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<br /> --,' <br /> therefore, generate more clubhouse income then I think <br /> that would be a very, very good way to show the <br /> $100,000.00 expenditure was justified. <br />Sackett: Are the concerns of my fellow council people here one <br /> of timing or just of whether or not we need a larger <br /> clubhouse? If you are concerned that we possibly need <br /> to wait till after the season goes so we know how our <br /> next season is, maybe you are thinking that we need to <br /> finish the cart paths and the additional landscaping <br /> before we do the expansion. I'm not sure where you <br /> are coming from. The rationale of needing a clubhouse <br /> is something that we would like to have. It could be a <br /> matter of what our priorities are. The benefit of the <br /> expanded clubhouse, in my perspective, is that it keeps <br /> our golf course competitive for tournaments, which per <br /> round are at least twice as much as individual golfing <br /> per round. We want to stay attractive to those groups. <br />Howard: If we had a bad snow year, we don't have a sinking fund <br /> of any sort. We don't have any way of ensuring that <br /> everything is going to be covered and that makes me <br /> feel uneasy. I can understand the rationale for <br /> expanding if it is going to offer a real economic <br /> advantage. I also think there is an ongoing advantage <br /> to be gained by ensuring that at least some of your <br /> funds are left in case you have a bad year. I don't know <br /> what the benefit of additional funds into making the <br /> course more mature, more rapidly versus putting in <br /> additional facilities are and I would like to get a handle <br /> on that. <br />Ott: The City does have a reserve fund. RSL proposed the <br /> building expansion as well as cart paths improvements <br /> and we feel like those are the only two that would make <br /> significant revenues. We like to think that we spend a <br /> dollar to make two dollars and if our capital <br /> improvement is just there for aesthetics we can do it in <br /> a gradual program. We feel like the clubhouse <br /> expansion could pay for itself and we would be more <br /> than happy to do the study to prove that it will. The <br /> only other one would be complete wall-to-wall cart <br /> paths could also pay for themselves, but it would be a <br /> much longer payback because of rainy/snow days. <br /> 12 <br />