02-21-1974 Council Memo - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Acenda Items - February 25 , 1974 Page 3 superintendent as such, but to lease the golf cour.sc out to private entrepreneurs who will then, for eithe.r_ a flat .f_ee that they will pay the City or a precentage of the profit that they will anticipate, we would then allow them to �perate the golf course in its entirety. There is something to be said for each of these approaches and I have some very specific ideas on them that I would like to share with the Council. Now, as far as number one is concerned, we can perhaps most easiest of all hire a superintendent just to run the physical outlay of the golf course. We are pr_epared to man the golf clubhouse with part-time personnel and run the same type of operation we ran there in 1973 . It worked very well and we used some cchool teachers who worked for us and did an excellent job and we havE� made tentative plans to follow that route again in 1974 . On the other hand, having one individual as both superintendnet of the ��o�f ourse and supervisor of the clubhouse also has something to be said�as�far as a unity of supervision and control is concerned. My feeling at this time is that whether or not we may want to do this wotzld depend upon the enterprise capabilities of the superintendent we would hire . I think perhaps we should leave this option open and should wc be fortunate enough to hire an individual who could do both operations give him the opportunity to do so. The third alternative of leasing thc qolf course to a private entrepreneur has very definite possibilitics from my administrative point of view. The golf course takes up a tremendous amount of staff time to supervise, to order the supplies , to check the money in in the evening, and check it out again in the morning, and keep the ser.ial number of golf tickets in order and so on and so forth. I have always felt that the amount of administrative time required as opposed to the amount of money that it makes is har.dly worth the effort. I feel its probably to late to begin approaching a private firm at this time and for this type of arrangement but if the Council would like to explore that as a possibility for 1975 , I would be glad to spend some time investigating what this type of arrangement could mean for us . I would appreciate any comments that the Council may have in reqard to this matter and any direction that you wish to have undertaken at the golf course, I would be most happy to try and do. 11. Per Council instruction at the last meeting, I have on the agenda the sewer projects of 73-1. A written notice has been sent to all individuals whose names were submitted to me that want to be notified whenever the Council is going to consider future sanitary sewer projects in the City. You will recall that this requestcame about primarily as a result of a letter which you received in your packet last Council meeting from Mr. Carl Burandt addressing himself to the problems of the Metropolitan interceptor sewer line and the possibility that Orono may want to consider some additional local projects to be put in at the same time as the Metro interceptor line would come in. I have notified the engineering firm of Orr-Schelen-Mayeron and they will be present at the Council meeting to assist the Council in answering any questions they may have in any of the other projects.