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GOLF COURSE ADVISORY BOARD
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MIi1UTES OF MEETING
DECEMBER 16, 1887
THOSE PRESEAIT
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Advisory Board
James Longnecker
David Brady
Lloyd Roper
Reed Tolles
City of La Porte
Joel Albrecht
Bob Herrera
Alex Osmond
Meeting was opened by David Brady, Chairman at 12:10.
ITEM DIo. 1 Minutes of the November 18, 1987 meeting were approved
STEM No. 2 Bob Herrera introduced Alex Osmond to the Board and
explained his background and qualifications.
ITEr1 No. ~ There was discussion of the status of the golf course
Meeting Adjourned at 12:50
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RECOMMENDED RATE STRUCTURE
BAY FOREST GOLF COURSE
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$ 9 .00 WEEK-DAY 3) ~~~ ~ ~"
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4Je are recommending the above GREEN FEE rates because we feel they
will be competitive with area Municipal Golf Courses. The rates are
higher, simply because our facility will warrant-them and tae will be
setting a new standard for Southern Texas Municipal Golf courses. Our
higher standard will emphasize automatic watering system, concrete
cart paths, club house facilities, location, maintenance facilities,
and an overall well conditioned golf course.
~WILITE GREEN FEES
$ 5.00
• This is a discounted rate which most Municipal Golf Courses offer
approximately two and one half hours before dark to accommodate
players who prefer to play only nine holes or don't have time for
eighteen holes.
These are fees offered at some Municipal Golf Courses to generate
revenue and accommodate local avid golfers.
Our feeling on this subject is open the golf course for a period
of time and then consider our need of a rate of this nature. There
are some advantages and disadvantages.
An advantage is this will create fast bulk revenue. Another
advantage is that a player who accepts this offer will primarily play
at our golf course which creates revenue by other means such as cart
fees, food and beverage and etc.
The disadvantages concerning annual rates would be that a player
may take advantage of this rate to average his or her green fees well
below our normal green fees. Another disadvantage of annual rates
would include players not accepting restriction of play for certain
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weather.
All of these things should be weighed before adopting or not
adopting an annual rate.
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SENIOR GREEN FEES=% r
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$ 4.50 - 65 Years and up
Week-days only
Bay Forest Golf Course
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This is a rate discounted to Senior Citizens on week days only.
Most Municipal golf courses use them. We feel our recommended rate is
competitive with area Municipal golf courses.
RESIDENT DISCOUNT
$ 1.00 - On all green fees excluding Twilite
We feel this discount rate should be adopted for our residents and
tax payers. This discount will help keep our local players at Bay
Forest Golf Course. A system for proof of residence will be developed
in the near future.
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CART RATES 1a,
• $14.00 - 18 HOLES - Single or Double
$ 8.00 - g HOLES - Single or Double
tde recommend these rates because they are consistant with our
higher standard facility and are still competitive with other
Municipal golf courses.
We will weigh an idea of single cart rates for Twilite green fee
players after we open.
By offering no single rate we will encourage twosome & foursome.
By this we mean we could consolidate players into foursomes and the
pace of play would be more consistent.
We recommend that we should not permit private carts at Bay Forest
Golf Course. Doing this will serve more justice to our cart fleet and
cart paths investment.
Two major disadvantages of private carts are liability and
• marshalling. ti~1e would not know the condition of these carts,
therefore we would not know the hazards and risks involved.
Marshalling would become a nightmare for the Pro Shop staff. It would
be extremely difficult to keep up with each private cart. Also, our
parking would become limited by the trailers used for transporting
private carts.
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