground numbers. That bid for Twin Peaks and for Sunset this year came in at $6.9 million. So we are currently negotiating with our one bidder to see if we can come at least into a bid or a budget of around $5.3 to $5.4 million. We met with them almost a month ago and are waiting for their response. We feel like that day we were able to do some negotiation but it's not official until they provide us the proposal and writing. Is that the contract term of the year? No. Have you thought about going out for a rebid? Well we did go off for a rebid. This was the second time since May of last year we rebid and we were that much over. So Twin Peaks along had from May of 22 until March of 23 the cost had gone up 900,000 dollars. And so we need to do something if we wait another year or until the fall it's only going to continue to go up. So it's really our hope that we can negotiate to get some hope done yet this fall. Same kind of situation with New Creek Maintenance Facility. We went to a bid. That bid opening was in April. The bids came in 1.4 million over budget from what we had done in cost estimates last year. We'd actually taken 1.5 million from carryover to help make that project happen. And again now we're 1.4 if you add the carryover or contingency that we would need we're really about 2.2 million over budget on that project. We're doing some negotiation with the two bidders and seeing if we can cut out one of the buildings and only view the maintenance building. We're considering doing only one bid instead of two bids with the maintenance facility and doing more about what I would call a lean-to building for storage equipment where it wouldn't be enclosed but it would at least be able to get us with equipment underneath some type of rain and snow. So it could work side up. Yeah. Again waiting for responses and working with our purchasing division to move towards trying to do that. It would be our hope that we would be able to make some real decisions by June. Next slide. The other issue, next one please. The other thing that we're really experiencing is everything in the operational side of doing businesses is going way up. Just to give you an example of what we paid for in seasonal golf carts which are carts we ran from October 1st until September 30th at their house. They're supplemental to what I'm going to talk about next but just their cost went from $35,000 a season to $64,000 and then if you could go to the next slide. This gives you an example. We were doing a cart lease from 2018 until 2022 for the golf carts at Utrecht. That rental or that lease cost went from $55,000 annually to $99,000 almost $100,000. And the only thing we did differently in those golf carts is that we went to Lithium Badlands. We feel like we're going to get some better longevity with that. We get a sign of a five-year lease. So when our golfers go to the golf course and see that golf rental rates went up from what they were to what they are now, I've just had that. 15-18, that is about a 22% increase in the cost. This is closer to 50 to 60% increase. So we understand that we have a market that we're trying to appeal to with our golfers and we couldn't raise our rates enough to cover the real cost. So we felt like we needed to do that in bite-sized portions. We feel like next year there'd be another, probably a 10% increase to try to at least try to cover that. And then if you could go to the next slide, Brian. The other thing is the cost of wages. In 2021, we were paying most of our temporary, and this is just temporary right now. Temporaries were being paid between 15 and 15-15 per hour. Last year, we were really struggling across the city with trying to hire temporary employees. City Council was gracious enough to listen to the issues that we're having hiring temporary employees, and they increased the minimum wage from 1280 to 1550. They also agreed in 23 to raise that number to 1641. So anyone that's starting within golf as a temporary is starting out at 1641. And then we pay some stipends or higher amounts if you will for years of service and different experiences. So the cost of our wages have gone up by $220,000 just to be able to staff at the level that we need to do. These two items, just the golf carts and their wages, are just examples of things that I'm probably preaching to the choir at this point. If you are going to the grocery store or if you're going out to eat, you're seeing these same things, and golf is no different. Everything that we do is costing a lot more money. Just to give you an example in fleet costs, and I don't remember if we have a slide on this or not. Yeah, if you would. But for fleet in 2023, we had $320,000 budgeted to replace equipment. That equipment came in $76,000 to $80,000 higher than what was budgeted. And so we had to go through an appropriation to be able to buy the equipment or afford to buy the equipment that we needed to buy for this year. The other issue that is going along with that is link time. We haven't even gotten 2022 equipment, all of our equipment, let alone any of our equipment for what we're buying in 2023. So most of that equipment will not come in until May of 2024 at the year of this. So there's all these link time things that we're also having to deal with across the operation. So that's, if you could go to... So that's just kind of a summary of where we're at in the golf operations. We did raise our green fees by $2.3, I believe it was, depending on whether it was nine holes or 18 holes. We increased also the cart fees. We increased the range balls. The one thing that we didn't do in an effort to try to be loyal to our existing customers is that we did not raise any of our passes or any of our 10-punch fees for the range to try to be loyal to them. We're not going to be able to do that again next year. So in 2024, you will see passes and those areas going up as well. We did raise the youth fees. We just didn't raise the purchase price for passes or the premium passes and punch cards for the range of passes. But it's got to see the purchase prices go up next year. So that's just kind of a quick summary of budget. Does anyone have questions or comments or thoughts? Yeah. Do you do the budget? Yes. Do you have to go to the Longmont City Board? Yes. Yep. So what happens is like, you know, we had the budget and we exceed the budget. Are you under some kind of... Yes. That cannot happen. So what we as staff are required to do is in the example that I gave for Fleet where we were $80,000 over what was budgeted. So we have to go what is through is appropriation or we have to explain to city leadership why we need to have that additional money and then that has to go to City Council to be approved to be able to spend money. Any money that the city spends has to be approved and appropriated according to budget law within the state. And if we don't do that, there is a potential of serious issues that can come back. And we take that money from fund balance to appropriate. But it's, quote, our money, right? It's golf money. It's not the tax money. You know, it's all for those items other than the bond projects. All of that is golf money. So why did you go so concerned about the budget? Well, it's like you already know you're going to have to go back and ask or something like that. Well, it's about the budget. It's concerned about the revenue side. So just so you're aware, I'm acting like I know a lot about budget. I know a lot now because we've gone through all the process. When I had to submit the budget was a year ago. So I had to do what was our best estimate. Right now, on Friday, I did the same thing for 2024. Use my best estimates based on what I know today of what our budget would be for next year. And the whole cost thing is finally starting to level out but it's been ridiculous over the last two plus years. Well, it's tough to guess what those are going to be and how many people are going to show up. What term is you're going to get that are going to be committed. There's no guarantee about that. No. And I looked really smart when it was February and March when it was snowing and raining there. And really part of April was not all that good. And then to get the April report and see that we've caught up, not only caught up but past last year, which was one of our best years in golf histories it just says a lot to how much people are committed to golfing in Longmont and how much they like the product and the services that these folks are providing. So it always says a lot. I also said that when somebody doesn't get to golf and for two months because of weather it doesn't matter if they're going to go work out very as fast as they can get. And those that are mobile and mobile courses are going to say, I'm going to go here right now because I know I get on it and I know what's going to happen there. You don't have to worry about it. You don't have to worry about where you're at. So that's a big benefit because that's what everybody knows what that initial course is about. Yeah, the weather this winter certainly made people hungry to play golf. And then you have challenges like Dan dealt with an inch and a half of rain Thursday afternoon and he could hand paint on. Yeah, he could have showed you the new river that is in Longmont. Yeah. I have video of 18. It was a 12 foot plus wide river in between Fairway and my parents house. It was the same. Thursday was working down. Friday afternoon to what? There was still six to eight inches of mail standing in that ditch right there. It was the same. We had a meeting out there Friday morning and the Safeway parking lot it looked like it didn't have a snowstorm. Right. And we got it. We didn't get anything like that in the sunset. No, it's not. Basically it was last year because I was driving across town for over 17 and as I sort of hit it last year it started being a hill in my house which is just past pace. We had a hill everywhere. We had a real sprinkle hill but other than that I had an old lighting drop down by the park in the parking lot as I was leaving. Just dropped the right next to the truck and literally had everything on me just stood straight in the parking lot. I'm scared. Any other questions on the budget? Let's move on to the one. I kind of covered that at the same time. Any questions on the budget? I do have one question. So we were scheduled to meet again in June. Wanted to know what your thoughts are about meeting June. I cannot meet in July so if we don't meet in June it will be August before next meeting so if you're available I think it would be good to have a June meeting. Sorry Keith. I got eye contact going with everybody. This is the summer time. All right. Busy month for us. So right now June is scheduled? Yes. No, I just wanted to make sure you have that on you for June. Any ideas for the board? Yes. I don't have any. In August? In June. Okay. Any ideas for the board? I have a motion to adjourn. Second? Second. Alright. Good meeting Mr. Keith. Good.